The 'let it all out' thread - who do you hate the most?

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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    What has that got to do with anything? Does it surprise you Vino likes him? Like I say, the majority of the riders do and there are many riders out there, even on other teams that will help him out massively - that is because he is so respected.

    Re that particular LBL win - they are teammates. And Alberto went in there and did solid work for the team leader. Nohing surprising there, other than maybe the best rider of the last decade putting another rider first on his team.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • curium
    curium Posts: 815
    Wow! So much hate for Contador.

    I haven't read the thread but doubtless 'Steakgate' figures. I still think he's a fabulous rider who makes me want to watch what ever race he's in, unlike Wiggo whom I merely feel affection for as a person rather than as a rider.

    I voted for Hog incidentally. Can't wait for his arbitration :twisted:
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    No-one else joining in the bandwagon fan hatred?

    :(
    _
  • skylla
    skylla Posts: 758
    frenchfighter wrote:
    What has that got to do with anything? Does it surprise you Vino likes him? Like I say, the majority of the riders do and there are many riders out there, even on other teams that will help him out massively - that is because he is so respected.

    Re that particular LBL win - they are teammates. And Alberto went in there and did solid work for the team leader. Nohing surprising there, other than maybe the best rider of the last decade putting another rider first on his team.

    ? ?

    you're pointing out the bleeding obvious. never mind; thought you would appreciate the story and acc. photos. obviously the wrong day for you. speak to you another time.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    No-one else joining in the bandwagon fan hatred?

    :(

    No, I'm afraid you re very much on your own there Rick. Most of us think more people cycling is a good thing.
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    skylla wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    What has that got to do with anything? Does it surprise you Vino likes him? Like I say, the majority of the riders do and there are many riders out there, even on other teams that will help him out massively - that is because he is so respected.

    Re that particular LBL win - they are teammates. And Alberto went in there and did solid work for the team leader. Nohing surprising there, other than maybe the best rider of the last decade putting another rider first on his team.

    ? ?

    you're pointing out the bleeding obvious. never mind; thought you would appreciate the story and acc. photos. obviously the wrong day for you. speak to you another time.

    Yeah tough day at work, these markets blow! Nm my points above, I thought you were having a dig at him being friends with Vino. I remember that race and it was superb.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    No-one else joining in the bandwagon fan hatred?

    :(

    Ha. You can add to that fan list the dickhead people on mountains that are there to get tv exposure with their stupid antics and lack of respect for the riders.

    contipunch.jpg
    Contador is the Greatest
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    Every time I see that picture I think being hit by a cyclist must be like being hit by a 4 year old....

    Fans are 99% of the sport. If it did nt have us, it would nt be anything...Unless they actually stop riders moving, I don't care if they're johnny com latelies or dressed as a furbee.
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    ddraver wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    No-one else joining in the bandwagon fan hatred?

    :(

    No, I'm afraid you re very much on your own there Rick. Most of us think more people cycling is a good thing.

    I'm fine if they bow down to 'real' fan's (i.e. me) superior knowledge, rather than sneering about sh!t that is plainly wrong.
    _
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    ddraver wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    No-one else joining in the bandwagon fan hatred?

    :(

    No, I'm afraid you re very much on your own there Rick. Most of us think more people cycling is a good thing.

    I'm fine if they bow down to 'real' fan's (i.e. me) superior knowledge, rather than sneering about sh!t that is plainly wrong.
    Unless you came out of the womb regaling the midwife with stories of Rik van Looy, then you were that person once. We all were.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Pricks who don't allow over-enthusiastic newcomers into their sport because they are so high and mighty
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    RichN95 wrote:
    Unless you came out of the womb regaling the midwife with stories of Rik van Looy, then you were that person once. We all were.

    Speak for yourself hockey boy

    :P
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    RichN95 wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    ddraver wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    No-one else joining in the bandwagon fan hatred?

    :(

    No, I'm afraid you re very much on your own there Rick. Most of us think more people cycling is a good thing.

    I'm fine if they bow down to 'real' fan's (i.e. me) superior knowledge, rather than sneering about sh!t that is plainly wrong.
    Unless you came out of the womb regaling the midwife with stories of Rik van Looy, then you were that person once. We all were.

    I always bowed down to superior knowledge. That's the difference ;). I still do occasionally.
    _
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,436
    We're gonna need a bigger poll.
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    I'd like to know why the 5 people that voted for Sky did so...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,908
    ddraver wrote:
    I'd like to know why the 5 people that voted for Sky did so...

    They're unrepentant
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    'bout what?
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    ddraver wrote:
    'bout what?

    Dominating the stage race scene this year and not giving other teams a chance ;)
  • disquieting_museeuws
    disquieting_museeuws Posts: 601
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    No-one else joining in the bandwagon fan hatred?

    :(

    Oh god, yes. Be a new fan but don't be an arrogant ass about it :P
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Insideinfo wrote:
    A very long winded comparison of apples versus oranges and some crap about Wiggo helping Cav over the mountains when in fact Cav worked hard as a bottle carrier to Wiggo and his mountain crew whenever the stages didn't suit him.

    I'd say that post was up there for informed accuracy with the very first one you made on this forum.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    No-one else joining in the bandwagon fan hatred?

    :(

    Yes, I'll join that - some of the rubbish I heard waiting outside Hyde Park at the end of the Olympic RR from people who had presumably watched a bit of Phil & Paul during the Tour made me cringe. Obviously we all started with no knowledge (and in my case it still isn't great) but like with anything in life listening to people who have next to no knowledge talking to people who admit to having no knowledge as if they're experts is slightly annoying!
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    And what is the lesson learned?

    Don't go watch chippers live.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Don't go to London.
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    iainf72 wrote:
    And what is the lesson learned?

    Don't go watch chippers live.

    Are you suggesting you don't get the same sort of people at races like the Tour? Friend of mine saw an American push her way to the front of the crowd on the Champs Elysees and then want to know when Neil Armstrong was going to be coming past.

    Having said that, you don't get them at Roubaix! :D
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Pross wrote:
    Don't go to London.
    Exactly. Going to London and complaining about smug sneering people who think they know it all is like going to Lourdes and complaining about Catholics.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    You know who the worst is?

    You.

    No, not you.

    You.
    "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'"

    @gietvangent
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    Are you suggesting you don't get the same sort of people at races like the Tour? Friend of mine saw an American push her way to the front of the crowd on the Champs Elysees and then want to know when Neil Armstrong was going to be coming past.

    Perfectly valid question. Neil is (was) jointly the most successful Armstrong when it comes to winning Tours de France. In fact, its a three way tie with that lesser known Armstrong, Stretch.

    (Tour-related pish isn't the preserve of pushy Americans. I was just re-reading Geoffrey Wheatcroft's history "Le Tour" where he confidently asserts that David Millar is Robert Millar's son.)
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    LangerDan wrote:
    (Tour-related pish isn't the preserve of pushy Americans. I was just re-reading Geoffrey Wheatcroft's history "Le Tour" where he confidently asserts that David Millar is Robert Millar's son.)

    Maybe he knows something you don't? ;)
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    LangerDan wrote:
    Perfectly valid question. Neil is (was) jointly the most successful Armstrong when it comes to winning Tours de France. In fact, its a three way tie with that lesser known Armstrong, Stretch.

    In 2005? :D
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    This has turned into a top quality thread! :D

    Anymore pictures of Contador looking like the love child of Colonel Gaddafi and Doctor Spock? Or with really bad shirts and scary eyes? Talk about 'when airbrushing goes wrong'.

    Made my evening. And I must say that Vino only having one vote confirms my suspicion of him being made of teflon in some Soviet laboratory. :P
    Correlation is not causation.

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