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Tricycle Rider

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velaso montador said:
Sad story I hope he genuinly gets people around him and gets to a proper place in life which he can enjoy.
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Yes, Wiggins sounds like he has a lot of issues to work through and I wish he would at least consider (or re-consider) group therapy if one-on-one sessions with a therapist don't do it for him. What he's carrying is a lot, god that man is intense. Hope he finds some peace.
 
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QueenStagiaire said:
Love it when a thread gets dug up and you see some poster who is banned you completely forgot about. I miss velaso montador telling us about how amazing his long vacation on a yacht is last year.
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My favourite personality quirk of that generation of poster (VM, Vwpe, Mou) was how they'd finish an argument by telling us how they were 'off to the beach' or how they had 'got important and cool things to do' as though they didn't want to waste any more time arguing with losers on a cycling forum. Then you check the thread the next day and after telling everyone they were leaving they had clearly just carried on furiously posting for another 6 hours.
 
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so the guy complaining about how poor he now is, claiming he was ripped off by people (drug dealers maybe?), was actually on the colombian marching powder up till a year ago. which means all those people who went to see him on his last mea culpa speaking tour 2 years ago, were paying for his habit and being sold a lie, iirc he claimed he'd knocked all the booze on the head and was looking after himself.

there was a time I probably would have cared or had some sympathy for him, but really I just cba with it anymore.

I bet Ekoi are really glad they signed him up as a brand ambassador.
 
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awavey said:
so the guy complaining about how poor he now is, claiming he was ripped off by people (drug dealers maybe?), was actually on the colombian marching powder up till a year ago. which means all those people who went to see him on his last mea culpa speaking tour 2 years ago, were paying for his habit and being sold a lie, iirc he claimed he'd knocked all the booze on the head and was looking after himself.

there was a time I probably would have cared or had some sympathy for him, but really I just cba with it anymore.

I bet Ekoi are really glad they signed him up as a brand ambassador.
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There should be a law that publishers won’t print or release “recovery” memoirs by athletes, actors, rock stars, etc until they’re at the end of their lives. I know it’s a cottage industry but because recovery is a lifelong thing it seems empty to publish a book after two years (or whatever short period) of sobriety when they’re just starting their renewed lives. And I can’t imagine it’s helpful in an author-addict’s recovery to be thrust back in the limelight, feted for being special, and travel on speaking tours where they nights alone in their hotels rooms. But most of them probably have debts to pay off, or their agents push them to write them to repair their image and get back on the gravy train (for the agent).
 
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Sciatic said:
There should be a law that publishers won’t print or release “recovery” memoirs by athletes, actors, rock stars, etc until they’re at the end of their lives. I know it’s a cottage industry but because recovery is a lifelong thing it seems empty to publish a book after two years (or whatever short period) of sobriety when they’re just starting their renewed lives. And I can’t imagine it’s helpful in an author-addict’s recovery to be thrust back in the limelight, feted for being special, and travel on speaking tours where they nights alone in their hotels rooms. But most of them probably have debts to pay off, or their agents push them to write them to repair their image and get back on the gravy train (for the agent).
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and remember he's also the guy who says he doesnt like being the centre of attention or being made to feel special, or any of the stuff that comes with the kind of limelight he seems to be perpetually seeking.

I posted only a few months back in the other Wiggo thread, he was likely to remain a recovering addict, for the rest of his life, and nothing Ive seen reported this week changes my view on that if anything it only reinforces it
 
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Sciatic said:
There should be a law that publishers won’t print or release “recovery” memoirs by athletes, actors, rock stars, etc until they’re at the end of their lives. I know it’s a cottage industry but because recovery is a lifelong thing it seems empty to publish a book after two years (or whatever short period) of sobriety when they’re just starting their renewed lives. And I can’t imagine it’s helpful in an author-addict’s recovery to be thrust back in the limelight, feted for being special, and travel on speaking tours where they nights alone in their hotels rooms. But most of them probably have debts to pay off, or their agents push them to write them to repair their image and get back on the gravy train (for the agent).
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I dunno about that. I much enjoyed reading receiving Cav's autobiography in 2011....
 
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