State of the forum 2023

[topcat]

Is it really worth juicing to discuss luke warm racing coming up in Australia?
Is it worth risking a forum ban just to be Greg's hero for a day?

 

[Cookster15]

Is it really worth juicing to discuss luke warm racing coming up in Australia?

Please clarify? Not sure what you mean by this?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Is it really worth juicing to discuss luke warm racing coming up in Australia?

Only if you want to get a good campaign going from the start of the year. But if you want to peak during the classics or GTs, you'll probaby be better off putting your juices on ice for now and instead go for a beach holiday in places like Tenerife, Mexico or Colombia for a month or two.

 

[RedheadDane]

Is it really worth juicing to discuss luke warm racing coming up in Australia?
Is it worth risking a forum ban just to be Greg's hero for a day?

Depending on your location - and general work situation - you might have to drastically increase your intake of caffeine.

Talking about nefarious forum practices; you've edited the thread title! Something which I, of course, would never do!

 

[gregrowlerson]

Apparently Chris Froome is already getting on it, so that to me suggests strongly that the answer is not worth it.

Cookster, I think we mean that it's a little too early in the season to get cooked.

Besides, if I start the season too strongly then I run the risk of starting up a forum discussion on how "far off his best" I am, and that could be never-ending.

 

[gregrowlerson]

Is it really worth juicing to discuss luke warm racing coming up in Australia?
Is it worth risking a forum ban just to be Greg's hero for a day?

Looks like your brother Claude has started the season off hot in the Richie Porte vane (or is that vein?).

As has Squire, very much unlike Andreas Kloden.

I have a feeling that these two might be in the forum autobus come April.

 

[RedheadDane]

Is it really worth juicing to discuss luke warm racing coming up in Australia?

Talking about Luke:

1	PLAPP Luke	INEOS Grenadiers	100	15	4:40:42
2	CLARKE Simon	Israel - Premier Tech	75	10	0:03
3	MATTHEWS Michael	Team Jayco AlUla	60	7	,,

1	VINE Jay	UAE Team Emirates	50	15		0:46:39	48.232
2	DURBRIDGE Luke	Team Jayco AlUla	30	7		0:03	48.180
3	O'BRIEN Kelland	Team Jayco AlUla	20	2		0:25	47.805

Admittedly, I don't know how warm either of them were - except I guess they're always "Luke warm".

 

[gregrowlerson]

It seems that the current forum consensus is that Logic is "far off his best" right now.

I'm not too concerned. I predict that nobody will be able to hold his wheel come May, with his "Roglic is your friend?" taunts.

 

[topcat]

And the oscar goes to
Leonardo di Caprio starring as Nairo Quintana in Catch Me If You Can.

 

[gregrowlerson]

And the oscar goes to
Leonardo di Caprio starring as Nairo Quintana in Catch Me If You Can.

'In Columbia they say that as far as truly iconic characters go, that first there was Pablo Escobar, and after him came Nairo Quintana.

For when he flicked his elbow, you damn sure came through and did your turn.'

 

[the delgados]

Over the years I've gone from racing, to being a fan who had a very good idea of what's going on, to watching occasional highlights of pro racing. Watching Kobe race to two consecutive wins on a historically middling team who is now bossing it proves as a reminder why I don't watch cycling anymore. It's too obvious.
Sure, sports are rife with doping, but it's easier to hide when you have player unions in team sports like NFL football and, uh, football. It's also more interesting than watching a rider take a flyer in a race in January.

 

[RedheadDane]

Over the years I've gone from racing, to being a fan who had a very good idea of what's going on, to watching occasional highlights of pro racing. Watching Kobe race to two consecutive wins on a historically middling team who is now bossing it proves as a reminder why I don't watch cycling anymore. It's too obvious.
Sure, sports are rife with doping, but it's easier to hide when you have player unions in team sports like NFL football and, uh, football. It's also more interesting than watching a rider take a flyer in a race in January.

Goossens winning two races on Mallorca is hardly an indicator of nefarious forum practices.

 

[the delgados]

Goossens winning two races on Mallorca is hardly an indicator of nefarious forum practices.

Oops. I posted in the wrong forum.

 

[RedheadDane]

@gregrowlerson has just admitted to be on some really strong tea!

 

[the delgados]

Is s/he one of the sexiest pro cyclists in the peloton?

 

[RedheadDane]

Is s/he one of the sexiest pro cyclists in the peloton?

I think we all know who the sexiest pro cyclist in the peloton is...

Tom Sexton (procyclingstats.com)

So, if @gregrowlerson is secretly Tom, then; yes, he is.

 

[the delgados]

Wait, what?
Oh, Sexton!
Haaa! That's cute!

 

[RedheadDane]

Wait, what?
Oh, Sexton!
Haaa! That's cute!

I don't think anyone could argue with the fact that Tom Sexton is the sexiest rider in the pro peloton. It's literally his name!

 

[gregrowlerson]

I feel a little sorry for Pogacar right now. Obviously in great form, but at Milan-San Remo he's about to run into topcat who appears to be going thermonuclear.

Pogacar may still end up the winner in the history books, but only if doping controls have their say in this classic's aftermath.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I get the feeling that some forum members have started fueling up for what looks like an inevitable Belgian-Slovenian (BS) war!

 

[topcat]

Remco and Roglic fans have been heavily threadated with horse tranquillisers. I defy any rational person to try reading these threads without shaking their heads and making a wtf face. Occasionally I’m a voyeur in these threads but I often find it tiresome. The whine fest isn’t even a decent fight like we used to have in the Froome days. And we’re two months away from the giro. It’s going to be a great season.

 

[gregrowlerson]

I get the feeling that some forum members have started fueling up for what looks like an inevitable Belgian-Slovenian (BS) war!

I was thinking that if that thread had a poll for "What subject should we discuss in here?", then recent topics of communication would have aptly gone under the umbrella of the 'Vino option'.

 

[gregrowlerson]

Remco and Roglic fans have been heavily threadated with horse tranquillisers. I defy any rational person to try reading these threads without shaking their heads and making a wtf face. Occasionally I’m a voyeur in these threads but I often find it tiresome. The whine fest isn’t even a decent fight like we used to have in the Froome days. And we’re two months away from the giro. It’s going to be a great season.

Sometimes it's near impossible to look away.

 

[RedheadDane]

I get the feeling that some forum members have started fueling up for what looks like an inevitable Belgian-Slovenian (BS) war!

And I shall sneak in with my Danish-French alliance!

By "alliance", I mostly mean "Danes having success in French races", though, of course I wouldn't mind some French wins.

 

[BR2]

And I shall sneak in with my Danish-French alliance!

By "alliance", I mostly mean "Danes having success in French races", though, of course I wouldn't mind some French wins.

By "alliance" you mean you are actually the most nationalistic of them all!