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  • FransJacques
    FransJacques Posts: 2,148
    OK, with the nice weather and the fact that most athletes are now in town, who's seen anyone out training?

    If they're out training, are they in trade team kit or national kit?

    Very interested to know. I bet today, if you stood on the side of Zig Zag road from 9am to noon you'd probably see 100s of them out there...
    When a cyclist has a disagreement with a car; it's not who's right, it's who's left.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
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    A few pics in this thread
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    They're all in national kit.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • ilovebigwig
    ilovebigwig Posts: 118
    Peter Sagan jogging in richmond park yesterday morning, 8am. He looked determined.
  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    My Boss caught the tube alongside Lizzie Armistead in full GB cycling wear - wasn't until he came to work the next day and told me about this girl with dark hair and a red face in cycling clobber, that I explained it was probably her. Quick search on google images confirmed it. He said there was no bike in sight though, but she did have her helmet.
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  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    ilovebigwig wrote:
    Peter Sagan jogging in richmond park yesterday morning, 8am. He looked determined.

    Sagan rode Stiphout crit yesterday in Holland ('beaten' by Greipel)
  • ilovebigwig
    ilovebigwig Posts: 118
    FJS wrote:
    ilovebigwig wrote:
    Peter Sagan jogging in richmond park yesterday morning, 8am. He looked determined.

    Sagan rode Stiphout crit yesterday in Holland ('beaten' by Greipel)

    Geographic placement is of no issue to the Sagan.
  • Will.C
    Will.C Posts: 245
    I rode past the Chille man and woman team at the top of boxhill yesterday, and received a series of beeps from their support car. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say they won't win :D
  • symo
    symo Posts: 1,743
    I had Gilbert and Boonen wheel sucking me all the way from Fleet to Cove on my commute; till I told them where to go, coming over here and stealing my watts.

    Then I woke up
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    we are the proud, the few, Descendents.

    Panama - finally putting a nail in the economic theory of the trickle down effect.
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Dutch ladies yesterday — http://bit.ly/Nv5RcW
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • Silly Old Hector
    Silly Old Hector Posts: 573
    Please, please please, can someone have a go at photoshopping some of these :D
    All the gear, but no idea...
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    And today after 6 Box Hill climbs

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    Un uomo solo al commando
  • emadden
    emadden Posts: 2,431
    ilovebigwig wrote:
    Peter Sagan jogging in richmond park yesterday morning, 8am. He looked determined.

    (pro)cyclists dont jog or run... certaintly not during the season... Off season, maybe a tiny, little bit for a small few
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  • emadden
    emadden Posts: 2,431
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Tim Duggan is angry too.

    I was just thinking the same, that pose is so bad! haha
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  • emadden
    emadden Posts: 2,431
    A few revelations from these pics:

    (a) Froome is already bald
    (b) Gerrans actually does have a neck
    (c) David Millar uses fake tan for his mug shots
    (d) Taylor Phinney once got stuck in a car squashing machine
    (e) Amir Zargari, contrary tp popular belief, is able to wear a helmet - a special size 70 Giro Atmos... haha
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  • woody1545
    woody1545 Posts: 322
    Whats with the Belgians having Orange bikes and helmets?

    Surely that breeches some kind of Dutch copyright?
  • ilovebigwig
    ilovebigwig Posts: 118
    emadden wrote:
    ilovebigwig wrote:
    Peter Sagan jogging in richmond park yesterday morning, 8am. He looked determined.

    (pro)cyclists dont jog or run... certaintly not during the season... Off season, maybe a tiny, little bit for a small few

    In truth it wasn't even jogging - he was sprinting up Sawyers Hill carring a tree trunk on his shoulders whilst wearing a small wooly hat, the blood of a decapitated deer dribbling from his mouth.
  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    Are they specialized ? I think they've done orange bikes and helmets for all of their riders for the games.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    woody1545 wrote:
    Whats with the Belgians having Orange bikes and helmets?

    Surely that breeches some kind of Dutch copyright?

    They're red.

    If you ride for a team who ride Specialized bikes, you've been given a special red bike.
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  • skylla
    skylla Posts: 758
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    woody1545 wrote:
    Whats with the Belgians having Orange bikes and helmets?

    Surely that breeches some kind of Dutch copyright?

    They're red.

    If you ride for a team who ride Specialized bikes, you've been given a special red bike.

    Why's the Dutch coach (endowed with livestrong c-ring) discussing his team's tactics with Tom? No wonder they never win...
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
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    Contador is the Greatest
  • sonny73
    sonny73 Posts: 2,203
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    woody1545 wrote:
    Whats with the Belgians having Orange bikes and helmets?

    Surely that breeches some kind of Dutch copyright?

    They're red.

    If you ride for a team who ride Specialized bikes, you've been given a special red bike.
    Indeed. Neon Red is the name Spesh give it.
  • skylla
    skylla Posts: 758
    frenchfighter wrote:
    <<see-image-above>>

    The Dutch have already won in the team kit design category - by default!
  • gbenduro
    gbenduro Posts: 1
    Me and my mates from the Rock Band Redados have put together a short training video previewing the Box Hill Olympic Road race course.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkWKW2afpvU&feature=plcp
  • skylla
    skylla Posts: 758
    gbenduro wrote:
    Me and my mates from the Rock Band Redados have put together a short training video previewing the Box Hill Olympic Road race course.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkWKW2afpvU&feature=plcp

    Great work!!
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
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  • --Darren--
    --Darren-- Posts: 70
    skylla wrote:
    The Dutch have already won in the team kit design category - by default!

    I give you the Belgiums

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    Saw the team pursuit squad in the restaurant of the Celtic Manor last Thursday, lined up in order as they went to the buffet. I was hoping that the one at the front would peel off after getting his food and then rejoin at the back but was disappointed!
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    Pross wrote:
    Saw the team pursuit squad in the restaurant of the Celtic Manor last Thursday, lined up in order as they went to the buffet. I was hoping that the one at the front would peel off after getting his food and then rejoin at the back but was disappointed!

    Tell me that they weren't pipped to the desserts by 1/100th of a second by the Aussies.
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