General News Thread

[craig1985]

De Post puts Merckx on de stamp | Cyclingnews.com

Only in Belgium.

 

[El Imbatido]

Wigans new TT bike for the giro.

one word to describe it........FUGLY!!!!!

 

[auscyclefan94]

Wigans new TT bike for the giro.

one word to describe it........FUGLY!!!!!

Well then it is perfect for wigans

 

[oevkride]

Hushovd out with broken collarbone.

Thor Hushovd broke his collarbone while out training saturday.
http://www.sanremonews.it/it/internal.php?news_code=118568
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http://www.sanremonews.it/it/internal.php?news_code=118568&sl=it&tl=en

This makes this years the green jersey comeptition even less exciting...

 

[Moondance]

Thor Hushovd broke his collarbone while out training saturday.
http://www.sanremonews.it/it/internal.php?news_code=118568
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http://www.sanremonews.it/it/internal.php?news_code=118568&sl=it&tl=en

This makes this years the green jersey comeptition even less exciting...

The Belgian commentary team for the Giro said he'd be out for 6 weeks. It's obviously not the ideal preparation, but he should be at the start at least.

 

[Jamsque]

Damn, that's a real shame.

 

[Publicus]

Thor Hushovd broke his collarbone while out training saturday.
http://www.sanremonews.it/it/internal.php?news_code=118568
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http://www.sanremonews.it/it/internal.php?news_code=118568&sl=it&tl=en

This makes this years the green jersey comeptition even less exciting...

Agreed. Hopefully he will recover quickly and can resume training fairly soon.

 

[Eyjafjallajokull]

Yeah bad for the green jersy competition.

Seems Cav will have it all sown up.

 

[Moondance]

De Post puts Merckx on de stamp | Cyclingnews.com

Only in Belgium.

What's wrong with that? Surely in Australia there are stamps with some of your greatest sporting heroes too?

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

What's wrong with that? Surely in Australia there are stamps with some of your greatest sporting heroes too?

PFFT! In Australia we only give the real heroes that privilege.

example 1 - Robin Hood

http://auspost.com.au/about-us/russell-crowe-to-stamp-his-authority-at-the-box-office.html

 

[sadfitty]

Relax, Hushovd won't be out for 6 weeks. Guess he will be back on the bike in 10 days... Should not affect him to much when the tour comes around.

 

[RedheadDane]

Okay... I just read why Hushovd broke his collarbone... he... hit a little girl who was crossing the road...

 

[dolophonic]

PFFT! In Australia we only give the real heroes that privilege.

example 1 - Robin Hood

http://auspost.com.au/about-us/russell-crowe-to-stamp-his-authority-at-the-box-office.html

Robin Hood was Aussie ?

 

[RedheadDane]

Russell Crowe who plays RH in the new movie...

Here we're just plain boring. I think we mostly stick with the Queen. (But of course... it's been ages since the last time I actually sent a letter...)


And this has nothing to do with bike racing...

 

[craig1985]

Grabovskyy seriously injured in training accident | Cyclingnews.com

Ouch!

 

[TRDean]

Grabovskyy seriously injured in training accident | Cyclingnews.com

Ouch!

I hope he makes a quick and full recovery!! Ouch is right!!!

 

[issoisso]

The guy can't catch a break.

Let's hope the disappointment doesn't drive him back to the booze

 

[auscyclefan94]

Out of interest, has a team in a ttt ever caught another whole team along the course before in a gt?

if so, what happened?

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Out of interest, has a team in a ttt ever caught another whole team along the course before in a gt?

if so, what happened?

I believe so yes. They simply pass them lol.

 

[The Sheep]

Raleigh probably did

 

[craig1985]

Astana and RS for the Tour of Picardie:

Astana: David de la Fuente, Allan and Scott Davis, Valery Dmitriev, Benjamin Noval, Yevgeniy Nepomniadhshiy, Bolat Raimbekov, and Mirko Selvaggi.

RadioShack: Fumiyuki Beppu, Sam Bewley, Daryl Impey, Gregory Rast, Sébastien Rosseler, Bjørn Selander, Gert Steegmans and Tomas Vaitkus.

RS could of sent this squad to the Giro, plus one more rider IMO.

 

[maltiv]

Relax, Hushovd won't be out for 6 weeks. Guess he will be back on the bike in 10 days... Should not affect him to much when the tour comes around.

Nope, it will affect him a lot. He won't be able to sprint at all for 6 weeks, so his sprint will be really weak at TDF for sure. No chance at green.

 

[Mellow Velo]

RadioShack: Fumiyuki Beppu, Sam Bewley, Daryl Impey, Gregory Rast, Sébastien Rosseler, Bjørn Selander, Gert Steegmans and Tomas Vaitkus.

RS could of sent this squad to the Giro, plus one more rider IMO.

Luckily for us, they chose not to. The Giro has been a refreshingly troll free zone as a result.

 

[craig1985]

Luckily for us, they chose not to. The Giro has been a refreshingly troll free zone as a result.

When you look at like that, then yes you're correct. Probably why I will give the TOC threads a wide berth.

 

[Anonymous]

cadels shoes and bmc world championship shirt being auctioned for charity

the first set of rainbow shoes he had, and his first bmc rainbow jersey.