Sigmund Fraud
893 all the way.
Contador not happy about cobbles. Thats fine, just stay at home then. Do 80kg Flandrians complain that there are too many mountains?
Bicycle Racing Thread 2013
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I'm never sure if doing related stories should go in here or the Lance thread, but interesting reports that Luis Leon Sanchez may be having difficulty finding a contract due to pressure from the mpcc.
http://www.cyclingquotes.com/news/is_mpcc_trying_to_prevent_sanchez_from_finding_a_team/
http://www.cyclingquotes.com/news/is_mpcc_trying_to_prevent_sanchez_from_finding_a_team/
Sigmund Fraud
893 all the way.
In other news Cancellara going for the hour record next year - which is great news for fans of the most prestigious TT there is. An opportunity for the UCI also to redeem itself and remove the silly Merckx frozen in amber regs...and embrace technology again.
Think I'm the only one who likes the rules on the hour TT. Has spartacus said which version he's targeting, or is he planning on doing both?
And I take it Wiggins will be announcing his attempt soon too?
Edit: just looking at the hour record cause I haven't paid any attention to it since the mid 1990s. So that Best Human Effort business isn't actually doable anymore then? Old school bikes only, yes?
Edit edit: yeah. That's shit.
And I take it Wiggins will be announcing his attempt soon too?
Edit: just looking at the hour record cause I haven't paid any attention to it since the mid 1990s. So that Best Human Effort business isn't actually doable anymore then? Old school bikes only, yes?
Edit edit: yeah. That's shit.
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Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
So the MPCC can do something useful.
It actually looks a bit like nobody is willing to touch him with the proverbial shitty stick. Along with a couple of others.
Then again it's hardly been a typical period for transfers so might be nothing to do with that. I imagine Horner, for example, would have been snapped up by now in just about any other year, even at a million dollars a year for two years.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
It actually looks a bit like nobody is willing to touch him with the proverbial shitty stick. Along with a couple of others.
Then again it's hardly been a typical period for transfers so might be nothing to do with that. I imagine Horner, for example, would have been snapped up by now in just about any other year, even at a million dollars a year for two years.
Interesting that this is happening this year. Rider being treated like they are carrying the black spot, without actually getting officially popped.
Sigmund Fraud
893 all the way.
Its a disgrace and a hangover from the Verbruggen era that needs sorting, especially as its not like there were no innovations in bike design in the 90 years before Merckx. That orange bike he rode was the most advanced bike available at the time, he wasn't forced to ride something from the 19th century.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
Good point. Easy to take a stand when there's little incentive to do otherwise.
sleaterkinney
Well-Known Member
According to Walsh's book Sir Wiggo had to be made to pay Froome his share of the tdf winning bonus - he had paid the other team members.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
Jesus, that's fucking with one of the iron rules of the sport.
Sigmund Fraud
893 all the way.
its worse than that - Riis is to stay on as DS for a salary of 1 million euro a year, thus ensuring rep as most rotten apple in the barrel.
He does have a contract, but I'm expecting a ban from the danish cycling fed to be forthcoming. By "expecting", I obviously mean "am hoping for but fully expect to be disappointed".
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
"At least next year won't be boring" is the most positive sentiment I can muster.
Sigmund Fraud
893 all the way.
Can I please just phone in my usual dismayed post about A.Cuntador. He is chemically welded to old school dopers as DS's and will have to endure Tinkoff's Abramovich like pressure to be more 'pro'. Its depressing that Tinkoff, Riis and the plasticised one have generated so many column inches this week - and looking at the responses on cyclingnews it seems the 'fans' are still there to lap up all his bullshit.
So what do we make of Gerard Vroomen's comments regarding the sharing of TV revenues?
http://www.cyclingnews.com/blogs/gerard-vroomen/the-myth-of-television-rights
http://www.cyclingnews.com/blogs/gerard-vroomen/the-myth-of-television-rights
Sigmund Fraud
893 all the way.
The Killer banned for life at 37...laughing all the way to Il Banco. Another rider than has never shown anything other than contempt for the sport.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
In you couldn't make thus shit up news, JJ Cobo has signed for Torku Seker Spor.
The now annual comedy event known as the Presidential Tour of Turkey will be even more jaw dropping this year.
The now annual comedy event known as the Presidential Tour of Turkey will be even more jaw dropping this year.
