Clean vs Dirty vs Panache

nic_77
nic_77 Posts: 929
edited June 2013 in Pro race
Everyone has their favourite riders right? And no-one wants to hear a bad word said of their's...

How about we just agree an arbitrary scale of clean vs dirty vs panache, then you can just slot 'your' rider where-ever you think he fits:

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I'll drop on a few of mine (generally based on opinion remember)...
Orange = Wiggins
Red apple = Contador
Lemon = Armstrong
Grapefruit = Menchov
Blueberries = Gilbert
Seedless grapes = Is there one?????
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,548
    I love the scale. :D
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Wiggins defo a pineapple or maybe a pomegranate.

    Contador is a green apple. I don't like apples tho so am tempted to say Blueberries.

    Defo Lemon for Armstrong and Menchov I'd agree.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Cancellara I'd say is a cherry.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    Excellent chart.

    La Pomme Marseille could take up a spot as an entire team
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    oh what the hell, JTL can be grapes
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    frenchfighter wrote:

    Contador is a green apple.

    Yeah, so are Frank Schleck and Valverde :roll:
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,548
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Contador is a green apple. I don't like apples tho so am tempted to say Blueberries.

    How can a convicted doper be on the clean side of the line?
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,548
    Contador is a red apple. As is Di Luca.
  • nic_77
    nic_77 Posts: 929
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    oh what the hell, JTL can be grapes
    I was tempted to say that too... but want to see it at the top level first.

    Froome = Plum?
    Or maybe a Pear?
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  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    nic_77 wrote:
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    oh what the hell, JTL can be grapes
    I was tempted to say that too... but want to see it at the top level first.

    Froome = Plum?
    Or maybe a Pear?


    Oh, harsh..
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Joaquim Rodriguez could be seedless grapes. Nibali a blueberry.

    I keep looking for more fruits in the gaps.

    How about Jens - I'm struggling with him.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    nic_77 wrote:
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    oh what the hell, JTL can be grapes
    I was tempted to say that too... but want to see it at the top level first.

    Froome = Plum?
    Or maybe a Pear?


    Oh, harsh..

    Red apple or maybe pear.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • nic_77
    nic_77 Posts: 929
    Frank Schleck = Banana
    Andy Schleck = Pear
    Valverde = Tomato
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  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    nic_77 wrote:
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    oh what the hell, JTL can be grapes
    I was tempted to say that too... but want to see it at the top level first.

    Froome = Plum?
    Or maybe a Pear?


    Oh, harsh..

    Red apple or maybe pear.


    Get your nose out of the Froome fruit selection, Frenchie :)
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    Hmm, think Frank Schleck is closer to a tomato than a bananna - Maybe an elongated tomato, like a pear tomato...?
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,436
    Pantani = the diametric opposite of Pineapple (Red Apple is not dirty enough)
    Riis = Lemons
    Schlecks = Bananas
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    ddraver wrote:
    Hmm, think Frank Schleck is closer to a tomato than a bananna - Maybe an elongated tomato, like a pear tomato...?


    Now that's just going into GM territory
  • nic_77
    nic_77 Posts: 929
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    ddraver wrote:
    Hmm, think Frank Schleck is closer to a tomato than a bananna - Maybe an elongated tomato, like a pear tomato...?


    Now that's just going into GM territory
    I'm sure he can get hold of a suitable masking agent.
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  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    Basso has gone from a tomato to a blueberry
  • nic_77
    nic_77 Posts: 929
    frenchfighter wrote:
    How about Jens - I'm struggling with him.
    Really want him to be a strawberry... but you know what happens as soon as others in the punnet start going mouldy.
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,434
    Tommy V is a green apple.

    But a really tart one.
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,436
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Tommy V is a green apple.

    But a really tart one.

    A Granny Smith.
  • powerbookboy
    powerbookboy Posts: 241
    Well we know that Armstrong can't be plums...
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Cancellara I'd say is a cherry.

    Frenchie, you should use that as your sig line. Brilliant stuff.
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    Voekler is a seedless grape for me and always will be

    Pinot is a grape too. :lol:
    The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • LeePaton
    LeePaton Posts: 353
    Voeckler is the seedlessest of seedless grapes for me.
    It's not so much about winning, I just hate losing.
  • LeePaton
    LeePaton Posts: 353
    Also Sagan is a pear for me.
    It's not so much about winning, I just hate losing.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Rasmussen must be a blood orange.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • EPO Delivery Man
    EPO Delivery Man Posts: 271
    Im wondering where to put Cav... :?
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    David Millar will split the crowd as either pear or lemon..hmmm

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