Should Mark Cavendish swallow his pride and retire?

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  • bm5
    bm5 Posts: 586
    My feelings on Cav vary with the weather. But I admire and respect his passion for and dedication to the sport.
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    With 158 pro wins he's now on the same number as Greipel
  • thedirector135
    thedirector135 Posts: 142
    Who is Mark Cavendish? Sounds like a young up and comer in the British East India Company.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    edited February 2022
    thedirector135 said:

    Who is Mark Cavendish? Sounds like a young up and comer in the British East India Company.


    Lord Cavendish's lad. They're in the banana trade


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  • thedirector135
    thedirector135 Posts: 142
    RichN95. said:

    thedirector135 said:

    Who is Mark Cavendish? Sounds like a young up and comer in the British East India Company.


    Lord Cavendish's lad. They're in the banana trade


    Hole in one old chap.
  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,183
    Apparently he doesn’t like bananas
  • roscoe
    roscoe Posts: 526
    Mad_Malx said:

    Apparently he doesn’t like bananas

    Hahahaha! Read that in his latest book, apparently he was on the verge of throwing up having to hold those
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Almost suffered a technical KO today during stage 4 of the UAE.


    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    [clearing stupid unwanted draft!]
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,656
    edited April 2022
    A Cav anecdote courtesy of Brian Holm, from the massive crash that took out half the peloton on the last stage of Circuit de Sarthe :

    Cav had ended up in a ditch. Brian Holm gets there and finds Cav shouting "I was fucking drowning!"
    Holm looks over to the two foot deep ditch a little sceptically
    Cav "I know it's not a fucking river!"

    😂

    Apparently though he'd had a rider or two on top of him, and genuinely had to fight to get his head above the water

    Link to Holm telling this (in Danish)
    https://m.feltet.dk/video/eurosport/5475/
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Gotta say,Cav is nails to keep getting back on the the bike, no fear.
    _
  • carbonclem
    carbonclem Posts: 1,784
    Bump :lol:
    2020/2021/2022 Metric Century Challenge Winner
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    I reckon he could go on till he is 38
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • seanoconn
    seanoconn Posts: 11,680
    If Cav shines at the Giro will he be selected for the TDF?
    Pinno, מלך אידיוט וחרא מכונאי
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,927
    Pretty close for second place on most wins

    1 MERCKX Eddy 283
    2 VAN LOOY Rik 162
    3 CIPOLLINI Mario 161
    4 DE VLAEMINCK Roger 161
    5 CAVENDISH Mark 160
    6 KELLY Sean 159
    7 GREIPEL André 158
  • notquite6foot
    notquite6foot Posts: 248
    Cafe Roubaix have it a bit different (list from 18 April 2021, updated numbers in bold):

    286 – Eddy Merckx
    166 – Mario Cipollini
    164 – Roger De Vlaeminck, Rik Van Looy
    160 – Mark Cavendish
    158 – Andre Greipel
    156 – Sean Kelly
    153 – Alessandro Petacchi
    151 – Francesco Moser

    Either way, he's definitely in the top five now. Don't think anyone in the current peloton (except Pogačar, perhaps) can match his tally.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,438
    I wonder how many countries he's wona race in
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    tailwindhome said:

    I wonder how many countries he's wona race in


    19. One ahead of Greipel who has 18.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    edited May 2022
    RichN95. said:

    tailwindhome said:

    I wonder how many countries he's wona race in


    19. One ahead of Greipel who has 18.
    Ok I will play ...no Google cheating

    UK (is Scotland separate )
    France
    Belgium
    Spain
    Italy
    Switzerland
    Holland
    USA
    Oman
    Poland ?
    Denmark
    Turkey
    Germany?
    Luxembourg?
    Ireland

    Bit stuck tbh
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Qatar or Dubai or summit ?
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Portugal ?
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    edited May 2022
    Still thats only 18
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    mididoctors said:



    UK (is Scotland separate )

    No Nicola, it's not.

    He's never won in Luxembourg. Of the six you are missing, three are in Europe, three are not.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Tour down under or Slovenia or something
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    mididoctors said:

    Tour down under or Slovenia or something

    Neither of those. One is close.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,656
    Malaysia? China?
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    RichN95. said:

    mididoctors said:

    Tour down under or Slovenia or something

    Neither of those. One is close.
    Croatia
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    mididoctors said:

    RichN95. said:

    mididoctors said:

    Tour down under or Slovenia or something

    Neither of those. One is close.
    Croatia

    In 2016.He beat Nizzolo
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    No_Ta_Doctor said:

    Malaysia? China?


    No. No
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    No_Ta_Doctor said:

    Malaysia? China?

    3 not in Europe !
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm

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