Unusual facts about Pro Cyclists

RichN95.
RichN95. Posts: 27,253
edited July 2017 in Pro race
Let's have an interesting and lighthearted thread.

What unusual facts have you garnered about Pro Cyclists, past or present. They need to be, to the best of your knowledge, true.

I'll start you off with a few:

Cadel Evans is an obsessive fan of Tintin

Matti Breschel used to work as a male model in New York

Greg van Avermaet used to be a goalkeeper for the reserve team at SK Beveren (at the time in the Belgian first division)

Cadel Evans was kicked in the head by a horse (aged 8, it almost killed him)

and my personal favourite....

As a kid, Oscar Freire was the Spanish Scalextric Champion.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,655
    This is a prime example of a thread that needs to be further up the board, and twenty pages longer.

    Unfortunately I have no facts about pro cyclists, interesting or not, to add to it. Certainly nothing that beats the Scalextric fact.
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  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    Former Swiss track and road rider Oscar Plattner could, under the right circumstances , accommodate seven budgies along the length of his "member", provided the last stood on one leg.

    1205952715Plattner%20Oscar%202.jpg
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • BikingBernie
    BikingBernie Posts: 2,163
    edited August 2010
    Lance Armstrong, 'the patron saint of cancer' dumped his then long-time girlfriend Sheryl Crow, who he had been engaged to for 6 months, because he couldn't be arsed to support her when she developed breast cancer.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    BikingBernie wrote:
    Lance Armstrong, 'the patron saint of cancer' dumped his then long-time girlfriend Sheryl Crow, who he had been engaged to for 6 months, because he couldn't be arsed to support her when she developed breast cancer.*

    Yawn

    It had NOTHING to do with that.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • BikingBernie
    BikingBernie Posts: 2,163
    iainf72 wrote:
    BikingBernie wrote:
    Lance Armstrong, 'the patron saint of cancer' dumped his then long-time girlfriend Sheryl Crow, who he had been engaged to for 6 months, because he couldn't be arsed to support her when she developed breast cancer.*
    Yawn

    It had NOTHING to do with that.
    Are you saying that you really believe that they were not aware that Crow had breast cancer when they announced their separation?
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    BikingBernie wrote:

    It had NOTHING to do with that.
    Are you saying that you really believe that they were not aware that Crow had breast cancer when they announced their separation?[/quote]

    Yup

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/musi ... -over.html

    At the time, there was talk in celeb circles of a far more valid reason, which makes sense if you look at how she's leading her life now.


    So take your tinfoil hat off.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,655
    I'm as anti LA as almost anyone on this forum, but seriously BB, this thread didn't need that.
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  • ju5t1n
    ju5t1n Posts: 2,028
    Before turning pro Scott Sunderland used to work in an abattoir
  • ju5t1n
    ju5t1n Posts: 2,028
    Djamolidine Abdoujaparov has a band named after him
  • greeny12
    greeny12 Posts: 759
    Yeah,it's bollixed up what could have been a lot of fun....

    Shame I don't know any good peleton trivia to get things moving again.

    Although at a Rabobank bash a few years ago I did hear Hennie Kuiper say that on one Alpine stage of the Tour de France he was so exhausted that to his eyes the snow turned black. That's pretty hardcore, you have to admit!
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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Manuel Quinziato is finishing a law degree while still riding
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • NicFrance
    NicFrance Posts: 256
    Ludo Dierckxsens was banned after telling the testers he had a medical prescription for Synacthen to cure tendinitis in his knee. The test itself was negative.

    http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cyclingtour-de-france-dierckxsens-pays-drugs-penalty-1107619.html
  • BikingBernie
    BikingBernie Posts: 2,163
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    I'm as anti LA as almost anyone on this forum, but seriously BB, this thread didn't need that.
    Ok, sorry. I was just trying to wind up RichN95. :wink:

    I know, I should just rise above the sort of personalised attacks he comes out with, but there you go...
  • BikingBernie
    BikingBernie Posts: 2,163
    Gino Bartali worked for the Italian resistance during WW2 and at one point was even arrested by the intelligence arm of the SS.
  • ju5t1n
    ju5t1n Posts: 2,028
    ju5t1n wrote:
    Djamolidine Abdoujaparov has a band named after him
    I found their website, you can download tracks for free...
    http://www.abdou.co.uk
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Marzio Bruseghin is very keen on donkeys and I believe he has one or two.
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  • disquieting_museeuws
    disquieting_museeuws Posts: 601
    ju5t1n wrote:
    Djamolidine Abdoujaparov has a band named after him

    He also breeds racing pigeons.

    Marzio Bruseghin (meanwhile) breeds donkeys. Not at the same place & time, that would be sick.
  • disquieting_museeuws
    disquieting_museeuws Posts: 601
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Marzio Bruseghin is very keen on donkeys and I believe he has one or two.

    HaHa, beat me to it; I think he's got a whole farm of donkeys. Donkeys are great.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,655
    disquieting_museeuws wrote:
    ju5t1n wrote:
    Djamolidine Abdoujaparov has a band named after him

    He also breeds racing pigeons.

    Marzio Bruseghin (meanwhile) breeds donkeys. Not at the same place & time, that would be sick.

    A donkey pigeon cross would be very dangerous. Getting crapped on by a pigeon is bad enough but....
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  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    iainf72 wrote:
    Manuel Quinziato is finishing a law degree while still riding

    I believe Serge Pauwels is also studying for a Masters. That might explain where he was in the mountain stages at the tour this year...
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    ju5t1n wrote:
    Djamolidine Abdoujaparov has a band named after him

    As does Pedro Delgado. I even saw The Delgados play once. They were Scottish ahd had albums called Domestiques and Peloton.
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  • emadden
    emadden Posts: 2,431
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Marzio Bruseghin is very keen on donkeys and I believe he has one or two.

    Yes, he has an ass or two

    Bruseghin_Marzio_gdi10st3.jpg:lol::lol::lol::lol:
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  • itchieritchie
    itchieritchie Posts: 332
    Hell of a crack on that frame...
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    Not one to let the grass grow under his feet, Philippe Gilbert, has a degree in...horticulture
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Continuing with the theme of educated cyclists, I believe Marco Pinotti has an engineering degree and his nickname is "the professor".

    There's a Spanish cyclist who was a professional squid fisherman before he turned to cycling, although I can't remember his name. He rode for Andalucia.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Tony Martin is a policeman apparently. Maybe that's why he's so good at catching breakaways.
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  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    When schlecks chain slipped it clearly LACKED SYNCH, which is an anagram of his name. Bizarre
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    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    edited August 2010
    The reason riders dont like to be behind ALberto Contador is because he has BLATANT RECTO ODOR :D
    The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    Cav's 2 fingered salute was simply a MAVERICKS HAND

    oh and "A LOVEKIN SCRIBBLE ENGINE" is an anagram of Bikingbernie loves Lance. :D
    The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • itchieritchie
    itchieritchie Posts: 332
    Hence Schleck's perpetual grimace in TDF 2010? And that sideways "look" that he gave Contador up the Col on that misty day...

    "You did it again didn't you, ya filthy bastid....well see how you like THIS...."

    And off Schleck rode, Contador never quite able to catch up, barely hanging onto his wheel...gasping Andy's pungence the whole way.

    It was a pyrhhic victory of sorts, Schleck had stuffed his face with mung beans and a particularly virulent vindaloo the night before...

    In my imagination anyway...

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