HTC Columbia vs. Sky

[BroDeal]

Yup, it's official. America's team, HTC Columbia, is clubbing Sky like a baby seal.

 

[auscyclefan94]

I KNOW, IT'S SO BORING

though it should be different tommorow. It will be a bit too hard for greipel me thinks.

 

[BroDeal]

I KNOW, IT'S SO BORING

Yeah, but just think of how much more boring it would be if HTC had a totally new approach like Sky.

Maybe we could all chip in and buy Dim a few pints to wash away his sorrows.

 

[Ferminal]

Yeah, but just think of how much more boring it would be if HTC had a totally new approach like Sky.

Maybe we could all chip in and buy Dim a few pints to wash away his sorrows.

There's always next stage...next race...next season.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Columbia's 2nd win out of 2,000,000 this season

 

[Clemson Cycling]

Yup, it's official. America's team, HTC Columbia, is clubbing Sky like a baby seal.

America's team with two Americans. I thought that was against UCI Pro Tour rules to have that few from a team's home country but I was wrong. I think Tejay is going to be something special though.

 

[BroDeal]

America's team with two Americans. I thought that was against UCI Pro Tour rules to have that few from a team's home country but I was wrong. I think Tejay is going to be something special though.

American tradition. We hire the best. We don't care to extort another team out of an overhyped countryman who will be lucky if he cracks the top ten at the Tour.

 

[karlboss]

Does columbia win the prize for most international team?

 

[Moondance]

Comparing Columbia to Sky is more than a little unfair to Sky. It's an unreasonably high standard to hold a new team to (with their sprinting division based largely on whoever they could get from Columbia) whereas Columbia has had 3 years to mould the best possible train, and on top of that has the best two sprinters in the peleton right now.

Columbia were always going to be the best sprinting team this year, and anyone who held differently was just an overexcited fanboy.

Also, Columbia is "America's Team"? That's a good one, unless America has suddenly turned into a combination of Australia and Germany.

 

[Mellow Velo]

What's next?
Can we have a Sky versus Godzilla thread?

 

[theyoungest]

Can we have a Sky versus Godzilla thread?

Come to think, maybe a Sky vs. Lance Armstrong thread is in the making.

 

[karlboss]

Men's team only

Germany-5
Australia-5
Belgium-3
Denmark-2
USA-2
Slovakia-2
Austria-1
Uk-1
Switzerland-1
Italy-1
Czech-1
Belarus-1
NewZealand-1
Latvia-1
Spain-1


14 nations...Can anyone else beat that?

Sky vs HTC as a sprinters team...they may manage a nice leadout, but noone at sky can finish like greipel or cavendish.

 

[BroDeal]

Comparing Columbia to Sky is more than a little unfair to Sky.

No. No. No. It is a perfectly good comparison, much more so than comparing Sky, a team built for one day races, to Garmin, a team built for placing high in GTs and the occasional time trial victory. Plus, Sky has a completely new approach, so the team does not need years and years to build itself in the traditional way.

 

[Moondance]

No. No. No. It is a perfectly good comparison, much more so than comparing Sky, a team built for one day races, to Garmin, a team built for placing high in GTs and the occasional time trial victory. Plus, Sky has a completely new approach, so the team does not need years and years to build itself in the traditional way.

???? What's so "completely new" about them?

 

[BroDeal]

???? What's so "completely new" about them?

I am not really sure, but Dim can tell us all about it. He mentions it in every other post of his about Sky. Apparently the team gave each rider a laptop, and they are providing nutrition advice. I am sure that no team in the hundred plus year history of cycling ever thought to give their riders diet information. I cannot figure out how the laptops will help. Maybe they carry them in courier bags for extra weight while doing hill repeats in training. But I assure you, even if I cannot understand it myself, it is a totally new approach.

 

[Kristian]

I am not really sure, but Dim can tell us all about it. He mentions it in every other post of his about Sky. Apparently the team gave each rider a laptop, and they are providing nutrition advice. I am sure that no team in the hundred plus year history of cycling ever thought to give their riders diet information. I cannot figure out how the laptops will help. Maybe they carry them in courier bags for extra weight while doing hill repeats in training. But I assure you, even if I cannot understand it myself, it is a totally new approach.

You really don't like Sky do you?

 

[Moondance]

You really don't like Sky do you?

I think its more that Bro is sick of the Sky fanboys.

 

[auscyclefan94]

I think its more that Bro is sick of the Sky fanboys.

like dim???

 

[Moondance]

like dim???

Well, sick of his Sky fanboy-dom to be sure

 

[Kristian]

I think its more that Bro is sick of the Sky fanboys.

There has been a lot of hype around them, but its the results that matter in the end. Personally I think they will have a good season, with some stage wins and maybe a classic victory.

 

[flyor64]

I think its more that Bro is sick of the Sky fanboys.

Have they been around long enough to be sick of 'em yet?

My theory is that Bro is just one of the more skilled and sarcastic polemicists on this here forum...

 

[Mellow Velo]

Apparently the team gave each rider a laptop, and they are providing nutrition advice. I am sure that no team in the hundred plus year history of cycling ever thought to give their riders diet information. I cannot figure out how the laptops will help. Maybe they carry them in courier bags for extra weight while doing hill repeats in training. But I assure you, even if I cannot understand it myself, it is a totally new approach.

Now, if they gave each "rider" a lapdance, that really might prove to be a new and "exciting" approach.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Now, if they gave each "rider" a lapdance, that really might prove to be a new and "exciting" approach.

hendo might win against grepel due to being so excited though would be an odd photo shot with him sitting up clebrating the win with his schlong being quite visible!

 

[Clemson Cycling]

14 nations...Can anyone else beat that?

Radioshack has 15

 

[El Imbatido]

hendo might win against grepel due to being so excited though would be an odd photo shot with him sitting up clebrating the win with his schlong being quite visible!

And you know who else knows the importance of having a good schlong length for photo finishes? A certain rider from Austin, Texas, that goes by the name..........Lance Armstrong

Sorry i couldn't resist.... i was just reading that other thread where every second poster was ripping into Paul Sherwen for mentioning a certain rider from Austin, Texas who is apparently named Lance Armstrong ( or Larnce Armstrong if you are Paul Sherwen).......

Ok, ok, back on track. What were we talking about?.......oh yeah, who has a bigger schlong?.... Hendo or Greipel?......i'm gonna say Greipel by a head