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Bob Roll was born on 7 July, 1960 in Oakland, California, United States of America, is an American cyclist. Discover Bob Roll's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 63 years old?

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Age 63 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 7 July 1960
Birthday 7 July
Birthplace Oakland, California, United States of America
Nationality United States

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1960

Bob "Bobke" Roll (born July 7, 1960) is an American former professional cyclist, author, and television sports commentator.

1981

Roll started cycling in 1981 in his home region of Northern California.

He spent two years in the States racing before heading to Belgium to race.

1985

After a furthur two years he became a professional cyclist for, his first race was the 1985 Giro d'Italia.

1988

During the 1988 Giro d'Italia Roll's job as a domestique pushed him to the limit, causing him to pass out at the finish and his heart to stop beating.

1990

He was a member of the until 1990 and competed for the in 1991.

1992

In 1992 Roll moved to Greg LeMond's Z team and added mountain biking to his racing accomplishments.

1998

Roll continued racing mountain bikes professionally through 1998.

Roll is known in the cycling world, and to his global cable television fans, as "Bobke".

He has written Bobke: A Ride on the Wild Side of Cycling, Bobke II, and two Tour de France Companion volumes.

("Bobke" is Southern Dutch for "Bobby".) He has also had many columns published in VeloNews.

He is credited with suggesting that Joe Parkin, professional cyclist and author, move to Europe and wrote the foreword for Joe's first book.

In 1998 a young Lance Armstrong, continuing to recover from testicular cancer remediation, had recently dropped out of the Paris–Nice cycling race.

Armstrong's training coach, Chris Carmichael, invited Roll to journey to Boone, North Carolina, to talk with Lance and do training rides with the young Armstrong for several days.

Armstrong was extremely discouraged by his recent European cycling results, and Carmichael believed Armstrong had lost his career focus and was on the verge of fully retiring from professional cycling.

Almost out of desperation, Carmichael talked Armstrong into doing one last series of intensive training rides, with Roll as his riding partner.

According to Roll, "I am sure Lance had probably never met a bike racer like me...a person who could still find some joy and happiness in such weather misery. We had eight hours a day, for eight straight days, of continuous riding in the pouring rain - rain in Biblical proportions! I think Lance would've turned things around even without our talks and rides in the Appalachia[n]s, but it turned out to be a pivotal career event for him (and Roll had made a new cycling friend)."

A refocused and encouraged Armstrong went on to a successful fourth-place finish in the Vuelta a España, and within a year and a half he had won his first yellow jersey overall victory in the Tour de France road race.

Armstrong has since had his yellow jersey wins nullified due to doping.

(Roll's tale of the ride is in Bobke II; Armstrong's is in It's Not About the Bike. )

Roll continues to enjoy riding road and mountain bicycles for recreation, and is a member of the veteran cable television broadcasting team (along with Phil Liggett, MBE and the late Paul Sherwen) who serve as road cycling expert-commentators for the NBC Sports Network cable network's coverage of the Tour de France, Vuelta a España, Giro d'Italia, Paris–Roubaix, Tour of California, and other international cycling road races.

Roll has appeared in a series of Road ID Tour de France television commercials as himself, riding a bus along with "Tour Mania" (a costumed-disguised rowdy faux rock group played by well-known professional cyclists, such as George Hincapie).

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