Recent content by beroepsrenner

This pretty much sums it up.

Unfortunately there are no pensions! Like most professional sports, your carreer is never going to be the duration of your working life so the idea is to make as much as you can with what talent you possess for as long as you can, then for those with their heads screwed on right will use what...

Your assumption is correct. With weather conditions as we saw them day after day in the Giro, sickness quickly spreads through the peloton via mucus droplets etc. flying everywhere, particularly with those that are getting fatigued.

Well done Herman!!! This is the best and most intelligent post I have read on this forum in a long time. I endorse your comments 100%

Maybe I'm too serious!! I wouldnt consider myself an Evans fan but I do give credit where credit is due.

You seem to be swimming against the tide with this post! It shows a complete lack of understanding of bike racing. While Cadel often blurts out petty excuses, when you have virtually no team around to support you at the front of the peloton you have no choice but to ride defensively and pick...

Yes, you are right, but there is definitely an appropiate time to step down from elite level. If you have passed your peak as far as winning at this level is concerned then its time to step back to a lower category if you want to keep racing. You are only blocking the path for new talent. You...

A particular age has nothing to do with it. Hinaut was only 32 when he retired. Australia's track great, Danny Clark, was still competative in six day racing into his 40s. Its about the "fire in the belly". Even though you may still have the physical ability to keep on going, if you've lost the...

Very interesting topic Joe. McEwen is the most obvious offender and I see Leif Hoste in the same boat. There are probably many more if think about it. I think the biggest motivater for Armstrong is a giant ego and a lack of a definite plan for the rest of his life's journey. As you and I have...

There's no dought that Cadel has an odd personality but as others have pointed out, normal people dont race bikes at the elite level. It takes a certain amount of autistic tendancies to be able to focus so intently on such an insane sport. I think the fact that Cadel came to road racing at such...

I hadnt forgotten them and there's also Karl Menzies racing with great success for a number of years now in the USA as have Caleb Manion, Sean Sullivan and Matt Rice. In fact if you go back over the last 20 years there have been a number of Tasmanians racing in Europe and the US.

Tasmania certainly has the best training roads in Australia and the unreliable weather is good for building resilience. I predict that we will see more young talent come from here in the years to come with the current publicity being generated by Richie Porte and Mat Goss.

Why is it that Australia's island state of Tasmania with a population of a mere half a million people continually produces world class cyclists? Traditionally a hot bed of track cycling which produced international stars such as 1956 world motorpaced champion, Graeme French, Six Day stars...

ok........a few points I overlooked. I'll think more carefully before I praise them next time:D

The fact is that Australians excel at whatever they do, whatever sport or any other field of endeavour. For a country with a relatively small population situated so far from the rest of the world we make our presence felt. The only thing the Brits are exceptionaly good at is humour, which just...