Silly commuting racing

Feltup

Ahh the dirtsurfer. They are great fun and you can get up to a fair speed on them. I managed to give myself the biggest bruised swollen hip ever on one of those whilst tanking it down through some local woods. Leaves hide tree roots and tree roots are a lot harder than hips. I still have a slight lump after 3 years!

You can also use them with power kites in large open spaces. Good fun but tbh the number of places you can safely use them is a bit limited.

always_tyred

jashburnham wrote:

Always Tyred wrote:

I read an interview with Robbie McEwen fairly recently.

It appears that most of you people are actually commuting faster than he can ride solo during training. Well done.

That's because he's a whinging wheelsucker and unable to ride solo.

Ah, but that headbutt made for a great piece of sporting photography.

As did his wheelie at the top of Alpe d'Huez. (That is something I would really like to be able to do!)

Greg T

Always Tyred wrote:

As did his wheelie at the top of Alpe d'Huez. (That is something I would really like to be able to do!)

Pah.

I've never seen him take on the Alpe de Putney Bridge - he wouldn't be pulling showboat stunts after the 200 M dash of despair from the Pub traffic lights I can telll you.

cjcp

Always Tyred wrote:

jashburnham wrote:

Always Tyred wrote:

I read an interview with Robbie McEwen fairly recently.

It appears that most of you people are actually commuting faster than he can ride solo during training. Well done.

That's because he's a whinging wheelsucker and unable to ride solo.

Ah, but that headbutt made for a great piece of sporting photography.

As did his wheelie at the top of Alpe d'Huez. (That is something I would really like to be able to do!)

One of my favourites was about three years ago. He was in the middle of the peleton when the road (and peleton) split. He bunny hopped on to the traffic island and hopped down the other side into the other half of the peleton. All at about 40km/h. Try doing that one in a race, let alone when there's no traffic around you for three square miles.

jedster

Feltup

Ahh the dirtsurfer. They are great fun and you can get up to a fair speed on them. I managed to give myself the biggest bruised swollen hip ever on one of those whilst tanking it down through some local woods. Leaves hide tree roots and tree roots are a lot harder than hips. I still have a slight lump after 3 years!

Oh really? Biggest ever eh? Got a photo? (No nor have I before you start).

I obtained an extra buttock positioned on my right hip after coming off my bike a few weeks ago. Quite impressive and I didnt even need some board cum mountain bike abomination to do it, so there!

Just how big was yours and where did the brusing get to? I got it draining to my calf but my physio said she'd seen people with brusing appear at their toes :shock:

UnworthyPapaLazaru

This guy sounds awesome. But slow.

Feltup

jedster

Oh really? Biggest ever eh? Got a photo? (No nor have I before you start).

I obtained an extra buttock positioned on my right hip after coming off my bike a few weeks ago. Quite impressive and I didnt even need some board cum mountain bike abomination to do it, so there!

Just how big was yours and where did the brusing get to? I got it draining to my calf but my physio said she'd seen people with brusing appear at their toes

Pah that's nothing!! My bruising was so large that not only my leg down to my calf turned purple but the air turned blue as well!

p.s.(bruising to the toes sounds a bit too full on)

il_principe

jashburnham wrote:

Always Tyred wrote:

I read an interview with Robbie McEwen fairly recently.

It appears that most of you people are actually commuting faster than he can ride solo during training. Well done.

That's because he's a whinging wheelsucker and unable to ride solo.

I take the above comment back. Brain had a bit of a "moment" i'm thinking of Cadel Evans not Robbie! Got a lot of time for him, but Evans is a t0$$er.

lost_in_thought

jashburnham wrote:

jashburnham wrote:

Always Tyred wrote:

I read an interview with Robbie McEwen fairly recently.

It appears that most of you people are actually commuting faster than he can ride solo during training. Well done.

That's because he's a whinging wheelsucker and unable to ride solo.

I take the above comment back. Brain had a bit of a "moment" i'm thinking of Cadel Evans not Robbie! Got a lot of time for him, but Evans is a t0$$er.

Now this Cadel Evans bloke gets a lot of bad press... Why? What did/does he do?

Littigator

lost_in_thought wrote:

jashburnham wrote:

jashburnham wrote:

Always Tyred wrote:

I read an interview with Robbie McEwen fairly recently.

It appears that most of you people are actually commuting faster than he can ride solo during training. Well done.

That's because he's a whinging wheelsucker and unable to ride solo.

I take the above comment back. Brain had a bit of a "moment" i'm thinking of Cadel Evans not Robbie! Got a lot of time for him, but Evans is a t0$$er.

Now this Cadel Evans bloke gets a lot of bad press... Why? What did/does he do?

Oh where to begin...well apart from being Australian (which is almost enough in it's own right ducks runs and hides he's the biggest whinger (ironic again given he's Australian and not one of us 'pommes'. He headbutted a journo after one stage, refuses all interviews, told one journo he'd kill him if he touched his mascot, has near hysterical hissy fits after races and even hired a personal bodyguard to keep people away from him during the last tour.

In addition to which, as JB mentioned, he is the WORST wheelsucker in the world.

How's that for starters?

Littigator

oh and he's a wall-eyed alien looking ugly f***er as well

lost_in_thought

Littigator wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

jashburnham wrote:

jashburnham wrote:

Always Tyred wrote:

I read an interview with Robbie McEwen fairly recently.

It appears that most of you people are actually commuting faster than he can ride solo during training. Well done.

That's because he's a whinging wheelsucker and unable to ride solo.

I take the above comment back. Brain had a bit of a "moment" i'm thinking of Cadel Evans not Robbie! Got a lot of time for him, but Evans is a t0$$er.

Now this Cadel Evans bloke gets a lot of bad press... Why? What did/does he do?

Oh where to begin...well apart from being Australian (which is almost enough in it's own right ducks runs and hides he's the biggest whinger (ironic again given he's Australian and not one of us 'pommes'. He headbutted a journo after one stage, refuses all interviews, told one journo he'd kill him if he touched his mascot, has near hysterical hissy fits after races and even hired a personal bodyguard to keep people away from him during the last tour.

In addition to which, as JB mentioned, he is the WORST wheelsucker in the world.

How's that for starters?

Yep, that'll do in a pinch!

I'm 50% australian, so OI, shut it, but his nationality should be all the more reason for him to MTFU and stop whingeing/drafting!

Is he actually any good? Or are his hissy fits because he loses all the time?

Littigator

He's actually not too bad a rider and I have a funny feeling that he's also a very clean rider compared to many as well, hence being not quite as good as most of his opposition

cjcp

lost_in_thought wrote:

jashburnham wrote:

jashburnham wrote:

Always Tyred wrote:

I read an interview with Robbie McEwen fairly recently.

It appears that most of you people are actually commuting faster than he can ride solo during training. Well done.

That's because he's a whinging wheelsucker and unable to ride solo.

I take the above comment back. Brain had a bit of a "moment" i'm thinking of Cadel Evans not Robbie! Got a lot of time for him, but Evans is a t0$$er.

Now this Cadel Evans bloke gets a lot of bad press... Why? What did/does he do?

His style of riding doesn't appeal to a lot of people. He's viewed as a wheel sucker and doesn't attack in the hills (cost him badly on Alpe D'Huez this year when he attacked too late), when, in truth, with the lack of a team around him in the mountains, it might be all he can do - he can't cover every attack (although very few can - Armstrong just about did it on Luz Ardiden in '03 I think - might have the wrong mountain).

However, IMO, he also comes across as a bit of a drop-kick in interviews. I don't think he interviews very well during the Tour. I don't think head butting the camera, barging press people out of the way, producing a wild-eyed reaction when a reporter touched him on his injured left shoulder, carrying a dog around (Paris Hilton stylee like) after the finish of later stages were winning PR moves, mind.

lost_in_thought

Ahhhhh interesting! Is doping really THAT bad? I really must gen up on the professionals and their racy ways...

[pedant hat]

Close your brackets man! :P

[/pedant hat]

EDIT
This head-butting the camera is really lame. Also, a grown man, an aussie what's more, behaving like Paris HIlton? He should be stripped of his nationality and forced to move to France. He'd fit right in. :P

il_principe

Here is Cadel being a nasal, whinging bug eyed prim-donna:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FikzgWE3t0A

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-fe79ZuDKfk&NR=1

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=M9St8xiaKzA&feature=related

lost_in_thought

jashburnham wrote:

Here is Cadel being a nasal, whinging bug eyed prim-donna:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FikzgWE3t0A

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-fe79ZuDKfk&NR=1

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=M9St8xiaKzA&feature=related

Stupid net nanny blocks it all. He is a funny looking fellow isn't he?!

il_principe

He sounds funny as well. Like an Aussie Beckham.

lost_in_thought

jashburnham wrote:

He sounds funny as well. Like an Aussie Beckham.

He seems an all round muppet really!

Shame he's a decent cyclist...

beseku

lost_in_thought wrote:

Which is why this

is still top of my unnecessary gadget wishilist!

http://www.freebord.com/ - Much, much better

In other news, scalped my first messenger today, he had a fixie, dreadlocks and a radio and everything.

Littigator

beseku wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

Which is why this

is still top of my unnecessary gadget wishilist!

http://www.freebord.com/ - Much, much better

In other news, scalped my first messenger today, he had a fixie, dreadlocks and a radio and everything.

HUZZAH! That's the ticket. I hope you told him to brush his hair and get a proper job as you rocketed past
Clarificatory note...I didn't mean it about the proper job just in case any couriers have wandered into this thread please don't hurt me...I have a heart murmur you know

lost_in_thought

beseku wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

Which is why this

is still top of my unnecessary gadget wishilist!

http://www.freebord.com/ - Much, much better

In other news, scalped my first messenger today, he had a fixie, dreadlocks and a radio and everything.

That just looks like a longboard really, I have one of those, fancied something a bit different!!

always_tyred

lost_in_thought wrote:

Littigator wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

jashburnham wrote:

jashburnham wrote:

Always Tyred wrote:

I read an interview with Robbie McEwen fairly recently.

It appears that most of you people are actually commuting faster than he can ride solo during training. Well done.

That's because he's a whinging wheelsucker and unable to ride solo.

I take the above comment back. Brain had a bit of a "moment" i'm thinking of Cadel Evans not Robbie! Got a lot of time for him, but Evans is a t0$$er.

Now this Cadel Evans bloke gets a lot of bad press... Why? What did/does he do?

Oh where to begin...well apart from being Australian (which is almost enough in it's own right ducks runs and hides he's the biggest whinger (ironic again given he's Australian and not one of us 'pommes'. He headbutted a journo after one stage, refuses all interviews, told one journo he'd kill him if he touched his mascot, has near hysterical hissy fits after races and even hired a personal bodyguard to keep people away from him during the last tour.

In addition to which, as JB mentioned, he is the WORST wheelsucker in the world.

How's that for starters?

Yep, that'll do in a pinch!

I'm 50% australian, so OI, shut it, but his nationality should be all the more reason for him to MTFU and stop whingeing/drafting!

Is he actually any good? Or are his hissy fits because he loses all the time?

If you are 50% Australian, that means you must be at least 75% British.

Cadel is the John Major of cycling. Dull, tries hard, but only got to the top because someone more talented was thrown out.

lost_in_thought

Always Tyred wrote:

If you are 50% Australian, that means you must be at least 75% British.

Cadel is the John Major of cycling. Dull, tries hard, but only got to the top because someone more talented was thrown out.

Well the people on the Aussie side were scottish convicts... so yes, I guess I am all british in the long run, but try telling my Aussie mother that!

UnworthyPapaLazaru

Greg T

lost_in_thought wrote:

but try telling my Aussie mother that!

There is no point trying to tell Aussies anything - don't bother, it's a waste of time.

The only neccesary communication is your order at the bar, give them the money and that's the end of it.

If Australia wasn't 10,000 miles away surrounded by shark infested waters and inhabited by killer spiders and snakes we'd have to tow it down there and stock it up.

lost_in_thought

Greg T wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

but try telling my Aussie mother that!

If Australia wasn't 10,000 miles away surrounded by shark infested waters and inhabited by killer spiders and snakes we'd have to tow it down there and stock it up.

You sell it so well!

the town my family are from is an inland gold mining/cattle farming hick town, it's main landmarks are a high-security prison and the world's largest concrete sheep...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Merino

always_tyred

Isn't that a bit of a theme over there? You are in the middle of nowhere approaching East Bumhair and there will be the largest [Insert largest random nonsensical object here] by the side of the road....

Not been there, but considering it. Best way to downgrading upgrade my housing providings (given that I spent too long at university and missed the housing express train).

My main fear with Oz is the lack of hills in or near anywhere I would be able to get work. I hate flat, its soul destroying.

Someone please tell me about a hilly city down under. NZ would do.

Littigator

lost_in_thought wrote:

Greg T wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

but try telling my Aussie mother that!

If Australia wasn't 10,000 miles away surrounded by shark infested waters and inhabited by killer spiders and snakes we'd have to tow it down there and stock it up.

You sell it so well!

the town my family are from is an inland gold mining/cattle farming hick town, it's main landmarks are a high-security prison and the world's largest concrete sheep...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Merino

Correction the World's ONLYconcrete sheep

m0scs

Clearly no one in London has been working much today given the number of pages I have had to read to catch up.

LiT, impressive average speed. From reading your earlier posts I understand that you have a personal trainer and spend each day lunchtime at the Gym doing squats, so I guess you must be super fit with legs like Chris Hoy.

In other matters I came to the smoke today, in my motor, Well Islington if that counts.

Great to see so many bikes the nearer the centre of town I got.

Did some virtual SCR, and by my reconing I was faster than everyone I saw.

Lots of sit up and beg bikes about. Yuk.