dave zabriskie appreciation thread

David Zabriskie (born January 12, 1979 in Salt Lake City) is a professional road bicycle racer from the United States who rides for Team Slipstream.[2] His main strength is individual time trials and his career highlights include stage wins in all three Grand Tour stage races, as well as the US National Time Trial Championship. Zabriskie is known for his quirky nature, including singing before stages and the interviews he does with fellow riders in the professional peloton which are posted on his homepage.

David Zabriskie (DZ) has conducted a number of flash-interviews in the peloton with various riders, displaying them on his website. They usually go down like the following interview of Alessandro Petacchi (AP):
DZ: Could I ask you a question?
AP: Yes.
DZ: Do you like Star Wars?
AP: Star Wars?
DZ: The movies.
AP: Yes.
DZ: Thank you.

When Cyclingnews asked David Zabriskie before Stage 9 in Firenze how it felt to enter the cycling stats as the third American in cycling history along with Andy Hampsten and Tyler Hamilton to win a Giro d'Italia time trial, he smiled and said: "rock and roll, dude" - yet another example of his unique sense of humor, provoking plenty of laughter from his CSC team-mate Christian Vandevelde.

http://mos.bikeradar.com/images/news/2008/02/23/79932147-798-99.jpg

Hey Evan, who's that guy with the beard you're hugging?

good one

evan looks like LEVI? hee hee

im a levi fan. master of his ego, i think hes been sorta dissed repeatedly by his ds's, worst by gerolsteiner. the fact that hes limited by his riding style (yugo like accellerations) makes me appreciate him even more. watching him and evans go at it on a col is pretty boring tho.

so even tho this z's appreciation thred, just sayin-

bonus: odessa

ahem "accelerations"

not afraid to be seen with peta.

great article re: odessa

Posted by: Jaclyn | July 6, 2007 02:48 PM

It's rare to find such a compassionate man.

give me a fucking break, jaclyn

http://www.howtoavoidthebummerlife.com/weblog/archives/DaveZabriskiestache%20.jpg

http://www.velocitynation.com/article.aspx?ID=2245&CID=58

"Now I am friendly with that team and don't have to worry about the ETA anymore."

just had a dream...I was playing basket ball with @levileipheimer...he was hittin a few jumpers...so I had to go dunkathon on him.
3:36 PM Jul 2nd from TwitterBerry

Zabriskie
"Early on in my career when I was on USPS I was dropped at some race in Spain with the entire Euskatel team and they continued to pull at a fast pace and I was annoyed so I started yelling rapido it was more of a taunt than a joke. Well one of the guys came back and grabbed me by the jersey and we stopped and I thought he was going to beat me up but he didn't. Now I am friendly with that team and don't have to worry about the ETA anymore. I actually wouldn't mind being the first foreigner to be hired by that team, now that would be funny me hanging out with bunch of Basque guys. "

lol

zabriskie wins tour of missouri

http://www.velonews.com/photo/97803

david lynch twittered "Please tell me what you did this weekend." and zabriskie replies:

@DAVID_LYNCH did some bike racing.
4:51 PM Aug 24th from web in reply to DAVID_LYNCH

lolllll the petacchi interview

http://nyvelocity.com/content/2009/dave-zabriskie-interviewpodcast-post-tom

i recommend listening to the interview, not reading it. very LOL!

i fell asleep listening to it last night. i heard him repping for wet wipes in my dreams.

Arrgh, it contains spoilers for The Wire!!

VeloNews: Were you able to have fun at the Tour, given the stresses of the race and the pressure from the media?

Bradley Wiggins: Oh, yeah, we laughed ourselves into hysterics, with Christian (Vande Velde) and Dave (Millar) and DZ Nuts (Dave Zabriskie). It was such a pleasure being with all those guys.

'DZ Nuts'!!

http://www.pricepoint.com/images/styleImages/D_400%20DZNCH8.jpg

Dave Zabriskie, Team Garmin-Slipstream

How will race strategy change without race radios - if at all?
Oh it's gonna be off the chain.

Do you agree with the ban?
Of course I do, it's gonna be off the chain.

Will some teams be more affected than others?
Maybe teams that don't know how to make decisions when things are going off the chain.

Do you think races will be less safe without radios?
I think they will be safer actually. Less stressful energy going around the bunch.

What's the strangest exchange you've ever had on the race radio?
I had grabbed a handful of purple condoms on the street from some group that was handing them out when I lived in Berkeley. I put those purple condoms in my rain bag. During my first Vuelta it began to rain and Johan is on the radio talking to everybody so and so wants this and that. I was like give me a jacket or something. Maybe a minute passed and Johan came on the radio and said real slow, Dave, why do you have condoms in your rain bag? I'm not sure how responded at that time, probably just said something like, well just in case or it is a rain bag...

haw i was just gonna post that!

you read ny velocity?

ha

nah, i was opening up old ILTRMB threads (this one), followed some other Velocity link upthread, saw this and said 'huh'

DZ: Could I ask you a question?
AP: Yes.
DZ: Do you like Star Wars?
AP: Star Wars?
DZ: The movies.
AP: Yes.
DZ: Thank you.

― cutty, Monday, February 25, 2008 2:46 PM

XD

schmalz I think Dave Zabriskie attracts a lot of geeks.

Millar He's the perfect cycling pervert fan.

schmalz Yeah, you get the protractor types with Dave.

Millar Yeah, he loves it as well.

He's kind of cerebral and ironic.

Off the wall, individualistic, anti-conformist .

dzabriskie

Dave's day of good deeds. Showed a girl how to shift the bike, found a wallet, and gave someone a clif bar who had hit the wall...

http://www.cycleto.com/videopopups/davez.html

YES!!!

this guy.... seriously: my hero. looked so dope today. god bless captain america.

he looked even fitter than usual to me

i took a pic of him about 100m from the finish... i'll upload in a bit. post-race fist bump too. so stoked.

he will be garmin's '10 'revelation of the tour' a la VDV, wiggo

u heard it here 1st

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4007/4620355849_98b3714788_b.jpg

if thats really the 100m line rogers made up a shitload of ground really fast

great pic, thx!

yeah there was a huge gust of wind and rogers just came off levi and boomeranged around the corner.

"Coming into Santa Cruz was beautiful," Zabriskie said. "The sun came out, amazing crowds and ol' Dave got a surfboard."

So jealous. I'm going to be at the Big Bear finish and the LA Time Trial, hopefully the race will still be close like this by then.

so do you guys agree that the plane of his bartops is not perpendicular to the vertical plane of his frame and wheels or what? is he really torquing that bitch up that much?

lol i hadn't noticed that. it does look rather twisted!

that's the first thing i noticed! something is craaaaaaaazy about that pic, steve shasta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytlo1OQ1eRE

there's no reason why he shouldn't be a household name in america. what the fuck is wrong with this country.

whatta weirdo

his ex roommate is def a household name

The WSJ story states that Landis’ emails make allegations against Lance Armstrong, George Hincapie, Levi Leipheimer and Dave Zabriskie.

http://velonews.competitor.com/2010/05/news/wsj-and-espn-landis-admits-doping-alleges-use-by-armstrong-others_117407#ixzz0oTCqzLBi

soakin up dem rays

http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/inside-the-garmin-transitions-bus

A bird flew into my helmet today while riding...they say it's some kind of mating thing...I must be in my prime...

good to see the local fauna isn't holding back when encountered by the euro PROs

http://www.bikesomewhere.com/images/large/50C34CCA-D4E0-1830-5A5432BFCEE5B6FA.jpg

if this wasn't classic enough...
http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/973279915/-2.jpg

@joaoisme:
Last year Thor shared a room with me at the first camp. This year he's got @dzabriskie. Man that is a rough start for the big man.

@dzabriskie:
Going to miss the Pinkfloyd concert tomorrow...wonder if my roomate Thor is up for a deep dark Wall session...
about 3 hours ago

Hero

haha

Hero: http://davezabriskie.com/images/roof-cap-thumb.jpg (bigger version on his site...)

the space man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR9JJghnqoo

http://www.twitvid.com/17L54

http://www.twitvid.com/OVKWE

Back in the Stars and Stripes TT Jersey!

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304314404576414124184873028.html

Sorry, that was Chris's link, I only realised after I posted it!

http://static.flickr.com/4031/4641475259_ce94af4680.jpg

i mean

did he just

oh man i guess i missed that that had been posted

yeah, the podium girls stay far away from dz when he wins a stage. think there's vid of him this year at US Nats with the podium girls running away.

ahaha

http://davezabriskie.com/images/SDCC/DZSDCC_11.jpg

i hope i never find out he's actually somehow a terrible person tbh

I have it on very good authority that he is very "odd, eccentric, unusual, difficult".

Steve, always 1 step ahead of me.

Dz's comicon blog post.

http://davezabriskie.com/?p=676

He really would fit right in here.

File in dictionary next to shit eating grin

http://i52.tinypic.com/2psruk0.png

today I am loving his double child seat Xtracycle

http://davezabriskie.com/images/2011-08-08-cruiser-th.jpg

http://davezabriskie.com/?p=684

BREAKING
http://i.imgur.com/LKszQ.jpg

from Interbike

are u there?

No, teammate is though.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Felt-DA-di2-Garmin-Slipstream-Dave-Zabriskie-54cm-road-cycling-bike-no-wheels-/110750547488?pt=Road_Bikes&hash=item19c93f3e20#ht_2277wt_1277

http://velonews.competitor.com/2011/11/news/video-dave-zabriski-goes-solo-at-the-boulder-theater_198153

'perfect example of why 'vegans' shouldn't drink' haha

Zabriskie, a five-time national time-trial champion, recalled serenading Johan Bruyneel, the longtime team manager, with a song about EPO, to the tune of Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze.”

“EPO all in my veins; Lately things just don’t seem the same; Actin’ funny, but I don’t know why; ’Scuse me while I pass this guy.”

cutty!