2014 Pro-cycling season thread

The Trek Pinstripe Banker?

Mr Nibbles is riding Flanders

There's an interview with Boonen in Procycling where that is mentioned. Boonen says it's a nonsense idea because Flanders and Roubaix are so different.

Next he'll be recruiting Kenny Van Vlaminck to advise him how to ride the two types of cobbles.

Presented without comment, only mild shudders

Doh!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bd_52oZCUAA6usH.jpg:large

Hit parked car? Suspected collarbone break.

OrPeon Pro (peonpro): So the "stationary vehicle" that Voeckler hit was really a car that suddenly stopped in front of him. http://twitter.com/peonpro/status/423314211817914368 (Sent via Seesmic http://www.hootsuite.com)..

Disappoint

Suddenly become stationary then.

He said in an interview on cyclingnews.com that it was his own stupid fault, as the car stopped and he didn't. Well he did, but after hitting the car.

Just lucky he wasnt really pushing it.

Could have lost his tongue.

Doubtful, as he wouldn't have been on live TV at the time.

Amazing how quickly Europcar have gone from one of most liked teams to one of my least liked.

Is it? We have no idea how fickle you are.

I would've said it's amazing how we can gauge the age of the universe by analysing photographs taken by a satellite orbiting the Earth, but that's just me.

I'm sure i'm not the first to think it is funny that POC is that helmet.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tMKZXwT9SfE/SkzZKWum5xI/AAAAAAAAAms/shlQjdtZyrY/s1600/P_O_C.jpg

Horner to Lampre. Ugh.

Yay pro cycling

Yay double standards time. Last time I checked, Horner hasn't been convicted of any doping violation.

Meanwhile, Ballan finally gets banned, 2 years for transfusing.

^this

and how utterly surprising, YellowFluo (formerly ViniFantini of DiLuca and Santambrogio fame) like the other Italian team in the draw, gets a wildcard for the Giro

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/oleg-tinkov-id-love-to-sign-sagan-froome-cancellara-for-2015

Always thought Tinkov was a tool but this interview cracks me up

So, Kittel, who's looking more like Duke Nukem every day ...

... beats Greipel in the criterium in Adelaide.

My better half commented that my unusually good mood this morning must be linked to the season start Down Under..

#HighProbabilityOfTruth

for other old people/non-gamers, to save them from having to google, a pic of

Duke Nukem, who's looking more like Kittel every day...

spitting image, indeed

i always think of drago when i see him