Jens completes a stage of the tour on a Childs bike...

CyclingBantam
CyclingBantam Posts: 1,299
edited September 2010 in The bottom bracket
Not seen this before. He really is my favourite rider. Always seems upbeat!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiNrMy0nxWw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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  • Aggieboy
    Aggieboy Posts: 3,996
    Very good. I missed that as well. Wasn't it was reported at the time? He was actually offered a bike the correct size but turned it down as it had Shimano on it :wink:
    "There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world, t'would be a pity to damage yours."
  • JohnnyAllez
    JohnnyAllez Posts: 785
    And with toe-straps :) TdF coverage mentioned it a few times during the next days stage.
    Jens says "Shut up legs !! "

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  • KillerMetre
    KillerMetre Posts: 199
    He winding them up right?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    KillerMetre wrote:
    He winding them up right?
    No?
    _
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    KillerMetre wrote:
    He winding them up right?

    No. Here's Jens on said bike:

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  • Bronzie
    Bronzie Posts: 4,927
    Missed that at the time - another great story to add to the Jens Legend
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  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    I'm sure there must have been a spectator there with the French equivalent of a Tesco Value full sus mountain bike, he should have borrowed that
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    I think the Mavic bikes are Cannondales.


    Edit - the story Jens tell is that it was a kids' bike - but it looks exactly like one of the neutral Mavic bikes - and they also have toe clips.
  • njee20
    njee20 Posts: 9,613
    Huh? It's just a Mavic Neutral Service bike, which have toe clips rather than have one of each bike with each pedal system and are obviously a relatively small size.
  • celbianchi
    celbianchi Posts: 854
    IIt's a mavic neutral service bike.
  • celbianchi
    celbianchi Posts: 854
    Actually I think I am wrong:-
    http://bicycling.com/tour-de-france/tou ... -sag-wagon
  • JohnnyAllez
    JohnnyAllez Posts: 785
    I`m sure they said at the time it was on eof the emergency bikes off the Mavic neutral service car, others commented on it being a CAAD 9. Like Njee said, they have toe-straps because of all the different types of cleats being used in the peloton.

    Got him out of bother though until he could get a replacement bike off the top of the Saxobank team car, which was up the road somewhere wet-nursing Schleck !! :roll:
    Jens says "Shut up legs !! "

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  • edhornby
    edhornby Posts: 1,780
    it is a child/teenager size bike, the bike was supplied by the tour for a juniors race usng stock bikes before the tour went through (hence why it looks like a mavic service bike because it is - they use painted CAAD9s)

    jens bike broke, the option was this or the sag wagon and bowing out of the tour, so he got the team car to leave a replacement Sworks with a gendarme up the road, he rode the little yellow one to the policeman, then chased down the grupetto (where he understandably spent the rest of the stage)

    hardcore!
    "I get paid to make other people suffer on my wheel, how good is that"
    --Jens Voight
  • CyclingBantam
    CyclingBantam Posts: 1,299
    It's glaringly obvious it's a Childs bike! Look at the size of it!
  • JohnnyAllez
    JohnnyAllez Posts: 785
    No, it`s just that Jens is a big bastard :D My mate looks like that on his Giant OCR.
    Jens says "Shut up legs !! "

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