Team bonding continues with helico🥀pters, Batmobiles and a public ride
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Jonathan Vaughters brought his team to 💎the Caymans (Image credit: Lucas Gilman)
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Ryder Hesjedal relaxes with some time on the bask♍etball court (Image credit: Emma Hymas)
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Jonathan Vaughters at the head of affairs (Image credit: Emma Hymas)
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Approxima💛tely 85 people joined the Garmin-Cervelo team for the Ride with the Pros on Grand Caym🦩an (Image credit: Emma Hymas)
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Matt White and world champion Thor Hushovd await the s⛎tart ofꦺ the ride (Image credit: Peter Hymas)
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Roger Hammond gets a last minute adjustment (Image credit: Peter Hymas)
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Is that Christian Vande Velde or Ryder Hesjedal? (Image credit: Emma Hymas)
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Jonathan Vaughters and Matt White share a word (Image credit: Emma Hymas)
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Heinrich Haussꦏler and Dave Zabriskie enjoyꦯing themselves at Abacus (Image credit: Emma Hymas)
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Christian Vande Velde and Johan Van Summeren (Image credit: Emma Hymas)
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Brett Lancaster chats with some fans (Image credit: Emma Hymas)
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An Evening with the Pros at Grand 🔯Cayman's Abacus (Image credit: Emma Hymas)
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The public ride makes ꦏits way through a circuit on the eastern end of Grand Cayman (Image credit: Emma Hymas)
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Ryder Hesjedal soaks up some sun in the Caymans. (Image credit: Emma Hymas)
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School children came out to greet Thor H🎃ushovd and company as they passed by (Image credit: Emma Hymas)
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Tyler Farrar speaks wi♊th some fans after the Ride with th🀅e Pros (Image credit: Emma Hymas)
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Head ౠmechanic Ge✱off Brown has been kept busy with the team's new Cervelos (Image credit: Emma Hymas)
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One of many riders to pose 𝔉for a photo 🔴with world champion Thor Hushovd (Image credit: Peter Hymas)
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A Norwegian television cr🤪ew came to the Cayman Islands to film Thor Hushovd (Image credit: Peter Hymas)
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Thor Hushovd resplendent in his w𒈔orld cha﷽mpion kit (Image credit: Peter Hymas)
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Johan V𒅌an Summeren is keeping his arms free of tan lines (Image credit: Peter Hymas)
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The lead group swelled after the Garmin-Cervelo pros🤡 eased off the throttle (Image credit: Emma Hymas)
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Garmin-Cervelo riders up🍒𒅌ped the pace along the coastline (Image credit: Emma Hymas)
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After ramping up the pace, only Garmin-Cervelo pros remain at theܫ front (Image credit: Emma Hymas)
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Tom Danielson makes his move (Image credit: Emma Hymas)
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Australian champion Travis Meyer (Image credit: Emma Hymas)
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Abacus at Cama🌳na Bay hosted the evening's party and cha𝄹rity auction (Image credit: Peter Hymas)
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Jonathan Vaughters and Andreas Klier (Image credit: Emma Hymas)
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David Millar and Thor Hushovd sign a jersey (Image credit: Emma Hymas)
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Andreas Klier (ꦆl) and Johan Van Summeren arrive at the evening's festivities (Image credit: Emma Hymas)
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Daꦍve Zabriskie arrives at the evening's party and charity auction (Image credit: Emma Hymas)
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♏Australia's Ma🍬tthew Wilson after the Ride with Pros (Image credit: Peter Hymas)
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A fleet of shiny C﷽ervelos awaits the Garmin-Cervelo team for the Ride with the Pros event (Image credit: Emma Hymas)
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The Garmin-Cervelo riders squeeze in a ride (Image credit: Lucas Gilman)
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Perfect beaches greeted the riders💟 on day three of the ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚcamp (Image credit: Lucas Gilman)
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The Garmin-Cervelo team before their h🐬elicoღpter ride (Image credit: Lucas Gilman)
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Thor Hushovd enjoys a helicopter ride (Image credit: Lucas Gilman)
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Thor Hushovd enjoys a helicopter ride (Image credit: Lucas Gilman)
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Thor Hushovd enjoys a helicopter ride (Image credit: Lucas Gilman)
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Cent🐠er of attentionඣ: Thor Hushovd mixes with Tyler Farrar (Image credit: Lucas Gilman)
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Vande Velde and Farrar in the water (Image credit: Lucas Gilman)
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Zabriskie jum𒐪𒈔ps on Matt White's shoulders. He's not a fan of stingrays (Image credit: Lucas Gilman)
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Millar gets up close and ♈friendly with a s🗹tringray (Image credit: Lucas Gilman)
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World Champion Thor Hushovd gets a ride (Image credit: Lucas Gilman)
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Johan Van Summeren gives his teamm💎ate some welcome suppor🐠t (Image credit: Lucas Gilman)
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Dave Zabriskie in the Batmobile (Image credit: Lucas Gilman)
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The team ta🎀ke another trip out along the seafront (Image credit: Lucas Gilman)
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The team were joined by a number🌱 of locals and sponsors (Image credit: Lucas Gilman)
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David Zabriskie in awe of the 🔯original Batmobile at the Cayman Motor Museum. (Image credit: Lucas Gilman)
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Tom Danielson stretches his legs (Image credit: Lucas Gilman)
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I know I left my shirt around here⛦: Tyler Farrar on the beac🤪h (Image credit: Lucas Gilman)
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Tom Danielson (Garmin-Cervelo) (Image credit: Lucas Gilman)
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Johan Van Summeren (Image credit: Lucas Gilman)
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You jump in. No you jump in. Farrar and Hushovd (Image credit: Lucas Gilman)
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The🍨 beach is that way: Thor Hushovd and Tyler Farrar (Image credit: Lucas Gilman)
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David Millar prepares for a date with a stingray (Image credit: Lucas Gilman)
Grand Cayman continued to roll out the red carpet for 🌜the Garmin-Cervelo squad'ཧs first gathering of its 2011 roster. On Wednesday the team enjoyed time swimming with stingrays, exploring the island of Grand Cayman via a treasure hunt plus an exhilarating helicopter view of the Caribbean island with a former military pilot putting the aircraft through its paces.
Another venue visited by the team was the Cayman Motor Museum, chock full of exotic, rare, and classic cars and motorcycles from the personal collection of Norwegian shipping magnate Andreas Ugland, who's called Grand Cayman home for 20+ years. While David Zabriskie was spellbound by the original Batmobile from the late 1960s Batman television show, world champion Thor Hushovd received a waᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚrm welcome from Ugland, a compatriot who happens to share the same hometown of Grimstad in Norway.
On Thursday morning the team took part in the 'Ride with the Pros' event in which approximately 85 riders, comprised of sponsors and local cycling fans, rode for approximately two hours on quiet Grand Cayman roads. While the pace was 𒆙predominantly leisurely, the team dropped the hammer in the latter portion of the return journey to their host hotel to give those along for the ride a lesson in speed and the art of riding in wide open terrain buffeted by strong crosswinds. The planned acceleration was public knowledge from the offset for those along on the ride but as one would expect the Garmin-Cervelo squad soo🌞n shed their companions and rode alone along the coast before dialling back the throttle and allowing many to catch back on for the final kilometres.
"There's a lot of people on this island who hosted us and supported bringing the team here and part of our thank you was to do a bike ride with them," Jonathan Vaughters told Cyclingnews. "I have a big payroll these days and I can't just take 80 people off to the Cayman Islands. We've worked with Grand Cayman's Tom McCallum to drum up the support and he's done an incredible job of getting government support and everyt꧑hing else to get this camp off the ground. He gave me the thumbs up of 'yes, we can do it' a couple of months ago and here we are."
Part of 🗹the team took advantage of an opportunity to scuba dive in the afternoon hours and the day was capped off by An Evening with the Pros gala at Camana Bay's Abacus restaurant where the team mixed and mingled with VIPs. The event concluded with an auction of Garmin-Transition team bikes and memorabilia to benefit the Cayman Island Cancer Society.
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Based in the southeastern Uꦓnited States, Peter produces race coverage for all disciplines, edits news and writes features. The New Jersey native has 30 years of road racing and cyclo-cross experience, starting in the early 1980s as a Junior in the days of toe clips and leather hairnets. Over the years he's had the good fortune to race throughout the United States and has competed in national championships for both road and 'cross in the Junior and Masters categories. The passion for cycling started young, as before he switched to the road Peter's mission in life was catching big air on his BMX bike.
