It's Not About the Bike

Ron Stuart
Ron Stuart Posts: 1,242
edited October 2012 in Pro race
Feel like burning my copy of this book. :evil:
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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Ron Stuart wrote:
    Feel like burning my copy of this book. :evil:

    Why? Just move it to the fiction section.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • andy_wrx
    andy_wrx Posts: 3,396
    http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_trksi ... &_from=R40
  • Ron Stuart
    Ron Stuart Posts: 1,242
    iainf72 wrote:
    Ron Stuart wrote:
    Feel like burning my copy of this book. :evil:

    Why? Just move it to the fiction section.

    Good take Iain but that would be much to passive for me. However I would guard against the burning of those yellow wrist bands purely on the grounds of air pollution. :mrgreen:
  • Ron Stuart
    Ron Stuart Posts: 1,242
    andy_wrx wrote:
    http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_trksid=p4069.m570.l1313&_nkw=lance+armstrong+not+about+bike&_sacat=0&_from=R40

    Wouldn't that be a bit like this.... http://road.cc/content/news/62676-plane ... es-auction :shock:
  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    If anyone is looking to get rid of their yellow bands I'll have them, I need something to fix my torch to my MTB helmet :)

    Incidendally, my father in law gave me a copy of It's Not About The Bike that someone gave to him. I couldn't bring myself to read it a couple of years ago. Now the truth is out, it might be a bit of a laugh.
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  • oneof1982
    oneof1982 Posts: 703
    Ron Stuart wrote:
    Wouldn't that be a bit like this.... http://road.cc/content/news/62676-plane ... es-auction :shock:

    Had been trying to forget that JS was ever even a cyclist............
  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    Saw a Lance Armstrong photo book in the works, it was only about a quid but I just couldn't bring myself to buy it! Might pick up a copy of it's not about the bike from ebay so I can compared the two when he brings out his "Ok, you got me" book which will inevitably come out!
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  • andy_wrx
    andy_wrx Posts: 3,396
    Paul 8v wrote:
    Saw a Lance Armstrong photo book in the works, it was only about a quid but I just couldn't bring myself to buy it! Might pick up a copy of it's not about the bike from ebay so I can compared the two when he brings out his "Ok, you got me" book which will inevitably come out!
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    http://www.theworks.co.uk/Comeback-20-U ... 73145.html

    It will need to be put in the Fiction section

    RRP £16.99, The Works £2.99 - not quite 'only about a quid' as you said, but you're probably right it will be 99p tomorrow !
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    Paul 8v wrote:
    Saw a Lance Armstrong photo book in the works, it was only about a quid but I just couldn't bring myself to buy it! Might pick up a copy of it's not about the bike from ebay so I can compared the two when he brings out his "Ok, you got me" book which will inevitably come out!


    WILL.NEVER.HAPPEN

    He will never 'fess up
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    Paul 8v wrote:
    Saw a Lance Armstrong photo book in the works, it was only about a quid but I just couldn't bring myself to buy it! Might pick up a copy of it's not about the bike from ebay so I can compared the two when he brings out his "Ok, you got me" book which will inevitably come out!


    WILL.NEVER.HAPPEN

    He will never 'fess up


    Mind you, I bet someone's scribble a pseudo autobio right now...
  • TMR
    TMR Posts: 3,986
    Ron Stuart wrote:
    Feel like burning my copy of this book. :evil:

    Why? The title is spot on. It's not about the bike, it's about ze drugs man ;)
  • Ron Stuart
    Ron Stuart Posts: 1,242
    The Mad Rapper wrote:
    Ron Stuart wrote:
    Feel like burning my copy of this book. :evil:

    Why? The title is spot on. It's not about the bike, it's about ze drugs man ;)

    Oh there's another bit to the title as well..... "My Journey Back To Life".... and what a life it would seem.

    Rather ironic some might say

    Don't know about you guys but I'm getting uncomfortable parallels with JS and all his charity work etc, most unnerving.

    Maybe, just as the saying goes though:-
    You can fool some of the people all of the time and all the people some of the time but you can't fool all the people all the time. :(
  • Hoopdriver
    Hoopdriver Posts: 2,023
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    Paul 8v wrote:
    Saw a Lance Armstrong photo book in the works, it was only about a quid but I just couldn't bring myself to buy it! Might pick up a copy of it's not about the bike from ebay so I can compared the two when he brings out his "Ok, you got me" book which will inevitably come out!


    WILL.NEVER.HAPPEN

    He will never 'fess up
    So true.

    I have a weird feeling that he is delusional enough to believe he is an innocent victim.
    http://www.My-Bicycle-and-I.com
  • sherer
    sherer Posts: 2,460
    I got a copy of Every Second Counts for my b day. Was hoping to start and finish it before this came out but haven't. Not sure it's even worth reading now
  • Ron Stuart
    Ron Stuart Posts: 1,242
    sherer wrote:
    I got a copy of Every Second Counts for my b day. Was hoping to start and finish it before this came out but haven't. Not sure it's even worth reading now

    Never mind about your book it won't be long till Guy Fawkes night where you can make full use of it :oops:


    Wonder how Sally Jenkins author of both books is feeling at the moment :idea:
  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,317
    Ron Stuart wrote:
    sherer wrote:

    Wonder how Sally Jenkins author of both books is feeling at the moment :idea:

    So far, she's been "unavailable for comment" - apparently, her Bermuda villa has simply dreadful signal...
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    Shall we remind ourselves of what Sally-'He's a good man'-Jenkins had to say a few weeks ago?

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/ot ... story.html
  • mike6
    mike6 Posts: 1,199
    I read "Its not about the bike" when it came out, some friends were banging on about what a great read and what an inspirational story it was. So.....I read it, and my first impression was, this guy has an enormous chip on both shoulders and an ego the size of Belgium.
    My opinion of him never changed over the years, apart from adding bully, control freak and media manipulator to the list. Oh...and now cheat.
  • thomasmc
    thomasmc Posts: 814
    I think its easy being cynical now about the book & rightly so.
    However when I read it 10 or 11 years ago I was inspired by the story; Bob Dylan once said "don't follow hero's" but Lance was as close to a hero as I had at the time. Of course I realised within a few years that it was all a lie but I did think of that book yesterday when the files were released.
  • andy_wrx
    andy_wrx Posts: 3,396
    mike6 wrote:
    I read "Its not about the bike" when it came out, some friends were banging on about what a great read and what an inspirational story it was. So.....I read it, and my first impression was, this guy has an enormous chip on both shoulders and an ego the size of Belgium.
    My opinion of him never changed over the years, apart from adding bully, control freak and media manipulator to the list. Oh...and now cheat.
    That was about my take on it as well - it's not about the bike, it's about ME,ME,ME !

    Ah well, perhaps room for all these books in that Scarborough landfill site
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    andy_wrx wrote:
    it's not about the bike, it's about ME,ME,ME
    It always is with such people. Their hidden insecurities fuel a need to force the world to acknowledge them.

    Even now, exposed as a cheat, Armstrong attempts to force closure on a situation he can no longer have control over, by refusing to cooperate or apologize andpretending that he has moved on to other things that are more important to him now than mere cycling.
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • Ron Stuart
    Ron Stuart Posts: 1,242
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    Shall we remind ourselves of what Sally-'He's a good man'-Jenkins had to say a few weeks ago?

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/ot ... story.html

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  • dave_1
    dave_1 Posts: 9,512
    Ron Stuart wrote:
    Feel like burning my copy of this book. :evil:


    Yes, I feel foolish too now. I read it and bought the story for years. I even defended him on here after 2005. I would say it was Landis that really made me think. So many have cheated us though..it's bigger than Lance Armstrong. I think Landis is perhaps the single most influential person in the history of sport there's ever been. Post 9000.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKBacb2V ... ata_player
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    Dave_1 wrote:
    Ron Stuart wrote:
    Feel like burning my copy of this book. :evil:


    Yes, I feel foolish too now. I read it and bought the story for years. I even defended him on here after 2005. I would say it was Landis that really made me think. So many have cheated us though..it's bigger than Lance Armstrong. I think Landis is perhaps the single most influential person in the history of sport there's ever been. Post 9000.

    Congratulations on post 9000 Dave. Quite fitting that it was on something so profound, unfortunately for everyone it is a shame that profundity was so shameful.
    @JaunePeril

    Winner of the Bike Radar Pro Race Wiggins Hour Prediction Competition
  • tomb8555
    tomb8555 Posts: 229
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    Shall we remind ourselves of what Sally-'He's a good man'-Jenkins had to say a few weeks ago?

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/ot ... story.html


    "So forget Lance. I have so many problems with USADA, the World Anti-Doping Agency and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) — which is supposed to be where athletes can appeal, only they never, ever win — that it’s hard to know where to begin. American athletes have lost 58 of 60 cases before the CAS. Would you want to go before that court?"

    Ugh I hate this fallacy. It was touted over and over again by Lance supporters and his lawyers during the jurisdiction court case.. That he wouldn't get a fair hearing because historically the USADA and CAS nearly always finds against the athletes during their respective hearings.

    It's not meant to be a 'roll the dice.. 50/50 chance of getting off'. It's meant to be a consideration of the evidence presented. All 58 of 60 cases going against the athlete means is that the doping agencies are putting forward compelling cases.
  • Ron Stuart
    Ron Stuart Posts: 1,242
    Stumbled over another book I had been given as a present and get this title....

    "The Lance Armstrong Performance Program Seven Weeks to the Perfect Ride" (Bike by the way!!!)

    Strange it doesn't say anything about EPO, Blood Doping or Testosterone in it :? :shock:
  • simona75
    simona75 Posts: 336
    I was in a sports shop in San Francisco last week and they are still giving out the yellow bands when you make a one dollar donation to charity. From my reading/watching of the media out there it seems like this whole thing hasn't registered
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    simona75 wrote:
    I was in a sports shop in San Francisco last week and they are still giving out the yellow bands when you make a one dollar donation to charity. From my reading/watching of the media out there it seems like this whole thing hasn't registered


    Americans are used to it.

    It's not like their big sports like baseball and American football aren't utterly drug ridden anyway, let alone vast swathes of their top top world class sprinters to name but 3 sports.
    _
  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    it is quite weird flicking through some of the non cycling sites. quite a lot of A mericans just dont seem to get it at all and keep coming up with these preposterous conspiracy theories. most dont seem to want to to actually look at the evidence. puzzling...
  • simona75
    simona75 Posts: 336
    Mikey23 wrote:
    it is quite weird flicking through some of the non cycling sites. quite a lot of A mericans just dont seem to get it at all and keep coming up with these preposterous conspiracy theories. most dont seem to want to to actually look at the evidence. puzzling...

    On the whole the general US population don't really care about pro-cycling that much. This weeks events hardly made an appearance on any of the major networks.

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