Footballing people who get on their bikes...

KHodge
KHodge Posts: 27
edited October 2012 in The cake stop
...much like this one...

http://www.mcfc.co.uk/News/Club-news/20 ... ng-Mancini

Others include Lee Dixon, Martin Keown, Tony Pulis... do you know of any more?

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  • badly_dubbed
    badly_dubbed Posts: 1,350
    whos he?

    i dont know anything football related....thank feck.
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  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    Mancini? He's a cyclist - rides a Pinarello I believe.

    I've been there, the Manchester facility. Shedloads of fun if a bit repetitive after an hour. :)
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    bald nobody from leeds is at tit too

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  • y33stu
    y33stu Posts: 376
    Former Newcastle player Robbie Elliot is now a keen cyclist. He's undertaking a hell of trek too to raise money for The Bobby Robson Foundation. Well worth a look.

    http://www.robbieelliottfoundation.com/
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  • bobtbuilder
    bobtbuilder Posts: 1,537
    Geoff Thomas after being diagnosed with Leukaemia.

    Rode the entire 2005 TDF route, IIRC.
  • alihisgreat
    alihisgreat Posts: 3,872
    CiB wrote:
    Mancini? He's a cyclist - rides a Pinarello I believe.

    I've been there, the Manchester facility. Shedloads of fun if a bit repetitive after an hour. :)

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    Not a pinarello.
  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    bobtbuilder wrote:
    Geoff Thomas after being diagnosed with Leukaemia.

    Rode the entire 2005 TDF route, IIRC.
    He did. The book is pretty good, BTW
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  • Omar Little
    Omar Little Posts: 2,010
    Fabrizio Ravanelli (ex Italian international, Juventus and Middlesbrough) started his own cycling team after he retired from football...think he is the training partner of Bennati during the off season
  • stigofthedump
    stigofthedump Posts: 331
    Alan Sugar. Used to own Spurs. Does ride a Pinarello.
  • alihisgreat
    alihisgreat Posts: 3,872
    stigofthedump wrote:
    Alan Sugar. Used to own Spurs. Does ride a Pinarello.

    a horrible red and yellow one!

    sir-alan-sugar-cycling.jpg

    why would you pick that colour? (unless you're a patriotic Spaniard)
  • rodgers73
    rodgers73 Posts: 2,626
    I heard that injured footballers were told to get out on a bike to keep their fitness up without doing any damage.

    So, I expect that most of them have been on a bike at some time...
  • wiffachip
    wiffachip Posts: 861
    y33stu wrote:
    Former Newcastle player Robbie Elliot is now a keen cyclist. He's undertaking a hell of trek too to raise money for The Bobby Robson Foundation. Well worth a look.

    http://www.robbieelliottfoundation.com/

    there's a mini sportive on 10 Nov from Ponteland to celebrate the end of their trip. could be tempted
  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    Omar Little wrote:
    Fabrizio Ravanelli (ex Italian international, Juventus and Middlesbrough) started his own cycling team after he retired from football...think he is the training partner of Bennati during the off season

    Fabrizio 'Silver Fox' Ravanelli is a legend.
  • mallorcajeff
    mallorcajeff Posts: 1,489
    I know 0% about football but from what I read in the media John Terry seems to be fond of the odd bike.
  • de_sisti
    de_sisti Posts: 1,283
    rodgers73 wrote:
    I heard that injured footballers were told to get out on a bike to keep their fitness up without doing any damage.
    So, I expect that most of them have been on a bike at some time...
    That'll be static bikes you're thinking about. Footballers are prized assets for clubs, so they would be
    very reluctant to encourage them to ride on roads, where there's a (albeit small) possibility of them
    being knocked off their bikes and sustaining injuries.
  • dw300
    dw300 Posts: 1,642
    De Sisti wrote:
    rodgers73 wrote:
    I heard that injured footballers were told to get out on a bike to keep their fitness up without doing any damage.
    So, I expect that most of them have been on a bike at some time...
    That'll be static bikes you're thinking about. Footballers are prized assets for clubs, so they would be
    very reluctant to encourage them to ride on roads, where there's a (albeit small) possibility of them
    being knocked off their bikes and sustaining injuries.

    Yeh, this. ^^

    "Wayne Rooney was knocked off his bike in a hit-and-run incident whilst out training today. There were no witnesses, but Rooney described the offending car as a sky blue Aston Martin DBS .."
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  • mouth
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    As all North American sports do the NHL (ice hockey to us mere mortals) holds a scouting combine every year before the 'draft' and this normally includes an hours session on a static bike which basically simulates stop-start hockey game conditions sort of like an interval session I guess. It enables the scouts/coaches/medical people to identify how quickly a player can recover from certain exertions too. Interestingly in the last couple of years this test has shown up a couple of kids with severe heart defects who shouldn't be doing much more than carrying a bag of groceries.

    Some of what they look for is referred to here:

    http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=5647 ... nhl-search
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  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    mallorcajeff wrote:
    I know 0% about football but from what I read in the media John Terry seems to be fond of the odd bike.

    Only the white ones then..
  • Pross
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    ALIHISGREAT wrote:
    stigofthedump wrote:
    Alan Sugar. Used to own Spurs. Does ride a Pinarello.

    a horrible red and yellow one!

    sir-alan-sugar-cycling.jpg

    why would you pick that colour? (unless you're a patriotic Spaniard)

    He should give that to me, at least it matches my club kit (unlike his Garmin mess!)

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