A coffee and a small Danish.

[RedheadDane]

What is the reason for this sudden urge to be violent @RedheadDane? This doesn't seem like your thing.

Also the user @123456789 seems more like your natural enemy.

Who said anything about violence?
How do you know it isn't a singing competition?
Oh... well... if I'm involved, it does count as violence...

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Who said anything about violence?
How do you know it isn't a singing competition?
Oh... well... if I'm involved, it does count as violence...

It obviously doesn't matter much to me, since I isn't the one being challenged, but your teammates and opponents would probably like to know the rules in advance.

 

[RedheadDane]

It obviously doesn't matter much to me, since I isn't the one being challenged, but your teammates and opponents would probably like to know the rules in advance.

I already stated the rules:
We meet at dawn!
Or 10:30... depending on when people can get up.

 

[rallybanana]

Suggestion!
@Armchair Cyclist, @armchairclimber, and @AnotherArmChair (Team Armchair)
Vs
@red_flanders, @Red Rick, and Yours Truly (Team Red).

We meet at dawn!

What about @GenericBoonenFan, @Zoetemelk-fan, and @Sandisfan ?

That way, you could have a proper three-way duel like the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

What about @GenericBoonenFan, @Zoetemelk-fan, and @Sandisfan ?

That way, you could have a proper three-way duel like the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

If you're gonna shoot, shoot! Don't talk.

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

What about @GenericBoonenFan, @Zoetemelk-fan, and @Sandisfan ?

That way, you could have a proper three-way duel like the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Don't like how we're aligned with "the ugly"...

I assume Zoetemelk-fan is Dutch and Sandisfan, are you Dutch or Flemish?
In any case I'll have to dial back my "West-Flemish" or more than half of the Netherlands won't understand me.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Don't like how we're aligned with "the ugly"...

I assume Zoetemelk-fan is Dutch and Sandisfan, are you Dutch or Flemish?
In any case I'll have to dial back my "West-Flemish" or more than half of the Netherlands won't understand me.

I think Zoetemelk-Fan is Danish.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Don't like how we're aligned with "the ugly"...

I assume Zoetemelk-fan is Dutch and Sandisfan, are you Dutch or Flemish?
In any case I'll have to dial back my "West-Flemish" or more than half of the Netherlands won't understand me.

They're Danish and American respectively.

I'd like to see rallybanana go up against lemon cheese cake and Strawberry_Jams.

I'd also enjoy a proper fight between AttaqueDeRolland, Poursuivant and pelotonIQ.

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

They're Danish and American respectively.

I'd like to see rallybanana go up against lemon cheese cake and Strawberry_Jams.

I'd also enjoy a proper fight between AttaqueDeRolland, Poursuivant and pelotonIQ.

Oh, I thought a fictional "commentary-off" was set up for some reason and RHD and rallybanane had made groups based on mother languages...
I'm even more lost right now as to what is going on...

Edit: oh ffs, I get it now, usernames. That took embarrissingly long

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

I assume Zoetemelk-fan is Dutch and Sandisfan, are you Dutch or Flemish?.

Years ago spend way too much at MyHerita$e at not finding my (possible?) Dutch origin. Maybe an unfound fraction centuries ago?

Spoiler

I'm Danish

Every gun makes its own tune.

 

[RedheadDane]

Oh, I thought a fictional "commentary-off" was set up for some reason and RHD and rallybanane had made groups based on mother languages...
I'm even more lost right now as to what is going on...

I think Red Rick is Dutch.

 

[Sandisfan]

Don't like how we're aligned with "the ugly"...

I assume Zoetemelk-fan is Dutch and Sandisfan, are you Dutch or Flemish?
In any case I'll have to dial back my "West-Flemish" or more than half of the Netherlands won't understand me.

I'm American of Portuguese decent. Grand Father of Dad's side from Azores (13 as they were drafting in Port. boys at 15 to keep their colonies) Mothers side Grand Father from East Coast Maryland, Both Grand Mothers from California one from central Valley close-ish to Fresno the other from Napa, all Portuguese decent.

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Since we're all now committed to sharing ancestry: my grandad and myself made a family tree on his side of the family gowing back 7 generations all within 15km of the coastal town of "Nieuwpoort".
On the other side I only managed 5 generations but nothing besides Flemish there aswell (although my grandfather was born in Moldova so technically I'm partially Moldovan)

 

[red_flanders]

My Mom is Belgian, from the Flemish coastal town of Blankenberge. Not that far from Nieuwport @GenericBoonenFan! The great bulk of my family is in Flanders or Brussels.

The Dad half is American as it gets. Literally goes back to the Mayflower and John Alden. Roots are deep in Connecticut, then Indiana, and eventually California.

 

[RedheadDane]

That's another idea; teams based on nationality.
I think us Danes would have a decent chance...
Danes vs Swedes! Who's with me?

 

[noob]

That's another idea; teams based on nationality.
I think us Danes would have a decent chance...
Danes vs Swedes! Who's with me?

At least their dawn is the same 🤣🤣🤣 But that's true for all cet timers ⏲️ 😄

 

[noob]

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-4omOvrRVZ8&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qIG1ZT3-a_A


We could all compete in eye sight.

This video is about ball sports but hear a noob out;

I have for a loooooong time belived visual perception mattered in sports much more than people believes. Especially in ball sports, but honestly in much more than just those.

Eye sight/visual perception in cycling;

In a way riding inside a peleton demands skills similar to perceiving balls (not the balls Remco says Jonas lacks😉) in ball sports;

You need excellent spatial perception and periferal vision as you have riders everywhere around you that you always have to know exactly where they're at and what they're doing. The worse perception the more likely you are to crash. Perception probably is just as important - if not more than - as bike handling skills.

The better perception and periferal vision the less crashing. The less perception and periferal vision the more crashing.

Sprinters in particular gotta have insane periferal vision. Maybe Cavendish is like Gretzky, who knows 😉

So the next time you complain about someone's bike handling skills; maybe they didn't just see that hay bale or pot hole or wheel in front 🤔 Because if they have to constantly turn their head around while another can use periferal vision and spatially percieve where the others or pot holes and wheels are the latter has a huge advantage and wastes far less mental energy.

At least this makes complete sense to a noob (who is at the exakt opposite end of Wayne Gretzky.)

 

[RedheadDane]

Not a bad day for the Hobbs Bros.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Eye sight/visual perception in cycling;

In a way riding inside a peleton demands skills similar to perceiving balls (not the balls Remco says Jonas lacks😉) in ball sports;

You need excellent spatial perception and periferal vision as you have riders everywhere around you that you always have to know exactly where they're at and what they're doing. The worse perception the more likely you are to crash. Perception probably is just as important - if not more than - as bike handling skills.

The better perception and periferal vision the less crashing. The less perception and periferal vision the more crashing.

And yet still people here state that One Eye-uso's withdrawal from the Giro was selfishness.

 

[RedheadDane]

I'd like to remind everyone that there is a situation that's even worse than the 'Romo and Romeo' case at Movistar.
The 'Kopecky and Kopecký' case at SD Worx.

 

[noob]

Anyone else had their phone falling out when rolling around in a hot air ballon to try to ge the air out? I believe it takes a noob for such a thing, but I could ask could I not?

I'm entertained though; amateur cyclists outside my window all night through

 

[RedheadDane]

Anyone else had their phone falling out when rolling around in a hot air ballon to try to ge the air out? I believe it takes a noob for such a thing, but I could ask could I not?

I'm entertained though; amateur cyclists outside my window all night through

Whaaat?

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Anyone else had their phone falling out when rolling around in a hot air ballon to try to ge the air out? I believe it takes a noob for such a thing, but I could ask could I not?

I'm entertained though; amateur cyclists outside my window all night through

I need some extra visual evidence to make sure I got it.

 

[noob]

Whaaat?

After the baloon has landed those who went in it are urged to help get the air out of it. So we rolled the ballon inwards from outside. Hot air baloons are biiiiig. I believe ours were 50 meters. So in the end when it's rolled in they told us if we wanted we could roll around ourselves on top of it to get the air out. Me and others vulonteered happily and rolled around like children. Maybe it was then I lost my phone. Or;

When we had rolled the ballon together we put it in a gigantic sack and again to get the air out some of us was lying on the air to get it out. I fell head down through the layers of the rolled balloon while the air surrounded me to my knees. That might've been when the phone fell out, as we rolled in layer after layer and I dived into it multiple times.

It's quite surrealistic to see the edge of my phone through the sack and hear it ringing. The pilote who tried to get it out said he had delivered a lot of calves and this was rather similar but he would've needed more glide to get around in there

Also; I'm not the first one getting my phone trapped inside that sack

In short if you are trying to get thair out of something that big make sure your pockets are empthy first