Episode 4: Bike versus man versus Manolo Saiz

”VEEEEEEEEEEENGGGGAAAAAAAAAAA” it cried out.

”DAMN IT! PEDAL FASTER! ITS CATCHING UP!” Basso yelled.

Our brave heroes was being chased by a yelling spanish directeur sportif in a very fast car. The road was icy and narrow. Surely this would be the end of them...

”Shut up narrator and watch me powerslide my bike into this hairpin” Hushovd cockily stated.

He then proceeded to clipping his rear wheel into some roadside barrier. He fell straight into the roadside snow while his bike flew 30 feet into the air (thats some 9 meters) and fell down, right into the chasing car and the chasing spaniard. It sweared and cursed for so long that Chavanel and Basso got some distance. But it didnt take long until it was back up on their wheels. They started to throw water bottles at it, but stopped when they realized they only had one bottle each. It responded by touching Chavanel's rear wheel. Chavanel lost control and continue straight off the road and down a long hill with a frozen lake at the end.

”Remember what Bruce Lee said... ” he whispered to himself. "Be formless... shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle; it becomes the bottle. You put it into a teapot; it becomes the teapot. Water can flow, and it can crash. Be water, my friend..."

Then he continued straight across the lake.

… and then he fell through the ice. When a cyclist is in a lake, it becomes the lake. In Chavanel's case, it lead to him hallucinating. He saw a suspicious looking doctor standing in the middle of the road, laughing, grinning and generally looking like an idiot. The next thing he saw was a cyclist flying through the air while on a bike. Flying in a straight angle, circa two meters in the air, was Basso charging straight towards the doctor, kicking him the in face while flying, and then made a swooooooosh sound, landed somewhere behind the doctor, and then slided to a standstill. It all looked very awesome. Mr. Saiz in his car then stopped closed to his now downed buddy, the honorable Dr. Fuentes and then laughed even more stupidly than Fuentes did when he was standing.

”DONT EVER THINK WE WILL LOSE THIS BATTLE IVAN!” yelled Saiz from the car.

”OH YEAH? WHAT WILL YOU TWO DO? DROP A SYRINGE FILLED WITH ”FUNNY STUFF” FROM A HELICOPTER WHICH WILL THEN LAND ON MY SHOULDER AND INJECTS ITS POISON INTO ME? HUH?” yelled Basso from the bike.

The very same second, a syringe filled with ”funny stuff” fell from the air, dropped from a helicopter, landed on Basso's shoulder, and then shot its stuff into him.

Helicopter Pilot 1: Boo-yah! Another cyclist innocently doped!

Helicopter Pilot 2: Great shot Jim. Our spy mission is complete. Return to base and spend an hour in the jacuzzi

Helicopter Pilot 1: You got it sir.

In the next episode: Basso is doped, Chavanel is technically frozen into a solid block of ice, and Hushovd lays somewhere with a crushed spine. How will they survive? How will they compete in the first race of the cycling tour, which is very logically held on Saturday? All this in some other episode.