Tour of Wherever?

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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,310
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    TailWindHome wrote:
    "Oh la la la la la Ballan we've got a problem!"

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    I've had to explain this one a lot to guys on the club run, so in case the joke is lost on some people.....

    It was the 50th anniversary of Apollo 13 and Balan is where Boonen is from.

    Thanks for that it makes more sense now.I got the reference to Apollo 13 but didn't know Boonen was from Balan.
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    RichN95 wrote:
    Paul 8v wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    TailWindHome wrote:
    "Oh la la la la la Ballan we've got a problem!"

    .

    I've had to explain this one a lot to guys on the club run, so in case the joke is lost on some people.....

    It was the 50th anniversary of Apollo 13 and Balan is where Boonen is from.
    Ah, merci!
    And to be a massive pedant, it's Balen, not Balan
    Yep, and not to be confused with Baal, where Sven Nys is from and Niels Albert lives
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Yeah apologies - dyslexic innit.
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  • Stillnox
    Stillnox Posts: 38
    I think it is grand you fellas have no troubles with Langkawi, always enjoy that one.
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    Stillnox wrote:
    I think it is grand you fellas have no troubles with Langkawi, always enjoy that one.

    I'd completely forgotten about Langkawi. I think ITV 4 used to show highlights about 4 or 5 years ago. Always seemed another nice leg opener
    @JaunePeril

    Winner of the Bike Radar Pro Race Wiggins Hour Prediction Competition
  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    Yellow Peril wrote:
    Stillnox wrote:
    I think it is grand you fellas have no troubles with Langkawi, always enjoy that one.
    I'd completely forgotten about Langkawi. I think ITV 4 used to show highlights about 4 or 5 years ago. Always seemed another nice leg opener
    I recall that Harmon used to get excited with it in the days he would say Langkawee, Escapee and (what is the other ee that he and Kirby say ?)
    Flat stages with one mountain finish to decide the race.
    No Thanks. :!: Leave it to Asia TV.
    Organiser, National Championship 50 mile Time Trial 1972
  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    Paul 8v wrote:
    I wish we could get the cyclo cross races here on telly rather than via t'internet. Do they show them live in Belgium?
    Yes of course they do.
    I was told a few years ago that a Thanet RC man on the coast near Ramsgate/Deal had an analog TV Arial pointing at Belgium and another at France. (different system there)
    Organiser, National Championship 50 mile Time Trial 1972
  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    Love it :)
    Road
    MTB
    NEW Cross
    Track/Grass Track/Winter bike
  • Art Vandelay
    Art Vandelay Posts: 1,982
    Tour of Alberta - what a disaster that was.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,099
    (Bump)
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    This year, Poland...

    Qatar only stays if it can guarantee crosswinds.
    The former may just need time, the latter an act of Alah?

    Best that we keep them all, in the present financial drought.

    FTFY :D
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • wombly_knees
    wombly_knees Posts: 657
    An act on Allah is a different scenario.

    A few furriner cyclists in an Indonesian race thought it a good idea to relieve themselves in front of a mosque. Needless to say that they escaped with a fine.
  • dsoutar
    dsoutar Posts: 1,746
    Yellow Peril wrote:
    I'd completely forgotten about Langkawi. I think ITV 4 used to show highlights about 4 or 5 years ago. Always seemed another nice leg opener

    :shock:

    I've heard of bike porn but not like that !!!
  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
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    From the Locked thread. :)
    pinarello001 wrote:
    @ dejay - Respect for naming the European events that have lots of history and tradition. Can we open up a thread which debates whether or not to ditch tours and events outside of Europe?
    To page 1 of this thread.
    deejay wrote:
    My calendar of Interest is in EUROPE and if anything else is binned then so be it, as it matters not.

    Outside this area the races are only attempted copies of the real thing in Europe.
    Keep the Wheels turning. :wink:
    Organiser, National Championship 50 mile Time Trial 1972
  • mm1
    mm1 Posts: 1,063
    There was a very short piece with Steve Cram showing the Tour of Rwanda in one of those BBC Olympic dreams programmes on Saturday, no doubt inspired by Tim Lewis' book. Dirt roads (strada rosa rather than strada bianca) and cobbles! What little we saw of the racing looked lively and the crowds were large and enthusiastic.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Has anyone mentioned Bejing yet?

    And does anyone actually watch it?
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