Who threw their bottle?

Gingerflash
Gingerflash Posts: 239
edited April 2010 in Pro race
I remember reading once about a rider who felt hard done by in a sprint, sat up, and lobbed his bottle at another rider, a cracking shot, hitting him on the head. He was someone quite famous but I can't remember who or what race.

Anyone know what i'm talking about?

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  • NicFrance
    NicFrance Posts: 256
    No sprint, but nice bottlethrow by supermario:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4XxCZagAjk
  • Gingerflash
    Gingerflash Posts: 239
    Magic, thank you.

    Quality bottle (and teddy) throwing by both of them.

    Anyone notice the rider getting hit on the head by an empty thrown from a switchback above, during a mountain stage of last year's Giro?
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,645
    NicFrance wrote:
    No sprint, but nice bottlethrow by supermario:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4XxCZagAjk

    isn't kirsipiu still riding for a small team somewhere?
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  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    NicFrance wrote:
    No sprint, but nice bottlethrow by supermario:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4XxCZagAjk

    isn't kirsipiu still riding for a small team somewhere?

    Yup - he won a couple of stages at the Rás last year. He's even older than the Shack coffin-dodgers.
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  • oscarbudgie
    oscarbudgie Posts: 850
    No bottle throwing but there were fisticuffs in the sprint (and after) at the Tour of Turkey yesterday.
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  • AndyRubio
    AndyRubio Posts: 880
    Boonen does it a lot too - saw some clips on Sporza once.
  • Gingerflash
    Gingerflash Posts: 239
    "No bottle throwing but there were fisticuffs in the sprint (and after) at the Tour of Turkey yesterday."

    That's what got me thinking about the bottle thing.

    Watching skinny cyclists in lycra trying to have a punch-up is quite peculiar.
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  • miffed
    miffed Posts: 469
    tour of turkey wasnt just fisticuff it was brutal; broken jaw, teeth and spinal fractures.

    video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JMY68cS9gw
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    miffed wrote:
    tour of turkey wasnt just fisticuff it was brutal; broken jaw, teeth and spinal fractures.

    video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JMY68cS9gw

    Yesterday, not last year.
  • Gingerflash
    Gingerflash Posts: 239
    I think the XG rider got the wrong Colnago rider at first didn't he?

    Handbags (musettes?) at 20 paces.
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    "No bottle throwing but there were fisticuffs in the sprint (and after) at the Tour of Turkey yesterday."

    That's what got me thinking about the bottle thing.

    Watching skinny cyclists in lycra trying to have a punch-up is quite peculiar.
    WWE Lite.


    Cyclists fighting is too funny. Cleats realy don't help:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwKaeWkYbqk
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,439
    I saw one a couple of years ago before I got into all this where two riders were sprinting against each other and one headbutted the other and took him down, who was that?
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  • northernneil
    northernneil Posts: 1,549
    afx237vi wrote:
    miffed wrote:
    tour of turkey wasnt just fisticuff it was brutal; broken jaw, teeth and spinal fractures.

    video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JMY68cS9gw

    Yesterday, not last year.

    thats got to be a BIG fine or suspension - thats potentially life threatening