Paris Roubaix 2016 *SPOILERS*

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  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Salsiccia1 wrote:
    Congratulations. So what did you call her? I hope it was something nice. Sky is a nice name for a girl :mrgreen:

    Orica?
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,558
    Congratulations OCDuPalais!

    Presumably you named her Lizzie...
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,309
    OCDuPalais wrote:
    I became a dad on Sunday which limited attention on this race for the missus and me - but I'm glad it wasn't a boy, otherwise we would have had to have called him Ian.

    Congrats!

    On the naming thing, I'm assuming you'll be going with Ulrika.
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  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    Who's the Daddy? OCDP's the Daddy!

    Congrats to you & Mrs OCDP
  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,231
    Thanks everyone for the congrats...!
    Fabian, Fabienne and Fabiana were considered (didn't know what flavour she was until she arrived)...extremely briefly... but any nonsense like that went out the window (or down the plug 'ole) when the nobber slid down the track banking.
    Besides, Fabian sounds like the sort of boy who'd turn up at school wearing a blazer over his shoulders and shades on his head...
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,388
    ...that is true, Fabian has rather put a stain on his namesakes over the past couple of years
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,564
    We're getting a dog and it was almost Fabian

    We've opted for Clem Fandango instead.
    Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,388
    I sense that might not have been your choice...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,231
    We chose Rosa - but the cycling connections - "Maglia -" and "De -" are largely inadvertent, I tell people...
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Gweeds wrote:
    We're getting a dog and it was almost Fabian

    We've opted for Clem Fandango instead.

    My dog is named after Oscar Freire. Imagine shouting after Fabian in the park!
    "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
  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    OCDuPalais wrote:
    We chose Rosa - but the cycling connections - "Maglia -" and "De -" are largely inadvertent, I tell people...

    Nice name, congrats man.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,388
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    My dog is named after Oscar Freire. Imagine shouting after Fabian in the park!

    I never twigged that :oops:
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • mechanism
    mechanism Posts: 891
    Rosa is nice. I was going to suggest Paris.
  • bigmat
    bigmat Posts: 5,134
    OCDuPalais wrote:
    We chose Rosa - but the cycling connections - "Maglia -" and "De -" are largely inadvertent, I tell people...

    Diego?!
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/41991871@N ... otostream/
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 18,932
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    MathewHayman
    ‏@Mathew_Hayman
    I was embarrassed by this photo. There's a fine line between stupidity and dedication.
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • onyourright
    onyourright Posts: 509
    This is basically a bicycle ad, but the photos are excellent:

    http://www.scott-sports.com/gb/en/page/paris-roubaix
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    Just finished watching PR and Amstel Gold back to back.

    Damn that was a good race.

    Amstel Gold not so much.

    And congrats OCDuP
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • shinyhelmut
    shinyhelmut Posts: 1,364
    Mitch Docker chats with Matt Hayman about PR the night before the race;

    https://lifeinthepeloton.com/

    Does anyone know where Matt finished in the end?
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,388
    Mitch Docker has finally released his podcast with Mat Hayman, a bit delayed obviously after "I had a bit of a fall" ( :shock: )

    He has a Before and after interview with MH.
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • shinyhelmut
    shinyhelmut Posts: 1,364
    ddraver wrote:
    Mitch Docker has finally released his podcast with Mat Hayman, a bit delayed obviously after "I had a bit of a fall" ( :shock: )

    He has a Before and after interview with MH.

    Beat you to it :lol:
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,558
    ddraver wrote:
    Mitch Docker has finally released his podcast with Mat Hayman, a bit delayed obviously after "I had a bit of a fall" ( :shock: )

    He has a Before and after interview with MH.

    yeah... he sounds still a bit frazzled in the intro... PR one of the season's five memorials...
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,388
    Ahhh, damit! It's 2 separate episodes, going to have to wait for the second one...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • shinyhelmut
    shinyhelmut Posts: 1,364
    Part 2 is up now.

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