Tami Buhr
Hometown
Lexington, MA
Date of Birth
27 May 1968
Category
2
Profession
Public Opinion Analyst
Years Racing
Started in 2002
Hobbies
Reading, traveling, inventing palmares
Selected Palmares
Finishing 3rd at Sterling after missing a turn and taking my main competitors off course and catching the pack just before the final hill
Personal Website
http://www.chowhound.com/
in her own words
How did you spend this off-season/winter?
Growing my hair and picking ou8t bar tape for my new Specialized
*What are your goals for 2007?
Help NEBC podium in every race we enter; Win the MassBike/NEBC Pie Race
What are your Favorite Movies/Bands/Books?
Book – Long Distance: A Year of Living Strenuously by Bill McKibben; Movies – Airplane, Shrek
What is your Favorite Race?
Sterling
What was your first bike? When/how did you get it?
Sparkly red banana seat, sissy bar, streamer laden single speed ; Hand me down from my sister
What was your first win/best placing?
Scarborough Road Race
What would you consider your finest moment on the bike?
Eating a slice of pie in every town I road through on RAGBRAI 2003 which came to about 60 slices of pie on the week.
What was your worst or most embarrassing moment on the bike?
Wiping out in front of the official’s stand at the Lake Auburn Road Race after I’d been dropped and was about to DNF. The crash caused me to rip my new custom yellow saddle.
What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen on a bike ride?
Decorated road kill
What’s the one thing you’ve done on a ride (training or race) that you will absolutely never do again?
THE Sunapee Road Race
What’s the best advice you ever got for training/racing on the bike?
When you think about quitting, make a deal to hang on one more minute, and then you do another minute, and another minute, and eventually it eases up.
Anything else you’d like to share?
My favorite color is yellow