Pro-cycling thread

Where've I taken it personally exactly?

"I just don't understand the how people can simultaneously not care enough to think about things or do some reading but care so much they have to decry their huge personal disappointment that the aforementioned sporting figure they'd never bothered to read about has doped."

"I think a lot of people who respond this way would be theologians in another era, mumbling catchetisms whilst deliberating on the merit of rounding up disbelievers and burning them lest God be angry and give everyone the pox."

Such flights of hyperbole, rhetoric, and thinly-veiled ad hominem attacks are inconsistent with being a disinterested observer.

I'm spelling it out that you're taking it personally, whilst totally contradicting your supposed interest in the person you're being so disappointed by.

And one does rather have to wonder why you find @Jimmy_Fingers mental processes so utterly fascinating and worthy of detail commentary given that apparently you're not taking it personally.

It's like someone's Great Aunt Fanny dying having never met them then walking around wearing black and throwing ashes over their tear-streaked face for weeks.

No, it's really not.

can't we just go back to the days of speculating if someone's doping in a Nat B. it was much more fun

Hyperbole much? Just feels like a massive over-reaction to me expressing disappointment in finding out she cheated.

It's a public forum. By extension of your logic, anyone who responds or comments on something someone else has written is taking it personally?

I think it's fair to say i'm not shy about expressing myself, if I wanted to make an ad-hominem attack I'd feel comfortable enough to do it and own it.

I'm pointing out that there's a huge disconnect between how teary-eyed and het up people get on the subject of doping and their apparent interest in the actual sport or the people they're saying no longer deserve a platform or shouldn't talk about certain subjects. It's contrary and spectacularly lacking in consistency.

https://www.thekitchn.com/this-is-the-best-way-to-revive-stale-popcorn-240536

"I genuinely don't know. But he looks like a cheating scum weasel, doesn't he? And his team definitely seem like a bunch of cheating scum weasels. In fact, they're a bunch of cheating scum weasels who smell bad. I wouldn't be surprised if the organisers of the Tour de France wouldn't want a bunch of stinky cheating scum weasels at their race. And as a cheating scum weasel myself, I know what I'm talking about. But I genuinely don't know."

How's this for hyperbole?

This made me laugh.

So..... Who's going to win the Dauphine?

Would love to see Bernal take it-the four back to back summit finishes will kill Thomas. If not him then Nibs or Bardet have to be in with a good shout.

I read that Bernal is expected to skip it to rest up and train for the tour?

He's not on the provisional start list?

A quick google and it seems its up in the air-still down on the start lists anyway.

he is on procycing stats.

More info here. Seems his participation in the tour might hinge on outcome of Froome case.

http://www.velonews.com/2018/05/tour-de-france/man-discovered-bernal-early-tour_467415

I'm thinking if it's not going to be the obvious pick of Nibali, Bardet is a decent shout though he's gonna struggle in the prologue and TTT with a weak team.

Some doper probably...

Always wear gloves in track stand competitions

her front wheel!

Collarbone?

You sure she's not busting out some rad flatland moves?

don't lean!

Good hand-plant attempt. Now go for the ho-ho?
https://skateboarding.transworld.net/photos/tws-10-handplants-explained-jeff-grosso/

Is that a geared bike with no front brake?

Edit. It's a stupid behind the fork v brake thing

Is that a geared bike with no front brake?

Behind the fork. You made me look!

Edit: Too slow..

Brake at the back of the fork.

Even slower

He probably just talks about his hair a lot

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