{"id":3703,"date":"2011-08-04T05:43:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T11:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=3703"},"modified":"2011-08-04T05:43:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T11:43:46","slug":"tough-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=3703","title":{"rendered":"Tough Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"

As some of my face-friends\/fellow ORAMM racers noticed, The new, updated Outdoors, Inc. kit has made it’s debut…<\/p>\n

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(photo courtesy of Lightbox Productions)<\/p>\n

Being the fashion-conscious individual I am, I am bothered by the prospect of wearing a black helmet with blue kit. After some searching (and Tour watching), I found that the company BBB makes a couple of nice, dark blue helmets, though I’m not sure which one I like better: the plain blue Falcon, or the Falcon “team” worn by the Euro-Pro Vacansoleil Team…<\/p>\n

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I’m not usually one to wear “team” apparel (from other teams), but I know from watching hours of Tour footage that it’s going to match my new kit. Also, I can channel thoughts of Johnny Hoogerland… the newest “tough man” of the peloton, who (in case you vacationed under a rock during The Tour) was knocked into a barbed wire fence when a media car hit his breakaway partner:<\/p>\n

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Of course, advice is what you ask for when you’ve already made up your mind. It’s always fun to ask the readers, though…<\/p>\n

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