Tour de Francis - get that idiot off the tele!

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  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    vs wrote:
    "bouncing around the forums"
    http://forum.bcttt.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=7340

    "...we ended up in convoy with the Sky pro team on the motorway which was such a boost as they gave as much respect as they received. It was clear to them we were not a major player in the Tour De France but this didn’t stop excitement from both team vans and a real sense of camaraderie (not even ½ of what the pro teams must feel)."

    Sounds like they didn't even feed him.
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  • Tom BB
    Tom BB Posts: 1,001
    That write up on the BCTTT forum is posted in the 'race report' section....outstanding stuff! It almost like he's a genius troll :lol:
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    vs wrote:
    "bouncing around the forums"
    http://forum.bcttt.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=7340

    "...we ended up in convoy with the Sky pro team on the motorway which was such a boost as they gave as much respect as they received. It was clear to them we were not a major player in the Tour De France but this didn’t stop excitement from both team vans and a real sense of camaraderie (not even ½ of what the pro teams must feel)."

    Wow, surely not! :lol:

    I bet Sky's van was seriously excited "look there's Francis, that cycling God who is riding a few of the stages really slowly. OMG!!"
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    So they even picked a triantelope rather than a proper cyclist for it? :shock:

    I suspect the experience was fantastic for him but that will now be tinged by people like us thinking he's a tit as a result of the adverts! ;)
  • slim_boy_fat
    slim_boy_fat Posts: 1,810
    I wish I hadn't read this thread. I watch Eurosport coverage live and then the ITV highlights with the Mrs. I hadn't really paid any attention to Francis but watching the highlights last night after reading this and he irritated me no end!!
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    sounds a brilliant adventure for him - would have been better if it had been the Tour de Frankie Howerd - ooo titter ye not I smashed it by the river.
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  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    Pross wrote:
    So they even picked a triantelope rather than a proper cyclist for it? :shock:

    Who rode a fixed a couple of times a week as training, HNNGGGG
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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    I absolutely smashed my ride home last night.
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

    @gietvangent
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    I absolutely smashed my ride home last night.

    I absolutely smashed my TV last night as it was the first time I'd sat through the highlights in real time with no fast forward!!
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    You should have seen me, weaving throuh the traffic, bunny hopping dog poo on the cycle path... If the sky boys had been there, there'd have been some serious mutual respect going on.
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

    @gietvangent
  • Ginjafro
    Ginjafro Posts: 572
    I heard a rumour that Francis is SpeedKing.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,297
    I just smashed my mash and had Mince 'n' tatties with it; bet the Sky team don't get luxuries like that.
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  • fluff.
    fluff. Posts: 771
    It is such an honour sharing the tarmac with the pros, as in, some pros have ridden on some of the roads I commute into work in.

    There's a river near me too.

    I'm off to have a bit of a cry and some frogs legs now.
  • jonny_trousers
    jonny_trousers Posts: 3,588
    Not making any excuses for the ads, as I hate them, but I guess the advertising agency in charge of it got it right on so many levels. Firstly, they're trying to appeal to 'every-bloke', the kind of guy who hugs his mates whenever he says goodbye to them, who refers to them as 'buddy' and 'geezer'. The kind of person who remembers riding a bike as a kid, has started paying passing attention to the TDF and thinks, 'I was pretty good on my racer, I could have a pop at that'. The kind of bloke who will shop for a bike at Halfords and will push the boat out and pay 500 notes for a quality machine, especially if it sounds like it might be made by Porsche. Secondly, they actually found some muppet willing to risk killing himself for free! I have it on good authority that the Go Compare bloke is on 150K per commercial (but then that could be absolute bollocks).
  • ant41
    ant41 Posts: 59
    Just watching itv4 highlights on v+ now. What on earth is he saying when he is slogging up that hill? Sounds like, "cadence out, cadence out, cadence out, down gear". Anyone got better hearing?

    Although to be fair if it was me I wouldn't be able to string a coherent sentence together either :oops:
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  • rodgers73
    rodgers73 Posts: 2,626
    Bit of a shame for this bloke - like anyone ordinary person who is filmed and then edited into soundbites, he's probably regretting saying a few silly things that are now being broadcast to the nation every night.

    I did a car rally a few years ago that was filmed by a very small scale video production company employed by the organisers and some of the stuff they were getting participants to do and say was very out of character and on occasion quite embarrassing, but they did it because they didn't really feel able to say sod off. They were trying to market it as a "lads adventure" when the majority of people doing it were ordinary folk just having some fun. God knows what they've had this fellow doing to get the "right" quotes etc.
  • PKRAZOR
    PKRAZOR Posts: 89
    I got into work and smashed it out, then smashed through some people on the tube and got on the Col de District line, the driver smashed it through Tower Hill so i got off and smashed it up the Etape du Fenchurch Street escalator. Got on the Team C2C train and cried my eyes out, got off rung the Mrs, cried, then run home and smashed the sprint stage. Got in and smashed my dinner, then went to the garage, smashed the lock, lifted the door to find my crappy Carrera smashed to bits due to some dodgy welding. So went indoors and smashed the back doors off the Mrs.

    Smashing!
  • ilovebigwig
    ilovebigwig Posts: 118
    I like this.
  • skylla
    skylla Posts: 758
    Jonny_Trousers wrote:
    Not making any excuses for the ads, as I hate them, but I guess the advertising agency in charge of it got it right on so many levels. Firstly, they're trying to appeal to 'every-bloke', the kind of guy who hugs his mates whenever he says goodbye to them, who refers to them as 'buddy' and 'geezer'. The kind of person who remembers riding a bike as a kid, has started paying passing attention to the TDF and thinks, 'I was pretty good on my racer, I could have a pop at that'. The kind of bloke who will shop for a bike at Halfords and will push the boat out and pay 500 notes for a quality machine, especially if it sounds like it might be made by Porsche. Secondly, they actually found some muppet willing to risk killing himself for free! I have it on good authority that the Go Compare bloke is on 150K per commercial (but then that could be absolute bollocks).

    He got paid: http://forum.bcttt.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=7340
  • dodgy
    dodgy Posts: 2,890
    skylla wrote:

    He got paid: http://forum.bcttt.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=7340

    The comments on that article serve as a good reminder that you can't trust feedback from friends. "best thing on the ITV4 TdF show" yes, yes of course he is :roll:
  • slowondefy2
    slowondefy2 Posts: 348
    I quite like the adverts, except for the excessive repetition of such tiny segments. You'd have thought they'd have managed slightly more footage than what's been aired.
  • PKRAZOR
    PKRAZOR Posts: 89
    I've just worked out why he's crying like a pussy on top of that mountain. He's just rode his nuts off and sweated bloody up the Etape, while John Terry has been hanging out the back of his Mrs back home.
    :D
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Francis just sent me an email about this thread:
    "They are just f***ing w*****s. I cannot be doing with people like that. It justifies their own bone-idleness because they can’t ever imagine applying themselves to anything in their lives. It’s easy for them to sit under a pseudonym on Bikeradar rather than get off their arses in their own life and apply themselves and work hard at something and achieve something, and that’s ultimately it. C***s!"

    So there. You should all be ashamed of yourself.
  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    rodgers73 wrote:
    Bit of a shame for this bloke - like anyone ordinary person who is filmed and then edited into soundbites, he's probably regretting saying a few silly things that are now being broadcast to the nation every night.

    I did a car rally a few years ago that was filmed by a very small scale video production company employed by the organisers and some of the stuff they were getting participants to do and say was very out of character and on occasion quite embarrassing, but they did it because they didn't really feel able to say sod off. They were trying to market it as a "lads adventure" when the majority of people doing it were ordinary folk just having some fun. God knows what they've had this fellow doing to get the "right" quotes etc.

    That's the thing, they were always going to pick someone like him who talks nonsense just for the sake of talking and who wouldn't be out of place on Big Brother. They were hardly going to get a thoughtful introvert who just gets on with the job or someone witty and erudite. I almost feel sorry for him, some of his support team were probably sniggering behind his back as he came out with some of that stuff. I just wonder how non-cyclists will stumble across the coverage and think we are all that annoying.
  • TMR
    TMR Posts: 3,986
    ant41 wrote:
    Just watching itv4 highlights on v+ now. What on earth is he saying when he is slogging up that hill? Sounds like, "cadence out, cadence out, cadence out, down gear". Anyone got better hearing?

    Although to be fair if it was me I wouldn't be able to string a coherent sentence together either :oops:

    To be fair, he probably only started cycling 5 secs before the cameras started rolling ;)
  • Daz555
    Daz555 Posts: 3,976
    Kelly uses "ascend" and "descend" interchangably. Annoying.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,297
    Every night the choice for the highlights - Harpon or Kollie, Leggit or Sherman... where do I go?

    What annoyed me big time about Sherwin is when Giuseppi Geurini came unstuck 'cos of a boy with a camera. Sherwin was flipping his lid but his pronunciation of his name with the hard G's was abominable - Guyseppy Gurini. Since then iv'e lost all respect for him.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JARCpkeRJq4&feature=player_detailpage
    "He's going to be really pumping his adrenalin round his body" What, with a foot pump ?
    (21mins 45secs)
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  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    Gazzaputt wrote:
    One thing they got spot with ad is he is the typical annoying w*nker you find on a sportive.

    Surely that means that you've been on a sportive, therefore you are one of said w*nkers?

    But I agree, he is ferociously annoying - and I thought he'd ridden the whole thing, not just a few bits
    It's just a hill. Get over it.
  • rdt
    rdt Posts: 869
    If the ads were intended to evoke images such as this...

    run-fatboy-run.jpg

    ...then they are a resounding success.
  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    I haven't seen the one where he cries yet? Is it as cringy as I'm imagining it to be?
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