Andy in Happy video!

Life is not all doom and gloom for Our Andy - he managed to find time to make a couple of brief appearances in a Luxembourg video:


Firstly here he doing some bunny-hops up the steps: nice paint-stained jeans, Andy, does TinkerJil know that you are wearing them in public? *laughs*

 Next we have him doing some dangerous descending on sort-of-cobbles:

And finally, doing a wheelie, just for the fun of it:

There you go, don't say I don't strive to bring you any snippets of interest, even when Our Andy is not actually racing!

All we know about racing, at the moment, is that he returned from training in Mallorca, where he got "a wet ass" according to Twitter, and that the forecast for Luxembourg was more of the same.

I've checked the weather news, and today in Mondorf it's going to be showery this morning, sunnier this afternoon, but with 100% chance of rain. Not cold, nor windy, but not very nice. Although a quick peek at the Howald Tunnel ("Ah! The lovely Howald Tunnel!") reveals that the roads are dry, and the traffic is moving freely in both directions:

I'm a little disappointed today, I have the day off, but there is no Giro to watch, as it's a rest day. Drat! Heaven knows they need it, but it's a shame I can't listen along with the live broadcast, and make pithy remarks on Twitter. Oh well, maybe later this week.

The Giro itself is getting quite interesting, despite having very few Schlecklander Pets in it, and of course having no Andy. I was making rude remarks about the Trek kit failure at the TT the other day, as Kiserlovsky seemed to have cut the sleeves off his skinsuit:

You can see by the tan-line that something is missing!

According to "someone on Twitter",  Trek don't have enough skinsuits to go round, so he had to borrow one from another rider, who had national championship bands on the sleeve.

So he had to cut them off.

Seriously? Our Andy is riding for a team that can't even afford to provide skinsuits for all the riders? Or can't even provide a handful of spare non-personalised skinsuits?

That's a bit sad.

The weather at the Giro has been weird as well - no doubt they thought they were leaving the wet stuff behind when they escaped from Ireland, but it followed them: and then, earlier this week, they were merrily pedalling away when Rob "Over-precise Enunciation" Hatch said something like "you won't believe the weather that is occurring 30kms further up the road - it's hailing!"  and when they got there:

No kidding! There was so much hail that the ground was white with it, it was quite impressive! Luckily the road had been cleared by all the traffic, but there were some tense moments when the peloton reached this corner, I can tell you!





Luckily, they managed to get round it without a single fall, which is quite remarkable when you think how many falls there have already been in this year's Giro.

So there you have it, no real news, the Giro continues,  and only 39 days until le Tour starts!