Interesting Conversational Partners

[CyclistAbi]

So, nobody wants to talk to Vingo?

The question in line with this thread is do you want to?

 

[rallybanana]

What did chimney sweeping teach you about cycling.

Bicycles are faster than flying umbrellas

 

[RedheadDane]

I think Vingegaard is more the kind of person it's great to spend time with not talking.
Just sitting together, doing whatever, in comfortable silence.

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

I think Vingegaard is more the kind of person it's great to spend time with not talking.
Just sitting together, doing whatever, in comfortable silence.

If it's silence you're looking for all those death riders we mentioned might be more up your street.

 

[RedheadDane]

If it's silence you're looking for all those death riders we mentioned might be more up your street.

I prefer to spend time with living people...
Sitting in a room with a corpse seems rather creepy...

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Cille pick is obvious.

Beyond her... I'd probably like to have quite an in-depth interview with Kseniya Tuhai and her Anton Chekhov backstory, or maybe Lilibeth Chacón likewise (a bit less tragedy, but knife fights with her agent surely make for one hell of an anecdote!). Also maybe Mirsamad Pourseyedi (strictly off the record) about the wild west of the Asia Tour in that era, and some of the veterans who raced in the Eastern Bloc and can give some tales of the Friedensfahrt and racing behind the curtain. Would probably need to be the ones like Olaf Ludwig and Aavo Pikkuus at this point. Oh, and Benjamí Prades or Florian Lipowitz, about the subject of biathlon.

Oh, and Fernando Escartín, although I suspect that would be less a conversation and more me berating him, yelling and screaming course design principles at him at the top of my lungs.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I prefer to spend time with living people...
Sitting in a room with a corpse seems rather creepy...

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Gustaaf Deloor. First Vuelta winner, how did a Belgian manage to win the first Tour of Spain? He was a POW during WWII and returned to a plundered home. He chose to go to the US to make his fortune where he married and started working as a mechanic.
Later on in his further career he was a aeronautical engineer for NASA who worked on Apollo 11.

Edit: Oh yeah, the dude married a woman twice his age when 20. She died when he was 40. At which point he remarried a 20-yr old.

 

[veganrob]

Bicycles are faster than flying umbrellas

You didn't see Mary Poppins

 

[RedheadDane]

Alright, let's bring this back up to the living!

This might seem a bit weird, but Justin Jules.
Mostly just to ask him how his life is going, and tell him I'm impressed by how well he seems to have managed in life, despite, well... everything. But also to ask why exactly he ended up not racing at all during the 2021 season, before ultimately - coinciding with the demise of Delko? - pulling the plugs of his career.
I wouldn't expect him to talk about his past, I would fully understand if that's not exactly a topic he's keen on discussing.
Of course, I don't actually know if he even speaks English.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Alright, let's bring this back up to the living!

This might seem a bit weird, but Justin Jules.
Mostly just to ask him how his life is going, and tell him I'm impressed by how well he seems to have managed in life, despite, well... everything. But also to ask why exactly he ended up not racing at all during the 2021 season, before ultimately - coinciding with the demise of Delko? - pulling the plugs of his career.
I wouldn't expect him to talk about his past, I would fully understand if that's not exactly a topic he's keen on discussing.
Of course, I don't actually know if he even speaks English.

Skijumper Roglic Fan, is that you?

 

[RedheadDane]

Skijumper Roglic Fan, is that you?

No.

 

[tobydawq]

Alright, let's bring this back up to the living!

This might seem a bit weird, but Justin Jules.
Mostly just to ask him how his life is going, and tell him I'm impressed by how well he seems to have managed in life, despite, well... everything. But also to ask why exactly he ended up not racing at all during the 2021 season, before ultimately - coinciding with the demise of Delko? - pulling the plugs of his career.
I wouldn't expect him to talk about his past, I would fully understand if that's not exactly a topic he's keen on discussing.
Of course, I don't actually know if he even speaks English.

I like how you just assume that everybody knows everything about Justin Jules...

 

[RedheadDane]

I like how you just assume that everybody knows everything about Justin Jules...

Well, it's quite easy to look it up.

From prison cell to top of the pro podium; the amazing story of rising star Justin Jules - Sticky Bottle

Having won the opening professional race of 2013 on French soil the weekend before last, Justin Jules is a name that many Irish cycling fans had perhaps not heard before. Read more...

www.stickybottle.com

 

[rallybanana]

You didn't see Mary Poppins

I'd like to talk to *** Van *** (he's still living). Ask him if he thought Mary Poppins had a hidden motor in that umbrella.

 

[rallybanana]

*** Van a lovely person

I'm referring to this guy

 

[Carrick-On-Seine]

Any domestique that’s been around a long time but never quite in the spotlight.

Yeah I was thinking Pieter Serry. Is he content with his career? How much would he really cherish one win etc etc ?
Probably James Knox as well.

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Yeah I was thinking Pieter Serry. Is he content with his career? How much would he really cherish one win etc etc ?
Probably James Knox as well.

Do you think you would have been NC if you didn't crash in that corner instead of Dries De Bondt?

 

[kingjr]

Lennard Kämna. Mohorič is a good call, too. Though I don't really want to have a conversation with them, on account of me not having any questions, really. But those are some I enjoy listening to, at least.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Probably Vino and Gibo

 

[AnotherArmChair]

Id like to sit down with the Shark for a glass of wine and a talk about the trophy cabinet while Pozzovivo plays the piano in the background and Visconti cooks the pasta

Later I'd meet The Tractor and Kiryienka for a beer and stories about other riders from their days at the front of the peloton

 

[Nick2413]

Cille pick is obvious.

Beyond her... I'd probably like to have quite an in-depth interview with Kseniya Tuhai and her Anton Chekhov backstory, or maybe Lilibeth Chacón likewise (a bit less tragedy, but knife fights with her agent surely make for one hell of an anecdote!). Also maybe Mirsamad Pourseyedi (strictly off the record) about the wild west of the Asia Tour in that era, and some of the veterans who raced in the Eastern Bloc and can give some tales of the Friedensfahrt and racing behind the curtain. Would probably need to be the ones like Olaf Ludwig and Aavo Pikkuus at this point. Oh, and Benjamí Prades or Florian Lipowitz, about the subject of biathlon.

Oh, and Fernando Escartín, although I suspect that would be less a conversation and more me berating him, yelling and screaming course design principles at him at the top of my lungs.

Ah, I too had all these names in mind.

 

[Avoriaz]

So, nobody wants to talk to Vingo?

He’s always on the phone to someone else