Bayern-Rundfahrt 2008 Part II

I predicted (or at least knew) where they were going to put up the sign
indicating the beginning of the feed zone. And they were exactly where I
thought they would be!

By taking a look at the document on the organizer's site and at the picture
from Google Earth, I predicted the point as "N49 52.237 E10 48.879". Here is
the actual photo of the signs.


As you can see it was a hot summer day down there. Around 9:00 the temperature
was already 24 degrees Celsius and in the afternoon it was over or close to
30 degrees Celsius.

The end of the feed zone was at the end (in the direction of the race) of the
village called Unteraurach. I thought the signs would be at the beginning
of the village. I missed them by 100 meters. Here is the photo. You are
looking at the village from the opposite direction of the race course.


Around 11:40?, the first team car arrived there. It was a Credit Agricole car. By 12:00,
most of the team cars were there.



Here are the team cars. You can see the rough location by looking at the
road sign.


Our Team CSC car was also there.　At the feed zone, I picked up three musettes
and two bidons. Three musettes were of Aqua & Sapone Caffe Mokambo, Topsport
Vlaanderen and Wiesenhof-Felt. Two bidons were of Thuringer Energie and
Team Gerolsteiner.

... Wait a minute! Wiesenhof-Felt? This team ceased to exist at the end of 2007.
Who used this musette?


At the finish.


There was still this small breakaway when the race arrived at the finish. They were to make one
more round.



So Team Milram had to keep the pace up for the race leader,
Christian Knees. They were to catch the breakaway in the following round.



Eventually, the race was won by Heinrich Haussler of Team Gerolsteiner. 
I did not know he was participating in BRR, but the moment I saw a jumpy
feisty man in Gerolsteiner jersey at the finish line, his name came to my mind. 



Team CSC riders. Lars Bak and Karsten Kroon after the finish.



Karsten Kroon



Marcus Ljungqvist receiving a bottle of some cold drink and the instructions how to get to
the cars where he could change and rest.

After this, I went to a bit remote place on foot where Team CSC cars parked and waiting for the riders to come home. They were friendly. I had fun hanging out there.