No longer a wiggo fan

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

3-1 what a win huh.

 

[lagartija]

am i the only one whos sees nothing wrong with this article...?

he said he has no plans to leave the team, that he has a lot of love for garmin, that hes been happy there.. he then continues to say basically this tour made him realise perhaps he can challenge but to do that he would have to move to a bigger team, this is a fact, garmin dont have the strength and depth to support a potential tour winner... to win the tour he would have to take a step up... whats the big problem there, its true, and i dont think JV would deny it.. this is why hes so keen on contador, a guy who doesnt need support as opposed to signing riders to help one rider maybe podium...

i think this is another case of the non brits completely missing the british grammar and way of saying things.. we dont beat around the bush like some... for the same reason cav appears as brash, eddie irvine used to appear as arrogant (in f1)..

i personally see nothing whatsoever wrong with that article.. (and thats not being a fanboy.. its just analysing it so much)

edit: ive just watched the whole thing.. can nobody see the smile on his face from before he said it.. brad is stirring, stirring like he always does.. good god.. these foreigners really dont understand humour do ya...

dim , i have often read your posts and enjoyed them......and i hope you dont mind a bit of disagreement with you...........

first let me say i am spanish , french grandmother ,living in the us now.....
as far as the british humor goes i get it and enjoy it thorougly.....i went to school in london for a short period and my little brother was born in manchester.......futbol , i get that also , wigan for me might be Villareal , i dont do BPL very much , id rather watch the best , haha ,

but as far as garmin not being able to support a tour bid , thats rubbish , DZ,DM,CVanD, have all been to the big show and done the job , even Pate and soon Martin can ride their but of for a legitimate podium bid........
actually i dont think sky , this year , can put it together for a valid run at a GT.....garmin have allready done it twice.....so i dont see the step up comment

i think he is aware of possible reshuffling for him and he cant comment on it at the moment , and that is what he alluded to in the interview......
aslo i dont have an issue with him moving to sky , if thats what he feels he needs , careers in sport are short ,

although if garmin is his team and a move is not on order , behave like it , after all they are paying the bills

as far as cav goes , no problem here either , i get him , i dont see him as arrogant or brash , actually i think hes one of the most clear headed 24 yr olds i know of , at his level of success

personally i would like to see both him and berto on garmin , that would be one hell of a squad.........

 

[St. Elia]

After the game yesterday, maybe I should eat my words? But still the idea was a disparaging remark to a team which helped you get fourth at the biggest bike race in the world. Show some respect Yes it's true that Garmin is not Columbia or Astana but they were one of the favs to win the TTT in both the Giro and the Tour (next to Astana) so not a bad team. It is true that they haven't won very much this year but had a number of close calls with Tyler F. And you have to admit CVdV had some bad luck this year.


Enough with the football refs. don't we get enough of big sports on the news? Aren't we here to talk s**t about cycling?

 

[sampras38]

Spain and Germany has had other GC hopes just recently prior tp Sastre and Klöden but Britain has not had that recently. That's a big part of the hype in my opinion.

And the transformation into a climber pretty much out of the blue has got the Brits excited. From the interviews I've seen he does seem a fairly grounded individual, but sometimes a little cocky too.

I was in France for some of the Alps stages this year and saw him up close at the top of the Cole De Columbiere with LA, Nibali and kloden in his group and did look good. Can't wait to see if he can back it up next year, although I have a feeling he won't be able to better 4th.

We'll see.

 

[Angliru]

He was gaining time and would probably have gotten bronze. There is no way he would pretend there is something wrong with the bike. After he got up the hill he was about the enter his fastest part of the course.

He was just passed by 2 of his chief competitors who he had at the minimum, a minute headstart on so I'm going to say he was feeling a bit humiliated and his anger and emotion got the best of him. His comments were unsportsmanlike whichever way you look at it and sounded more like sourgrapes than any substantiated claim of a violation taking place. Add to that he appeared to be following Cancellara's path after he passed him, getting in his draft so his complaint could also be seen as hypocritical. Dude had a bad day that he made much worse with his little temper tantrum.

 

[peloton]

He was just passed by 2 of his chief competitors who he had at the minimum, a minute headstart on so I'm going to say he was feeling a bit humiliated and his anger and emotion got the best of him. His comments were unsportsmanlike whichever way you look at it and sounded more like sourgraps than any substantiated claim of a violation taking place. Add to that he appeared to be following Cancellara's path after he passed him, getting in his draft so his complaint could also be seen as hypocritical. Dude had a bad day that he made much worse with his little temper tantrum.

+1

well said.

 

[thehog]

+1

well said.

Wiggins to ride Pinarello next year: http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest/400515/pinarello-announced-as-team-sky-bike-supplier.html

 

[Anonymous]

Wiggins to ride Pinarello next year: http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest/400515/pinarello-announced-as-team-sky-bike-supplier.html

im a bit confused by the following...

"The deal goes further than Team Sky, according to Pinarello importer Phil Griffiths of Yellow Limited. Griffiths understands that all road riders on British Cycling's teams will now be supplied with Pinarellos, with Sky's new recruits set to have up to six machines each to choose from."

what does that mean.. all british teams as in the british road team at the worlds, or the track team are getting pinarello track bikes.. seems a bit all encompassing.. and why would the track team want pinarellos?

 

[lanternrouge]

im a bit confused by the following...

"The deal goes further than Team Sky, according to Pinarello importer Phil Griffiths of Yellow Limited. Griffiths understands that all road riders on British Cycling's teams will now be supplied with Pinarellos, with Sky's new recruits set to have up to six machines each to choose from."

what does that mean.. all british teams as in the british road team at the worlds, or the track team are getting pinarello track bikes.. seems a bit all encompassing.. and why would the track team want pinarellos?

So Sky and the GB road team. The track team will not be on pinarello, they will be on their own "specials".

 

[auscyclefan94]

Wiggo said the Sun Tour was better and more prestigious race than the TDU. I must say that the Sun Tour's course is a lot harder than the TDU but the TDU is a lot hotter and few stages last year it got to 40oC (105oF)

 

[Weatherman]

9 Pages....must be the silly season.

Does Brad disrespect Garmin, don't be daft.
Is Brad a bone fide contender, well yeah if the right parcours turned up for him, but it won't.

Brad was playing with the media, one of his well known hobbies. Where will he be next year, I suspect Sky after Berto slips neatly into the Argyle kit at Garmin. This story won't have the dry ink on it for a few weeks yet.

It would not do for the ultimate power in world cycling rolleyes to win an eighth Tour without Berto, then again the size of that ego maybe it would.

Either way it won't matter, if the Tour route is anything like the rumours suggest Berto will clean up by a good 6 or 7 minutes maybe more. He could do it with eight of us fat blokes riding for him.

 

[Anonymous]

So Sky and the GB road team. The track team will not be on pinarello, they will be on their own "specials".

that was my though.. so the road team getting them is hardly far reaching is it... the world championships and olympics...

and the road riders may prefer their own bikes

 

[Boeing]

if I haven't said it already let me say it again. Douche. If he is not throwing his bike around the Velodrome all ****y at the derny driver he is throwing it around ****y at a mechanic.

accept your failures with your successes spoiled brit

 

[Anonymous]

good article on velonews...

TV reporter: There’s been a lot of talk about you moving to Sky after the season. What’s the plan for next year?

Wiggins: Well I’ve still got a contract with Sky for about another year. The wife wants the movie package, and I’ve just got the sports package at the moment. We’ll see. The kids like all the cartoons like Disney Channel and all that, so we’ll probably keep it for another year. But I think TNT has a new package when you can get the movies, the sports channels and all the other stuff for like a combo value; it’s 49 quid a month. We’ll see. I don’t know. I’m thinking of changing my Garmin to Tom Tom as well

“Take everything I say with a pinch of salt,” Wiggins told the TV reporter. “Don’t believe a word half the time. I haven’t got a serious bone in me body."

http://www.velonews.com/article/99255