Ugliest Riding Style?

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  • Cumulonimbus
    Cumulonimbus Posts: 1,730
    Pross wrote:

    Surprised no-one has mentioned Dan Martin yet, he's the one rider I can spot in the bunch and know immediately who it is.

    Yeah, if he had have gone through the GBR Track route then i wonder what they would have made of him? Would they have completely changed his style?
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    I think Cavendish looks terrible on a bike. Not when he's sprinting, then he looks very good, but just in general. I think it's more to do with his build than anything else.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,548
    Do you have it in for short, fat fellas?
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    andyp wrote:
    Do you have it in for short, fat fellas?

    Probably. Tall fat fellas like me need to hate on someone.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • ms_tree
    ms_tree Posts: 1,405
    Gazzetta67 wrote:
    Chris Horner - whats with that gammy foot thing going on ?
    I seem to remember someone (probably Harmon) saying that earlier on in Horner's career they tried to make him ride straighter but it mucked up his back.
    'Google can bring back a hundred thousand answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.'
    Neil Gaiman
  • Tom BB
    Tom BB Posts: 1,001
    Evans climbing is the ugliest for me....strangely I really like watching it though. Andy Schleck descending on the hoods looks pretty shite too :D
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    Who was the Kelme rider nicknamed "the crab"? he never looked that comfy on a bike
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Who was the Kelme rider nicknamed "the crab"? he never looked that comfy on a bike

    Look up half a dozen posts for Big Mat's post.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    RichN95 wrote:
    Who was the Kelme rider nicknamed "the crab"? he never looked that comfy on a bike

    Look up half a dozen posts for Big Mat's post.

    Noted. Thanks Rich, apologies BigMat.
    @JaunePeril

    Winner of the Bike Radar Pro Race Wiggins Hour Prediction Competition
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    RichN95 wrote:
    Who was the Kelme rider nicknamed "the crab"? he never looked that comfy on a bike

    Look up half a dozen posts for Big Mat's post.

    Noted. Thanks Rich, apologies BigMat.


    ...but just for plain ugliness how about Ludo Dierickxsen who looked like Pantani's afterbirth?
    @JaunePeril

    Winner of the Bike Radar Pro Race Wiggins Hour Prediction Competition
  • squired
    squired Posts: 1,153
    Dan Martin
  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    I'm going for Bjarne Riis.
    Nothing to do with his position or riding style.
    I just wished he wouldn't open his mouth so wide.
    It was very distracting.
    This comment about 'mouth posture' reminds me of Greg Lemond.

    Lemond often rode with his tongue just out, to the right side of his mouth, as if continually trying to get that bit of jam which had escaped off his breakfast butty.

    One rider whose riding style I felt was ugly was Rominger - it was like watching a hunchback.
  • ratsbeyfus
    ratsbeyfus Posts: 2,841
    Wiggins sprinting in the Tour de Romandie was horrendous to watch. Worse because he's usually so smooth.


    I had one of them red bikes but I don't any more. Sad face.

    @ratsbey
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Ivan Gotti, climbing like a sportive rider.

    Mind you, it won him the Giro twice.