The alternative BB Giro thread (May contain diversions)

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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,275
    Never mind Blakey. Keep it simple for us 'ere in the BB please.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,275
    Arthur Linton. Striking resemblance to Blakey:

    Arthur_Linton_-_cyclist.png
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,289
    Pinno wrote:
    Never mind Blakey. Keep it simple for us 'ere in the BB please.
    Reference to that there Lions tour.
    Never mind. Carry on.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,289
    Pinno wrote:
    Arthur Linton. Striking resemblance to Blakey:

    Arthur_Linton_-_cyclist.png
    Too much hair.
    Not enough gut.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    Pinno wrote:
    Arthur Linton. Striking resemblance to Blakey:

    Arthur_Linton_-_cyclist.png

    All went downhill after he met Choppy Warburton.

    Highest place British PR finisher for over a century.
  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    PBlakeney wrote:
    Garry H wrote:
    Me?
    I was giving you credit for a clever thing.
    Never mind...
    No, no. You needn't do that, but thanks all the same. If only my teachers had shown the same faith in me.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,275
    PBlakeney wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Arthur Linton. Striking resemblance to Blakey:

    Arthur_Linton_-_cyclist.png
    Too much hair.
    Not enough gut.

    Please accept my humblest apologies.

    Choppy Warburton. Now there's a name. Here he is:

    Arthur_Linton.0.0.jpg

    You know your stuff GT.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,275
    Look at that chain ^^ !?
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  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    PBlakeney wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Never mind Blakey. Keep it simple for us 'ere in the BB please.
    Reference to that there Lions tour.
    Never mind. Carry on.
    Ahhhh. Gotcha now. Worked in 1971 though.
  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    Choppy Warburton looks like Burt Reynolds.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,275
    Did you know that David 'duff it up' Duffield managed a cycling team?!
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,289
    Garry H wrote:
    PBlakeney wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Never mind Blakey. Keep it simple for us 'ere in the BB please.
    Reference to that there Lions tour.
    Never mind. Carry on.
    Ahhhh. Gotcha now. Worked in 1971 though.
    I find it difficult to put Wales of today in the same league as '71 though.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,275
    I was only 1 year old and Gazza had just been conceived in '71.
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  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    PBlakeney wrote:
    Garry H wrote:
    PBlakeney wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Never mind Blakey. Keep it simple for us 'ere in the BB please.
    Reference to that there Lions tour.
    Never mind. Carry on.
    Ahhhh. Gotcha now. Worked in 1971 though.
    I find it difficult to put Wales of today in the same league as '71 though.

    They're about in the same league as every one else in the Northern hemisphere, bar Italy, I would say.
  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    Pinno wrote:
    Did you know that David 'duff it up' Duffield managed a cycling team?!

    No, I did not know that. He also holds the record for cycling between Cardiff and London on a Moulton, 162 miles in six hours and 42 minutes. Quite astonishing.
  • sloppyschleckonds
    sloppyschleckonds Posts: 8,019
    Garry H wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Did you know that David 'duff it up' Duffield managed a cycling team?!

    No, I did not know that. He also holds the record for cycling between Cardiff and London on a Moulton, 162 miles in six hours and 42 minutes. Quite astonishing.

    One way rides are piss easy with a tailwind
    I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,275
    Worth a watch today's stage GT.

    Pick the winner before you watch it from this list:

    Kangert, Nibali, Costa, Yates, Landa, Quintana, Cummings, Izzagirre.
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  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    Cummings ( haven't seen it and don't know who won)
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,227
    Sean Kelly?
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,289
    Cummings.
    Titters...
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,275
    orraloon wrote:
    Sean Kelly?

    Close. Good guess that one.
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  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    So, wrong rider, right team. I'll need to watch it now.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,275
    You need to watch today's stage too. It was thrilling :roll:

    Pick the sprint winner from this mix:

    Jean-Paul Van Poppel, Laurant Jalabert, Jaja's mate Wilfred Nelissen, Walter Planckaert, Andre Greipel, Mario Cipollini, Edward the 4th.
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  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    Choppy Warburton?
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,275
    Choppy's laid up with a touch of Gwyneth's foot.
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  • sloppyschleckonds
    sloppyschleckonds Posts: 8,019
    Great day today, good to see heavy riders smashing these puny 7 stone weaklings on steep mountains
    I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles
  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    YA FACKIN DANCER!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    and this is how it's done properly

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke4eUkYBW50
  • sloppyschleckonds
    sloppyschleckonds Posts: 8,019
    Garry H wrote:
    and this is how it's done properly

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke4eUkYBW50

    How many watts are saved by not having any hair?
    I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,275
    Garry H wrote:
    and this is how it's done properly

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke4eUkYBW50

    'Momenti di gloria'. (but less glorious was the high haematocrit levels).

    I see that Tanel Kangert had a good go at that poor defenceless post, the b4stard.
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