Recent content by Caledon

What an entirely predictable response. Think your irony detector has malfunctioned…Actually it probably never functioned in the first place.:( "Whats that Skippy? An obsessive cycling fan fallen down a deep hole? Wearing a T-shirt that says what? ‘Cadel – I want to have your babies’? Ewe...

Strewth, a sexist Australian. Who'd have thought such things exist? Awe look luv, get us another tinnie since your up cleaning. My **** is stuck to the couch and there's another 3 hours till the finish of this stage.... Nearly as insightful as your analysis that if a Spaniard is not working he...

Dang, a competitor for the invention of the pedal bike. Not got time to go digging for evidence to refute the claim, but happy to let the French have the honour! Had a fun day at the Tour a couple of years ago standing on the roadside on the Col de Saisies next to a Breton in wearing a vest and...

When I started the thread I was going to say to mainland Europeans, don't just nominate your country (too easy)- but nah, I definitely go with Belgium! I think it is the rain and cobbles which connects with a lad originally from Edinburgh. Pity Scotland can't match you on producing riders. Oh...

Didn't mountain biking also start in California? I had an old Marin Muirwoods (flouro yellow) 20 years ago. Heavy but bomb proof, reliable old thing.

Hi L'arriviste, Really good response!:D The picture is great. Hope others can come up with similarly creative posts. I was trying to provoke interesting/off the wall stuff - definitely not interested in provoking any nationalist arguments. Cheers. (I'm married to a Yorkshire lass and my...

I wish we had as good a cycling 'culture' as Denmark. I was seriously impressed by the number and variety of bikes on the streets of Copenhagen. Afraid the car is still king here, although things are slowly getting better.

Musing the other day on being Scottish, (I know I need to get out more but the weather is often crap) I was thinking about how many things my little country or people who were born there had contributed to the world of science, engineering and the development of humanity in general. As we have...

:DVery true. And then on the 4th and 5th days I go bright red. After that it just involves skin coming off! However, we are very waterproof.

Ha,ha, ha ... Coming from you that really is 'the kettle calling the pot black' (no thread related pun intended)!

Hey, you are a funny guy. :) Disagreeing with El P = Trolling. Quoting potty mouth Gordon Ramsay - weak end for quite a well argued essay too. :rolleyes: And for the record, I'm not someone who thinks Cav is nailed on to win the Olympic road race. Probably a sprinter - but I have a...

Apparently not.:( Guys give up on El P. He is like the Terminator, he will never stop - not until all parcours in every race have an average gradient of 9% and a MTF. We must leave him alone in his little sloping world. For him variety is most definitely not the spice of life. We are...

Jamsque is calling this exactly right. It's not worth the effort - rationality, El P and Cav won't be found in the same location, ever. As for the general point about the course. 7 years ago Jacques Rogge did not announce that the games are "...awarded to the city of Bourg d’Oisans". They...

I've done this one! Yep, it is a long, long drag and seeing the pics brings back some painful memories. A bee also flew in my mouth that day and stung me too!!!