Is there any act more tired in this peloton? that of Jens Voigt?

[Boeing]

The once LA Camp Jester now the village fool of the peloton. Is this tour his big audition tape for NBCSports now? Are they grooming him for the old Bobke bit next year?

Attacks? really? The lads know when Jens wants to go and they let him. Opportunist and attention hore...name one meaningful so called attack break that had any lasting GC significance?

They had him in the booth right after a stage and He uses more personal pronouns than a chick at the mall or Tiger Woods.

Put some bells on his hat and make him dance some more NBC. JHkrist its nausea

 

[SeriousSam]

Concur. The only thing more predictable than Voigt's tired act is the incessant love he gets.

 

[willbick]

ferkin hell it must be a barrel of laughs being you guys. lighten up ya miserable gits

 

[leftover pie]

Jens Voigt, he's the oldest man in the peloton at 52 years of age, but look at him, he's still going!

He talks to his legs, he tells them to shut up and take me to the finish, look at him on this break, I really think the peloton might have underestimated him here and he could make it all the way to the end of the stage, he really could take the win here, look at the old man showing all these young guys how to race, he started this tour at 62 years of age but after this stage you'd have to says he's now probably more like 82 years of age now.



Phil & Paul really do make it so much worse.

 

[ghostofjoy]

Jens Voigt, he's the oldest man in the peloton at 52 years of age, but look at him, he's still going!

He talks to his legs, he tells them to shut up and take me to the finish, look at him on this break, I really think the peloton might have underestimated him here and he could make it all the way to the end of the stage, he really could take the win here, look at the old man showing all these young guys how to race, he started this tour at 62 years of age but after this stage you'd have to says he's now probably more like 82 years of age now.



Phil & Paul really do make it so much worse.

Ha, agreed. I don't mind extroverts and goofballs being themselves (though I'd love to hear Jens give a candid account of some of the cloaks and daggers stuff he's seen), but i have such a strong Pavlovian response to Phil and Paul that I'm starting to resent Jens out of anticipation of what's coming from them whenever he's on screen.

 

[orangerider]

Can't stand him. Part of that old school mafia that needs to be flushed out.

 

[Amazinmets73]

Can't stand him. Part of that old school mafia that needs to be flushed out.

Mafia? How so?

 

[orangerider]

Mafia? How so?

Not going to reply because to do so would mean banishment in this forum.

 

[jaylew]

ferkin hell it must be a barrel of laughs being you guys. lighten up ya miserable gits

This. And I don't blame him for Phil and Paul.

 

[DirtyWorks]

Concur. The only thing more predictable than Voigt's tired act is the incessant love he gets.

Most of the riders who get a little camera/media time are either a bore or ridiculously self important. Voigt does a good job at making it real for every kind of cyclist and pretty much always has.

Part of your problem is Phil and Paul. Turn off the sound.

And yes, I'm glad he'll be gone. Unfortunately he's leaving under the best conditions.

 

[argyllflyer]

Mafia? How so?

3 wise monkeys.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Build in filter allows me to tune out Voigt automatically.
His retirement comes a few years too late.

 

[Cimber]

I rather have Voigt around (he has made some amazing stuff in the past - not at least being a huge factor in Sastre's Tour win) than Horner.

 

[Jagartrott]

Agree that the attention for him is getting tiring.
And there's a bit of hypocrisy as well, with him being from the dirty era but somehow forgiven for all that.

 

[Captain Serious]

Surely, Voeckler is the biggest attention wh'ore the sport has ever seen


Edit:
"W'hore" is censored on here??! What sort of ****** **** **** *** pristine joint is this?!?!

 

[argyllflyer]

I rather have Voigt around (he has made some amazing stuff in the past - not at least being a huge factor in Sastre's Tour win) than Horner.

Can't we lose them both?

 

[Angliru]

Cancellara is really rising fast for me with his flip flopping on his views of the cobbles use in the Tour solely and shamelessly based on how his team does on them. He's really started to annoy me more and more over the years. Jens and Tommie V round out my top 3.

 

[Netserk]

I agree. Never been much of a fan of him, would prefer if he had retired at the same age most others do.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Cancellara is really rising fast for me with his flip flopping on his views of the cobbles use in the Tour solely and shamelessly based on how his team does on them. He's really started to annoy me more and more over the years. Jens and Tommie V round out my top 3.

Never paid much attention to what Cancellara says, the man has a clouded mind. But I'm a big fan of cobbles racing and I think he can still add something to the party.

Tommy, well love or hate. There can be nothing in between. I would say its been a while since he was able to disrupt a more serious race/stage. Perhaps hes getting closer to the retirement home. This tour will tell us more I think.

 

[MBotero]

I can cope with Jens,but that french clown,Jalabert wannabe, is annoying as hell.

 

[classicomano]

This post from another Voigt thread sums it up pretty nicely for me.

Absolutely. His current persona is the fault of his many fans, who decided to turn a marginally talented doofus domestique, whose claim to fame is idiotic breakaways that always fail, into some kind of hero.

Suddenly, he's Chuck Norris in lycra, and everyone jumped on the bandwagon, creating this cult of personality where there should not have been one.

There is nothing compelling about his riding style nor his personality. He's a lifelong jock. Riders like him aren't the most intellectually engaging people to interview, so it's no surprise his latest effort failed to please. It's because some of you expect way to much out of guys like Jens, and expect them to say what you want them to say instead of taking their opinions for what they are.

 

[nomapnocompass]

Absolutely. His current persona is the fault of his many fans, who decided to turn a marginally talented doofus domestique, whose claim to fame is idiotic breakaways that always fail, into some kind of hero.

If you have been following cycling for more that five minutes you will know breakaway specialists who try and fail have been popular for years. Ludo Dierckxens probably being the most well known in the '90s.

If you look at his parlmares you can hardly call Voigt, someone who repeatedly won the Criterium International, multiple GT stages, held the yellow and polka dot jerseys at the TdF, and nearly won LBL a "marginally talented doofus domestique". Show a bit of respect.

Posting that sort of nonsense makes you look stupider than your already limited intellect.

 

[I Love To Dope]

Why do any of you even watch bike racing?

 

[jaylew]

If you look at his parlmares you can hardly call Voigt, someone who repeatedly won the Criterium International, multiple GT stages, held the yellow and polka dot jerseys at the TdF, and nearly won LBL a "marginally talented doofus domestique". Show a bit of respect.

How can you forget his back-to back victories in the Deutschland Tour? It was right up there with Suisse and the Dauphiné as biggest stage race after the GTs.

 

[The Hitch]

Agree that the attention for him is getting tiring.
And there's a bit of hypocrisy as well, with him being from the dirty era but somehow forgiven for all that.

I hate how people who want to put forward the clinic argument that the "dirty era" is over get to do it freely on here but those who disagree can't respond.