Radio Shack Riders
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Riis will have advised them what it would be like, being on a team with an ambitious old-timer reluctant to let go -- the role he played vs the young Ullrich in 96 and 97.Mettan wrote:0 -
Brice Feiliu a definate on Radio Shack by all accounts0
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According to rumours in the tech industry, we may have Team The Shack rather than Team RadioShack. The company may well change its name to try to shake out of its rut. What a healthy and vital sponsor our Texan friend has brought into cycling!
A light take on the news:
http://technologizer.com/2009/08/03/nin ... -its-name/
with a ling to the fabulous:
http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com0 -
drenkrom wrote:According to rumours in the tech industry, we may have Team The Shack rather than Team RadioShack. The company may well change its name to try to shake out of its rut. What a healthy and vital sponsor our Texan friend has brought into cycling!
And lately, you have brought who or whom in as cycling sponsors? I'm sure I'll recognize the name or names.0 -
dennisn wrote:drenkrom wrote:According to rumours in the tech industry, we may have Team The Shack rather than Team RadioShack. The company may well change its name to try to shake out of its rut. What a healthy and vital sponsor our Texan friend has brought into cycling!
And lately, you have brought who or whom in as cycling sponsors? I'm sure I'll recognize the name or names.
WTF, who cares who his sponsor is?0 -
The Prodigy wrote:dennisn wrote:drenkrom wrote:According to rumours in the tech industry, we may have Team The Shack rather than Team RadioShack. The company may well change its name to try to shake out of its rut. What a healthy and vital sponsor our Texan friend has brought into cycling!
And lately, you have brought who or whom in as cycling sponsors? I'm sure I'll recognize the name or names.
WTF, who cares who his sponsor is?
I don't think anyone does. Much like most other sponsors. It doesn't matter. It's only advertising.0 -
dennisn wrote:drenkrom wrote:According to rumours in the tech industry, we may have Team The Shack rather than Team RadioShack. The company may well change its name to try to shake out of its rut. What a healthy and vital sponsor our Texan friend has brought into cycling!
And lately, you have brought who or whom in as cycling sponsors? I'm sure I'll recognize the name or names.
WTF kind of a 2nd grade-schoolyard argument is that? Is your father stronger than mine as well?
Are you saying no brouhaha has been made of the entry of RadioShack as a sponsor of a new team next year? Are you saying I've been making the PR rounds to talk about the "exciting involvement of this active new sponsor"? Are you saying a company considering changing a name it's held since its inception (minus the space between "Radio" and "Shack") has to be in full financial health? Are you saying RadioShack is a financially healthy, dynamic company that will revitalize the US cycling sponsorship market? If the answer is "yes", you made your point all wrong. If the answer is "no", you made no point at all.
I'm sure you wouldn't have moved a pinky finger towards the keyboard had there been no LA allusion in there! Who's obsessed, exactly?
Bottom line: RadioShack may become The Shack.0 -
drenkrom wrote:dennisn wrote:drenkrom wrote:According to rumours in the tech industry, we may have Team The Shack rather than Team RadioShack. The company may well change its name to try to shake out of its rut. What a healthy and vital sponsor our Texan friend has brought into cycling!
And lately, you have brought who or whom in as cycling sponsors? I'm sure I'll recognize the name or names.
WTF kind of a 2nd grade-schoolyard argument is that? Is your father stronger than mine as well?
Are you saying no brouhaha has been made of the entry of RadioShack as a sponsor of a new team next year? Are you saying I've been making the PR rounds to talk about the "exciting involvement of this active new sponsor"? Are you saying a company considering changing a name it's held since its inception (minus the space between "Radio" and "Shack") has to be in full financial health? Are you saying RadioShack is a financially healthy, dynamic company that will revitalize the US cycling sponsorship market? If the answer is "yes", you made your point all wrong. If the answer is "no", you made no point at all.
I'm sure you wouldn't have moved a pinky finger towards the keyboard had there been no LA allusion in there! Who's obsessed, exactly?
Bottom line: RadioShack may become The Shack.
Just asking what you have done for cycling lately. If you've got a better sponsor, or two, then I'm sure someone will soon be talking to you. Who are the ones you have lined up?
You seem to know who and what are good for cycling. Let's see you go "out there" and
come up with all the answers.0 -
dennisn wrote:Just asking what you have done for cycling lately. If you've got a better sponsor, or two, then I'm sure someone will soon be talking to you. Who are the ones you have lined up?You seem to know who and what are good for cycling. Let's see you go "out there" and come up with all the answers.
I always seem to read dennisn's posts in a Stuey Griffin voice, it works so well.
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Noodley wrote:dennisn wrote:Just asking what you have done for cycling lately. If you've got a better sponsor, or two, then I'm sure someone will soon be talking to you. Who are the ones you have lined up?You seem to know who and what are good for cycling. Let's see you go "out there" and come up with all the answers.
I always seem to read dennisn's posts in a Stuey Griffin voice, it works so well.
You'll have to pardon me if I don't "get it". Not a clue who Stuey is. I'm old and out of touch with things. I gotta get out more. Now, if you would have said Larry, Moe, or Curly I'd have been on top of it.0 -
dennisn wrote:Just asking what you have done for cycling lately. If you've got a better sponsor, or two, then I'm sure someone will soon be talking to you. Who are the ones you have lined up?
You seem to know who and what are good for cycling. Let's see you go "out there" and
come up with all the answers.
I think his point is that if "The Shack" is the best Lance can do then that's a bit of a worry. Rumours of Oracle were more interesting.
Looking critically at sponsors is important - Remember this?
http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/t ... ptcy-19504Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.0 -
iainf72 wrote:dennisn wrote:Just asking what you have done for cycling lately. If you've got a better sponsor, or two, then I'm sure someone will soon be talking to you. Who are the ones you have lined up?
You seem to know who and what are good for cycling. Let's see you go "out there" and
come up with all the answers.
I think his point is that if "The Shack" is the best Lance can do then that's a bit of a worry. Rumours of Oracle were more interesting.
Looking critically at sponsors is important - Remember this?
http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/t ... ptcy-19504
I know what you're saying. But this is the real world and companies have problems all the time. Maybe Radio Shack has a new plan to turn it around. It could work. Looks like they are trying to get their name out there a bit more. It may work or they may go down, but I think any sponsor is a potential failure in that respect. Who would have thought that General Motors would go down? In cycling's perfect world these things don't happen but
we all know how likely perfection is. Reminds me of a saying I once heard. If you wait for that perfect day to go skiing, you'll never go skiing.0 -
I'm not sure that either Horner or LL are so certain to join radio shack.
I dont think either are that enamoured with armstrong, after all they didn't join his team he came out of retirement and joined theirs. If either of them had expressed concern about his arrival they knew all too well that they may just as well throw away their USA passports and apply for Spanish citizenship, such would have been the furore against them.
I remember when Horner was racing back in the USA after his unsuccessful stint at FDJ and winning everything he entered. Asked why he didnt have another crack at Europe with the US Postal Team he said "Armstrong", and pretty much stated they hated each other.
Who's decision was it not to include Horner in this year's TdF? A lot of people seem to say it was Contador's - but if his influence on the team was so big he couldn't even get a team car to take him to the ITT when he was leading the race, I doubt if he had any say in team selection at all.
As for LL I am pretty sure he and Armstrong fell out around the time he finished fourth in the Vuelta, and he soon left the team for Rabo.
Personally, and this is just a guess I think both Horner and LL will be joining Team Sky next season.
LL becomes team leader, Horner the "experiance" that Sky bosses allude to.
Course I'm probably wrong....
Thanks
Podofdonny0 -
Horner: "I have talked with Lance and Johan some already, but nothing is set yet."
http://blog.oregonlive.com/horner/2009/ ... _sure.html
And some interesting comments from when he first joined Astana:
http://velonews.com/article/13695
"It’s pretty clear to me, without knowing for sure, that it was never Johan Bruyneel holding me off the team when it was Postal or Discovery. I’m pretty sure it was never Johan Bruyneel holding me off that team, but you’d have to go and ask Lance himself. Maybe they already had so many good riders, and they didn’t know me that well. It seemed to me that Johan Bruyneel is a good director, and he knows I’m a good rider, so if you put two and two together… Of course that is not fact, just opinion.At the end of the day, Lance had the team that he wanted around him, and for whatever reason I wasn’t part of that.
The whole interview is pretty revealing when you view it in hindsight.0 -
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Attica wrote:Mettan wrote:Bradley Wiggins wrote:
Hasn't Lance learnt his lesson about being on the same team as people who are younger and stronger than him!?You live and learn. At any rate, you live0 -
Jez mon wrote:Attica wrote:Mettan wrote:Bradley Wiggins wrote:
Hasn't Lance learnt his lesson about being on the same team as people who are younger and stronger than him!?
Might be different if Schleck has agreed to ride for him rather than compete with him.0 -
Thanks for the link drenkrom.
You should all check out www.RadioShackCatalogs.com
See an archive of old 1939-2005 Radio Shack Catalogs, commercials, old store photos, and other cool stuff!!! Ahhhhh...the way it used to be...the way it should always be...RADIO SHACK.0 -
Jez mon wrote:Attica wrote:Mettan wrote:Bradley Wiggins wrote:
Hasn't Lance learnt his lesson about being on the same team as people who are younger and stronger than him!?
I'm not sure that getting beat by someone younger in ONE race proves much of anything.
There are all sorts of REASONS why people win or lose the TDF, age being just one of many. If what you say is true, how was it that Lance was able to beat a bunch of younger guys when he won his 7 TDF's?0 -
Dear me Dennis, spot a light hearted joke when you see one
you should be more worried about my sig!!!"Impressive break"
"Thanks...
...I can taste blood"0 -
Roscobob wrote:Jez mon wrote:Attica wrote:Mettan wrote:Bradley Wiggins wrote:
Hasn't Lance learnt his lesson about being on the same team as people who are younger and stronger than him!?
Might be different if Schleck has agreed to ride for him rather than compete with him.
If they just want Andy as a dom, then they could surely get Frank as well, who is also an able domestique. Getting both would make it a far more interesting prospect for Andy surely.You live and learn. At any rate, you live0 -
..by the same token, are you suggesting that the other 177 competitors in this year's TDF should just give up, and find something else to do ??? I suppose next year's TDF might as well be cancelled, due to lack of competition ... why stop there ... what's the point of any road racing at all ???dennisn wrote:Jez mon wrote:Attica wrote:Mettan wrote:Bradley Wiggins wrote:
Hasn't Lance learnt his lesson about being on the same team as people who are younger and stronger than him!?
I'm not sure that getting beat by someone younger in ONE race proves much of anything.
There are all sorts of REASONS why people win or lose the TDF, age being just one of many. If what you say is true, how was it that Lance was able to beat a bunch of younger guys when he won his 7 TDF's?.. who said that, internet forum people ?0 -
Psst! There are only about half a dozen guys at any Tour that are actually trying to win the thing.0
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No sh1t Sherlock ... but the other five have no chance, and may as well take up bowls ... according to the previous post !!Steven Martin wrote:Psst! There are only about half a dozen guys at any Tour that are actually trying to win the thing... who said that, internet forum people ?0 -
TBH, I was having difficulty determining any meaning at all...in the previous post.
Brain-fade? Maybe.0 -
Jez mon wrote:If they just want Andy as a dom, then they could surely get Frank as well, who is also an able domestique. Getting both would make it a far more interesting prospect for Andy surely.
Nah, Lance doesn't want them both, those 2 could make up an impenetrable unit which might turn on him at any point.
Lance wants 'Divide and Rule'.0 -
Why would Andy want to be a domestique for Armstrong? Unless he is being paid shedloads of money ...0
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GeorgeShaw wrote:Why would Andy want to be a domestique for Armstrong? Unless he is being paid shedloads of money ...
Why does anybody do anything? Ker-CHING!teagar wrote:I really can't see Devolder going anywhere. Why would he go to a team which has absolutely no interest in the northern classics?0 -
Robert Gesink????
Great young climber
Road away from Contodor, Evans, and Valverde.0
