now thats a pretty xmas girl

anouk - until the crespo or the turbo trumps this and i dare - is the reining cutest christmas baby of the ranch.

ranch xmas party

oh it was a festive evening! Ranchers found themselves together celebrating the best of the season at aphrodite - a local nottinghill greek restaurant. Save for the Zinni and riderhowe - turnout was perfect for the annual exchange of gifts and cheer. More ladyfriend talk than gear speak - we learned of ridermama's plans to continue her meteoric rise in the medical field in LA, riderchichi's plans to relocate to a 2 bedroom with the lovely sarah, the Noshow talking about a late december trip to St barts with the new german( sans bike),ridercali was lamenting that he has 17 dates (which cant be termed dates) with aloha - and has sweet fanny all to show for the effort. Crespo nattered on on how the baby now 10 days past the due date - runs the danger of screwing up his xmas return to argie - and RiderPitts was his old true - strong - dependable self.

riderzinni revisited

declaring himself ridersolobreak - which we at the ranch found hard to endorse given we aint seen no break. riderzinni unhappy with just being known as riderzinni wanted something with a bit more zip. So as a response we came up with riderpallesecche which when translated means what one finds dangling between the trunks on the poor old codger in the photo. There you have it. Take a report.

eazy-e - finds late season form

Owing some say in part to a resurgent P&L as emerging market credit has bounced back from its summer sell-off - ridereasy-e has once regained his position as a force in the field. The old mohammed ali head bobs were seen once again in italy and have signalled a return to his early season form where easy-e was dominating. Still banging out hours in the saddle in turville - ridereazy-e was heard begging the ranch to bring some back up to lago di como for the gran fondo di lombardo - however looking around the ranch - a few too many pumpkin muffins may be pushing the scales the wrong way for anymore appearances this year. Lets hope that the tittas and alfajores shipments dont get the best of him. Pictured above we see a rarely seen happy zinni and recently summitted kilamanjaro - ridercali.

who has seen this man

Riderturbo - flying very low since the successful passing of his pilots licence - has not been seen outside the comfortable confines of his princess square flat since the leaves began turning 6 weeks ago. The short race in prosecco was tailor made for the ranch's lead sprinter - who pulled his own impersonation of NoShow -which we could all endorse given the new demands of riderbabyzoe - but were astonished to learn that mamma and baby were seen loitering in boulders own colorado multi sport that same weekend - that could only mean riderturbo pulled a version of 6th grade "gee mom - i dont feel very well today" - skipped the race - and smugly spent two days alone free from baby - mamma - and prosecco. Maybe he doesnt want to tarnish his last result - top 10 windsor triathalon which this blog highlighted in July. We can only hope that the 2 days alone wern't spent designing a fast tack reading program for 4 month old zoe - as the last time we saw old riderturbo was when he was nailing as sign above zoe's crib entitled "cornell or bust".

NO KIDDING - NO SHOW SHOWS

Owing to a bunch of nay sayers asking for additional proof of appearance. We dug deep to find this shot of the NOSHOW the eve before the grand fondo del prosecco. Displaying the grab bag goody of prosecco's finest salami - together with a bone fide race number - riderNOsHoW is all grins. Fielding abuse from such unexpected sources as Riderpitts's mother shirley - who when introduced to the NOShow - said - "now what are the fellows going to call you - im disappointed". We leave this post by reflecting on the old adage that one race does not make a season - which is just as true for a nickname.

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