Robert Millar: Tommy Guns of The Tour

[180mmCrank]

A fascinating perspective on recent events in the TdF from a guy who is worth listening to...

http://www.cyclingnews.com/blogs/robert-millar/robert-millar-tommy-guns-of-the-tour-de-france

...well worth a read.

 

[yetanothergreenworld]

Good piece. Although someone really needs to start editing Millar's columns -- chopping his long, run-on sentences into multiple shorter, tighter sentences; stuff like that.

 

[movingtarget]

Millar's comments are always worth reading. Nice one.

 

[on3m@n@rmy]

loved that piece and the title, "Tommy guns"... starting with Tommy Voeckler.

 

[the delgados]

Good piece. Although someone really needs to start editing Millar's columns -- chopping his long, run-on sentences into multiple shorter, tighter sentences; stuff like that.

Agreed.

I really want to like his columns, but they're barely coherent.

 

[wirral]

Millar will have more cycling insights than most so I'll always read his columns.

He badly needs an editor though, as a previous poster pointed out, to maintain a consistent tone and give the piece overall structure.

 

[messycolin]

Millar will have more cycling insights than most so I'll always read his columns.

He badly needs an editor though, as a previous poster pointed out, to maintain a consistent tone and give the piece overall structure.

I couldn't disagree more. The columns are well written. You may not like the style but i think he is going for an informal off the cuff style. Too much jounalism in cycling is too dry. Robert writes as he would talk in group in a bar or cafe. What the hell do you want a "consistent tone" for? The differences in tone eg serious to flippant make for more interest. It like the difference between jazz and pop trance music. One gets you thinking and involved, one just passes through your head.

But each to their own and all that.

I'd for one would like to see the posts monthly or even weekly not just during the tour.

On the bike he was a class performer who for a variety of reasons could have perhaps achieved even more. He was perhaps the principal reason i started cycling in the 80's as youngster in scotland.

It is also notable that he has been very supportive of the sky set-up ie the science based ideas given that he was dumped by the bcf for the peter keen and co management.