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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Wiggins is keen on eating Weetabix
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,691
    Bradley Wiggin's sole vice is an addiction to Kelloggs Frosties, which he hides in various locations on the team bus.
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  • pb21
    pb21 Posts: 2,171
    The reason Wiggins left Garmin was because Vaughters figured out all his hiding places for frosties. A change of team was the only option open to him. Plus the 4 million has ensured he has a constant two year stash to keep him going.
    Mañana
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,691
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    As a youngster Jan Ullrich had trials at QPR.
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    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,691
    Bradley Wiggins can play chess, but not very well.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    "I wear my socks high for a good reason", is an Anagram of Bradley Wiggins favoutite Uncle's name.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,691
    Bradley Wiggins tried to eat three shredded wheat, but only managed two and a half.
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  • pb21
    pb21 Posts: 2,171
    On Sundays Jan Ullrich likes to play the piccolo and his favourite song to play is Under Pressure by Queen
    Mañana
  • secretsqirrel
    secretsqirrel Posts: 2,142
    RichN95 must be pretty disappointed with the way this thread has turned out :evil:

    To get back on track..............

    Maxim & Valentin Iglinskiy speak Welsh fluently having been addicts of Pobol y Cwm from a very young age. The long running Welsh soap opera was purchased in it's entirety and broadcast on peak time on Kazakh public broadcast channel Boredasky.

    Also, you cannot see Andreas Kloden's reflection in a mirror.

    Also, Jan Ullrich is a big fan of 'The Delgados'.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    Jan Ullrich loves gummi bears by Haribo. True.
  • pb21
    pb21 Posts: 2,171
    SecretSqirrel wrote:
    Also, Jan Ullrich is a big fan of 'The Delgados'.

    Never heard of them, are they any good?
    Mañana
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,691
    Jan Ullrich has writers credits on the German sitcoms Hoppla! Ich habe mein Wellensittich!, Das Amt des dummen Menschen, Wo ist mein Hut? and Liebe deinen Nächsten. He also made a guest appearance on Beschränkt sich Narren und Pferde.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    Jan is a girls name, except in Germany.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,691
    pb21 wrote:
    SecretSqirrel wrote:
    Also, Jan Ullrich is a big fan of 'The Delgados'.

    Never heard of them, are they any good?

    Named after a donkey.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,691
    Jan Ullrich doesn't own a donkey, but if he did he'd name it Pedro.
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    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,691
    Bradley Wiggins once adopted a donkey at a donkey sanctuary, but he cant remember what it was called and cancelled his direct debit after only 6 months.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    The whole of the Pro Peloton have all got together at Abbey Road studios to record a charity track for Lance's future legal cost's. They are recording "Aint no sunshine", Chris Martin from Coldplay, Sting, Lionel Ritchie and Kate Moss are all on board. Midge Ure was not available for comment.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,691
    André Greipel's belief that he's faster than Cavendish is due to him not realising that Cav was expressing his speeds in imperial units.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    SecretSqirrel wrote:
    RichN95 must be pretty disappointed with the way this thread has turned out :evil:
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    I expected it to turn out this way far earlier than it did, to be honest.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,691
    Geraint Jones is frequently embarrassed by a growing cult in the peloton that sees him as a messianic figure destined to unite all world religions in peace and harmony. The cult was formed shortly after the revelation that Jones was equipped with an extra penis.
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  • Cumulonimbus
    Cumulonimbus Posts: 1,730
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Geraint Jones is frequently embarrassed by a growing cult in the peloton that sees him as a messianic figure destined to unite all world religions in peace and harmony. The cult was formed shortly after the revelation that Jones was equipped with an extra penis.

    Wow, does anyone ever confused between him and Geraint Thomas?
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,691
    Cumulonimbus wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Geraint Jones is frequently embarrassed by a growing cult in the peloton that sees him as a messianic figure destined to unite all world religions in peace and harmony. The cult was formed shortly after the revelation that Jones was equipped with an extra penis.

    Wow, does anyone ever confused between him and Geraint Thomas?

    Don't be daft. Thomas has a far higher batting average.
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  • Cumulonimbus
    Cumulonimbus Posts: 1,730
    Jan Ullrich did not actually finish the tour in 1997 after falling down the stairs the evening before the last stage. He was only able to 'complete' the race through the use of mirrors, holographic projections and archive footage.

    Jan was famous for his wintertime binges and the phrase 'to do an ullrich' has spread around the world. So much in fact that it is acceptable in Scrabble in nineteen different languages. Only in Portugese can it be pluralised though.
  • Cumulonimbus
    Cumulonimbus Posts: 1,730
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Cumulonimbus wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Geraint Jones is frequently embarrassed by a growing cult in the peloton that sees him as a messianic figure destined to unite all world religions in peace and harmony. The cult was formed shortly after the revelation that Jones was equipped with an extra penis.

    Wow, does anyone ever confused between him and Geraint Thomas?

    Don't be daft. Thomas has a far higher batting average.

    :lol::lol::lol:

    Anyway, Andy Hampsten was the first Afro-American to finish the tour de france.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,691
    Jens Voigt has a flower named after him.

    http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=COGR9
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,691
    In his younger days Bjarne Riis had a reputation as a bit of a wild man of the peloton, he liked to party hard and would dabble in the sort of drugs that don't enhance performance. One night in an after TdF party in the early nineties Riis dropped some acid and apparently had a bad trip. Convinced he was a mouse and that Laurent Fignon was a cat trying to eat him he hid himself under a table and refused to come out. Luckily Johan Museeuw was passing by and hit upon the idea of tempting him out with a piece of cheese on a string.
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  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Fair enough, a lot of these are bloody hilarious

    Valverde races clean.
    Gasping - but somehow still alive !
  • pb21
    pb21 Posts: 2,171
    Moray Gub wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Fair enough, a lot of these are bloody hilarious

    Valverde races clean.

    Boring
    Mañana
  • csp
    csp Posts: 777
    After all this nonsense nobody's gonna believe me, but there's actually a band called The Delgados, who named themselves after Pedro Delgado.
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    If you join together all the dots on a cheetah's back it spells out "Nobody messes with Jens Voigt"
    The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

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