Lidl-Trek (no longer Radioshack-Leopard Trek)

[BillytheKid]

The 09 Tour did have a divided team. When Horner made those comments he most likely knew about the new team. So I would put it down to staying employed. Berto's attack against Klöden/Lance revealed the bitter divide.

Chris does say what others are also thinking. He could bit his lip a little more, but he could also trying to play the head game with Berto.

 

[issoisso]

Has there ever been a rider more stupid than Chris Horner?

Björn "The peloton is going full gas to catch the break that's 4 minutes ahead. PERFECT TIME TO TRY TO BRIDGE!" Leukemans

 

[Kvinto]

I have never payed attention to Horner's intellect, it's not my business, but there's one remembrance that makes my respect the guy.

12 Jun 2010. Dauphine. Talented 22 year old neo-pro Tejay Van Garderen (HTC) (unexpectedly 2nd in GC at the moment) gets dropped (and seems absolutely fagged) on the ascent to Alpe d’Huez and 39 year old Horner (RadioShack) offers him help leading the boy on his wheel to the finish line, so Van Garderen ends that Dauphine 3rd.

That's worth more than some useless reading...

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

Some obscure ill-translated danish interview seems to be enough to fire up the Bertie fanboys (and - girls!)...

 

[Dancing On The Pedals]

But is he really wrong? I've yet to see Contador win races by sheer tactics, most of the time he just rides everyone off his wheel.

Sounds like a pretty good tactic to me! Ok, his attack after 16km wasn't exactly smart, but by that stage in the race it was all or nothing. But overall, I think he does have pretty good tactics - he has a good cycling brain which he is able to ally with being the best cyclist in the world.
A rather poor analogy would be someone like Griepel, who undoubtedly has the speed to challenge Cav, but often lets himself down with poor tactics/positioning.

 

[Christian]

12 Jun 2010. Dauphine. Talented 22 year old neo-pro Tejay Van Garderen (HTC) (unexpectedly 2nd in GC at the moment) gets dropped (and seems absolutely fagged) on the ascent to Alpe d’Huez and 39 year old Horner (RadioShack) offers him help leading the boy on his wheel to the finish line, so Van Garderen ends that Dauphine 3rd.

He doesn't only lead riders from other teams, he gives them a ride to the finish:

 

[roundabout]

That's the Olympic and World Champion in nordic combined that Horner is giving a lift to, btw.

 

[theyoungest]

Björn "The peloton is going full gas to catch the break that's 4 minutes ahead. PERFECT TIME TO TRY TO BRIDGE!" Leukemans

I think you're talking about the GP Samyn... I seem to remember that he regarded that as some kind of training ride.

 

[Thomsena]

Some obscure ill-translated danish interview seems to be enough to fire up the Bertie fanboys (and - girls!)...

Hence my request for quotes from people with the CSM issue...

 

[issoisso]

I think you're talking about the GP Samyn... I seem to remember that he regarded that as some kind of training ride.

No, I'm talking about him doing it constantly. Liége for example.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Some obscure ill-translated danish interview seems to be enough to fire up the Bertie fanboys (and - girls!)...

... like me.

 

[HL2037]

Some obscure ill-translated danish interview seems to be enough to fire up the Bertie fanboys (and - girls!)...

Not our fault if your language skills are poor

 

[Polish]

Has there ever been a rider more stupid than Chris Horner?

I think not.

Chris has more cycling smarts than 99%+ of the current peloton.
He has been around the block. He has ridden steel.

Chris has more cycling wisdom in his hair follicles than most current riders have in their entire brains.

You could learn many things from Chris, GrasshopperBob.
He has the Eye of the Cheezburger.

 

[Cimber]

Chris has more cycling wisdom in his hair follicles than most current riders have in their entire brains.

Well u might be right, but in any case that surely ended on stage 7 in the Tour last year

http://video.bicycling.com/video/Chris-Horner-Post-Stage-7-Crash

 

[Polish]

Well u might be right, but in any case that surely ended on stage 7 in the Tour last year

http://video.bicycling.com/video/Chris-Horner-Post-Stage-7-Crash

A Dazed and Concussed Horner STILL has more cycling smarts than most other riders. True.

 

[Cimber]

A Dazed and Concussed Horner STILL has more cycling smarts than most other riders. True.

Well Horner himself can actually answer your post quite accurately: "I dont udnerstand, I dont understand"

 

[Polish]

Well Horner himself can actually answer your post quite accurately: "I dont udnerstand, I dont understand"

Yes, a second year novice will THINK they know most everything, but a true Master is WISE enough to acknowledge they do not understand.

Learn from Chris, climber san.

 

[Thomsena]

Chris has more cycling smarts than 99%+ of the current peloton.
He has been around the block. He has ridden steel.

Chris has more cycling wisdom in his hair follicles than most current riders have in their entire brains.

You could learn many things from Chris, GrasshopperBob.
He has the Eye of the Cheezburger.

Oh, the irony.

 

[Cimber]

Yes, a second year novice will THINK they know most everything, but a true Master is WISE enough to acknowledge they do not understand.

Learn from Chris, climber san.

Hehe, well Chris is so old that its now wisdom talking but alzheimers

 

[HL2037]

Well Horner himself can actually answer your post quite accurately: "I dont udnerstand, I dont understand"

I am still surprised that the race doctor allowed him to continue. Even the smallest hemorrhage in the brain would be severely worsened by chasing for 25 km with a high pulse/blood pressure. I think it was irresponsible. Glad he is ok.

 

[Cimber]

I am still surprised that the race doctor allowed him to continue. Even the smallest hemorrhage in the brain would be severely worsened by chasing for 25 km with a high pulse/blood pressure. I think it was irresponsible. Glad he is ok.

100% agree.

 

[Christian]

The new RSNT team car, the Nissan Qashqai (called "Rogue" in the US):

Needless to say the Mercedes was better, and this one now has Belgian licence plates instead of the ones from Luxembourg ... so much for saving the Luxembourg identity, Mr Becca ...

Meanwhile police searched Becca's house once more on wednesday:

http://www.wort.lu/wort/web/letzebu...weitere-hausdurchsuchung-bei-flavio-becca.php

 

[Forunculo]

Flavio is the real star of the team.

 

[Fidolix]

Yeah, I remember this interview.

Ugh. Excuse me while I throw up.

It was the day I official became a fanboy of Berti, and I agree, he made me sick to.

 

[Fidolix]

papy horner is right though.contador attacks a lot,he rides more with the heart than with the mind.of course it's not smart to go on telegraphe 90 km to the finish for fucc sake can you imagine valverde doing that?valverde is like rebellin,a supreme tactician who sucks the life out of his team before sprinting.he's a champion too but i gotta go with alberto.
and no,papy horner doesn't harm anyone saying this,i kind of respect it and like because tour de france needs drama,it needs rivalry of class and all of that.if i ever see two guys hugging and kissing and saying sorry on youtube,i won't like it.

Contador actually explained about the Telegraph attack in an interview.
He didnt care about the GC, said, to him it didn´t matter if he was 5th or 15th at that point, He love to race and this day he wanted to give something to the fans so it was all calculated, he didn´t go for the gc but wanted to make a spectacular race out of it.
If I find the link I´ll post the Interview.