Velonews has the details:
The online auction of Roberto Heras's winning bike from the 2005 Vuelta a España has netted 24,600 euros (about $29,400) to benefit the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Heras made history this year by taking a record fourth Vuelta title after a dramatic battle in the Cantabria Mountains of northern Spain.
It turns out the winning bid was made by Liberty Seguros-Würth team manager Manolo Saiz, who said he will display the bicycle in a museum at the headquarters of team co-sponsor Würth.
"The idea wasn't to get Roberto's bike at any price, but I had the idea I was only going to leave it to someone else at a very high price," Saiz said. "The most important thing is that we raised money for the hurricane victims and that we're going to keep the bike for sentimental reasons for everyone at the team."
And now that that's over, all of you patriotic, flag-waving Wankervillians can now go back to dissing the Spaniards as a bunch of paella-eating, terrorist-appeasing, gay marriage-tolerating foreigners.
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