One hit wonders

iainf72
iainf72 Posts: 15,784
edited January 2010 in Pro race
Nice little article over the Podium Cafe

http://www.podiumcafe.com/2010/1/11/124 ... f-the-tour

I remember being really impressed with Mejia and thought he'd be the man for a few years...
Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.

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  • pat1cp
    pat1cp Posts: 766
    I didn't realise Oscar had 3 top tens, respect for that.
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  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    After the 93 Tour, Zenon must have thought it was all going to be a gas...
    Le Blaireau (1)
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Rasmussen
    "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
  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    Kirchen?
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  • SpaceJunk
    SpaceJunk Posts: 1,157
    Ullrich??
  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    SpaceJunk wrote:
    Ullrich??

    I think the spirit of this is one-off performances, rather than one off wins!
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  • pat1cp
    pat1cp Posts: 766
    calvjones wrote:
    Kirchen?
    Did he win everything he's won in the same season???

    (007 eyebrow lift)
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  • Moomaloid
    Moomaloid Posts: 2,040
    iainf72 wrote:
    Nice little article over the Podium Cafe

    http://www.podiumcafe.com/2010/1/11/124 ... f-the-tour

    I remember being really impressed with Mejia and thought he'd be the man for a few years...

    Alvaro was one of my faves. He used to race like Bertie... when allowed that is.
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,821
    The ultimate one hit wonder of cycling of the last few years has got to be ickle Jose Rujano, no? Any offers for someone more apt?
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    edited January 2010
    TakeTheHighRoad wrote:
    The ultimate one hit wonder of cycling of the last few years has got to be ickle Jose Rujano, no? Any offers for someone more apt?

    Guttieriez?
    Perez?
    Kasheskin?
    Igor Astarloa?
    On as smaller scale Igor Astarloza?
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    pat1cp wrote:
    calvjones wrote:
    Kirchen?
    Did he win everything he's won in the same season???

    (007 eyebrow lift)

    He was 7th in the Tour in both 07 and 08 and won La Fleche Wallone in 08. So no.
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    TakeTheHighRoad wrote:
    The ultimate one hit wonder of cycling of the last few years has got to be ickle Jose Rujano, no? Any offers for someone more apt?

    I see your Rujano and raise you an Aitor Gonzalez.
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

    @gietvangent
  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    Timoid. wrote:
    pat1cp wrote:
    calvjones wrote:
    Kirchen?
    Did he win everything he's won in the same season???

    (007 eyebrow lift)

    He was 7th in the Tour in both 07 and 08 and won La Fleche Wallone in 08. So no.

    Aye, forgot the '07 tour. Although pat's eyebrow lift possibly still valid.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Roger Walkowiak was very much the Vanilla Ice of Cycling.
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  • pat1cp
    pat1cp Posts: 766
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    TakeTheHighRoad wrote:
    The ultimate one hit wonder of cycling of the last few years has got to be ickle Jose Rujano, no? Any offers for someone more apt?

    I see your Rujano and raise you an Aitor Gonzalez.

    Ickle Jose has always been crap in the tour, only shined in the one Giro, with his South American buddy, who I can't remember the name of just now.

    (Lift other eyebrow even higher).
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  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Band Aid.

    Surely, cos they did that one Christmas song didn't they and yet even with all those famous singers they didn't even get close to the charts again, let alone have another hit. I suppose they just ran dry of ideas.
  • teagar
    teagar Posts: 2,100
    mfin wrote:
    Band Aid.

    Surely, cos they did that one Christmas song didn't they and yet even with all those famous singers they didn't even get close to the charts again, let alone have another hit. I suppose they just ran dry of ideas.


    Band aid 20 got the Crimbo #1, and was the biggest single of that year.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_Aid_20_(band)
    Note: the above post is an opinion and not fact. It might be a lie.
  • phreak
    phreak Posts: 2,953
    How about Soler? King of the Mountains in his very first Tour and he's not really lived up to that since.
  • teagar
    teagar Posts: 2,100
    phreak wrote:
    How about Soler? King of the Mountains in his very first Tour and he's not really lived up to that since.

    Definitely.
    Note: the above post is an opinion and not fact. It might be a lie.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    pat1cp wrote:
    Ickle Jose has always been crap in the tour, only shined in the one Giro, with his South American buddy, who I can't remember the name of just now.

    (Lift other eyebrow even higher).

    Ivan Parra.

    For me it has to be Il Buffalo Gutierrez.
  • pat1cp
    pat1cp Posts: 766
    That be him, Mr Parra.

    The Buffalo, nickname credited via his snoring I believe, was awesome hauling his huge frame over the dolomites. :?

    Edit: just had a look, he's 6 ft 3".
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