2013 Pro-cycling season thread

Don't take this piss. He'd spent all year living like a monk, until all of his goals were completed. And then he got fairly drunk.

Don't take this piss. He'd spent all year living like a monk, until all of his goals were completed. And then he got fairly drunk.

sorry Sir. I got confused between being on lfgss and bikeradar. I promise it won't happen again-please don't purse your lips disapprovingly at me anymore.

I thought this. Wiggins is a proper diesel. If he can avoid blowing up in the Giro I reckon he can keep his head down and train hard for 4 weeks and still be competitive, maybe even have an advantage in that he's not 'riding into form' in the first week of the Tour.
He could put valuable minutes into his rivals in that first week and still have a buffer if he fades in the last week of the Tour.

The issue with attempting the Giro/Tour double is not having to train hard in between them, more that it is extremely difficult to have two peaks of form of 3 weeks long in a 10 week period. The coaches Sky have seem to be able to turn accepted coaching norms on their head, remember last year when everyone said Wiggins was peaking too early, so I'm sure they think they know how to achieve this.

It'll be interesting to watch but it is risky so having two designated leaders seems sensible to me, despite what Michelle Cound might think.

I did a bad thing, but i couldnt resist for £25.
Team Sky, Rapha, t shirt, Evans.

Millar, Robert, on brad.

wut?

http://www.cyclingnews.com/blogs/robert-millar

Forgive me.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/blogs/robert-millar

The Ice Cream War?

Somebody say ice cream?

http://www.cyclingnews.com/blogs/robert-millar

Forgive me.

Forgiven

Somebody say ice cream?

Dolce de leche, pistachio and ale flavours. yum.

pistachio >>>

stracciatella ftw

His wife is a [...] but I don't blame Froome for sticking to his employer's promises, imho he's been acting like a proper employee of the month/year/season since the 2011 Vuelta.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/petacchi-disappointed-after-the-uci-block-his-move-to-omega-pharma-quick-step

The UCI takes a dump on Petacchi riding for OPQS

Froome interviewed by his wife, on who's leading the tour.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXL3yVu0zTw

It's like the bosses at Sky have been watching loads of WWF wrestling in the off-season and thought to themselves "everyone's bored of the Sky train, how can we spice this year up a little bit? I know... SOAP OPERA!"

Davey B. is anal about stuff. As he has shown in interviews.

If this stuff is going on, on this concurring timescale. He knows and advocates it. Or he'd of shut it down ages back.

About stuff he can control. What's he gonna do, withhold pay if Froomey's missus doesn't stop tweeting?

Froome interviewed by his wife, on who's leading the tour.

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So Froome has a jolly good titter about the absurdity of Kiryienka or Costa leading the team, both bloody awesome riders in their own right.

He's starting to strike me as a bit of a smug prick.

^ yeah agreed, i always thought he seemed shy and embarrassed but he comes across as a dick there

I blame The Cound

So Froome has a jolly good titter about the absurdity of Kiryienka or Costa leading the team, both bloody awesome riders in their own right.

He's starting to strike me as a bit of a smug prick.

Kosta in this case = Konstantin Sioutsou, his team mate. He's implying that his two team mates have been so strong this year that they can ride the rest of the Tour peleton off their wheels.

Poking fun at himself, as he is here, shows he's not that smug.

But frankly, who fucking cares about this shit? The race is two months away, we'll quickly see who should be the leader then. In the meantime this is just getting boring.

no its not its great. Sure I want racing and for it ultimately to be decided on the road but this is great fun. Looking forward to one of them properly throwing their toys out of the pram

But frankly, who fucking cares about this shit? The race is two months away, we'll quickly see who should be the leader then. In the meantime this is just getting boring.

Both are one crash and broken bone away from rendering the entire circus moot.

If you can have a Moot Circus