Astana and Rabobank's new kits plus random randomness:

I swear it: this morning I did try to go to school. Seriously. I did try to go to school, but then I was defeated by the ice and came back home. After all, this Fangirl doesn't want to break her neck on a cold and frosty morning, without even knowing what Team Luxembourg's kits will look like next year!
Really, what happened to me this morning was very strange. And also a bit funny, actually. Yesterday it snowed the whole day here in Bergamo but, since Bergamask weather knows that we people of the town and of the suburbs are work-addicted, before starting to snow it rained for some minutes. Therefore, the snow on the roads didn't become too much and Bergamask people could happily go to work/to school.

This morning it didn't snow and, since it seemed that there wasn't too much snow on the garage ramp, I asked one of my parents whether they could give me a lift to the bus stop (it's a pretty dangerous road from my house to it). They said 'yes' and so I jumped inside the family car happily. Too bad that my prediction about the garage ramp's conditions was wrong. The snow wasn't that much, but there was some very tricky ice there and so coming out of the garage was very difficult. We tried to go outside it twice, but failed both times. So I got off the car and started to run to the bus stop (I had just 3 minutes to do so). While walking/running I slipped a few times, risking to break my neck, and I arrived 20 meters far from the bus stop just on time to see my bus driving fast in front of me. I had lost it because I had been 30 seconds too late. Nervous.

After reaching the bus stop however I decided to wait for the next bus to come. It arrived and I asked the driver whether he was heading towards the place where I needed to go. 'Yes', he said. I thanked him for the information but, as soon as I went to sit down on a free seat, he called me back: 'Sorry but I shfifiufgyfdsh', he told me. 'Eh?', I replied. The man looked at me and went: 'I said I'm not jhnbvxchgvasdj. Have you ophidfagasdg?'. For the second time in 10 seconds, I hadn't understood what the bus driver was trying to tell me. I felt like a stupid. 'Sorry but I can't understand you...', I said, trying to look sorry for being that deaf. The man looked at me as if I was crazy and repeated very slowly, as if I was a patient of a mental hospital: 'I'm not going where you need to go. Sorry'. I looked at him, understood (it was high time) and got off the bus. 'And now?', I asked myself. The next bus was due to arrive in 30 minutes time. 'Enough time to freeze', I thought. So I called home, discovered that one of my parents was still there and reached them.

I managed to do so without killing myself (and it wasn't that easy!) and, when I got home, I realised that the situation was very bad. I had left the house 15 minutes earlier, but things outside the garage looked pretty much the same.

It eventually took us (me and my parents) 45 minutes to clean the road outside the house and at that point I had 3 options: 1) getting in the car again, asking to be brought to school and making my parents arrive way too late at work; 2) going back to the bus stop to get on the 8.30 am bus (which, considering the ice on the roads, wouldn't have arrived outside my school before of 10 am); or, 3) staying at home. Obviously, I chose the latter option (and don't worry, I studied for my exams :P).

Anyway, I've just realised that I digressed too much. Sorry.

On to cycling, the most interesting news of the last hours regard the teams presentations. Yesterday I found out that I'm going to lose Team Luxembourg presentation in January (I won't be in Italy at that time of next year), so in this post I'm going to talk about some 'kits news' regarding Rabobank and Astana.

Talking about Astana, the kit is pretty much the same as this year (although I already know that I'm going to miss the yellow sun on the front of the jersey). But what attracted my attention most, however, was the fact that Astana guys had to take Vinokourov as a model for the new kits. This made me wonder: who will model the kits of Team Luxembourg? Andy? Frank? Fabian? Jakob? Or Bennati? A wide range of choice, as you can see.

Btw, here's a picture dedicate to all the girls who are part of the 'Anonymous Association of Vino's Lovers'. Enjoy the view ;)Talking about Rabobank's presentation, instead, I liked the place where it was held and, to say the truth, I also quite like the new team cars.

Unfortunately, I don't like the new Rabo kits. It looks too old fashioned imo. Moreover, I think that Rabobank has kept the same jersey design for the last 3 years or so, therefore I didn't expect them to change it this year. What a sadness. Oh, and Fangirl is sure that this kit will also end up affecting Matti Bresche's sexyness.Uff. Also Denis Menchov didn't look that convincted during the kits' presentation, did he? Talking about Team Schleck, instead, Robert Wagner showed his new bike to the World through Twitter. I like the colour, but now I'm even more curious to know what the new kit will look like.

Let's wait for more news to come in the next days!

(Pic of Rabobank's presentation by Bert Geerts, pic of Vino by Team Astana, last pic by Wagner).