TdF riders who'd be good in a scrap?

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  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    The problem is that this is really just a "who's the angriest / grumpiest scrawny guy?" Put even the "big" riders in street clothes and they look more like lads in need of a decent dinner than part-time cage fighters.

    Not sure that if came to a full-on scrap, I'd be thinking "thank feck I've got a TdF rider watching my back". You'd probably be better off with a fat trackie for that job. :wink:
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • Tom BB
    Tom BB Posts: 1,001
    Bauge? Perkins looks pretty unhinged too!
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Hinault is a caveman. He positively loves the brawling.

    badger1.jpg
    hinault.jpg
    Hinault-Paris-NiceSmall.jpg

    A face made to crush people
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    I reckon Fignon could smoke you Parisian style if you annoyed him
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  • TimB34
    TimB34 Posts: 316
    Bouhanni :

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  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    The Badger has to be the Fight Club King. He's shown great consistency stretching over 4 decades now. That's got to earn him the title surely.
  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,317
    Hinault every time.

    When I first saw this I thought it was one of those pretend "why-I-oughta-give-you-a-piece-of-my-mind-somebody-hold-me-back" fake punches
    frenchfighter wrote:

    Hinault-Paris-NiceSmall.jpg

    Then I saw this.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqMqCc1Qy7E
  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    I wouldn't like to be confronted with Magnus Backstedt's 90-95 kilos,
    and I'd be reluctant to turn my back on Salvatore Commesso,
    and I wouldn't block Tom Steels' way to the bar in a pub.
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Hinault is a caveman. He positively loves the brawling.

    Hinault-Paris-NiceSmall.jpg

    A face made to crush people

    I reckon Fignon could smoke you Parisian style if you annoyed him

    Thanks FF I just love this photo. This isn't a couple of modern riders hand bagging each other with a carbon clincher this is full on you're having it. Note Alain Prost taking time out from Renault Formula 1 to ensure no-one disrupts the beating that the Badger is going to dish out!

    If there is a more convincing photo of another rider giving it large I'd be very surprised.
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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    knedlicky wrote:
    I wouldn't like to be confronted with Magnus Backstedt's 90-95 kilos,
    and I'd be reluctant to turn my back on Salvatore Commesso,
    and I wouldn't block Tom Steels' way to the bar in a pub.

    How about Peter Post? I'd bet he'd have kicked many a victim in the nuts when they were down.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Err Robbie Hunter anyone?

    Even just as some kinda motivational american football style crazy man.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCgRN23M ... detailpage

    Definitely the one to kick things off.
    _
  • chrisday
    chrisday Posts: 300
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Err Robbie Hunter anyone?

    Even just as some kinda motivational american football style crazy man.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCgRN23M ... detailpage

    Definitely the one to kick things off.

    Yup, Hunter to get it all going, with Froome's missus in the background egging everyone on with whatever the South African opposite of "he's not worth it" is...
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  • Lichtblick
    Lichtblick Posts: 1,434
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    Any Aussie, really. On the whole, they tend to be quite competent in a punch up.

    Robbie McEwen with thieving "fan": http://youtu.be/K7O1yMRYSQo

    Cadel Evans with media pests: http://youtu.be/FikzgWE3t0A
  • mattybeck
    mattybeck Posts: 135
    Yellow Peril wrote:
    Can't believe Hinault was only in at 10 in the OP's list. He's well up for it and quite prepared to start it without provocation. He was wading in on Wiggins' victory podium when someone jumped on the stage wasn't he? He'd certainly be my first pick.

    I'd be looking for a couple of Columbians as well, they must fight dirty.

    Big Maggy would be able to take a couple on as well.

    If it was in order of capability i'd have put The Badger at No.1, nae danger.
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    Yellow Peril wrote:

    If there is a more convincing photo of another rider giving it large I'd be very surprised.

    Is there one of the Vuelta fight from the 80s mentioned in Kelly's biography where a rider named Macho (yup, his real name) started lashing riders with a branch torn from a tree?
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • Lichtblick
    Lichtblick Posts: 1,434
    Has anyone else put this one up yet? http://youtu.be/CcJPQh72mDg
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    LangerDan wrote:
    Yellow Peril wrote:

    If there is a more convincing photo of another rider giving it large I'd be very surprised.

    Is there one of the Vuelta fight from the 80s mentioned in Kelly's biography where a rider named Macho (yup, his real name) started lashing riders with a branch torn from a tree?

    Haven't seen that one LD but if we are going bring weapons into the equation then Abdoujaporov always struck me as the kind of guy crazy enough to reach for a switchblade first then ask questions later.
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  • edhornby
    edhornby Posts: 1,780
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Hinault is a caveman. He positively loves the brawling.

    Hinault-Paris-NiceSmall.jpg

    A face made to crush people

    I reckon Fignon could smoke you Parisian style if you annoyed him

    I love this photo too - I always thought that the guy with his arms raised looked likw Seve Ballesteros ??
    "I get paid to make other people suffer on my wheel, how good is that"
    --Jens Voight
  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    Yellow Peril wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Hinault is a caveman. He positively loves the brawling.

    Hinault-Paris-NiceSmall.jpg

    A face made to crush people

    I reckon Fignon could smoke you Parisian style if you annoyed him

    Thanks FF I just love this photo. This isn't a couple of modern riders hand bagging each other with a carbon clincher this is full on you're having it. Note Alain Prost taking time out from Renault Formula 1 to ensure no-one disrupts the beating that the Badger is going to dish out!

    If there is a more convincing photo of another rider giving it large I'd be very surprised.

    Haha, what was he up to there!
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  • john-e-big-guns
    john-e-big-guns Posts: 489
    Paul 8v wrote:
    Yellow Peril wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Hinault is a caveman. He positively loves the brawling.

    Hinault-Paris-NiceSmall.jpg

    A face made to crush people

    I reckon Fignon could smoke you Parisian style if you annoyed him

    Thanks FF I just love this photo. This isn't a couple of modern riders hand bagging each other with a carbon clincher this is full on you're having it. Note Alain Prost taking time out from Renault Formula 1 to ensure no-one disrupts the beating that the Badger is going to dish out!

    If there is a more convincing photo of another rider giving it large I'd be very surprised.

    Haha, what was he up to there!

    He was fighting off a few strik'in farmers that stopped the T de F
    No Pain; No Gain;

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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Au contraire!

    That's Paris Nice, if it was Le Tour, somebody would have died.
    "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'"

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  • graeme_s-2
    graeme_s-2 Posts: 3,382
    I always think Sean Yates looks like the sort of fellow who wouldn't shy away from a back alley brawl after a few beers. Having said that, he also sounds like the sort of guy who's been punched in the head a few too many times, so maybe he was never any good at it.
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    Ah, I have a soft spot for Yatesy. One of cycling's hard men. Hope he doesnt come a cropper out of all the 'let it all out'...I s'spose he did test positive in 89 and its well out in the public domain but but I've generously forgiven him
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    Before I moved to the IOM I used to live in Birmingham and the Saturday morning ride out from the LBS used to leave at 7 a.m through the town.

    Sometimes revellers from the night before would still be on their way home and we'd be subject to a barrage of insults and have the occassional bottle hurled our way. I often wished Hinault had been with us...
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  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    Yeah Bouhanni is the man you want - he's just smacked the guy trying to beat him

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  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    Bouhanni - Bob Roll Tag Team

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    Bob Roll left with Gary Fisher
  • TMR
    TMR Posts: 3,986
    Bob Roll looks like a complete tw@t there TBH.
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    The Mad Rapper wrote:
    Bob Roll looks like a complete tw@t there TBH.

    Not just there, TBH
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    The Mad Rapper wrote:
    Bob Roll looks like a complete tw@t there TBH.

    Better?
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  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    If it's gonna get rough, this is the guy you need!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzPLdSGW-Vo#t=253
  • hstiles
    hstiles Posts: 414
    mattybeck wrote:
    1) Armstrong – Grade A sh(tbag I suspect. A*se collapses when asked outside. Classic 'hold me back' figure.
    2) Landis – Nose biter. Stay away.
    3) Greg Lemond – Variable. But very apologetic afterwards
    4) Ullrich – Competent puncher.
    5) Wiggins – Up for a scrap but sh*t. Too leggy.
    6) Contador – Not up for a punch up. Would mess with his hair.
    7) Cancellara – Big guy. Good in a fight.
    8) Boonen – Same as Cancellara
    9) The Schleck bros - Up for a scrap after a few beers. But rubbish.
    10) Bernard Hinault - Mad man. Loves a tear up. Don't engage.

    Lance Armstrong. Would have his lawyers waiting in the wings whilst he goaded you into landing the first punch, at which point they'd jump in and sue your arse.

    Wiggins. Would definitely employ the use of house keys

    Cancellara. Quick strong and nimble, but a glass jaw

    Schlek brothers. Frank would keep you busy and take a lot of the punishment whilst Andy snuck up behind and hit you over the head with a bottle.

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