Cooke to lead new UK womens team...

Kirky
Kirky Posts: 459
edited November 2007 in Pro race
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.j ... ycl110.xml

I know it's been posted in womens racing section (was looking around to see if there was mention of it already before posting) but no one has replied!! Personally I think it's a great result, and who knows the women's team may yet pave a way for a mens squad as well!!

KIRKY
Las Vegas Institute of Sport

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  • martincroxall
    martincroxall Posts: 102
    I've got a horrible feeling they'll put them on Treks. Nothing against a Trek but it was nice to see a Raleigh being ridden by a champion again (even if it wasn't one from Notts).
    You hear that? He's up there... mewing in the nerve centre of his evil empire. A ground rent increase here, a tax dodge there? he sticks his leg in the air, laughs his cat laugh... and dives back down to grooming his balls!
  • Kirky
    Kirky Posts: 459
    You're probably right :-( It's a good move for trek - but it would be better if it was a British brand (like you say, even if they're not made here any more!!). Will have to see what the line up is when they launch the team properly!!

    KIRKY
    Las Vegas Institute of Sport
  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    Whoever painted that bike lane seems to have an unorthodox approach to frame building !
  • Jeff Jones
    Jeff Jones Posts: 1,865
    Related to this, I've just posted the first of a two part interview with her:

    http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/n ... eams-13143
    Jeff Jones

    Product manager, Sports
  • BeaconRuth
    BeaconRuth Posts: 2,086
    It will certainly be interesting to see if the rest of the British women are up to the job of supporting Cooke next season. Pooley has shown her ability very clearly but I'm not sure the rest of the potential team around Cooke have yet proven themselves to be capable of forming as strong a team as those Cooke has had round her in the last few years. Cooke has had the advantage of a whole team of truly world-class women for 2 or 3 years now, who have enabled her to achieve such incredible consistency in World Cups and stage races. She must be going from that to a team of relatively inexperienced, young or unproven talent. I suppose it just shows how seriously she wants the Olympic title. Good luck to her - I'm sure she knows what she's doing!

    Ruth
    http://www.rutheyles.co.uk/
  • vermooten
    vermooten Posts: 2,697
    martincroxall wrote:
    ... it was nice to see a Raleigh being ridden by a champion again ....

    What? Why?? Best bike they ever made was the Chopper.

    By the by, totally OT (sozz) but there's an article in today's FT about Raleigh, how they were stuck in the past i]looks knowingly at martincroxall[/i and how they're now outsourcing production to the Far East.
    You just have to ride like you never have to breathe again.

    Manchester Wheelers
  • method
    method Posts: 784
    martincroxall wrote:
    I've got a horrible feeling they'll put them on Treks. Nothing against a Trek but it was nice to see a Raleigh being ridden by a champion again (even if it wasn't one from Notts).

    It wasn't even a Raleigh, let alone not from Notts.
  • Michuel
    Michuel Posts: 269
    vermooten wrote:
    martincroxall wrote:
    ... it was nice to see a Raleigh being ridden by a champion again ....

    What? Why?? Best bike they ever made was the Chopper.

    I had a Raleigh 753 made to my own spec at Raleigh's special unit at Ilkeston and I'm still currently riding it (for instance all this year). It's excellent.

    Reg Harris rode Raleigh track bikes.

    The 70/80's Ti-Raleigh team was the dominant team with multiple world road champ victories and TdF win. The frames/bikes they rode weere made at Ilkeston. Gerald O'Donovan was in charge of specialist bike unit for Raleighs. He's very highly regarded.
  • martincroxall
    martincroxall Posts: 102
    I did point out I knew it wasn't a Raleigh from Notts just the same as the one Fignon rode in '89 wasn't. But hey, if you can't take pride in a British name what can you take pride in? Would you rather a British team were on an American / German / Taiwanese bike or one with it's origins in this country?
    You hear that? He's up there... mewing in the nerve centre of his evil empire. A ground rent increase here, a tax dodge there? he sticks his leg in the air, laughs his cat laugh... and dives back down to grooming his balls!
  • GroupOfOne MkII
    GroupOfOne MkII Posts: 1,289
    edited November 2007
    Anyone see the Nicole Cooke interview in the Independent yesterday?

    If so did anyone notice the rather glaringly obvious c*ck-up they made? If not or you didn't see it, then have a look here > img003vk4.th.jpg

    The reason I immediately noticed was because I'd just flicked through Procycling with the Marianne Vos interview in it and noticed her sponsor!

    Was also a good feature on Shanaze Reade in todays paper.
  • BeaconRuth
    BeaconRuth Posts: 2,086
    Yeah, that's Vos, not Cooke. Not hard to spot since Cooke hasn't been World Champ since she was a junior! What a shame they went to such an effort of doing a piece on her and then couldn't manage to get the picture right!

    Ruth
    http://www.rutheyles.co.uk/
  • Michuel
    Michuel Posts: 269
    martincroxall wrote:
    I did point out I knew it wasn't a Raleigh from Notts just the same as the one Fignon rode in '89 wasn't.

    I was referring to Zoetemelk's 1980 Tour de France victory for Raleigh.
  • ricadus
    ricadus Posts: 2,379
    :lol:

    Rowbottom will doubtless blame useless subeditors changing things around after he'd written the piece.

    Nice to see Marianne getting coverage in a British paper though, albeit at Nicole's expense (again).
    Tour de France
  • wildmoustache
    wildmoustache Posts: 4,010
    cougie wrote:
    Whoever painted that bike lane seems to have an unorthodox approach to frame building !

    LMAO at that !! the seatpost coming up from the rear hub? Good to know that the local authority's outsourced painting contractors are all avid cyclists.

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