Enjoy these photo galleries from Willie
Some fantastic photos of the 2012 Amgen Tour of California from Willie Reichenstein. Thank you Willie for your wonderful photography from the race, and for all the new friends you made out on the road for Pedal Dancer. Through you we get the feeling of being a fan at a professional bike race. Thanks!
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Stage 5: Individual Time Trial in Bakersfield
Stage 6: KOM at Angeles Crest
Stage 6 with the CTS Amgen Tour of California Race Experience, photos from the Carmichael Training Systems team's challenge of riding every stage of the 2012 ATOC (featuring Greg Brown!).
A teaser sampler of some of the photos .....
Stage 5
Big Quickstep Little Quickstep ©Photo by PedalDancer.com/Willie Reichenstein |
Chris Horner down the ramp ©Photo by PedalDancer.com/Willie Reichenstein |
Captain America David Zabriskie ©Photo by PedalDancer.com/Willie Reichenstein |
A parrot walks into a bike race ... ©Photo by PedalDancer.com/Willie Reichenstein |
Stage 6
KOM Sebastian Salas high-fiving himself ©Photo by PedalDancer.com/Willie Reichenstein |
Robbie McEwen - It's a hot one ©Photo by PedalDancer.com/Willie Reichenstein |
Broom Truck sweeping the course ©Photo by PedalDancer.com/Willie Reichenstein |
Stage 7
Get up the mountain anyway you can ©Photo by PedalDancer.com/Willie Reichenstein |
©Photo by PedalDancer.com/Willie Reichenstein |
I chased this rider down on Mt Baldy ©Photo by PedalDancer.com/Willie Reichenstein |
Yellow Jersey DZ on the way to the first KOM ©Photo by PedalDancer.com/Willie Reichenstein |
Horner and Atapuma motivating each other ©Photo by PedalDancer.com/Willie Reichenstein |
More Lycra! ©Photo by PedalDancer.com/Willie Reichenstein |
Stage 8
The happy crew that brought us the Tour of California TV coverage ©Photo by PedalDancer.com/Willie Reichenstein |
Columbia team on Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills ©Photo by PedalDancer.com/Willie Reichenstein |
Wilco Kelderman signs in ©Photo by PedalDancer.com/Willie Reichenstein |
Let's get it started - Tom Boonen ©Photo by PedalDancer.com/Willie Reichenstein |
Everything looks better in yellow - Miss California and the Yellow Jersey winner Robert Gesink ©Photo by PedalDancer.com/Willie Reichenstein |
Robbie McEwen lines up for his last stage with Boonen, Danielson, Salas, Kelderman, Gesink, (McEwen), Busche, and Zabriskie ©Photo by PedalDancer.com/Willie Reichenstein |
Farewell to a retiring Robbie McEwen ©Photo by PedalDancer.com/Willie Reichenstein |
CTS Race Experience
Greg Brown made it!!!!! ©Photo by PedalDancer.com/Willie Reichenstein |
There are many more photos at the links above - enjoy.