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  • brakelever
    brakelever Posts: 158
    having started this thread , amazed its going, still could somebody please ask gotheteeshirt2 nicely to write a book and put his legions of fans out of their misery , having read his reviews at times his writing was sharp and to the point . :lol:
  • attica
    attica Posts: 2,362
    brakelever wrote:
    having started this thread , amazed its going, still could somebody please ask gotheteeshirt2 nicely to write a book and put his legions of fans out of their misery , having read his reviews at times his writing was sharp and to the point . :lol:

    Errr...


    Methinks you just did.
    "Impressive break"

    "Thanks...

    ...I can taste blood"
  • edhornby
    edhornby Posts: 1,780
    put me down for a hardback when it comes out
    "I get paid to make other people suffer on my wheel, how good is that"
    --Jens Voight
  • Tusher
    Tusher Posts: 2,762
    Me too.

    And at least it won't be ghost-written. (no offence, Daniel)
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Reading some previous and current posts, I'd like to ask Robert what he feels about replica jerseys? How does do you feel when you see someone wearing a KOM jersey when the ones you have you earn't the hard way? Does it bother you or do you feel people should just wear what they like?

    (Hopefully this hasn't been asked already...)
  • Percy Vera
    Percy Vera Posts: 1,103
    I would imagine he won't give a toss, as people wearing one won't have got the accolade, fame, new improved contract and maybe a few quid extra etc etc etc and therefore people will know the guy on their club run is not KOM's; but maybe Robert has a different view
  • gotheteeshirt2
    gotheteeshirt2 Posts: 49
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    Reading some previous and current posts, I'd like to ask Robert what he feels about replica jerseys? How does do you feel when you see someone wearing a KOM jersey when the ones you have you earn't the hard way? Does it bother you or do you feel people should just wear what they like?

    (Hopefully this hasn't been asked already...)

    I'm not really fussed by replica jerseys , I dont think it means more than you like the design or a memory the wearer has associated with a particular moment . The exception, of course , is a rainbow jersey on a fat bloke .......
  • dulldave
    dulldave Posts: 949
    gotheteeshirt2 wrote:
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    Reading some previous and current posts, I'd like to ask Robert what he feels about replica jerseys? How does do you feel when you see someone wearing a KOM jersey when the ones you have you earn't the hard way? Does it bother you or do you feel people should just wear what they like?

    (Hopefully this hasn't been asked already...)

    I'm not really fussed by replica jerseys , I dont think it means more than you like the design or a memory the wearer has associated with a particular moment . The exception, of course , is a rainbow jersey on a fat bloke .......

    What have you got against Bert Grabsch? :lol:
    Scottish and British...and a bit French
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    gotheteeshirt2 wrote:
    I'm not really fussed by replica jerseys , I dont think it means more than you like the design or a memory the wearer has associated with a particular moment . The exception, of course , is a rainbow jersey on a fat bloke .......

    Think that's a bit harsh to call Cadel fat :D

    But thanks for the reply, I shall continue to be the fat bloke in the KOM jersey!
  • eskimo Joe
    eskimo Joe Posts: 764
    not a Jan Ulrich fan then
    Suburban studs yodel better than anyone else
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    dulldave wrote:
    What have you got against Bert Grabsch? :lol:

    Damn, why didn't I think of Bert! Although I seem to remember Roman Vainsteins being a bit of a chunky world champ :D
  • ynyswen24
    ynyswen24 Posts: 703
    What about 'Next years ex-world champion', Luc LeBlanc?

    Still one of the great putdowns - 'like a frog on a mtachbox'.I feel better about looking longingly at the Z jersey on the Prendas website now and most of the new Rouleur seems to be inspired by that design (the same can't be said of the Tonton Tapis jersey - the single reason Roche rode like a dumptruck that year?).
  • Aggieboy
    Aggieboy Posts: 3,996
    gotheteeshirt2 wrote:
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    Reading some previous and current posts, I'd like to ask Robert what he feels about replica jerseys? How does do you feel when you see someone wearing a KOM jersey when the ones you have you earn't the hard way? Does it bother you or do you feel people should just wear what they like?

    (Hopefully this hasn't been asked already...)

    I'm not really fussed by replica jerseys , I dont think it means more than you like the design or a memory the wearer has associated with a particular moment . The exception, of course , is a rainbow jersey on a fat bloke .......

    Thank God for that! I've got the shirt with your name emblazoned across it. People do have to look twice to make sure it's not you on the hills though! :wink::lol:
    "There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world, t'would be a pity to damage yours."
  • gotheteeshirt2
    gotheteeshirt2 Posts: 49
    ynyswen24 wrote:
    What about 'Next years ex-world champion', Luc LeBlanc?

    Still one of the great putdowns - 'like a frog on a mtachbox'.I feel better about looking longingly at the Z jersey on the Prendas website now and most of the new Rouleur seems to be inspired by that design (the same can't be said of the Tonton Tapis jersey - the single reason Roche rode like a dumptruck that year?).

    LL wasn't fat he was ........................... wait a minute I don't give opinions on people .

    You do realise that the country is slowly slipping towards a return of late Eighties fashion .
  • Chris James
    Chris James Posts: 1,040
    ketsbaia wrote:

    I wonder if you got the same kind of comments as Wiggins reportedly did last year when he was still with the lead group in the mountains, to wit, what the fcuk are you still doing here?

    Hardly, I would have thought it would have been Robert doing the asking of the others.
  • Chris James
    Chris James Posts: 1,040
    gotheteeshirt2 wrote:
    You do realise that the country is slowly slipping towards a return of late Eighties fashion .

    Hopefully! I knew if I waited long enough my hair would come back into fashion (what I have left of it ...)
  • ynyswen24
    ynyswen24 Posts: 703
    gotheteeshirt2 wrote:
    ynyswen24 wrote:
    What about 'Next years ex-world champion', Luc LeBlanc?

    Still one of the great putdowns - 'like a frog on a mtachbox'.I feel better about looking longingly at the Z jersey on the Prendas website now and most of the new Rouleur seems to be inspired by that design (the same can't be said of the Tonton Tapis jersey - the single reason Roche rode like a dumptruck that year?).

    LL wasn't fat he was ........................... wait a minute I don't give opinions on people .

    You do realise that the country is slowly slipping towards a return of late Eighties fashion .

    I think you spoke very elequently about Luc LeBlanc with that story about the mobile phone he bought in South America...sometimes, it's what you don't say that says what you do (if you see what I mean).

    As for the eighties, I've got a brown bike - I try to claim it's Butterscotch and Honey but I know that it's really brown and beige. The eighties were beige (apart from that Z jersey and the pink Benotto bar tape you used...)
  • northernneil
    northernneil Posts: 1,549
    Chris James wrote:
    gotheteeshirt2 wrote:
    You do realise that the country is slowly slipping towards a return of late Eighties fashion .

    Hopefully! I knew if I waited long enough my hair would come back into fashion (what I have left of it ...)

    Robert do you still wear your hair in a manner which is 'now coming back into fashion ?' :lol:
  • evil_breakfast
    evil_breakfast Posts: 465
    Just finished Richards Moore book, 24 hours after postie delivered it.
    really took me back to the days of "hairy arms' Keys sitting in channel 4's 'front room' for my daily 30 min le tour fix.
    *sighs*

    Whatever you're doing now Rob, hope you're doing fine.

    No questions.

    Edit

    Screw it.
    The book alludes to you being a bit of a music fan.
    What's floating your boat, musically speaking, these days?
    You're the light wiping out my batteries; You're the cream in my airport coffee's.
  • nick hanson
    nick hanson Posts: 1,655
    Chris James wrote:
    ketsbaia wrote:

    I wonder if you got the same kind of comments as Wiggins reportedly did last year when he was still with the lead group in the mountains, to wit, what the fcuk are you still doing here?

    Hardly, I would have thought it would have been Robert doing the asking of the others.
    Too true,too true!,can just imagine the time when Hinault wanted an easy day,& robert wanted the stage win :lol::lol:
    Both the sort to speak their minds!
    Robert,for those of us of 'a certain age' (mid forties) you gave us some ace memories to look back on :D
    Many thanks
    so many cols,so little time!
  • canadian
    canadian Posts: 3
    Watching the Luge accident today, reminds us how dangerous sport can be. Especially sports that involve such wicked descents. A lot has been said about climbers abilities going up, but less about going down. I think it was in the High Life, it's been a while, where they showed one of Robert's descent's, almost from his view. Ever terrified Robert? Or not allow yourself to consider it?
  • gotheteeshirt2
    gotheteeshirt2 Posts: 49
    canadian wrote:
    Watching the Luge accident today, reminds us how dangerous sport can be. Especially sports that involve such wicked descents. A lot has been said about climbers abilities going up, but less about going down. I think it was in the High Life, it's been a while, where they showed one of Robert's descent's, almost from his view. Ever terrified Robert? Or not allow yourself to consider it?

    Terrified ?.........no

    Scared ............sometimes

    Worried ...........usually

    Everyone has a speed in their head which they are comfortable with ..................but racing usually means going past that so then depending on the enviromental factors you enter the worried or the scared zones .If you let yourself be terrified then you'll always be dropped or crash trying to keep up .
  • ynyswen24
    ynyswen24 Posts: 703
    gotheteeshirt2 wrote:
    [Terrified ?.........no

    Scared ............sometimes

    Worried ...........usually

    Everyone has a speed in their head which they are comfortable with ..................but racing usually means going past that so then depending on the enviromental factors you enter the worried or the scared zones .If you let yourself be terrified then you'll always be dropped or crash trying to keep up .

    I remember watching you on a training ride in The High Life and there was one moment where you came round a corner to be passed by an oncoming car, it looked decidely hairy to me.

    How far did you push it in training to get ready for racing? Or was it more a case of, like Kelly chasing Argentin in Milan-San Remo, switching your self preservation off and going on automatic? Matt Seaton wrote a good piece in an early Rouleur on how close we have all 'drifted' to the edge of safety without realising it, were you always in control of the risks you were willing or had to take?
  • gotheteeshirt2
    gotheteeshirt2 Posts: 49
    I remember watching you on a training ride in The High Life and there was one moment where you came round a corner to be passed by an oncoming car, it looked decidely hairy to me.

    That was the descent of Col de La Ramaz , not a downhill I knew very well so I wasn't taking any risks , staying to my side of the road on the blind corners and being careful when it looked like there might be rockfall . As an example later the same day I did Col de la Colombiere ( in the opposite direction to last years Tour ) ,flat out for the last five kms of the climb and then flat out for the first part of the descent . I had a couple of moments on the hairpins before La Reposoir where the tarmac had melted but that was ok as I learned where it was likely to be slippy come race day .
  • ynyswen24
    ynyswen24 Posts: 703
    Not like my mate Tim Doherty who overcooked it touring in the alps and lost it coming into a blind corner on a laden tourer. As he drifted wide he was faced by a line abreast of French cyclosportifs who calmly parted like the Red Sea to let him go on his way...

    It always seemed (to us out here at least) that you went better in the Pyrenees than the Alps, quite apart from your palmares, was this true and, if so, was it down to a preference on your part for those type of climbs or was it down to the nature of your climbing/descending skills? I remember you saying that the road surfaces were much less predictable than in the Alps. Were the motorbikes any help in predicting what the next corner or sequence was like? Howfar ahead did you have to think (or not...)?

    And then there are the cobbled climbs or the Ardennes hills in LiegeBastogne-Liege, you were pretty handy there too (The TdF - other races are available...)

    Is there a Haynes Manual on climbing and descending to be wrtitten?
  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    It's been said before but I will say it again......

    Best thread anywhere, ever!

    Well done that man :P
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    daviesee wrote:
    It's been said before but I will say it again......

    Best thread anywhere, ever!

    Well done that man :P

    Are you sure? Would you not prefer to discuss toilet stops in Oman? :D
  • gotheteeshirt2
    gotheteeshirt2 Posts: 49
    ynyswen24 wrote:
    Is there a Haynes Manual on climbing and descending to be wrtitten?

    I think there could be something in Rouleur soon about climbing :wink: but I don't think it'll quite be written in the manner of a Haynes manual .
    Funnily enough I was consulting one of their excellent publications just the other day as I needed to know where to find the mixture screws on a Mikuni carb . Three turns out from fully in apparently .
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    gotheteeshirt2 wrote:
    ynyswen24 wrote:
    Is there a Haynes Manual on climbing and descending to be wrtitten?

    I think there could be something in Rouleur soon about climbing :wink: but I don't think it'll quite be written in the manner of a Haynes manual .
    Funnily enough I was consulting one of their excellent publications just the other day as I needed to know where to find the mixture screws on a Mikuni carb . Three turns out from fully in apparently .

    Issue 13 is the only one I have of Rouleur. It's grand. If you are going to start writing regular stuff I may have to subscribe.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    gotheteeshirt2 wrote:

    I'm not really fussed by replica jerseys .

    shocking

    this is how the rot starts
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm

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