Sean Kelly

DaveyL
DaveyL Posts: 5,167
edited August 2009 in Pro race
Happy Birthday to the legend that is Sean Kelly!
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  • vit-t
    vit-t Posts: 1
    second that! He is the reason I started to ride bikes
  • Allez Mark
    Allez Mark Posts: 364
    certaintly
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    Yes. Well.
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  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    Sean doesn't have a "birthday", any more than lightning or granite has a "birthday". For his party tonight he's going bowling, using Chuck Norris' hollowed-out head for a ball.
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • dennisn
    dennisn Posts: 10,601
    The way he rode always made me think of a gorilla on a bike. Able to lay down the power
    like no one else.
  • robmanic1
    robmanic1 Posts: 2,150
    Majorly
    Pictures are better than words because some words are big and hard to understand.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/34335188@N07/3336802663/
  • simon_e
    simon_e Posts: 1,707
    He's not the only pro cyclist born on 21 May.

    Cavendish is 24 today.
    Aspire not to have more, but to be more.
  • csp
    csp Posts: 777
    You have to be a really good climber, otherwise it would be majorly difficult to keep your position in the general classement.
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    Unless you can grab a bonification before the last number of kilometres....
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  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    DaveyL wrote:
    Unless you can grab a bonification before the last number of kilometres....

    and if you dont that your cooked as they say in cycling terms..........
    Gasping - but somehow still alive !
  • greeny12
    greeny12 Posts: 759
    Especially if you're sooferin majorly....
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  • Flandrianfield
    Flandrianfield Posts: 15
    You have to be in "the top shaipe"
  • ACMadone
    ACMadone Posts: 300
    Well certainly...
  • Moomaloid
    Moomaloid Posts: 2,040
    He has been in particularly sparkling and informative form during this tour... u gotta love him...
  • ACMadone
    ACMadone Posts: 300
    He's been really good so far this Giro.
  • secretsqirrel
    secretsqirrel Posts: 2,108
    Well certaintly...........

    Happy birthday from "da bawnch"! :wink:
  • liversedge
    liversedge Posts: 1,003
    Happy Birthday. He is my favourite commentator. A bit like Brian Moore. He knows what he's talking about and is no nonsense.
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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    shertantly.


    and for old time sake a hearty "oi don't tink show, David"
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  • jerry3571
    jerry3571 Posts: 1,532
    Yes, certainttly, 100 percent...

    Love it!!
    Our Pub would be so dull if not for the Sean Kelly impersonators!
    Bless you Sean!
    -Jerry
    “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving”- Albert Einstein

    "You can't ride the Tour de France on mineral water."
    -Jacques Anquetil
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    It's a nice sunny day and the Giro is on telly with Harmon and Kelly at the helm. Could it get any better?

    Well, I'm at work, but apart from that - no.
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,541
    He's not told Harmon that Ardila needs 'a good fooking drilling' yet this year has he? Maybe he's saving that one for later. :wink:
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    kelly_legs.jpg
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  • meagain
    meagain Posts: 2,331
    Kelly is fine, Harmon is simply opionated and elitist.

    "...he's shaved his beard off, which is good to see." WHY?

    Oh and " ... (I paraphrase) if you're too poor to go and climb mountains in France or Spain or Sierra Nevada, don't bother..."

    And that's just today.

    Sort of, "we don't want just anyone riding a bike, do we chaps?"
    d.j.
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  • jibberjim
    jibberjim Posts: 2,810
    meagain wrote:
    Kelly is fine, Harmon is simply opionated and elitist.

    "...he's shaved his beard off, which is good to see." WHY?

    'cos it was a stupid goatee!
    meagain wrote:
    Oh and " ... (I paraphrase) if you're too poor to go and climb mountains in France or Spain or Sierra Nevada, don't bother..."

    He had a very good point, there are no long climbs in the UK, he did talk about the steep climbs you do get, but there's nothing long here, it's a simple fact. He was simply saying you can't experience the climbs of the grand tour stage races in the UK. It's true, you can't.
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  • meagain
    meagain Posts: 2,331
    Why when listening to a commentary on a SPORTING EVENT would I want to know his views on facial appearance? I stand by opionated.

    And the person who asked about hills in THE UK stated that a student. They can't all afford to go abroard. I also stand by elitist.
    d.j.
    "Cancel my subscription to the resurrection."
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    Good for you, I admire someone who sticks to an opinion even when it's been shot down.

    The guy has to commentate for hours - you're bound to get a bit of opinion at some point when there's not much going on.
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    meagain wrote:
    Why when listening to a commentary on a SPORTING EVENT would I want to know his views on facial appearance? I stand by opionated.

    And the person who asked about hills in THE UK stated that a student. They can't all afford to go abroard. I also stand by elitist.

    God knows what you must think about Duffield.
  • volvine
    volvine Posts: 409
    David Harmon and Sean Kelly what a great team they are Sean's knowledge of what goes on in the peleton tactics ect are second to none and i like how David Harmon explains things for us mere mortals to understand re speeds climbs ect a brilliant team and long may they continue comentating on the grand tours i for one look forward to my week off work every July to tune in to Eurosport to watch the mountain stages live all day with the two lads commentary superb.

    "He's on the rivit as they say in cycling terms" is my personal favorite.

    god bless him

    if that is Sean's legs reminds me of Ben Johnson in 1988 :shock: :shock: :shock:
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    Winter ride http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj11 ... ike019.jpg
  • volvine
    volvine Posts: 409
    it amazes me Duffield ever got a job in t.v terrible terrible terrible and that's before he even opens his trap
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    1984Kelly_Liege.jpg
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