Because...

timoid.
timoid. Posts: 3,133
edited April 2008 in Pro race
...nothing says I’m a penny pinching hardman like winning La Doyenne with shoes held snug with a liberal application of duct tape


1984Kelly_Liege.jpg


Those are some scary ass legs.


Nicked from the random website: http://www.bobkestrut.com/category/low- ... superstar/
It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.

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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Yikes.

    That must've been around 84?


    On a sort of related note, does anyone know where I could get David Walsh's Kelly book? Without paying £80 or some such. Back in the day, I wasn't a Kelly fan but have come to appreciate him a bit more over the years.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    Spot on.

    The book has been out of print for ages. Maybe we can have a revised biography? You can get it for a mere £40 here:

    http://www.antiqbook.co.uk/boox/eme/92510.shtml
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    Timoid. wrote:
    Spot on.

    The book has been out of print for ages. Maybe we can have a revised biography? You can get it for a mere £40 here:

    http://www.antiqbook.co.uk/boox/eme/92510.shtml

    Thats not the biography. That one is a collection of photos of Kelly with captions / narrative by Kelly himself and covers up to the early 90's.

    The biography is simply called "Kelly". It only goes up to the mid-80s.
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    It's only because his shoes are so tight that his veins are popping out. :wink:

    The photo is from the same year as Grewal won the Olympics, no?
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    "As Belgian Spring temperatures drop to -25°C, Kelly reluctantly agrees to wear overshoes"
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'