What do retired Pro cyclists do?

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  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Spiny_Norman wrote:
    Are there any ex-pros at all who look anything like as thin as they used to?

    Sean Yates looks thinner!

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  • bigdawg
    bigdawg Posts: 672
    sean yates before being picked up for telly work and then DS'ing worked on a building site (with Matt Illingworth) for a while...

    Matt Illingworth has sinced moved to New Zealand where a commonwealth gold medals is actually appreciated
    dont knock on death\'s door.....

    Ring the bell and leg it...that really pi**es him off....
  • mrushton
    mrushton Posts: 5,182
    Marcel Wust has a training place out in Majorca, tests bikes for ProCycling,does photo shoots for Rose Bikes catalogue and poss.some German commentary. Wilfred Peeters is a DS for Omega. Jalabert does commentary from the back of a motocycle for french TV. Andy Hampsen has a tour company out in Italy for well-heeled cyclists. Some of the lesser known riders work as guides for hotels in eg Riccione. Jamie Burrow does this and I've met a couple of domestiques for Bugno and Pantani who worked out at the Belvedere in Riccione. There is the ex-rider who runs the brothel.
    M.Rushton
  • ju5t1n
    ju5t1n Posts: 2,028
    Martin Earley is a chiropractor
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Adrian Timmis does coaching and bike fitting.

    http://www.cadencesport.co.uk/
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    bigdawg wrote:
    sean yates before being picked up for telly work and then DS'ing worked on a building site (with Matt Illingworth) for a while...
    That was a necessary detour that paid the bills, after the Linda McCartney team fell apart (he was manager there) and a subsequent team didn't get off the ground.
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • ju5t1n
    ju5t1n Posts: 2,028
    Dave Lloyd is now a sportive
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    Keith lambert has a bike shop and runs the Dave Rayner fund.
    http://cyclinganddesign.blogspot.fr/
  • Eyorerox
    Eyorerox Posts: 43
    Eros Poli runs a bike tour operation http://www.eros-poli.com/en/
    Eric Mackenzie "makes" bikes http://emcbikes.com/
  • orangepip
    orangepip Posts: 219
    Eyorerox wrote:
    Eros Poli runs a bike tour operation http://www.eros-poli.com/en/
    Eric Mackenzie "makes" bikes http://emcbikes.com/

    They look ok though they should drop the "best ride in the world" slogan
  • natrix
    natrix Posts: 1,111
    Turn into women??? :roll: Robert Millar etc etc
    ~~~~~~Sustrans - Join the Movement~~~~~~
  • SteppenHerring
    SteppenHerring Posts: 720
    Abdoujaparov breeds racing pigeons.

    Keith Butler organises races.
  • esafosfina
    esafosfina Posts: 131
    bigdawg wrote:
    sean yates before being picked up for telly work and then DS'ing worked on a building site (with Matt Illingworth) for a while...

    Matt Illingworth has sinced moved to New Zealand where a commonwealth gold medals is actually appreciated

    Matty lives in Perth... was in NZ for a bit. Still competes in ironman comps etc...
  • esafosfina
    esafosfina Posts: 131
    Soren Lilholt - runs a 'life-coaching' business in Denmark. Dean Woods - owns a bike wholesale company in Aus. Me - winemaker! Come to think of it, so is Michael Wilson!
  • OffTheBackAdam
    OffTheBackAdam Posts: 1,869
    Fond de Wolf, undertaker! :shock:
    Remember that you are an Englishman and thus have won first prize in the lottery of life.
  • ms_tree
    ms_tree Posts: 1,405
    Sadly some are dead.
    (Wasn't Yates a gardener too?)
    'Google can bring back a hundred thousand answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.'
    Neil Gaiman
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    Erwan Mentheour -"anguished" pop star
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • disquieting_museeuws
    disquieting_museeuws Posts: 601
    Danny In 't Ven drives a bus for Radioshack.
  • skylla
    skylla Posts: 758
    ju5t1n wrote:
    Dave Lloyd is now a sportive

    So is Ken Laidlaw, although the man himself is an emigrant.

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