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  • ridgerider
    ridgerider Posts: 2,852
    Ditto...

    Brown shoes, brown trousers, blue shirt, grey jumper, haircut, cat fed, another 3 day train strike looming, but I will be there.
    Half man, Half bike
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    A statement to ponder ahead of the meet up:

    Doping insinuations not included, Geraint Thomas is this generation's George Hincape.
    _
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    A statement to ponder ahead of the meet up:

    Doping insinuations not included, Geraint Thomas is this generation's George Hincape.
    Cobbles aside, Daniel Moreno is.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Ridgerider wrote:
    Ditto...

    Brown shoes, brown trousers, blue shirt, grey jumper, haircut, cat fed, another 3 day train strike looming, but I will be there.

    I'll be wearing whatever I'll be wearing but it definitely won't be a suit, a shirt, a tie. I'll be making my way over after my afternoon visits, this could be 6pm, it could be 7pm when I get there.

    I'll have a cat under each arm.
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    RidgeRider and I are here. Long table nr the toilets...
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Is there live coverage on Eurosport? :P
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Is there live coverage on Eurosport? :P

    Kirby commentary I'm afraid.
  • ridgerider
    ridgerider Posts: 2,852
    But here is the text version for those without satellite.

    A genuine set of triple A rated BR posters (and me) attended tonight's bash...Dish Dash, Joelsim, Frenchfighter, Sir Rick, the Big Bean and Timoid. You couldn't have assembled a more knowledgeable team for all the money in Bahrain.
    Tim and the Bean were soon comparing pictures of their new born babies at their toddler pilates classes, whilst JS explained about the joys of daytime tv and the fact that this was the first time he had every been to central London. But talk soon turned to the sport that we all love to hate and despite having all year to prepare, the two times everyone turned at me to provide the definitive answer to a lottonl jumbo question, I failed. However, bigger issue were raised and ranted over, including, I tbink...

    1. How does Cancellation manage to ride his bikes with no discernable wobble?
    2. How only clean riders wear white socks.
    3. How Terpstra will never be any of 'our men'.
    4. Who has the happiest, healthier riders, Sky or Dimension Data?
    5. The feeding habits of cats (well we had to, it was a condition of him coming)
    6. Who's has the least idea, Trump or Johnson?
    7. How real bike commuters are out of the house by 7.30.
    8. The easiest berg we have been up in Belgium
    9. How the sport needs to slow down camera bikes by sticking a spike up from their handlebars.
    10. TUEs of course.

    We did think that our 'big idea' from last year's get together had succeeded beyond our expectations...to create a new user that any of us could all log on as if we wanted to have a little dig at someone or to put really stupid ideas out there to see if we could just get one person to agree with them. We didn't quite manage the last part, but it was fun trying. We were not sure whether we will be able to top it next year, but we agreed on a new user name for 2017, so watch this space.
    So, as the beer (or ale as we call it down here) flowed, and the talk turned to riders whose names I did not recognise (only because I read ticker feeds rather than hear them pronounced on tv), I made my excuses and left. But only after we had all witnessed the spectacle of joelsim leaping out of his chair and chasing a mouse round the pub. That man needs to get out more.
    Half man, Half bike
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    Pah, you lot, doncha know dehydration is gonna be all the rage

    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/team-sk ... b-quicker/
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Richmond Racer 2 wrote:
    Pah, you lot, doncha know dehydration is gonna be all the rage

    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/team-sk ... b-quicker/

    This is old hat. Anquetil had been saying "driest is fastest" for his entire career.
    _
  • ridgerider
    ridgerider Posts: 2,852
    Richmond Racer 2 wrote:
    Pah, you lot, doncha know dehydration is gonna be all the rage

    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/team-sk ... b-quicker/
    I refer you to discussion topic number 4.
    Half man, Half bike
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Richmond Racer 2 wrote:
    Pah, you lot, doncha know dehydration is gonna be all the rage

    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/team-sk ... b-quicker/
    The sort of thing that might, at a push work, in controlled lab conditions but not it the maelstrom of competition. Sky aren't actually doing that, or even considering it. It's just some scientists throwing around ideas at a conference (and from a cynic's point of view, in a country where they are about to host a World Cup in blazing heat and want to downplay dehydration).

    More to the point, last night on 'Tour de Celeb' on Channel 5, Darren Gough and Austin Healey managed to complete a sportif in Andorra after getting rat-arsed on absinth the night before.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Richmond Racer 2 wrote:
    Pah, you lot, doncha know dehydration is gonna be all the rage

    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/team-sk ... b-quicker/

    This is old hat. Anquetil had been saying "driest is fastest" for his entire career.
    Yeah, but Anquetil allegedly used to carry bidons in his jersey pockets rather than on his frame to keep his bike lighter. He was an idiot.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • sherer
    sherer Posts: 2,460
    Gutted I missed out this year, looks like you all had a good time
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Yeah. It's almost like it's a literary device used in a book to discuss the hocus pocus around racers' advice to one another to get into their head, demonstrating the often overlooked mental side of bike racing, which reaches its climax when the story is punctured, showing the reader it was all a mental trick to help the rider rather than having any basis in reality....

    Jacques-Anquetil.jpg
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Yeah. It's almost like it's a literary device used in a book to discuss the hocus pocus around racers' advice to one another to get into their head, demonstrating the often overlooked mental side of bike racing, which reaches its climax when the story is punctured, showing the reader it was all a mental trick to help the rider rather than having any basis in reality....
    Krabbe says he was genuinely told the story by the cyclist (Geldermans). Photos don't back it up, but then cyclists were rarely photographed from behind back then.

    It's like the story of (the footballer) Jason McAteer asking for a pizza to be cut into four slices instead of eight as he wasn't hungry enough for eight. It may not be true, but it illustrates the intellectual esteem with which he was held.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • Beatmaker
    Beatmaker Posts: 1,092
    It's like the story of (the footballer) Jason McAteer asking for a pizza to be cut into four slices instead of eight as he wasn't hungry enough for eight. It may not be true, but it illustrates the intellectual esteem with which he was held.

    My favourite Jason McAteer story as told by Neil Ruddock involves Jason McAteer starting his Porsche on a cold morning to defrost whilst he had his breakfast. Another player was at his house and as they went to set off for training they realised the Porsche had locked itself with the keys inside. As they were trying to get into the car a police car passes and after they satisfy the police that Jason McAteer is indeed the genuine owner of the car, the police officer asks McAteer to get a coat hanger from his house and he will try and unlock the door. McAteer bounds up to the house and returns some moments later, with a wooden coat hanger.
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    Great summary as ever RidgeRider. Was great to see everyone and meet some new faces.

    My only disappointment was that the Kirby debate never really took off. But then people are so much more polite in person... though I was a bit worried at one point when the discussion turned to religious schools.

    RR2 - we missed you!
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Richmond Racer 2 wrote:
    Pah, you lot, doncha know dehydration is gonna be all the rage

    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/team-sk ... b-quicker/

    This is old hat. Anquetil had been saying "driest is fastest" for his entire career.


    I'm always surprised Maitre Jacques avoided the same fate as Tom Simpson
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    It was good to see some of you after a bit of an absence and to meet some new people. Although it was eerily polite.

    Could have done without the rodent infestation though.

    One correction. I actually like Terpstra. I think I'm in a minority of one here.
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    I like Terpstra's name as it sounds cool - like a 60s racing driver. Or possibly a porn star. Hmm...
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Aye, nice to put some faces to names.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Speaking of Terpstra (I'm the biggest fan of him here btw), here's a video dish sent me a while back.

    https://twitter.com/Peptalk/status/804013667540992000

    Here, even you Brits can see he is marrying my two passions: cycling, and 2 unlimited.
    _
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Speaking of Terpstra (I'm the biggest fan of him here btw), here's a video dish sent me a while back.

    https://twitter.com/Peptalk/status/804013667540992000

    Here, even you Brits can see he is marrying my two passions: cycling, and 2 unlimited.


    That is all kinds of awesome
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Who’s coming this year?

    Suggest later on in December, since I can make it.
    _
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,910
    Sure
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    Yep.

    How about either 12 or 18 December?
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,910
    18th is slightly better for me, but I could do both.
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    Ill be there. If someone could leave a jiffy bag on the table so i can recognise you
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    12th and 18th ok for me. I think.

    Can we go somewhere that doesn't have mice running under the table this time?
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.

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