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  • DavidBelcher
    DavidBelcher Posts: 2,684
    el_presidente wrote:
    Boybiker this weekend avec chain

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    Would this mean an inevitable DNF at the slightest sniff of something any steeper than a hump-backed bridge? :wink:

    David
    "It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal
  • boybiker
    boybiker Posts: 531
    dondare wrote:
    Your relationship won't last much longer if she discovers that she's the topic of internet gossip, so be a gentleman and don't tell all.

    Oh, and well done in the race.



    Believe me you really don't want to know :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
    The gear changing, helmet wearing fule.
    FCN :- -1
    Given up waiting for Fast as Fupp to start stalking me
  • popette
    popette Posts: 2,089
    well i didn't until you said that
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  • dondare
    dondare Posts: 2,113
    boybiker wrote:
    Got to say it was all a bit rough and tough yesterday, these cat 3 boys don't take any prisoners I hate to think what its going to be like when I am on the TdF :roll:

    I'm glad to hear that the rough, tough, cat 3 boys didn't take you prisoner.
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  • boybiker
    boybiker Posts: 531
    dondare wrote:
    boybiker wrote:
    Got to say it was all a bit rough and tough yesterday, these cat 3 boys don't take any prisoners I hate to think what its going to be like when I am on the TdF :roll:

    I'm glad to hear that the rough, tough, cat 3 boys didn't take you prisoner.
    Nah they knew I would be too much to handle, I am pretty high maintainance.
    The gear changing, helmet wearing fule.
    FCN :- -1
    Given up waiting for Fast as Fupp to start stalking me
  • 4kicks
    4kicks Posts: 549
    I find the concept of a rough, tough racing cyclist of any category very funny. Anyone every seen the Youtube videos of two cyclists going round & round.
    My granny could punch out both of them - seriously.
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  • DavidBelcher
    DavidBelcher Posts: 2,684
    4kicks wrote:
    I find the concept of a rough, tough racing cyclist of any category very funny.

    In the early 80s a group of strikers (not the footballing sort)/protestors decided trying to stop the TdF passing might be a good idea in order to make their point known. Upon encountering the race Bernard Hinault promptly decked at least one of them. Nuff said - I certainly wouldn't risk spilling his pint!

    David
    "It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal
  • dondare
    dondare Posts: 2,113
    Eddy Merckx was known as "The Cannibal" and although it was perhaps not meant literally, I don't think that it was ironic, either.

    Mind you, they don't make 'em like Merckx and Hinault these days.
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  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    DavidBelcher wrote:
    4kicks wrote:
    I find the concept of a rough, tough racing cyclist of any category very funny.

    In the early 80s a group of strikers (not the footballing sort)/protestors decided trying to stop the TdF passing might be a good idea in order to make their point known. Upon encountering the race Bernard Hinault promptly decked at least one of them. Nuff said - I certainly wouldn't risk spilling his pint!

    David

    I think it was about 3 or 4 I recently read, and i'm sure it was Paris-Nice. Apparently he rode straight into the first guy, jumped off and began decking people. Another French rider joined in and got a couple as well.
    "A cyclist has nothing to lose but his chain"

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  • idaviesmoore
    idaviesmoore Posts: 557
    dondare wrote:
    Eddy Merckx was known as "The Cannibal" and although it was perhaps not meant literally, I don't think that it was ironic, either.

    Mind you, they don't make 'em like Merckx and Hinault these days.

    As Michael Hutchinson points out in his (excellant) book 'The Hour', the name 'The Cannibal' was purely a nickname and there is no actual evidence that Eddy actually ate anyone. :wink:
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  • CHRISNOIR
    CHRISNOIR Posts: 1,400
    Mr Hinault clearly still has no love for protesters... :lol:

    I'm sure there was some footage of the 'riding-into-the-protest-and-laying-a-few-people-out' incident, will have a look.
  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    CHRISNOIR wrote:
    Mr Hinault clearly still has no love for protesters... :lol:

    I'm sure there was some footage of the 'riding-into-the-protest-and-laying-a-few-people-out' incident, will have a look.

    Yeh there is. There's also an excellent photo of Hinault, his face twisted in anger with his fist pulled right back, clearly about to punch someones face off :lol:

    I feel sorry for whoever was on the receiving end of that one. Atleast if he hadn't had made it as a cyclist, the boxing profession probably would have as been as successful for him.
    "A cyclist has nothing to lose but his chain"

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  • nolf
    nolf Posts: 1,287
    1 chains are pretty cool, wearing a thin gold chain on a mountain stage, for example (a la frank schleck up the alpe d'huez), is incredibly euro cool.

    2- Most cyclists are small and puny, but if you came across an angry chris hoy in an alley, lets be honest, you would sh!t yourself. :)

    Congrats on race as well, was that a crit race?
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    I feel it, when I sorrow most;
    'Tis better to have loved and lost;
    Than never to have loved at all."

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  • boybiker
    boybiker Posts: 531
    Yep it was a crit, I was surprised by how much the constant breaking into and sprinting out of the corners takes it out of you, I was seeing double by the end :shock:
    The gear changing, helmet wearing fule.
    FCN :- -1
    Given up waiting for Fast as Fupp to start stalking me

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