The Big Ring Attitude

Almost like MTB dual style.... loving it .. Bring more of the attitude.

Big Ring Attitude Is the only attitude people.

Big enough?

http://bit.ly/bBNNMr

FFS ... mate it ain't the actual ratio it is the Attitude ... get it right ... god any fool can pedal ... only the few can show the attitude. It is the expression on the face of complete determination even though the odds are against you .. .. true warriorism ... just posting a bit chain ring ain't enough there has to be a face with it.

What's with all these photos of cyclist riding on their inner ring? What a load of bullshit.

As I said it is the atttitude ... not the gear size ... Read the original blog it may educate you.

I know, FFS. I have read the original blog, you tard.

My last comment was a bit of silliness, although there really should be less photos of inner ring riding.

I know, FFS. I have read the original blog, you tard.

My last comment was a bit of silliness, although there really should be less photos of inner ring riding.

Yes I was aware it was a bit of sillyness.. I do this thing when people are acting like deliberate tards ... I do the same thing ... It makes you look like the dick not me ... in the end.

:-)

:D ... If you wanna post some Big Ring Goodness ... Post It ...

I posted this in another thread, but it needs a repost in here

Fiorenzo Magni - King of HTFU

http://bikeraceinfo.com/oralhistory/magni.html

FM: I consider my greatest win my second place in GC at the Giro of 1956, my last year as a pro.

VP: You were a very brave second in that incredible Giro. Tell us what happened.

FM: During stage 12, from Grosseto to Livorno, I crashed on the descent out of Volterra and broke my left collarbone. At the hospital they said I should put on a plaster cast and quit. But I didn't want to. Since the next day was a rest day, I told the doctor to do nothing and that we should wait and see. The day after I asked the doctor to put on an elastic bandage instead of a cast because I wanted to try to ride the following stage, Livorno to Lucca. It worked! I wasn't among the first riders but I finished.

VP: There is the famous picture of your riding holding a piece of inner tube in your mouth during the 13th stage, the individual time trail of San Luca. Can you explain?

FM: Just before the stage started I tried to ride my bike on a climb and I noticed I couldn't use the muscles of my left arm to pull on the handle bar very hard. So my mechanic, Faliero Masi, the best mechanic of all time, cut a piece of inner tube and suggested I pull it with my mouth. That was a great idea!

VP: Then, during stage 16, from Bologna to Rapallo, through the Apennines, you crashed again and broke your humerus.

FM: Yes, I didnt have enough strength in my left arm and I crashed after hitting a ditch by the road. I fell on my already broken bone and fainted from the pain. The ambulance came to bring me to the hospital. In the ambulance they gave me water and I got back on my feet. When I realized that I was being taken to the hospital I screamed and told the driver to stop. I didn't want to abandon the Giro! I mounted my bike again and restarted pedaling. The peloton had waited for me, so I arrived in Rapallo in a relatively good position. I had no idea of how serious my condition was, I just knew that I was in a lot of pain but I didn't want to have X-rays that evening. During the days that followed I could hold my own.

VP: You were even able to ride the Stelvio Pass (Stage 19)!

FM: Yes, there I didn't have problems on the climb, but the descent was hard. On the climb I could go up at my own speed. At that point my aim was just to finish the Giro, not to win it of course. I didn't want to abandon the Giro in the year of my retirement.

VP: Why did you have problems on the descent?

FM: Because I could not brake with my left hand and I skidded. That was tough!

VP: Then there was Stage 20 from Merano to Trento, over the Costalunga, Rolle, Brocon and Bondone climbs. Pasquale Fornara was the Pink Jersey. That day 60 people abandoned! What happened?

FM: It snowed the whole day and it was very cold, I had not noticed how much. Along the way I saw many bikes parked next to bars and I asked what was going on. They told me that most of the peloton froze and had to quit. Then, before reaching Trento I saw the Pink Jersey quitting too! "What?? Am I seeing things?" I wondered. If I were the Pink Jersey I would have continued, even if I had to walk, but I would never abandon!

VP: What happened next?

FM: When we were in Trento my team car came up to me and said I was third. "Third?!", I wondered again. I was third that day and became second in the GC.

VP: Gaul won that stage and went from 16 minutes behind to winning the 1956 Giro.

FM: Actually, I thought about attacking Charly Gaul in the following stages and trying to win my fourth Giro. I tried attacking him a couple of times during the last two stages, but he was too strong.The day after the end of the Giro I went to an institute that specialized in bone injuries. And they gave me a dressing-down! They said I had two fractures - I thought I had only one - and forced me to put a plaster cast. The next day I went to my machine shop and asked my mechanic to cut the plaster cast away with the special scissors he used for sheet metal. This way I could start training again. Well, my shoulder is a little crooked now, but that's that. Can you notice that??

Ha.. I was just going to link to your other post. That's proper BRA.

Never quite made it but never stopped trying.

heres Matthias Kessler of Astana using a bit of manergy .....

das is gut ya!

Manergy = Testosterone?

[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Kessler[/ame]

cant tell whether his nose is flat from being broken, or hes a fan of the marching powders...
(hope hes not reading this prolly come round and batter me)

He had a bad accident in Majorca at the beginning of the year, I've no idea if he's recovered well enough to batter anyone.

I wouldn't worry too much though, as a convicted doper I think suggesting he might like marching powder is fair comment.

Isnt our dear old Graham one to have always given it BRA, in the literal sense as much as physical.

^^^

+1 to that

went over the bow flyover this morning on the geared bike in the big ring

or maybe

and am loving this image lots

isnt our dear old graham one to have always given it bra, in the literal sense as much as physical.

137 gi ... Mental ... Love it.

Pendleton reportedly listens to the fat of the land by the prodigy before taking her rivals down.

So, if Vicky P. had a baby with Evans, I guess it would listen to this...

YouTube- Mashup :: The Prodigy vs Enya - Sail My Bitch Away

Many of my friends will know my kinship with sliding along the road ... however even though I think as though I have been through enough crashes, I only looked this bad after 1 or 2 crashed and a trip to the A&E ... after those gashes I would be on the side of the road for a good five minutes feeling sorry for myself ... chapeau.

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that's mathias frank on the left isn't it, broke his thumb and fucked his leg and still got up and finished although he isn't continuing with the tour i don't think.

not to mention the fact that he's an important climber for bmc and with contador looking how he is in the mountains i can't imagine cuddles is over the moon about it!

Yes. http://www.bmc-racing.com/int-en/team/news/team/mathias-frank-out-of-tour-de-france.html