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oldcrank said:Mate, show yourself some respect and set
your bar a wee bit higher than that.
Glacier said:
LaFlorecita said:A clean cyclist on the tour podium? When's the last time that happened.
Galic Ho said:Hence the might part. It was a joke.![]()
I haven't been hanging around here anywhere near as much as I could to be honest.
Kind of made a promise that I wouldn't spend as much time dwelling on cycling. Been working well so far. Only getting snippets of the race.
For example, after last Saturday, well I said game over. No point watching IMO.
As for this being clean...my friend who knows nothing of cycling, said at dinner last night, when she bothered to look the Tour up, she took one look at Froome and new cycling was NOT NORMAL. That's a dietitian talking. Some of the remarks were about him not looking human. That is just one look, never mind a whole season of actually watching him race.
So yeah...it's bad. How Sky don't see it is beyond me.
BTW brace yourselves. If Froome does go mental tomorrow, when thehog gets back it'll be GOLD. I expect some really funny stuff. That's the fun part in coming back to these threads. All the older posters and their cracks and jokes about the doping. Really is entertaining stuff. I also like hearing some of the newer posters. Some being the selective word.
sniper said:i never quite understood why bruyneel thought it was wise to bring the two together in one team.
or why lance allowed that to happen. it was clear from the start that this wasn't going to be a happy marriage.
will10 said:Simple, Bruyneel had the best GT rider on his team, and Lance was never going to trust anyone but Bruyneel to get things organised for his comeback.
LaFlorecita said:He never stopped doping. Which makes Froome even more ridiculous of course.
Galic Ho said:thehog and benotti were banned for flaming a well known pain in the ****. Coggan. Free tip people, if he is outside the power meter thread, he ain't there to play nice. Ignore him and he'll crawl back to his lab.
No bans aren't permanent. I missed all the Giro. Had a great month BTW.
Well actually that isn't entirely correct. Depends on offenses. Some are few days I believe. Some are a week. I copped 4 weeks for calling the Irish posters out on not standing up for Kimmage and letting McQuaid run cycling into the ground whilst their country stood round twiddling their thumbs. Throwing a joke in there never goes down well...people are sensitive. Plus I did apologise when I got back for the joke part. Benotti69 and thehog may already have had infractions for minor indiscretions.
If you're Joachim, Laura Lynn, BPC (Ban Pro Cycling) or the original incarnate Arbiter, you get a LIFETIME ban. Why? Because you're a troll who makes so many new aliases. He/she/it has come back this month. EnacheV...good bet that was the same person. Same with taxus4a...if it looks and sounds like the same thing, it normally is. Also if you're handle is Polish and you're the biggest LA fanboy on the forum whose sole purpose on the forum is to troll...yeah, when you don't learn your lesson and take the comeuppance when your fairy tale fantasy falls apart, you also get a LIFETIME ban.
Also if you're a former pro rider, who names themselves on the forum, who has doped and talked to the officials, and you're only here to keep tabs on forum members for a certain LA and you're dumb enough to get caught out...that also gets you a LIFETIME ban. That one was Joe Papp.
My advice...remember who doesn't like you and don't reply to them repeatedly. If you post like I do...yeah, you will upset some people. Even the ones who spam your inbox and claim you're offending team Sky who they claim to know. They even leave, return and personally line you up AGAIN. Always fun stuff.![]()
Oh and I don't believe in censorship so I don't have anyone on block.
airstream said:Do you admit the thought that Froome may be much stronger if they use the same products or it's completely impossible?
veganrob said:Of course that might be true. It doesn't answer the question of who would be stronger if both were clean though.
the sceptic said:
Galic Ho said:thehog and benotti were banned for flaming a well known pain in the ****. Coggan. Free tip people, if he is outside the power meter thread, he ain't there to play nice. Ignore him and he'll crawl back to his lab.
No bans aren't permanent. I missed all the Giro. Had a great month BTW.
Well actually that isn't entirely correct.
....<loads more info>
Galic Ho said:Oh I was simply excluding Froome from the list.
It's only fair to compare everyone to the human and doped. Alien and doped...not a chance.
I think with Froome it was simply a matter of no longer crashing into officials during the ITT wasn't it?
After durianriders post the other day, it occurred to me part of the new myth should be selling a new diet. Fruitarian Froome has a ring to it doesn't it?
Great camera work, too bad there is no overhead shot.the sceptic said:
Fearless Greg Lemond said:Great camera work, too bad there is no overhead shot.
On tomorrow then.
The Froome will go gungho. Why, the skybots will ask. Well, it is pretty simple. Because he can. He is the best of the best uphill, and he knows it. Why settle for rolling in the slipstream of lesser cyclists like Valverde/Contador/Mollema etc etc. A man with his power is not going to follow those donkeys. That is below his stature. Armstrong did it once on Ventoux and still feels pretty sh!t of letting a lesser rider win that day. Why did Pantani do what he did on Madonna di Campignolo? Because he could and why suck on the wheel of donkeys like Jaja?
Gungho for the soon to be knighted Kenyan born South African Brit.
My beer is in the fridge, the chips are ready to be popped. Unleash the Froome.
Strange, are you using Google Chrome?MizunoMX20 said:Your location suggests that you are in the Netherlands, and your comment suggests you were able to view the content in that link. I am also in the Netherlands, but I am not able to view the content, because of regional issues or something. Do I need some kind of special software to view that?
Fearless Greg Lemond said:Strange, are you using Google Chrome?
It's the moment when Saxo breaks away with 30km to go.MizunoMX20 said:yes and this is the message that i get:
We're sorry... This video is not available in your location.
But anyways whats in the video?
About ten seconds more then we saw on teevee when Saxo created the echelon. You see Terpstra fighting like a mad man, Cavendish behind him, Kwiatkowski framing the Froome behind him.MizunoMX20 said:yes and this is the message that i get:
We're sorry... This video is not available in your location.
But anyways whats in the video?
Netserk said:It's the moment when Saxo breaks away with 30km to go.
Fearless Greg Lemond said:About ten seconds more then we saw on teevee when Saxo created the echelon. You see Terpstra fighting like a mad man, Cavendish behind him, Kwiatkowski framing the Froome behind him.
Can you see any videos on steephill or absolutely nothing?