Any ideas what happened to Jens Voigt's Saddle???

Clairs1974
Clairs1974 Posts: 13
edited July 2008 in Pro race
I was just wondering where Voigt's saddle was yesterday?!

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  • Doobz
    Doobz Posts: 2,800
    how do you mean?? you have any pictures.. I am curious now :?
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    The seat pin broke and it fell off?
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  • Clairs1974
    Clairs1974 Posts: 13
    He had no saddle for part of yesterdays stage, can't seem to find pics though!
  • Doobz
    Doobz Posts: 2,800
    very very weird indeed. they must have swapped the bike pretty quick tho?
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  • Philip S
    Philip S Posts: 398
    It must have happened right at the end of the stage - on the last lap I think, just before they left the Champs to head down the side of the Tuiileries, as there was footage of him riding rather gingerly and testing sitting on the top tube.

    He didn't change bike - Ned Boulting interviewed him after the stage as he rode past sans saddle.
    Paraphrasing:
    "What happened to your saddle, Jens?"
    "It fell off."
  • Courage Monsieur
    Courage Monsieur Posts: 534
    Looked like a seat or rail had snapped.

    Either that, or Phil and Paul were trying so hard to kiss his ass that the saddle was knocked off. :wink:
  • andy_wrx
    andy_wrx Posts: 3,396
    Courage Monsieur wrote:
    Phil and Paul were trying so hard to kiss his ass that the saddle was knocked off. :wink:

    'Big' Jens Voigt you mean ?
  • Blonde
    Blonde Posts: 3,188
    Heh heh! He looked a bit sheepish at the end when he said it 'fell off'. Hmm, when things fall off bikes it's usually 'cos someone's been messing with them! I suppose it's a good thing it didn't fall off any earlier in the race though - he was only a few mintues from the finish line so just cycled up to the end without a saddle.
  • Blonde
    Blonde Posts: 3,188
    andy_wrx wrote:
    Courage Monsieur wrote:
    Phil and Paul were trying so hard to kiss his ass that the saddle was knocked off. :wink:

    'Big' Jens Voigt you mean ?
    They call anyone who isn't Carlos Satre sized (ie. below 5 ft 6") 'big'!
  • ColinJ
    ColinJ Posts: 2,218
    Blonde wrote:
    andy_wrx wrote:
    Courage Monsieur wrote:
    Phil and Paul were trying so hard to kiss his ass that the saddle was knocked off. :wink:

    'Big' Jens Voigt you mean ?
    They call anyone who isn't Carlos Satre sized (ie. below 5 ft 6") 'big'!
    He's pretty big in terms of height - 1.89m is 6' 2.5", but he certainly isn't big in terms of bulk - 76 kg (about 12 stone). His legs are muscular but look at the top half of him!

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  • andy_wrx
    andy_wrx Posts: 3,396
    No, I mean that the Dynamic Duo seem incapable of referring to him as anything other than 'Big Jens Voigt'.

    A casual spectator might easily think his name was Big-Jens...
  • Maurice Thepity
    Maurice Thepity Posts: 75
    Someone would have got a terrific souvenir.
  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    Just looks like his seatpost clamp had bust. These things do happen. I know I've bust two - and I'[m not much bigger than 'Big' JV !
  • drenkrom
    drenkrom Posts: 1,062
    Always better to lose a saddle on the last day of the Tour than in the thick of things in Paris-Roubaix, I guess...
  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    At least he didnt sit down after it bust.
  • a_n_t
    a_n_t Posts: 2,011
    ColinJ wrote:
    He's pretty big in terms of height - 1.89m is 6' 2.5", but he certainly isn't big in terms of bulk - 76 kg (about 12 stone). His legs are muscular but look at the top half of him!

    same as me! except i've got the bigger top half! :(
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  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Just as the camera makes steep slopes look flat, you also don't get the idea of just how thin these guys are.

    Those pros who look big on TV are in reality very lean and with stick thin arms and legs. Beefy Jens looks like a stick insect in real life.
  • Lucyliu
    Lucyliu Posts: 16
    Thank you so much Colin J for the photey of Jens Voigt ! there aren't many good lookin pro riders for us females to admire.
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  • dirk_van_gently
    dirk_van_gently Posts: 826
    T'was an amusing sight :D

    While we are on the subject of Big JV, why do they always refer to George Hincapie as Big George?
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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    Dirk Van Gently wrote:
    why do they always refer to George Hincapie as Big George?

    Because he's 6'3....and a lot of pro cyclists are short arses
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  • andrewgturnbull
    andrewgturnbull Posts: 3,861
    Top tip: If you saddle breaks, take the lid off your water bottle, turn it upside down and jam it over the top of your seatpost. I once rode 10 miles home like this...
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  • Chris_Who
    Chris_Who Posts: 137
    Genius :!:
    Fat people are so insensitive
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    andrewgturnbull wrote:
    Top tip: If you saddle breaks, take the lid off your water bottle, turn it upside down and jam it over the top of your seatpost. I once rode 10 miles home like this...

    How long did it take to extract the water bottle afterwards or did it work its own way out?
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  • Hugh A
    Hugh A Posts: 1,189
    Top tip: If you saddle breaks, take the lid off your water bottle, turn it upside down and jam it over the top of your seatpost. I once rode 10 miles home like this...

    May not be possible if the clamp goes - probably a bolt snapping which has happened to me. I don't think a water bottle would have protected me from the bit that was left!

    I have managed to ride 10 miles home without but wouldn't recommend going much further - creative use of zip ties may be called for.
    I\'m sure I had one of those here somewhere
  • andrewgturnbull
    andrewgturnbull Posts: 3,861
    LangerDan wrote:
    andrewgturnbull wrote:
    Top tip: If you saddle breaks, take the lid off your water bottle, turn it upside down and jam it over the top of your seatpost. I once rode 10 miles home like this...

    How long did it take to extract the water bottle afterwards or did it work its own way out?

    You could use the Carol Vorderman technique...
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  • Blonde
    Blonde Posts: 3,188
    Last night I saw the repeated highluhts and apparently his bike was completely new for the last day, riding into Paris - so it was all down to someone not tightening the brand new saddle clamp properly onto the brand new saddle rails. :oops: I bet that's one popular bike mechanic!
  • andy_wrx
    andy_wrx Posts: 3,396
    LangerDan wrote:
    andrewgturnbull wrote:
    Top tip: If you saddle breaks, take the lid off your water bottle, turn it upside down and jam it over the top of your seatpost. I once rode 10 miles home like this...

    How long did it take to extract the water bottle afterwards or did it work its own way out?

    This is one of those urban-myth tales, surely ?

    You know, 'mate of mine works in Casualty, the other night this bloke in lycra came in with a bottle stuck up his jacksy. And what he'd been doing with that vacuum cleaner...'
  • andrewgturnbull
    andrewgturnbull Posts: 3,861
    Y'now, if it wasn't for the infernal invention that is the bicycle I would never have seen the inside of a casualty ward... as it is, they have quite a thick file on me up there.
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  • ms_tree
    ms_tree Posts: 1,405
    Kléber wrote:
    Just as the camera makes steep slopes look flat, you also don't get the idea of just how thin these guys are.

    Those pros who look big on TV are in reality very lean and with stick thin arms and legs. Beefy Jens looks like a stick insect in real life.

    Last year in London I couldn't believe how thin they looked and that was before the start. They look different too: Leif Hoste has what i books are called 'sculptered features' and Fabian Wegmann looked about 12!
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