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I'm gonna rise just because...

Is Fignon the new Jeez? Always love when someone new wanders into the race threads and decides to be a bit of a cunt

@ Geezer-Jimmy. If I was a "bit of a cunt" you would be up me like shot, you come across as so hard up...

Comparing Vos's win ratio to Merckx's is just nonsense which is why I let this go two days ago.

You sonny boy on the other hand had to come on here and have a little pop at me didn't you? lol...

A life lesson for you take it or leave it. We all hold opinions in this world on many kinds of different topics. calling people you don't even know "cunts' on the Internet just because you disagree with them is little bit of a fail on your behalf.

Fignon.

Yawn

Long ride today?

Merckx failed three doping tests. Compare that with Vos.

You are right of course Vos is the superior rider all her 307 wins were achieved whilst injecting herself only with bread and water.

Meanwhile the hapless Merckx had to resort to amphetemines and cortisone just like the rest of the peleton in his day...

Marianne Vos turned 27 today, which is worthy of congratulations of course, but not nearly as worthy as her 307 wins (as opposed to E. Merckx' 296 at the time of his 27th birthday)

Not a fair comparison. Look who Vos has been up against in her career and look who Merckx had to contend with.

No, just white.

Which is why i have a soft spot for French teams Europcar who fielded the first black guy to ride the TDF Yohann Gene and also have Kevin black Reza in their squad (both of West Indian descent) and Francais du jour who of course have Nacer Bouhanni of North African Algerian background.

Oh and then there are all the 'Mestizos' from Columbia who have been in the pro peleton since the 1980s, Quintana being the latest in a long line.

I've always thought of the U.K. bike racing scene as a bit like the local golf club, a bit sniffy and exclusive...

Funny, I was looking at one of these framesets the 2014 version in a shop this week.

They are a bit Henry Ford though, "You can have any colour you want as long as it is black"...

I need a 63cm and i'd want it sprayed in the gaudiest of 80s-90s Italian colour schemes.

Good luck,

Yup twas the second manhole cover that did for Dan Martin, watched it many times now.

Those bloody things are lethal in the wet It's about time they were re-designed. i fear them greatly

Items in possession, thank you very much.

Dibs and PMd both Mavic items.

Hmm...same size and shape...freewheel for a few seconds one handed on the smooth stretch and there you have it the last jelly baby sneakily consumed...

They used to tuck the pills up their bib shorts, easy retrieval

They used to push pessaries up their bottoms as well during races.

Cancellara sipping a gel is now standard signal to DSs to be read "I can sprint, your guy can do some work".

I can never get on with gels ugh! they make me wanna poop until the end of time.

http://velonews.competitor.com/2014/04/news/drapac-rider-travis-meyer-seriously-injured-training_324156

Australian Pro Continental team Drapac has confirmed that Travis Meyer was hit by a vehicle while training in Andorra on Saturday.
Meyer suffered multiple injuries, including a fractured skull, fractured jaw, broken arm and a bruised lung. He was airlifted from Andorra to a hospital in Barcelona after the incident.
The younger brother of 2011 Tour Down Under winner Cameron Meyer, Travis Meyer, 24, moved to Drapac in 2014 after two years at Orica-GreenEdge. Prior to that, he spent 2010 and 2011 with Garmin.
Meyer was due to race the Presidential Tour of Turkey later this month.
Meyer’s injury came just one day after American Chris Horner was also seriously injured when he was also hit by a car while training.

These type of incidents make my heart sink...

Having been on the receiving end of drivers like this one realises that you can be gone from this world in an instant or left up as some kind of plegic.

I hope they both make full recoveries and not had their careers ended.

Can't help pondering what might have been if Wiggins had committed to a full classics campaign. Maybe he prepared in the best way for himself, but has anyone just turned up for RVV and PR and won one of them?

Bernard Hinault?

I think he only rode Paris Roubaix once saying "it is a race for dickheads"

I got my silver pair for £45

I swapped out my laces for Ghetto brown ones.

Wiggins is Belgian so he would feel at home in Northern France.

I got my silver pair last year for £90.00

Sky picanic

Is Wigggins wearing Giro lace ups?

A shower and commute into to work for me.

"I am Sir Bradley, I go in the shower first!"

Agreed, just seems a bit of a letdown to see all those big guns just sitting there.

Why did none of them go with Terpstra? were they all cooked?

Geez, Greg Lemond looks old.

I think the sky guy came third.

Sorry Fab came third, black kits small viewing window...

I'll watch it again later, hopefully cyclinghub will have a nice edit on youtube.