Wonder How Lance Feels?

Soni

I'm a big Lance fan, but just looked at the Trek Bikes Website and they are displaying a massive picture of the new 2010 Madone with Controdor riding it.......

I know that times move on, and you're only as good as your last job etc., but its a shame to see no Lance.....but instead Contador....

I would be really gutted if it was me.......

I just hope Lance wins the tour next year and wipes that smurk off Contradors face....

volvine

i too am a big Lance but can fully understand why Contador is taking pride of place at the moment after just winning for the second time the TDF Lance is featured in the video's of the new Madone though along with Contador and Levi so i don't think they have sacked him just yet

-spider-

How many ways can you spell Contador's name!

Gavin Gilbert

I think Future are missing a trick.... maybe they could publish 'Lance Fanboy Plus' and launch LanceFanBoyForum.com so the rest of us don't need to bother wasting our eyes on the fawning over the has-been.

CHRISNOIR

volvine wrote:

i too am a big Lance but...

Show off...

dennisn

I doubt that Lance thought that he would, forever, be the only one in a Trek advertisement.

volvine

LOL CHRISNOIR good one well spoted :oops:

Soni

-spider- wrote:

How many ways can you spell Contador's name!

Just noticed that!

How about we go for the one in the middle!

Soni

Gavin Gilbert wrote:

I think Future are missing a trick.... maybe they could publish 'Lance Fanboy Plus' and launch LanceFanBoyForum.com so the rest of us don't need to bother wasting our eyes on the fawning over the has-been.

the 'Has Been' will soon be standing on the podium again....

Controdor/Contador/Contrador's time at the top is limited due to the 'Has Been's' return to professional cycling, and Contador knows this and thats why there is friction.

Lance is a serious obstacle in the way for Contador, and next year when they are on different teams, Contador is going to feel major pressure, how will he handle somebody 10 years his elder beating him

Bring it on i say....

redddraggon

Why would you want an old knobhead "hasbeen" advertising your bikes when you can have the best Grand Tour rider doing it for you?

redddraggon

Soni wrote:

Controdor/Contador/Contrador's time at the top is limited due to the 'Has Been's' return to professional cycling, and Contador knows this and thats why there is friction.

Lol, you really fancy Lancey boy don't you?

Harry B

Presumably the slogan "It must be about the bike" is a reference to Lance's book :? I wouldn't be too pleased about that if I was him but he's still plastered all over the site so I expect he's still getting a decent paycheck from them

Soni

Harry B wrote:

Presumably the slogan "It must be about the bike" is a reference to Lance's book :? I wouldn't be too pleased about that if I was him but he's still plastered all over the site so I expect he's still getting a decent paycheck from them

I actually read into it in another way.....

I reckon they meant Contador didn't win the Tour due to skill, it was the bike that did it and only the bike, if it was any other bike he wouldn't have won - i'm sure!

Nadder

Has Been?? really! Can't wait till I'm past it and get third in TDF

Dgh

I'm a fan of LA, great rider, full of panache, great achievement at this year's tour,

BUT, Soni, let's get real.

LA may be on the podium next year, but unless Contador and Andy Shleck get injured or fail tests, he ain't gonna be winning the tour again. AC & AS are both outstanding climbers, LA was but couldn't match AC's accelerations this year, and AC has become an excellent time-trialler. AC & AS are young enough to have their best years in front of them, LA's best years are behind him.

AC has been ungracious about LA, but it's undestandable that there's been friction. LA joins the team of the No.1 grand tour rider, wants to be leader, and is pally with the directeur. I don't think it's because of AC fearing LA on the bike, but because of Bruyneel's closeness with LA.

I personally think LA has nothing left to prove on the road, and would have done better to try and win the MTB XC World champs, World cup, etc.

dennisn

redddraggon wrote:

Why would you want an old knobhead "hasbeen" advertising your bikes when you can have the best Grand Tour rider doing it for you?

Guess it would be better than having a "neverwas - never will be" like yourself.

chriskempton

Dgh wrote:

AC has been ungracious about LA

I think you've got that very much the wrong way round.

Smokin Joe

Armstrong will not win the tour again. Contador beat him this time despite having the whole of his own team refusing to help him and having the Texan actively riding against him. He behaved like a gentleman in the face of some very spiteful mind games from someone who was supposed to be his team-mate, even riding to protect Lance's third place on the Ventoux. Personally, I would have buggered off up the road with Schlek and left the over-egoed little sh1t to fend for himself.

fast as fupp

Gavin Gilbert wrote:

I think Future are missing a trick.... maybe they could publish 'Lance Fanboy Plus' and launch LanceFanBoyForum.com so the rest of us don't need to bother wasting our eyes on the fawning over the has-been.

i fully concur with this post

fupp off lancelickers!

fast as fupp

Smokin Joe wrote:

Armstrong will not win the tour again. Contador beat him this time despite having the whole of his own team refusing to help him and having the Texan actively riding against him. He behaved like a gentleman in the face of some very spiteful mind games from someone who was supposed to be his team-mate, even riding to protect Lance's third place on the Ventoux. Personally, I would have buggered off up the road with Schlek and left the over-egoed little sh1t to fend for himself.

and this one

sampras38

Trek do a deal with Lance

http://www.roadcyclinguk.com/news/article/mps/uan/791

volvine

agree with earlier post Contador conducts himself with great style just seems to get on with the job and fair play to him for that i personally think he is the best grand tour rider out there at the moment but all this Lance bashing is a joke none of you can dispute his success within one of the toughest sports in the world and to return to it after a lenghty spell with such success (3rd in the TDF) is a superb acheivment and he deserves praise not slagging off.
should be good to watch next year though thats for sure.

Harry B

Soni wrote:

Harry B wrote:

Presumably the slogan "It must be about the bike" is a reference to Lance's book :? I wouldn't be too pleased about that if I was him but he's still plastered all over the site so I expect he's still getting a decent paycheck from them

I actually read into it in another way.....

I reckon they meant Contador didn't win the Tour due to skill, it was the bike that did it and only the bike, if it was any other bike he wouldn't have won - i'm sure!

I think he'd probably have one on a kiddies tricyle

Stone Glider

I understand that he is nearly 38 years old? Not much then.

STEFANOS4784

chriskempton wrote:

Dgh wrote:

AC has been ungracious about LA

I think you've got that very much the wrong way round.

Harsh but fair in my opinion. Lance Armstrong is a legend and i'd like to know what makes you think he's an a-hole, seems like a pretty down to earth guy from what i've seen, considering the amount of attention he's had. Now Dizzy rascal thats what you call an ass hole

Anonymous

When I saw the thread title I thought it was about the fact that Twitter is down...

Soni

STEFANOS4784 wrote:

chriskempton wrote:

Dgh wrote:

AC has been ungracious about LA

I think you've got that very much the wrong way round.

Harsh but fair in my opinion. Lance Armstrong is a legend and i'd like to know what makes you think he's an a-hole, seems like a pretty down to earth guy from what i've seen, considering the amount of attention he's had. Now Dizzy rascal thats what you call an ass hole

Excellent, my kind of thinking, he comes accross as a great embassador, he's a great speaker, very cleaver person, great at his sport, is now doing as much as he can for the LiveStrong Foundation, so why do people not like him?

Well, in Cycling Weekly the other week they were talking about this exact same subject, but not only about Lance, about some other famous road racers who weren't liked from years back, and apparently it was due to them constantly winning, winning, and winning!

I think that sums it up!

softlad

Soni wrote:

I just hope Lance wins the tour next year and wipes that smurk off Contradors face....

I can't see anyone challenging Carlos Bertador for the GC next year - and certainly not Lawrence Ormstrong. I think even that British fella - Brandy Wilkins - has a better chance...

Le Commentateur

Still mostly Lance rather than Bertie throughout the web site though.

cycologist

Dgh is right. Bruyneel should have ordered the team to support his original choice of leader ie Contador. He should never have allowed Armstrong on the team in the first place knowing that the egotistical pratt would want to take over and upset the whole team dynamic. The only time that the team should have been racing for Armstrong was if he was clearly in a far more likely position to win than Contador and IMHO that was never going to happen .

finchy

Soni wrote:

Well, in Cycling Weekly the other week they were talking about this exact same subject, but not only about Lance, about some other famous road racers who weren't liked from years back, and apparently it was due to them constantly winning, winning, and winning!

I think that sums it up!

Which is why Cavendish, Boonen, Cancellara, Freire, Bettini etc, etc are so hated.

Face it, you can't just keep hiding behind the old "people hate him because he's successful" line - there are loads of people who are very successful in their chosen work who are almost universally admired - Pele, David Attenborough, Stanley Kubrick, Nicole Cooke... see a queue of haters for these highly successful people? Nope, neither can I.

Armstrong draws a lot of hatred because of some of his actions down the years - chasing down riders who were going to testify against Dr Ferrari in court, for example, as well as neglecting other big races on the calendar (for which personally I don't blame him).

Just for the record, I'm not a Lance hater, I just can't stand that weak as you can get argument about how it's just envy.