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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Harry Hill wrote:
    What would a full 9 man US team look like?

    Very old. :wink:

    I was thinking that. Where are the American riders coming through who are 25/26/27 years old?

    There are a few on Garmin... Farrar I guess is the biggest hope, but who else? All the big-name American riders are on the wrong side of 30 and there seems to be no-one coming through.

    Phinney, of course, but it'll be years before he turns pro and no-one knows how he'll develop.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Harry Hill wrote:
    What would a full 9 man US team look like?

    Very old. :wink:

    It would be like Dad's Army with Taylor Phinney playing Private Pike.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • Croxted Avenger
    Croxted Avenger Posts: 837
    donrhummy wrote:
    Croxted Avenger wrote:
    donrhummy wrote:
    It's always a good thing when another sponsor JOINS cycling instead of leaving it!

    Yeah, as long as the money keeps rolling in everythings cool right?

    No, but without it, we lose our (sorry, I don't know if you agree) my favorite sport. And that money keeps pro cyclists earning a living and helps fund more anti-doping too (UCI requires a certain % goes toward that now).

    I kind of agree. Just that I'm against the 'cash is king' rule of pro racing sponsorship. I think some money and some sponsors have brought us all perilously close to the edge of losing this sport for good. If we had more spnsors and DSs like Garmin I would wholeheartedly agree but why should I be pleased that the Kazak govt sponsors a protour team? With their track record I want them as far away as poss from my sport.
    \'You Come At the King,You Best Not Miss\'
  • jackhammer111 - banned
    jackhammer111 - banned Posts: 245
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    They've already signed the team.
    Here is the proof. See their first squad meet.
    Hog,(dig his mouth organ) and the boys, at team HQ, planning a Shack attack.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMuH_4PiIoM

    LMAO!

    laughing at your own jokes now are you? :roll:

    about as funny as a box of rocks.

    Who's in third place now funny guy?
  • jackhammer111 - banned
    jackhammer111 - banned Posts: 245
    I've noticed Lance talking to Boonen and Cav quite a bit.
    I think Boonen is now a classics rider.

    I don't think it's possible these days to design a team that is both a yellow jersey and green jersey team.
  • paulcuthbert
    paulcuthbert Posts: 1,016
    jackhammer111 wrote:
    I've noticed Lance talking to Boonen and Cav quite a bit.
    I think Boonen is now a classics rider.

    I don't think it's possible these days to design a team that is both a yellow jersey and green jersey team.

    Columbia HTC nearly managed it
    The most painful climb in Northern Ireland http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs200.snc1/6776_124247198694_548863694_2335754_8016178_n.jpg
  • symo
    symo Posts: 1,743
    RichN95 wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Harry Hill wrote:
    What would a full 9 man US team look like?

    Very old. :wink:

    It would be like Dad's Army with Taylor Phinney playing Private Pike.

    Hincapie: Dammit Taylors gone off chasing the Schecks up the col
    Armstrong: Stupid Boy.
    +++++++++++++++++++++
    we are the proud, the few, Descendents.

    Panama - finally putting a nail in the economic theory of the trickle down effect.
  • AO1504
    AO1504 Posts: 57
    paulcuthbert wrote:
    jackhammer111 wrote:
    I've noticed Lance talking to Boonen and Cav quite a bit.
    I think Boonen is now a classics rider.

    I don't think it's possible these days to design a team that is both a yellow jersey and green jersey team.

    Columbia HTC nearly managed it

    And came away with nothing.
  • paulcuthbert
    paulcuthbert Posts: 1,016
    AO1504 wrote:
    paulcuthbert wrote:
    jackhammer111 wrote:
    I've noticed Lance talking to Boonen and Cav quite a bit.
    I think Boonen is now a classics rider.

    I don't think it's possible these days to design a team that is both a yellow jersey and green jersey team.

    Columbia HTC nearly managed it

    And came away with nothing.

    Except more stage wins than any other team ;)
    The most painful climb in Northern Ireland http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs200.snc1/6776_124247198694_548863694_2335754_8016178_n.jpg
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    jackhammer111 wrote:
    I've noticed Lance talking to Boonen and Cav quite a bit.
    I think Boonen is now a classics rider.

    I don't think it's possible these days to design a team that is both a yellow jersey and green jersey team.

    Last year Rabobank got the Green Jersey and came fourth (later 3rd) on GC.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • jackhammer111 - banned
    jackhammer111 - banned Posts: 245
    RichN95 wrote:
    jackhammer111 wrote:
    I've noticed Lance talking to Boonen and Cav quite a bit.
    I think Boonen is now a classics rider.

    I don't think it's possible these days to design a team that is both a yellow jersey and green jersey team.

    Last year Rabobank got the Green Jersey and came fourth (later 3rd) on GC.

    Garmin has been competitive in both too but Astana is stacked in one direction and Columbia the other. Seems to be wave of the future. Not that I don't think Thor deserves green, he clearly does after what he did the other day, but Columbia is the dominant sprint finish team for 2 years now.
  • jackhammer111 - banned
    jackhammer111 - banned Posts: 245
    iainf72 wrote:
    dennisn wrote:

    Somertimes I get the feeling that you don't like Lance because he's rich? Unless you have taken vows of poverty I doubt you(like me), would complain a lot if your own bank account swelled a little. :wink::wink:

    Not at all. I've met people with a lot more money than Lance and I'm a capitalist myself.

    Isn't it interesting though that the comeback under the guise of Livestrong is about cancer. But the announcement of a new team is on the website which isn't the cancer one but the money making one.

    you're under the mistaken opinion that there's a lot of money being made by him from that website.
    Everybody that wants to contribute knows where to go.
    Lance makes a lot of money, but it's not from the .com or some stake in Demand Media which is a small privately held company that may not even be making a profit at this point.
    Are you thinking people are drinking to much of that drink advertised on the site? or buy too many of the 3 dollar iphone apps to connect members to the calorie tracker? is that terrible? Or is it the paid memberships that aren't even mentioned on main page? Or is it all the bad free information that you don't like?
    the drink ad and the iphone app ads are the only advertising on the site as long as i've been going there.

    Why do you think he's a person driven by greed?
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    symo wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Harry Hill wrote:
    What would a full 9 man US team look like?

    Very old. :wink:

    It would be like Dad's Army with Taylor Phinney playing Private Pike.

    Hincapie: Dammit Taylors gone off chasing the Schecks up the col
    Armstrong: Stupid Boy.

    Corporal "Jonesy" Ferrari: "Sir! They don't like it up 'em!"
    jackhammer111 wrote:
    about as funny as a box of rocks.
    Why bring your family into this?
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    It's been reported in Oz that Cuddles has signed with them
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • Jez mon
    Jez mon Posts: 3,809
    Really?

    I know he needs a better team, but surely he'd want to be number one man wherever he went
    You live and learn. At any rate, you live
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Rumours say the Feillu brothers are joining.
  • jim one
    jim one Posts: 183
    Thought the Feillu brothers were going to FDJ it was said.

    http://www.wielermagazine.com/nieuws/10 ... erdak.html
  • SunWuKong
    SunWuKong Posts: 364
    iainf72 wrote:
    It's been reported in Oz that Cuddles has signed with them

    Will they let the dog on the team bus? What if it gets a sniff of blood, it could go horribly wrong.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Lance is trying to get the Schlecks over to Radio Shack - He's asked Eddy Merckx to put a word in with Johnny (they were team mates)
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    iainf72 wrote:
    Lance is trying to get the Schlecks over to Radio Shack - He's asked Eddy Merckx to put a word in with Johnny (they were team mates)

    So, next year's Shack tour team will be Lance and the 8 best water carriers in the world?
    Should make for an exciting race.....
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.

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