Things you'd rather ban than radios/powermeters

No_Ta_Doctor
No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,680
edited January 2015 in Pro race
I'll start with the obligatory yellow/polkadot/green full kit and bike combo. No, Tommy, no.

Gallopin showed a bit more style

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  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138


    RV's and Motor Homes.

    ..
    Organiser, National Championship 50 mile Time Trial 1972
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,708
    TTTs in GTs

    Estimates of power based on pseudoscience
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Dippydog3
    Dippydog3 Posts: 414
    Adverts on Eurosport.
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Chris Horner
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,463
    Trek bikes.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    The 10km catch
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    pinarello001 wrote:
    Trek bikes.

    Agreed. And I have one, albeit perhaps not a racing machine...it takes me all my energy to get the damn thing down the stairs. The thought of spending more than £100 on one leaves me cold.
  • fleshtuxedo
    fleshtuxedo Posts: 1,858
    The ostentatious kissing of jewellery
  • Wheelspinner
    Wheelspinner Posts: 6,711
    White shorts. Even the pros can't make them look good.
    Open One+ BMC TE29 Seven 622SL On One Scandal Cervelo RS
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,993
    National jerseys outside of the country in which they were won.
  • jordan_217
    jordan_217 Posts: 2,580
    Fat twunts who run alongside/obstruct riders on climbs, particularly in the final push to the finish. I wouldn't mind but half of them don't even have the decency to wear a sports bra.

    While I'm thinking about it…Valverde - he's a tw@t waffle of immense proportions and and despise him.
    “Training is like fighting with a gorilla. You don’t stop when you’re tired. You stop when the gorilla is tired.”
  • Beltaine
    Beltaine Posts: 166
    Beards.
    ....I don't know why; It's a perfectly cromulent word....
  • t4tomo
    t4tomo Posts: 2,643
    Astana,
    Any rider from Kazakhstan
    Any rider called Stan
    Bianchi Infinito CV
    Bianchi Via Nirone 7 Ultegra
    Brompton S Type
    Carrera Vengeance Ultimate Ltd
    Gary Fisher Aquila '98
    Front half of a Viking Saratoga Tandem
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Carlton Kirby

    (not personal, just the commentary).
    _
  • mpatts
    mpatts Posts: 1,010
    The cringesome kiss from the podium ladies.
    Insert bike here:
  • alan_a
    alan_a Posts: 1,587
    Dippydog3 wrote:
    Adverts on Eurosport.

    Isreali tourism adverts to be most precise!
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  • alan_a
    alan_a Posts: 1,587
    TheBigBean wrote:
    National jerseys outside of the country in which they were won.

    What's so bad about National champs wearing their jersey?
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,708
    Nationalist parties handing out paper flags to foreigners that differ in such a tiny, nerdy way from the real one that no one could tell

    I'm looking at you Flandrians!!
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    Dippydog3 wrote:
    Adverts on Eurosport.

    They're the best part of some stages. Nibali and Basso cooking a slap up meal with Sidi kit, Team Colombia having a dancing up a mountain to a pounding soundtrack etc.
    Team My Man 2018: David gaudu, Pierre Latour, Romain Bardet, Thibaut pinot, Alexandre Geniez, Florian Senechal, Warren Barguil, Benoit Cosnefroy
  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,107
    Cancellera, well any rider but mainly him, whining about a race being too hard/dangerous/cold/hot etc

    Riders describing climbs as mythical.

    Alpe D'Huez

    radios and power meters
    [Castle Donington Ladies FC - going up in '22]
  • Daz555
    Daz555 Posts: 3,976
    Beards.
    You only need two tools: WD40 and Duck Tape.
    If it doesn't move and should, use the WD40.
    If it shouldn't move and does, use the tape.
  • chrisday
    chrisday Posts: 300
    The Chuckle Brothers
    @shraap | My Men 2016: G, Yogi, Cav, Boonen, Degenkolb, Martin, J-Rod, Kudus, Chaves
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,259
    edited January 2015
    Time bonuses for GC stages in Grand Tours
    The Tour of Catalunya
    The fifth French team in the Tour de France
    Sprint stages over 150km
    National champions Jerseys
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • Brailsford Bad
    Brailsford Bad Posts: 85
    Endless helicopter shots on TV coverage and then cutting back to find they've missed a lone attack or split.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    The Spanish
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,601
    Unrepentent dopers, especially the Spanish ones.

    Also agree about the full polka dot / yellow / white / pink garb.
  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    Brailsford Bad wrote:
    Endless helicopter shots on TV coverage and then cutting back to find they've missed a lone attack or split.
    I would dearly like to ban these Too Near or Too Far camera shots also for the same reason.
    Ban the cameraman who is so bored with his job that he/she needs a close up on a riders behinds (Bums) or the bottom bracket shots and I always hope they fall off while leaning to floor level shots. :twisted: :twisted:
    Organiser, National Championship 50 mile Time Trial 1972
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,550
    'Experts' who invent data to 'prove' how a cyclists performance is a surefire sign of doping, publications that then print this 'proof' as fact and social media types who then use the 'proof' to support their own unsubstantiated views.

    Others have already mentioned my other pet hates - white shorts (although I think female cyclists can get away with them) and the whole colour co-ordinated everything when wearing a competition leader jersey.
  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    So I'm the only fan of head-to-toe leader's jersey colours?

    edit: surely there is room in the sport for a bit of kitsch?
    Team My Man 2018: David gaudu, Pierre Latour, Romain Bardet, Thibaut pinot, Alexandre Geniez, Florian Senechal, Warren Barguil, Benoit Cosnefroy
  • markhewitt1978
    markhewitt1978 Posts: 7,614
    The_Boy wrote:
    So I'm the only fan of head-to-toe leader's jersey colours?

    No I like them. The jerseys are important so it's good that teams / riders celebrate holding them to their fullest.

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