Unusual facts about Pro Cyclists

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  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    Come on Greased, there must be something you want to get off your chest...just between us? :)

    You'll have to wait for the book to come out, just like everyone else. Well, I say book. It's more like a pamphlet...


    Let me know, and I'll put in my pre-order with Amazon
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    The Kenyan hut in which Prince William proposed to Kate Middleton is owned by Chris Froome.

    (This is actually true. He owns the resort with three or four other guys)
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,691
    RichN95 wrote:
    The Kenyan hut in which Prince William proposed to Kate Middleton is owned by Chris Froome.

    (This is actually true. He owns the resort with three or four other guys)

    The main attraction of the resort is a safari to Froome's donkey sanctuary.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    No tA Doctor wrote:

    The main attraction of the resort is a safari to Froome's donkey sanctuary.

    Particulary the Zonkey - half zebra, half donkey.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • skylla
    skylla Posts: 758
    robert-sb wrote:
    Have any cyclists ever had pop bands named after them ?

    Michael Blaudzun
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,691
    Cippo the Lion King raced Froome's zonkey last February in a tasteful and understated charity event. The zonkey won when Cippo startled it on the start line by roaring.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,691
    Rigoberto Uran Uran was named after Simon Le Bon's donkey.
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,458
    UCI blood passports must be certified by FrenchFighter

    Riders stamped 'Lightweight' must sit at a different table in the team hotel.
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    RichN95 wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:

    The main attraction of the resort is a safari to Froome's donkey sanctuary.

    Particulary the Zonkey - half zebra, half donkey.

    Only the males are Zonkeys. The girls are all called Debra.
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    pb21 wrote:
    Mark Cavendish likes to have the Mr Men stories read to him whilst he is in bed just before nodding off. His favourite is Mr Clumsy, in fact he has been trying to recreate himself and his character into the mould of Mr Clumsy this season with much aplomb. He also has a crush on Little Miss Wise and one day hopes to marry her.

    Mr So Happy
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Sean Kelly and his two brothers used to be lumberjacks. They were called 'Tree Fellas'
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    So glad to see this thread again. It's mint.

    BTW it's a little known fact that Pedro Delgado was named after a donkey who was killed on a motorway in the Basque Country.
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,691
    afx237vi wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:

    The main attraction of the resort is a safari to Froome's donkey sanctuary.

    Particulary the Zonkey - half zebra, half donkey.

    Only the males are Zonkeys. The girls are all called Debra.

    Mario Cippolini once rode a Debra.
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,458
    Biking Bernie eh?

    LOL
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,691
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Biking Bernie eh?

    LOL

    He knows how to crack 'em.
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  • dave_1
    dave_1 Posts: 9,512
    edited May 2013
    Unusual...they don't race for 5 weeks...or even 2 months as a way to prepare for the tour. It's a toughie..gains race fitness but loads of controls..train alone and be able manage glow time more safely
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKBacb2V ... ata_player
  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    Dan Martin used to be a real life Flintstone
    http://www.twitter.com/InTheGC http://www.InTheGC.com http://www.facebook.com/intheGC
  • jordan_217
    jordan_217 Posts: 2,580
    Cipo is the lovechild of David Beckham and John Bishop. Fact.
    “Training is like fighting with a gorilla. You don’t stop when you’re tired. You stop when the gorilla is tired.”
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,691
    After overdosing on Peter Gabriel and Ry Cooder, David Millar developed an allergy to all forms of World Music, and even a few seconds of Fela Kuti can bring him out in a rash.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    Rui Costa reached the semi finals of Portugal's Got Talent playing AC/DC tracks on a ukelele and a kazoo. Ironically he was beaten by a brown bear on a bicycle.

    Due to a childhood accident, Elia Vivani is unable to smell pancakes.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Dramatically outed, latter-day Anglophiliac, & sensitive wordsmith Richard Moore once opened the batting for The Delgados down King Tutt's Wah Wah Hut.
    ...a rare 100% loyal Pro Race poster. A poster boy for the community.
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Pedro senior [savage underworld snitch, Big Peter] can be heard screaming for "Whole Lotta Rosie" on AC/DC's seminal live opus "If you want blood" recorded at the Glasgow Apollo, 1973. On arrival in Spain, and according to witness protection programme protocol, the family name was swiftly changed to Delgado.
    ...a rare 100% loyal Pro Race poster. A poster boy for the community.
  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    Former Jan Ullrich Telekom teammate Udo Bölts finished 8th in the World Folding Bike Championships wearing a false retro 1970s-style moustache.

    (This is true)
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Rolf Heimlich, former training partner of Udo Bölts, was inspired to study medicine and subsequently invent his life-saving manoeuvre, after watching helpless and horrified as his Scoutmaster choked to death in a bizarre woggle swallowing incident.

    The Heimlich manoevre was later credited with prolonging the career of former fugitive Pedro Delgado when an attentive soigneur dislodged a carelessly chewed fragment of bacon rice-cake.
    ...a rare 100% loyal Pro Race poster. A poster boy for the community.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    afx237vi wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:

    The main attraction of the resort is a safari to Froome's donkey sanctuary.

    Particulary the Zonkey - half zebra, half donkey.

    Only the males are Zonkeys. The girls are all called Debra.

    Mario Cippolini once rode a Debra.

    Up a dual carriageway in the Basque Country, no less.

    I'll let you decide if that's a euphemism or not.
  • Cumulonimbus
    Cumulonimbus Posts: 1,730
    It might seem weird and out-there to the younger forum members but at one time Lance Armstrong was not a disgraced drug cheat but the winner of 10 consecutive tours de france.
  • hstiles
    hstiles Posts: 414
    Mario Cipollini impregnated 15 women during 2002 World Championship road race. Due to the hilly parcours (the race in Limburg, Belgium crossed three speed bumps and a railway bridge), Cipollini actually took part in the race from a sun lounger next to the hotel swimming pool.

    Due to a freak accident the night before the race, Mario Cipollini very nearly didn't take part. He got up for a drink of water and managed to crack his head open on a toilet seat and needed to be rushed to hospital for stitches.
  • Routier
    Routier Posts: 94
    Chris Froome is a robot built by Dave Brailsford. Once he and his automaton have managed to take over the world of pro cycling Dave intends to wrest control of the planet known as 'Earth' from Barack Obama.

    Wiggins is the first to fall: who will be next?
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    In an ultimately futile sacrifice, at the end of a career full of them, heartthrob and Mary Poppins fan Bernie Eisel donated both his patellar tendons to Sir Bradley Wiggins in the doomed attempt to save his 2013 TdF campaign.
    ...a rare 100% loyal Pro Race poster. A poster boy for the community.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,691
    afx237vi wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    afx237vi wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:

    The main attraction of the resort is a safari to Froome's donkey sanctuary.

    Particulary the Zonkey - half zebra, half donkey.

    Only the males are Zonkeys. The girls are all called Debra.

    Mario Cippolini once rode a Debra.

    Up a dual carriageway in the Basque Country, no less.

    I'll let you decide if that's a euphemism or not.

    I see no reason not to believe that it's both literal and metaphorical at the same time.

    Cipo's all time favourite and most successful chat up line is "would you like a ride on my donkey, Pedro?"

    Ironically the only failure he ever had with this line was when he mistook Pedro Delgado for a woman (bad lighting and too much champagne).
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