Ride with Lance in Dublin @ 5.30 pm
cannonfodder
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Anyone on the forum going to make it?
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Lance rode in Scotland. And Ireland. Not England.Le Blaireau (1)0
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Does it depend on whether it's raining or not?Make mine an Italian, with Campagnolo on the side..0
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surely Bernie and Frenchfighter have got themselves flights over from France or wherever they are?0
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deejay wrote:DaveyL wrote:Lance rode in Scotland. And Ireland. Not England.
Absolutely Fantastic.
The next is that you will find him having a ride in Poland. ?
Just tell him to Cough out of here, please.
Why does it bother you that Lance orgainses rides for people that want to take part ? If youre not taking part or not interested in those that do why do you get so hot under the collar about it ?Gasping - but somehow still alive !0 -
Tee hee. It used to be "English. Not British"...Le Blaireau (1)0
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1000+ riders turned out at phoenix park apparently! Man's a star! How many pro's, never mind record breaking pro's, turn up and invite the public to just go for a ride? Absolutely phenomenal for cycling! oh, maybe he didn't ride in England because he had no business in England...yet!!
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I think it's a pretty cool thing to do.
Wonder what the police make of it all?Not climber, not sprinter, not rouleur0 -
Fastlad wrote:1000+ riders turned out at phoenix park apparently! Man's a star! How many pro's, never mind record breaking pro's, turn up and invite the public to just go for a ride? Absolutely phenomenal for cycling! oh, maybe he didn't ride in England because he had no business in England...yet!!
love him or loathe him hes a star attraction.
Its a shame our medal winners didnt do a similar thing after the Olympics, it would have done a lot for UK cycling and surely only a small imposition after the funding theyve had.0 -
Valverde trains with the locals in Murcia.
Basso sometimes rides with his fans.
Armstrong's tweeting method is new though.Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.0 -
Fastlad wrote:1000+ riders turned out at phoenix park apparently! Man's a star! How many pro's, never mind record breaking pro's, turn up and invite the public to just go for a ride? Absolutely phenomenal for cycling! oh, maybe he didn't ride in England because he had no business in England...yet!!
Aren't most ProTour teams to be found riding the courses of things like the spring classics in the day or so before the race takes place? I remember seeing reports on Pez of them joining in with Pro's as they went over the Paris-Roubaix and the Ronde courses?0 -
he's not called for a ride in England because he is an American and did not think he would be welcomed
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He's giving fairly short notice on a weekday....imagine what would happen if he gave a week's notice for a ride in London on a Saturday0
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Yep, it'd be critical mass eat yer heart out...Le Blaireau (1)0
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cannonfodder wrote:He's giving fairly short notice on a weekday....imagine what would happen if he gave a week's notice for a ride in London on a Saturday
Aye, imagine! Somebody from here might take position on tower bridge with a sniper's rifle.
Lance, don't go to london. It's not safe!
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To be fair, he is pretty high profile in Ireland at the moment with the cancer summit going on. And it's quite true that most pros will welcome you to ride with them on the roads. But the gesture is nice and the PR doesn't hurt either Honestly, he'll be running for election next 0
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Fair play to him for doing this. I have a lot of respect for it, even if it is an ego massage.
He also created a bit of local trade, helping the economy. Apparently Paul McQuaid, owner of Phoenix Park Bike Hire, hired out 190 bikes after Lance tweeted that people could hire bikes there. Yes, that's Paul McQuaid brother of Pat.
Sorry I couldn't help it.
But seriously, hats off to Lance for doing stuff like this.Scottish and British...and a bit French0 -
I was on that ride this evening, and I'm certainly no great fan of Armstrong, but I gotta say, it was absolutely brilliant.
He had originally been scheduled to do four laps of a Park route, but he just continued doing lap after lap as guys rode up to him for a chat/handshake/thanks for coming out or whatever.
I punctured out on lap 7 unfortunately but one of his handlers told me that he was enjoying himself too much to call it a day, and you know what, looking at his face, I reckon he might have been telling the truth.
The biggest bullshit of the day came naturally from RTE who gave the impression that it was a kind of Paddywhackers day out with people on shit from their attics or rickshaws or recumbents-in fact it was mostly club guys going at a decent lick, and I'd call the number closer to 350 or 400 rather than a thousand.
So all in all, a day where I suspended all the cynicism and just enjoyed the ride.Spesh Works Roubaix '10
28 Charolais and counting.0 -
Shit,not shoot, I meant, natch.Spesh Works Roubaix '10
28 Charolais and counting.0 -
I was on this today. Kudos to the guy and I'm no fan of his.0
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johnscleary wrote:I was on that ride this evening, and I'm certainly no great fan of Armstrong, but I gotta say, it was absolutely brilliant.
He had originally been scheduled to do four laps of a Park route, but he just continued doing lap after lap as guys rode up to him for a chat/handshake/thanks for coming out or whatever.
I punctured out on lap 7 unfortunately but one of his handlers told me that he was enjoying himself too much to call it a day, and you know what, looking at his face, I reckon he might have been telling the truth.
The biggest bullshit of the day came naturally from RTE who gave the impression that it was a kind of Paddywhackers day out with people on shoot from their attics or rickshaws or recumbents-in fact it was mostly club guys going at a decent lick, and I'd call the number closer to 350 or 400 rather than a thousand.
So all in all, a day where I suspended all the cynicism and just enjoyed the ride.
Yup, there were a few non-cyclists there, but they mainly dropped out after a couple of laps and left the group to the rest of us (which was just as well, had a few hairy moments due to people who weren't used to riding in groups.)
Don't think I am going to be popular in the office tommorow. Found out it was all happening at about 2:30 and left the office in a hurry to drive from Belfast down to Dublin. Arrived with 10 mins to spare after deserting the other half in the car in traffic somewhere as I dashed of on the bike.
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Fingers crossed for a Belfast ride!!!The most painful climb in Northern Ireland http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs200.snc1/6776_124247198694_548863694_2335754_8016178_n.jpg0
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Second that on the hairy moments, there was a crash on I think the fourth lap going down a descent toward the sharp left, caused by a guy on a mountain bike who was pedalling like hell to keep up with the pace-I saw one roadie get smacked as he pulled over to avoid this guy when he fell.
Another mountain biker spent most of his time and his considerable bulk clearing space for himself two cyclists behind Armstrong and I know this because I spent too long looking at his rucksack.
Can't be helped though on this occasion, everybody wanted to touch the great man's hem.
On a sour note I see the cops are well pi**ed off this morning and have said this type of thing will never happen again-brings to mind Father Ted, Down With this Type of Thing.
As if they have to deal with it every day of the week, the lazy p***ks.
Overtime must have been cut.
Nice to have a thread without anti-Armstrong bile by the way, some of the regulars must have missed it;-)Spesh Works Roubaix '10
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Screw the office!crymble wrote:Don't think I am going to be popular in the office tommorow.
That was probably a once-in-a-lifetime experience with a sporting legend.
I read the long account of the Glasgow ride in an earlier thread and was deeply envious. It's been said already but, whatever your feelings about Lance, this is a shot in the arm for road cycling (a beleagured, persecuted activity) in these islands.Aspire not to have more, but to be more.0
