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Hinault on itv highlights talking about crashing in a sprint in Saint Etienne where he broke his nose and made "a hole" in his head, then getting up to ride his bike to the finish like it was nothing; shrug "I had many other worse crashes". Love that guy.
That's what I'm talking about Jimmy - none of this *"he's a bit wheezy and he's got a hurty back" *shit about Talansky.. ;)
This, plus the film of him getting back on the bike and riding to the finish with blood pouring off his nose.
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Boo!
Don't you start, too.
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in case anyone missed this, it's brilliant. a particularly good nugget being
*However, an unimpressed Peter was overheard saying on the team bus;
”This not kind of lady flower I ask make for me. It look like something hippy parent force fair trade childs to wear to school and everyone laugh at him, the sissy French man promise me that lots of girls like it and let me sign their boobies after race. I originally ask him design exclusive range of sexy toy and lubricant but he say this not good for Peter and girl think I am not nice boy, so then I ask if he design my own mobile disco and jacuzzi for put behind team bus but he not return my phone call any more. This not professional-Andy Warhol is proper designer who like party and sexy music even if not like boob so he would have designed very kinky team bus for me relax in with my most special 100 girlfriend.”*
i hear plaquesuperieure.cc has some interesting news and inside information on those developments.
Subscribed. Insightful piece on the insect hazards faced by the peloton
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www.plaquesuperieure.cc
For the very best cycling commentary and analysis.
Is this written by someone on here?
"Flies ‘Challenging Cyclists’ Social Preconceptions of Pain and Tolerance’
It has been revealed that the annoying flies that chase you when you’re out riding are, in fact, engaged in an earnest and longstanding campaign to change cyclists’ attitudes to endurance and suffering.
Horse-fly and member of the Diptera super-family of Tabinoidia, but commonly known amongst his friends and fellow social activists as ‘Jeez’ told us:
”I am totally engaged with the struggle to re-classify the humble fly as something that can just be brushed away as a simple annoyance. We’ve only got one planet and we all need to live here. I assert that cyclists, as a rich source of delicious fluids, salts and minerals, should be more tolerant in their attitudes to us, and I will continue to harass those who pass through my domain as I believe is right and important. I don’t know much about politics or indeed, cycling, but I defend my right to have a very large opinion despite being a fly.”
He continues:
"Having said that, I also support the right of spiders, aphids and other flying insects to have an opinion, with the only caveat being that they have to defer to my very strongly defined moral compass. I mean, I recruited some enthusiastic moths a while ago but mid-demonstration they’d just fuck off and fly around a light bulb for a while, and that’s never going to get us anywhere. No, the only path to success is to be as big a pain in the arse as is possible by hanging out at the foot of a steep hill and ambushing them, then, just when people think you’ve fucked off and are no longer torturing them as they try to winch themselves up a Cat 1 climb, you sneak back and try to take a lump out of their ass cheek so they have to sit on a bag of frozen peas all night."
Wasp Apollo said “I try to operate on a live and let live basis, although I admit sometimes I am trying to get home to the nest in a hurry and bang into some lycra clad twunt and it’s a total hindrance so I might lose my rag, but I **disagree with Jeez’s policy of blind irritation **as being counterproductive. I mean, we’re all just trying to get along and maybe I might covet a bit of jam on the cafe stop but in general I try to control my sugar addicted urges and give them the space they seem to need despite the deliciously fluo lycra. All the hand flapping and agitation just isn’t worth it anyway.”
Fruit-Fly Jimmy took an altogether different stance, saying:
"Cyclists are something of a conflicting temptation for me. I developed my taste for them hanging around in the pub as I usually do, cadging bits of people’s pints and spilled Coke, but then a local cycle club started coming in and I’d get totally wired on their caffeine laced gels and power bar wrappers and start jibbering like a maniac. Since then I’ve struggled to control myself any time I see a cyclist either in real life or on TV, and tend to lose the plot a bit."
Asked about his views on the political struggle between cyclists and flying insects he replied:
"I’m just sick of being lied to. It’s pretty obvious that something’s not right when a cyclist can ride away from a flight-enabled insect, and personally I don’t think it’s fair. They should be forced to walk and keep the competition on a level playing field-I mean, how do they think we feel when they pass by in all that lurid lycra smelling of sweet sweet sweat, and we’re expected to just stand there without reacting. They’re asking for it really.""
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Off to the top of Chamrousse today to watch. #selfietime
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Oh JTL. So will he be stripped of his ToB win in 2012?
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^ Sounds good. Nice weather for it as well.
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Why has it taken me so long to read this?
i hear plaquesuperieure.cc has some interesting news and inside information on those developments.
Latest Sagan entry...
SAGAN: ”I WASN’T EVEN TRYING TO WIN ANYWAY”
Slovakian fetishist for green coloured tee-shirts Peter Sagan has today revealed that he hasn’t been trying to win any of the four stages he’s come second on in this year’s Tour.
Looking fresh and non-plussed after only 184km in the saddle taking in the scenic splendours of the Rhone Valley he told NBC:
"Frustrated? What is that? I think lots of people here are wanting to be me. I am happy for my green jersey. It’s really green. Like Peter beautiful eyes. I like come second because this way I was educate. In Slovakia, real man always come second-finish first is for sissy boy. And, also camera man have more time to make nice picture of me-every time I come in first position I always out of focus and womens not see them."
Race organisers have apparently acceded to his request to have an extra, discreet pocket approximately the size of a prophylactic device sewn into the interior of the jersey, but refused to match the ridiculous heights of his helmet and bike manufacturers by arranging to have various parts of his body represented on it.
A spokeswoman for ASO would only say that if they had agreed to the crudely drawn sketches he’d sent them on the back of a soiled strip-club napkin, that they would have been in breach of several national laws in addition to three international conventions concerning the transmission of obscene imagery.
Peter said “I still upset about French asshole making shitty hippy drawing of me so I ask ASO do what I ask him make originally. It really making me sad now, and still no sign of fucking party bus so I ask Tom Boonen come make special delivery in his silly car of party powder but someone say he crash and end up in hospital in Moldova. If it get any more boring I going to quit and pay Fabian a surprise visit at Center Parc, then we see who get to come first.”
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Off to the top of Chamrousse today to watch. #selfietime
We'll expect plenty of pictures, and possibly some assaults from the pros then
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Off to the top of Chamrousse today to watch. #selfietime
Keep your phone firmly out of reach.
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^^^ Amazed Uber managed to get such an exclusive interview with Sagan
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http://www.cyclingnews.com/tour-de-france/stage-12/results
"Tom Dumoulin worked hard in the peloton to bring back the peloton"
"The Slovakian rider tried to get passed the Norwegian..."
Copy editors are all dead, right? They were murdered in The Night of the Long Internet Website Knives?
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Has Google added a Sagan > English option, then?
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I kid, I love interviews with Sagan. The emotions on his face do all the speaking.
And also his broken English.
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I get all the hard man stuff, what I was thought was daft was the fact this wasn't the day after the crash, it was the day after a rest day, so the team had plenty of time to assess his injuries and treat them to whatever extent possible.
And yet they start him he next day, only for him to climb off, only for him to climb back on again, all the while his teammates are pointlessly drilling it on the front, he finishes and then abandons the next day.
American team, American rider, sponsor wants him riding, so team 'persuade' him to ride despite him being buggered (figuratively), rider gets more buggered (again figuratively) and abandons, it's a tale as old as time.
That said Talansky is a massive sook.