Taylor Phinney

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  • Holy Thread Bump, Dish!
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,558
    Holy Thread Bump, Dish!

    Ach, why not eh? A reminder of the great expectations...
  • dish_dash wrote:
    Holy Thread Bump, Dish!

    Ach, why not eh? A reminder of the great expectations...


    Phinney and Van Ladygarden. So much US media hype, for not a huge amount of return.
  • daniel_b
    daniel_b Posts: 11,577
    Salsiccia1 wrote:
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    Looks like Kevin Costner..........

    This thread is now hilarous!
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  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,193
    Taylor Phinney:

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    Joaquin Phoenix:

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  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    some marvellous reminders of the similarity between the lance/ is / isnt dirty conversations and the current Wiggins ones in this thread from 2009.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,388
    Can you point them out please?
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    ddraver wrote:
    Can you point them out please?

    if you really cant see them you're either blind stupid or obtuse. Possibly all three
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,388
    Help me out then...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,196
    Who's the Betsy Andreu character in the Wiggins story? JTL? :lol:
  • jerry3571
    jerry3571 Posts: 1,532
    A young Chap who is living the dream riding in Belgium with the ASFRA Racing Team had Taylor trying to ride him off his back wheel a few weeks ago. This Chap seems to be making Friends and is now a Whatsapp buddy with Tyler after hanging on to his wheel. This Kiddy showed me his whatsapp with Phinney Junior. This Kiddy said Tyler spends a lot of time in the US training so even though he is a European pro, he seems to be at his home in the US out of the way. Funny that a Kid who used to do our Club rides is now out there with riders I have heard of on the telly. :)
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,388
    I hear a few things like that about Taylor. He makes himself hard to love with his hipsterness and faux-intellecualism sometimes but I don't think he's a bad dude really...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • philbar72
    philbar72 Posts: 2,229
    he comes across as a flat track bully on a bike. which, lets face it you have to be if racing at Pro level.
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    ddraver wrote:
    Help me out then...
    no ta, play your victim games with someone that gives a shit
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,388
    Rick, can I borrow your Victory Picture please?
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    ddraver wrote:
    Rick, can I borrow your Victory Picture please?

    You tried to troll, you failed and thats a victory? No wonder you can still believe that Sky and Wiggins could be innocent of all wrong doing.

    Like I said before blind, stupid or obtuse.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,388
    I thought being called a troll when you offered a different opinion was some form of denial?
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    its thicky time round here, ill leave you to your denial and negotiating and come back when the anger sets in. its like a gcse psychology text in here
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,586
    its thicky time round here, ill leave you to your denial and negotiating and come back when the anger sets in. its like a gcse psychology text in here

    Well it would be, if you provided some evidence.

    At GCSE I was always told "point, evidence, explain".

    You missed out the middle part (evidence).

    You forget - I'm very open minded to hear what doping evidence you have. I'm not in denial it happens.

    I just like specifics. You can't offer any.
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    its thicky time round here, ill leave you to your denial and negotiating and come back when the anger sets in. its like a gcse psychology text in here

    Well it would be, if you provided some evidence.

    At GCSE I was always told "point, evidence, explain".

    You missed out the middle part (evidence).

    You forget - I'm very open minded to hear what doping evidence you have. I'm not in denial it happens.

    I just like specifics. You can't offer any.


    My reference was to the response. negotiating is part of that, and you old chum are firmly embracing the negotiating.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,388
    For all the talk about us shuitting down debate, we have managed to give WCF 140 odd pages thus far of debate. VG on the other hand has lasted a page and in this case 1 post beforw resorting to insults and flouncing.

    One might almost think VG was only worth a sarky comment...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,103
    Resurrecting this thread as he has just announced he'll retire from the sport after the Japan Cup this weekend.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,586
    andyp wrote:
    Resurrecting this thread as he has just announced he'll retire from the sport after the Japan Cup this weekend.

    To pursue a creative career, no less.
  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,231
    andyp wrote:
    Resurrecting this thread as he has just announced he'll retire from the sport after the Japan Cup this weekend.

    To pursue a creative career, no less.
    Were he a politician, they’d say he’s retiring to “spend more time with his family”... which is often code for “explaining to them why he and mummy are no longer going to be living together”... but having seen some of Taylor’s art, it’s actually quite engaging. So good luck to ‘im!
    The writing was on the wall (and all over his paintings) in the Dirty Kanza EF film - you could see his heart for it all (pro cycling) had gone.
  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,464
    I'm sure spending more time with Kasia will appeal to him to.
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,786
    Good luck to him. He has a a talent (as well as a cycling one)
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,479
    I genuinely thought he'd retired a year or two back. Talented but slightly eccentric cyclist that never quite reached his potential, that horrendous crash obviously didn't help though.
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,786
    Two things that had passed me by but jumped out in a quick Google search;
    He's only 29
    He was 8th in Paris Roubaix last year.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Just noticed this thread was started by Kleber.

    Shows how long ago it was.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.