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Flanders route changed after cobbles theft

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Oh dear, they get worse every year don't they. It's like they think the whole world turns *** just for one day of the year. I must admit though, that the victims' reactions can be quite hilarious.
 
Sep 8, 2009
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joy118118 said:
i dont like april fool's day's stories.

I dont know which of the news on cyclingnews is true.

they're all fake.all the news on 1st april are called pranks.lol flecha wants to win the tour,giro starts from a shiity town in denmark pranks i tell you...
 
May 2, 2009
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joy118118 said:
i dont like april fool's day's stories.

I dont know which of the news on cyclingnews is true.

I know what you mean...Grandmothers with cocaine laced chocolates, dogs shooting up EPO, disappearing twins, frictionless antimatter ball bearings, nanomotors embedded in bottom brackets. I get lost, too.
 
Nov 23, 2009
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I have to say though, "BMC to Tour of Flanders with five Top Ten finishers" was a pretty good April 1st joke. I especially like these quotes:

- "We have more than one rider able to do well, so we have to use this strategy," Ballan said.
- Moreover, BMC directeur sportif John Lelangue said the squad is peaking just at the right time.
- Lelangue: "They're in really good condition and since the beginning of the year, they have been riding well as a team," he said.

EDIT AFTER RVV - Thank you BMC, I take this back!
 
bicing said:
I have to say though, "BMC to Tour of Flanders with five Top Ten finishers" was a pretty good April 1st joke. I especially like these quotes:

- "We have more than one rider able to do well, so we have to use this strategy," Ballan said.
- Moreover, BMC directeur sportif John Lelangue said the squad is peaking just at the right time.
- Lelangue: "They're in really good condition and since the beginning of the year, they have been riding well as a team," he said.

LOL. ACF94 is not going to appreciate that.
 
Jan 18, 2010
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Those missing Cobbles, I reckon it was a Garmin fan responsible. :p

I thought the BMC storey was legit? Wrong race though so maybe it applies to Leige-Bastogne-Leige.
 
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Moose McKnuckles said:
LOL. ACF94 is not going to appreciate that.
Because of yesterday, I have come to loathe April Fools Day!:mad:

bicing said:
I have to say though, "BMC to Tour of Flanders with five Top Ten finishers" was a pretty good April 1st joke. I especially like these quotes:

- "We have more than one rider able to do well, so we have to use this strategy," Ballan said.
- Moreover, BMC directeur sportif John Lelangue said the squad is peaking just at the right time.
- Lelangue: "They're in really good condition and since the beginning of the year, they have been riding well as a team," he said.

That was off the BMC racing team website. NO April Fools joke there. It's legit.
 
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auscyclefan94 said:
Because of yesterday, I have come to loathe April Fools Day!:mad:



That was off the BMC racing team website. NO April Fools joke there. It's legit.

bicing was not suggesting that BMC were playing an April Fools joke by putting together a non-serious article. The suggestion was that it was a joke because BMC are supposedly rubbish and they were supposedly serious when they said this.
 
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Libertine Seguros said:
bicing was not suggesting that BMC were playing an April Fools joke by putting together a non-serious article. The suggestion was that it was a joke because BMC are supposedly rubbish and they were supposedly serious when they said this.

maybe I should of put a ";)" in.