Victoria Pendleton, commuter

msw
msw Posts: 313
edited November 2008 in Commuting chat
Interview in the Guardian this morning:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/oc ... on-cycling

"What other sport has to deal with the attitude we get as cyclists on the road? I certainly haven't noticed any sudden courtesy to cyclists in the wake of us being the most successful British team in the Olympics. I cycle to the velodrome most days and I have one narrow escape for every hour on the road. I just think, 'Holy shit, I could die on my bike out here.'

"To a cyclist, these bloody motorists might as well be running around with a loaded gun. When you have that sort of attitude towards cyclists how are we going to move our sport into the mainstream?"
"We're not holding up traffic. We are traffic."
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  • don_don
    don_don Posts: 1,007
    She does wear her heart on her sleeve doesn't she? I like that.

    But the Queen had to ask her what she does? Doh and double doh :(
  • daniel_b
    daniel_b Posts: 11,955
    Just to add, the World cup event is on BBC interactive on Fri-Sun.

    You can also catch the action on BBC television. It will be broadcast live on BBC Interactive from 7pm until 10.40pm on Friday 31 October and from 7pm until 10.20pm on Saturday 1 November. Highlights from Friday and Saturday’s action with live coverage of Sunday’s races will feature in a show on BBC on Sunday 2 November from 2pm until 5pm.
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  • squired
    squired Posts: 1,153
    Daniel B wrote:
    Just to add, the World cup event is on BBC interactive on Fri-Sun.

    You can also catch the action on BBC television. It will be broadcast live on BBC Interactive from 7pm until 10.40pm on Friday 31 October and from 7pm until 10.20pm on Saturday 1 November. Highlights from Friday and Saturday’s action with live coverage of Sunday’s races will feature in a show on BBC on Sunday 2 November from 2pm until 5pm.

    I'm on the train to Manchester from London on Friday morning to watch the event. Should be a good one! I wonder if she cycles to the Velodrome on the day of an event like this?!
  • daniel_b
    daniel_b Posts: 11,955
    squired wrote:
    Daniel B wrote:
    Just to add, the World cup event is on BBC interactive on Fri-Sun.

    You can also catch the action on BBC television. It will be broadcast live on BBC Interactive from 7pm until 10.40pm on Friday 31 October and from 7pm until 10.20pm on Saturday 1 November. Highlights from Friday and Saturday’s action with live coverage of Sunday’s races will feature in a show on BBC on Sunday 2 November from 2pm until 5pm.

    I'm on the train to Manchester from London on Friday morning to watch the event. Should be a good one! I wonder if she cycles to the Velodrome on the day of an event like this?!

    You lucky bugger, I'm very jealous!

    Looked at going, but I'm training (in class) this weekend, so seemed little point, as would have wanted to go for the whole weekend.

    Enjoy, and post some piccies please :D

    Dan
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  • edhornby
    edhornby Posts: 1,780
    hmmm, cycling to the velodrome eh ??? time to review my commuter route :wink:
    "I get paid to make other people suffer on my wheel, how good is that"
    --Jens Voight
  • don_don
    don_don Posts: 1,007
    I'm going to Revolutions on 15th November. Not sure if VP'll be there but I'll try and get some pics :)
  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    don_don wrote:
    I'm going to Revolutions on 15th November. Not sure if VP'll be there but I'll try and get some pics :)
    Is LiT now off the hook, then?
  • don_don
    don_don Posts: 1,007
    Always Tyred wrote:
    don_don wrote:
    I'm going to Revolutions on 15th November. Not sure if VP'll be there but I'll try and get some pics :)
    Is LiT now off the hook, then?

    Lets face it, I think I've got more chance with Vicky Pendleton, after LiT's underwhelming response to my woo-ery :lol:

    I wonder if she likes 'romantic poetry'. I could recite a ballad or two from the edge of the boards :wink:
  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    From what I know of her (and I've been hiding in the undergrowth outside her house and going through her rubbish every tuesday (bin day) for three months) I'd say you have no chance. The stalker rota is chocka at the moment, all the prime lurking spots in the undergrowth are taken and there's currently a three year waiting list for hanging around the garage at the end of road just in case she runs out of milk.

    You can set up (another) online tribute site (VICKIILOVEYOU.com - is taken, by me) if you like but I offer no encouragement.
    Fixed gear for wet weather / hairy roadie for posing in the sun.

    What would Thora Hurd do?
  • don_don
    don_don Posts: 1,007
    Shucks :(

    But never underestimate the power of poetry 8)
  • el_presidente
    el_presidente Posts: 1,963
    Greg T wrote:
    From what I know of her (and I've been hiding in the undergrowth outside her house and going through her rubbish every tuesday (bin day) for three months) I'd say you have no chance. The stalker rota is chocka at the moment, all the prime lurking spots in the undergrowth are taken and there's currently a three year waiting list for hanging around the garage at the end of road just in case she runs out of milk.

    You can set up (another) online tribute site (VICKIILOVEYOU.com - is taken, by me) if you like but I offer no encouragement.

    Hey she smiled & waved at me on the Olympic parade so watch it sunshine
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  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    el_presidente wrote:
    Hey she smiled & waved at me on the Olympic parade so watch it sunshine


    SHUT UP
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    Fixed gear for wet weather / hairy roadie for posing in the sun.

    What would Thora Hurd do?
  • symo
    symo Posts: 1,743
    She is fit though isn't she.
    +++++++++++++++++++++
    we are the proud, the few, Descendents.

    Panama - finally putting a nail in the economic theory of the trickle down effect.
  • don_don
    don_don Posts: 1,007
    symo wrote:
    She is fit though isn't she.

    Here we go......................... :lol:
  • downfader
    downfader Posts: 3,686
    I have a lot of respect for VP. She'll state the facts in a controlled and profound way, whether thats about the training or our woes on the roads. Some of the other atheletes are a waste of space even if they do win. :?
  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    downfader wrote:
    I have a lot of respect for VP. She'll state the facts in a controlled and profound way, whether thats about the training or our woes on the roads. Some of the other atheletes are a waste of space even if they do win. :?

    She's quite forthright - like Chris Hoy, only prettier.

    (see recent remarks about absurd decision to demolish local velodrome following 7 gold medal track cycling haul)

    I think Bradley Wiggins is also pretty frank, but frankly not pretty.

    Lets enjoy the fact that journos are presently interested in what they have to say. It'll be over in a blink (as soon as the Aussies are better than us again).








    - a final thought - Wayne Rooney and Mark Cavendish - separated at birth?
  • don_don
    don_don Posts: 1,007
    - a final thought - Wayne Rooney and Mark Cavendish - separated at birth?

    Wayne who? Which squad does he ride for?
  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    don_don wrote:
    - a final thought - Wayne Rooney and Mark Cavendish - separated at birth?

    Wayne who? Which squad does he ride for?

    No, no, he rides a horse.
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Always Tyred wrote:

    She's quite forthright - like Chris Hoy, only prettier.

    I'll have you know he's pretty damn pretty...

    Not really the right word though, I'll grant you.
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  • girv73
    girv73 Posts: 842
    don_don wrote:
    She does wear her heart on her sleeve doesn't she? I like that.

    She also wears lycra a lot, and I like that. But I digress...
    Today is a good day to ride
  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Always Tyred wrote:

    She's quite forthright - like Chris Hoy, only prettier.

    I'll have you know he's pretty damn pretty...

    Not really the right word though, I'll grant you.

    You'd be jealous that for about 2 months my ride home began with a wait at some lights starting at a 30 foot poster of Chris Hoy in his skin suit holding his bike over his head, then?

    Well, not that I am in the habit of staring at men in skin suits, mind you. But had I been inclined to look up...I'll stop digging.
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Always Tyred wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Always Tyred wrote:

    She's quite forthright - like Chris Hoy, only prettier.

    I'll have you know he's pretty damn pretty...

    Not really the right word though, I'll grant you.

    You'd be jealous that for about 2 months my ride home began with a wait at some lights starting at a 30 foot poster of Chris Hoy in his skin suit holding his bike over his head, then?

    Well, not that I am in the habit of staring at men in skin suits, mind you. But had I been inclined to look up...I'll stop digging.

    Yes, yes, I would. However, I would probably have been late for work even more than I am at the minute...
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  • downfader
    downfader Posts: 3,686
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Always Tyred wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Always Tyred wrote:

    She's quite forthright - like Chris Hoy, only prettier.

    I'll have you know he's pretty damn pretty...

    Not really the right word though, I'll grant you.

    You'd be jealous that for about 2 months my ride home began with a wait at some lights starting at a 30 foot poster of Chris Hoy in his skin suit holding his bike over his head, then?

    Well, not that I am in the habit of staring at men in skin suits, mind you. But had I been inclined to look up...I'll stop digging.

    Yes, yes, I would. However, I would probably have been late for work even more than I am at the minute...

    You know, I can just envisage Don Don just withering away. :lol::lol::lol:
  • laughingboy
    laughingboy Posts: 248
    msw wrote:
    "When you have that sort of attitude towards cyclists how are we going to move our sport into the mainstream?"

    I'll second downfader's observation about her words being controlled but profound. When I read that sentence I thought:

    "When you have that sort of attitude towards cyclists how are we going to move our [mode of tran]sport into the mainstream"

    Bravo, Victoria!

    She is right about the attitude of a minority of drivers, but I like to think that this minority's attitude is not directed simply at cyclists: they have no regard for anyone else, full stop.
  • don_don
    don_don Posts: 1,007
    downfader wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Always Tyred wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Always Tyred wrote:

    She's quite forthright - like Chris Hoy, only prettier.

    I'll have you know he's pretty damn pretty...

    Not really the right word though, I'll grant you.

    You'd be jealous that for about 2 months my ride home began with a wait at some lights starting at a 30 foot poster of Chris Hoy in his skin suit holding his bike over his head, then?

    Well, not that I am in the habit of staring at men in skin suits, mind you. But had I been inclined to look up...I'll stop digging.

    Yes, yes, I would. However, I would probably have been late for work even more than I am at the minute...

    You know, I can just envisage Don Don just withering away. :lol::lol::lol:

    I'd gladly step aside for Mr. Hoy anytime, even if I could whup his ass in a love poetry contest :wink::wink:
  • downfader
    downfader Posts: 3,686
    don_don wrote:
    downfader wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Always Tyred wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Always Tyred wrote:

    She's quite forthright - like Chris Hoy, only prettier.

    I'll have you know he's pretty damn pretty...

    Not really the right word though, I'll grant you.

    You'd be jealous that for about 2 months my ride home began with a wait at some lights starting at a 30 foot poster of Chris Hoy in his skin suit holding his bike over his head, then?

    Well, not that I am in the habit of staring at men in skin suits, mind you. But had I been inclined to look up...I'll stop digging.

    Yes, yes, I would. However, I would probably have been late for work even more than I am at the minute...

    You know, I can just envisage Don Don just withering away. :lol::lol::lol:

    I'd gladly step aside for Mr. Hoy anytime, even if I could whup his ass in a love poetry contest :wink::wink:

    Roses are red, violets are blue
    Don Don is gonna ride 'till he's screwed*

    I mean on the bike, obviously :wink::lol:
  • DavidBelcher
    DavidBelcher Posts: 2,684
    Greg T wrote:
    From what I know of her (and I've been hiding in the undergrowth outside her house and going through her rubbish every tuesday (bin day) for three months) I'd say you have no chance. The stalker rota is chocka at the moment, all the prime lurking spots in the undergrowth are taken and there's currently a three year waiting list for hanging around the garage at the end of road just in case she runs out of milk.

    You are Barry George, and I claim my £5. :wink:

    David
    "It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal
  • symo
    symo Posts: 1,743
    VP is fit though isn't she.
    +++++++++++++++++++++
    we are the proud, the few, Descendents.

    Panama - finally putting a nail in the economic theory of the trickle down effect.
  • don_don
    don_don Posts: 1,007
    symo wrote:
    VP is fit though isn't she.

    Atta boy symo, keep at it :wink:
  • Gavin Gilbert
    Gavin Gilbert Posts: 4,019
    el_presidente wrote:
    Hey she smiled & waved at me on the Olympic parade so watch it sunshine

    She gave me a chocolate bar at the end of the TdF sportive last year 8)

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