2011 Pro-cycling season thread

I read that, and suddenly found myself salivating.

love Het Volk, even though it's NEVER televised (humph), but I really got involved with Paris Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico last year. Totally absorbing racing.

Check out www.cyclingfans.com - they usually have a stream of the Sporza coverage for Het Volk, so you get to see proper racing and get a chance to learn Flemish at the same time. Win, win.

Let's have your TDU predictions, here are mine:

Cav to be sprint king, Griepel to languish behind Farrar, Ciolek, Hushovd and probably McEwan.

I don't think Cavendish will win a stage. He'll be working for Goss and Renshaw and getting some race miles in his legs. He's got bigger fish to fry and has a long season ahead of him, given the Copenhagen course is likely to give him the best chance he'll ever have of being world champion.

Goss will win the overall.

A big crash which will put one of the big sprinters out of action for a few weeks.

I don't think Cavendish will win a stage. He'll be working for Goss and Renshaw and getting some race miles in his legs. He's got bigger fish to fry and has a long season ahead of him, given the Copenhagen course is likely to give him the best chance he'll ever have of being world champion.

Goss will win the overall.

Cav is too big headed to not 'race' Griepel

Congrats to Ben Swift this morning!

Cav's big head covered in blood... at least he's got his early season crash out of the way

Ouch.

Lance will win it. He's so awesome.

Congrats to Ben Swift this morning!

Cav's big head covered in blood... at least he's got his early season crash out of the way

Agreed - he looked well chuffed

Congrats to Ben Swift this morning!

Cav's big head covered in blood... at least he's got his early season crash out of the way

nasty.

He didn't lay off the pies this winter did he?

He's pretty trim, actually.

It's just that he's got a massive fat head.

It's how he makes gaps in the peloton.

Is this an opportunity for a claw photo?

I like his unkempt appearance, makes him look like a sexy Neanderthal

We are.

Maybe his new girlfriend likes that look?

I like his unkempt appearance, makes him look like a sexy Neanderthal

That's why I didn't shave for a while before I visited last night and yet.. nothing.. not a single inappropriate touch.. sob

Is this an opportunity for a claw photo?

Christ... can't find it quick enough...

He didn't lay off the pies this winter did he?

http://www.teamsky.com/gallery/0,27401,20167_6665894,00.html#photo=6

Deceiving. When men breathe in deeply their stomach expands, while when a woman does it her chest does the expanding.

#factoid

Tubby ^^

#another factoid

Breathing in deeply / tubby * again

*delete as appropriate

Jesus, he's a right fat cunt

Ulrich!

Nothing wrong with fatties you bunch of racists.

Ulrich!

I was watching a load of footage of Jan Ullrich recently, and in at least half of it, where he's in the vicinity of Lance Armstrong, Jan is pedalling faster. I knew this already, but it always makes me laugh in light of the internet-wisdom of Jan=masher, Lance=spinner.

The same way that someone will have reported Lance Armstrong's cadence as being 110rpm at some point during a TT, and then a game of Chinese whispers begins, and suddenly thousands of American (and regrettably, British) 'experts' are saying how it's *essential to climb at 110rpm like Lance*.

It's another one of those days when I wake up and remember how much I hate almost everyone :(