Lance Armstrong gets life ban,loses 7 TDF,confesses he doped

Yellow Peril

dennisn wrote:

Yellow Peril wrote:

Dave_1 wrote:

I see Lance has made a smart move and applied for the renaming of livestrong as something different. Drop the yellow colour and name is good business sense..maybe they can survive?

http://thestar.com.my/sports/story.asp? ... sec=sports

Looks like it will be called the Livestrong Foundation. Do you think that will be enough to distance it from Lance?

Well, for what it's worth it was a good name at one time. Now? I think not so much. Way too attached to LA and, at least here in the States, I'm thinking that's gonna hurt.
Used to see all manner of people wearing yellow wristbands. Now? Not so much. It's weird. Seems like none of the cyclists that I know think much about the whole affair one way or another. It's not the big topic of conversation, over here, that you might think. Sort of like everyone is saying "yeah, he sure f*cked up. Wanna go riding tommorrow?" Over here, it doesn't appear to be of the same "crime status", for lack of better words, as it does over there. Maybe the feeling is that he will never again have what he once had and he most likely will be hounded by the authorities, attorneys, and the press, all looking for any hint of bad news. He could even see jail time. People know he's gonna have a very sucky time of it to say the least and maybe that's all that
they need.

TBH I think that is pretty much the opinion over here. Most of the guys I know who are committed cyclists don't think that long and hard about it and are more interested in just riding. It's only committed forumites (myself included) who have wondered over the last few years if the whole Armstrong charade would unravel. I'm off to Gent for the 6 day next week with 5 other committed cyclists. We'll talk a lot about cycling but I doubt Lance will get that much of a mention...beer will though.

dennisn

Yellow Peril wrote:

dennisn wrote:

Yellow Peril wrote:

Dave_1 wrote:

I see Lance has made a smart move and applied for the renaming of livestrong as something different. Drop the yellow colour and name is good business sense..maybe they can survive?

http://thestar.com.my/sports/story.asp? ... sec=sports

Looks like it will be called the Livestrong Foundation. Do you think that will be enough to distance it from Lance?

Well, for what it's worth it was a good name at one time. Now? I think not so much. Way too attached to LA and, at least here in the States, I'm thinking that's gonna hurt.
Used to see all manner of people wearing yellow wristbands. Now? Not so much. It's weird. Seems like none of the cyclists that I know think much about the whole affair one way or another. It's not the big topic of conversation, over here, that you might think. Sort of like everyone is saying "yeah, he sure f*cked up. Wanna go riding tommorrow?" Over here, it doesn't appear to be of the same "crime status", for lack of better words, as it does over there. Maybe the feeling is that he will never again have what he once had and he most likely will be hounded by the authorities, attorneys, and the press, all looking for any hint of bad news. He could even see jail time. People know he's gonna have a very sucky time of it to say the least and maybe that's all that
they need.

TBH I think that is pretty much the opinion over here. Most of the guys I know who are committed cyclists don't think that long and hard about it and are more interested in just riding. It's only committed forumites (myself included) who have wondered over the last few years if the whole Armstrong charade would unravel. I'm off to Gent for the 6 day next week with 5 other committed cyclists. We'll talk a lot about cycling but I doubt Lance will get that much of a mention...beer will though.

Ahhh yes, beer. A much more worthwhile subject. Enjoy yourself.

iainf72

Like I say, if you're a cycling fan it doesn't mean you ride a bike.


How many of those people you see with beer and a fag screeching at the Ronde even own a bike...

dennisn

jerry3571 wrote:

A mate of mine has had her delivery of some new Spinning Bikes. I think there's about a dozen of these shiny new bikes; nice huh??
Jerry

Ya know, for all the hype and advertising that goes on around all those kinds of trainers I'm not really sure they would be any LESS boring than an hour on my old bike that's slapped on a cheapo fluid trainer, down in the basement. I could be wrong though. In any case, that Livestrong thing sure looks like a well put together spinner. I really get a kick out of the ad's for the TDF trainer. Corny as hell. "Just like riding the tour...". Ya, right.

kfinlay

jerry3571 wrote:

A mate of mine has had her delivery of some new Spinning Bikes. I think there's about a dozen of these shiny new bikes; nice huh??
Jerry

Hope he got them at a good price as he could always remove the stickers
They have there uses but I'd rather get out on my bike or if I must stay indoors then use one of my own bikes on a turbo trainer.

deejay

iainf72 wrote:

Like I say, if you're a cycling fan it doesn't mean you ride a bike.


How many of those people you see with beer and a fag screeching at the Ronde even own a bike...

If your on the continent on a summers evening or weekend you will see many Beer Bellies out with their wives or family.
They on their old racing bikes (like me) and her on a sit up and beg or (as they call them these days) mountain bikes. :roll:

Mikey23

Omg ... Nearly slipped off the front page

jerry3571

As well as having top US Politicians in the bag it seems the French President was "in" on being freindly towards Armstrong. Not sure what I mean by freindly. Hmmm...?? This is bigger than anything I thought. Thought Hein Verbruggen was as far as it went. Bonkers!!


http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/bordry- ... or-my-head

Vino'sGhost

Its the gift that keeps on giving, this story. Id forgotten half these little tit bits.

ddraver

dennisn wrote:

jerry3571 wrote:

A mate of mine has had her delivery of some new Spinning Bikes. I think there's about a dozen of these shiny new bikes; nice huh??
Jerry

Ya know, for all the hype and advertising that goes on around all those kinds of trainers I'm not really sure they would be any LESS boring than an hour on my old bike that's slapped on a cheapo fluid trainer, down in the basement. I could be wrong though. In any case, that Livestrong thing sure looks like a well put together spinner. I really get a kick out of the ad's for the TDF trainer. Corny as hell. "Just like riding the tour...". Ya, right.

They re not for cyclists though Dennis they re for gym bunnies or old women

Yes you can achieve the same with a TT and a Sufferfest vid, but most people don't have that option

Richmond Racer

When they make the film, there's going to be enough content for a trilogy

Vino'sGhost

starring contador as an elf
llandis as a dwarf

Aigile will be mordor
Ferrari as Sauron

Walk on part for Dennis as a Troll

Richmond Racer

Lord of the Chainrings

Bruyneel as Saruman

ddraver

Presumably Hein as Saruman and McQuaid as Wormtail

(is it wormtail? or is that Harry Potter..?)

Richmond Racer

Almost - Wormtongue

The USPS guys are abviously Orcs- no wonder DZ worried about his ears growing

timoid.

Ricardo Ricco as Gollum?

Richmond Racer

Timoid. wrote:

Ricardo Ricco as Gollum?

That's inspired casting

LangerDan

Timoid. wrote:

Ricardo Ricco as Gollum?

Pfffft - Gollum is a small, bouncy creature, described by the Orcs as "rather like a spider himself, or perhaps like a starved frog", strained facial expressions, obsessed with a small, yellow historical artefact

Has to be Tommy Voeckler.

jerry3571

Sorry, just a note on gym bunnies, some are very attractive ladies and reaching your VO2 Threshold next to one of these ladies is a darn site better than staring at a garage wall, as I'll be doing later.

Just puzzled about LA and Livestrong is who gets the profits from these exercise bikes?? I guess and presume the charity gets the dollars?? I think that's the problem with LA and Livestrong is where one ends and the other begins.

Jerry

Richmond Racer

talking of which...

http://reader.roopstigo.com/view/roopst ... chapter/1/

LangerDan

Richmond Racer wrote:

talking of which...

http://reader.roopstigo.com/view/roopst ... chapter/1/

For an award-winning journalist, that is an extremely "clunky" article - there's no flow to the writing at all.

k-dog

I love reading those old articles and watching old videos. There's so much innuendo which amuses me now - it's amazing it wasn't so apparent at the time.

The same could be said for the dining room, which has gorgeous deep blueberry Venetian plaster walls that “took four or five tries to get right,” he recalls. “The poor guys had to keep coming back. After trying several shades—we still weren’t happy—we finally tried one that had the right depth of color. When that dried, everyone said, ‘Bingo! That’s it!’ Lastly, when we put up Ed Ruscha’s lithograph, I thought, That’s perfect”—in more ways than one, since its message, “Safe and Effective Medication,” is particularly dear to the homeowner’s heart.

rdt

k-dog wrote:

I love reading those old articles and watching old videos. There's so much innuendo which amuses me now - it's amazing it wasn't so apparent at the time.

The same could be said for the dining room, which has gorgeous deep blueberry Venetian plaster walls that “took four or five tries to get right,” he recalls. “The poor guys had to keep coming back. After trying several shades—we still weren’t happy—we finally tried one that had the right depth of color. When that dried, everyone said, ‘Bingo! That’s it!’ Lastly, when we put up Ed Ruscha’s lithograph, I thought, That’s perfect”—in more ways than one, since its message, “Safe and Effective Medication,” is particularly dear to the homeowner’s heart.

Beautiful. Couldn't make it up.

ddraver

Kept doing double takes tonight doing "the hunted" which the big man keeps appearing in (and get's dropped in,mwah ha)

Every time he appeared....

afx237vi

Lance has his honorary degree revoked: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/uni ... 63723.html

I bet there'll be a twitpic of him standing next to it any time now.

Interestingly enough, Robert Mugabe and Jimmy Savile also had honorary degrees removed recently. That's some club!

frenchfighter

This thread still going on?

Here is Lance trying to drop some 4th cats:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... 9UTmcQANMM

frenchfighter

disgruntledgoat

frenchfighter wrote:

This thread still going on?

Here is Lance trying to drop some 4th cats:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... 9UTmcQANMM

You still 'ere?

petemadoc

frenchfighter wrote:

I've got a fancy dress party on Saturday that I'm reluctantly going to. Theme is anything beginning with A.....

Lance Armstrong maybe?

dennisn

frenchfighter wrote:

This thread still going on?

Well, it did generate a bit of a comeback a couple of pages back with the French "connection" thing.