State of the forum 2025

[RedheadDane]

For the record I have no idea about O’Conner’s family heritage.

But, who is this "O'Conner"?
Is he familiar with "Van Welder" and "Ajuso"?

 

[Ripper]

But, who is this "O'Conner"?
Is he familiar with "Van Welder" and "Ajuso"?

He's on the same team as Pogicar and Vingigo

 

[the delgados]

Ahem, uh, sorry to interrupt, but I'm wondering if anyone has an idea why Lance Armstrong and Johan Bruyneel still keep in contact.
I mean, they both got what they wanted out of one another, but these two seemingly opposite figures still get together to make podcasts about bike racing without any mention of doping. It's kind of astounding.
Rather than speculate about what might be going on, Lance hypothesizes that Tadej Pogacar will win three more Tours and will then have to be considered the greatest rider of all time. But not really, because we all know that Lance is referring to himself, not Tadej.
Meanwhile, Johan takes the cues and plays along with this little game by nodding yes at pretty much everything Lance says. Maybe I've taken too much THC, but they seem to have a strange dynamic.

 

[peterfin]

In 2024 it seems that many here, me included, have reached a schizophrenic state where the right brain is still engaging in the professional road racing forum while the left brain left and headed to the clinic.

 

[Unchained]

Ahem, uh, sorry to interrupt, but I'm wondering if anyone has an idea why Lance Armstrong and Johan Bruyneel still keep in contact.
I mean, they both got what they wanted out of one another, but these two seemingly opposite figures still get together to make podcasts about bike racing without any mention of doping. It's kind of astounding.
Rather than speculate about what might be going on, Lance hypothesizes that Tadej Pogacar will win three more Tours and will then have to be considered the greatest rider of all time. But not really, because we all know that Lance is referring to himself, not Tadej.
Meanwhile, Johan takes the cues and plays along with this little game by nodding yes at pretty much everything Lance says. Maybe I've taken too much THC, but they seem to have a strange dynamic.

Lance Armstrong has the Midas touch. He basically exploded his life and legacy, but picked himself up, brushed himself off to become an investment maven. Likely that the Johan Bruyneel has enjoyed 6 degrees of separation along the way doing multiple language versions of the podcast he and Lance do together. I am sure that the few thousand dollars or euros that Johan monetized from social media are helpful. @131,000 subscribers on YouTube and looking to average @60-70,000 views. With Johan- Lance latest getting @65,000 views in less than a week. And both constantly comment about no current inside information other than what they get from riders not owners or team management. And a strange twist, Hindcapie bloodline continues, George doing podcast w Lance,Johan and his son Enzo winning both road and TT national championships for his age group.
One thing that has always puzzled me about Johan ,he is fluent, in any variety of Dutch, English, Spanish, German,French and has depth of all aspects from rider, coach,director and ownership coordination in professional bike racing but is not used by any major networks until this year.
Meanwhile riders w obviously less credentials like Christian Vande Velde, Alberto Contador, Sean Kelly all confirmed dopers are asked for color about the state of races. Unsure where Bob Roll fits in cycling history, but again all are employed doing cycling broadcasts.
We shall see as ten years of being banned expires for Johan..

 

[scribers]

Lance Armstrong has the Midas touch. He basically exploded his life and legacy, but picked himself up, brushed himself off to become an investment maven. Likely that the Johan Bruyneel has enjoyed 6 degrees of separation along the way doing multiple language versions of the podcast he and Lance do together. I am sure that the few thousand dollars or euros that Johan monetized from social media are helpful. @131,000 subscribers on YouTube and looking to average @60-70,000 views. With Johan- Lance latest getting @65,000 views in less than a week. And both constantly comment about no current inside information other than what they get from riders not owners or team management. And a strange twist, Hindcapie bloodline continues, George doing podcast w Lance,Johan and his son Enzo winning both road and TT national championships for his age group.
One thing that has always puzzled me about Johan ,he is fluent, in any variety of Dutch, English, Spanish, German,French and has depth of all aspects from rider, coach,director and ownership coordination in professional bike racing but is not used by any major networks until this year.
Meanwhile riders w obviously less credentials like Christian Vande Velde, Alberto Contador, Sean Kelly all confirmed dopers are asked for color about the state of races. Unsure where Bob Roll fits in cycling history, but again all are employed doing cycling broadcasts.
We shall see as ten years of being banned expires for Johan..

The industry followed along with the example being set against bruyneel’s squads, completely shutting him out as bad for their business.

Isn’t bruyneel’s ban for life?

 

[rallybanana]

All those "strings"...

Like the substantially required Anna van der Breggen string

 

[topcat]

I started watching 2 minutes before Pog's attack and watched for another 5 minutes just to make sure he was gone gone. Then I went for a run and did some gardening.
State of the forum: disillusioned.

 

[topcat]

View: https://youtu.be/Ovb_iRWcqsc?si=-2_D6BMOKkTHBrdi
KK remembers cycling before it passed away.

 

[the delgados]

Lance Armstrong has the Midas touch. He basically exploded his life and legacy, but picked himself up, brushed himself off to become an investment maven. Likely that the Johan Bruyneel has enjoyed 6 degrees of separation along the way doing multiple language versions of the podcast he and Lance do together. I am sure that the few thousand dollars or euros that Johan monetized from social media are helpful. @131,000 subscribers on YouTube and looking to average @60-70,000 views. With Johan- Lance latest getting @65,000 views in less than a week. And both constantly comment about no current inside information other than what they get from riders not owners or team management. And a strange twist, Hindcapie bloodline continues, George doing podcast w Lance,Johan and his son Enzo winning both road and TT national championships for his age group.
One thing that has always puzzled me about Johan ,he is fluent, in any variety of Dutch, English, Spanish, German,French and has depth of all aspects from rider, coach,director and ownership coordination in professional bike racing but is not used by any major networks until this year.
Meanwhile riders w obviously less credentials like Christian Vande Velde, Alberto Contador, Sean Kelly all confirmed dopers are asked for color about the state of races. Unsure where Bob Roll fits in cycling history, but again all are employed doing cycling broadcasts.
We shall see as ten years of being banned expires for Johan..

Getting back into the game. I see what you're saying.
Today Johan went on and on about Pogacar's performance at Lombardia and compared him to Merckx. The closest he ever came to talking about doping was when he said "We can't say who is the best of all time because things have changed."
Really? How so?

 

[RedheadDane]

Guys... I think we need to stage an intervention.
It apepars @Tricycle Rider suffers from a severe case of Threadstarting Addiction.
He started a Guangxi thread, in order to ask if he should make a Guangxi thread, and then... he made another Guangxi thread.

 

[Netserk]

Guys... I think we need to stage an intervention.
It apepars @Tricycle Rider suffers from a severe case of Threadstarting Addiction.
He started a Guangxi thread, in order to ask if he should make a Guangxi thread, and then... he made another Guangxi thread.

Gal... You are not the only gal in town.

 

[RedheadDane]

Gal... You are not the only gal in town.

She started a thread then.
Then another.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Guys... I think we need to stage an intervention.
It apepars @Tricycle Rider suffers from a severe case of Threadstarting Addiction.
He started a Guangxi thread, in order to ask if he should make a Guangxi thread, and then... he made another Guangxi thread.

It made sense at the time to take a poll first because I wasn't sure anyone even wanted a Guangxi thread and if I should bother finding and posting maps and all that. I may be addicted to starting threads for races few watch lately, but I'm definitely not addicted to finding and posting maps and profiles. Too much work!

P.S. I'm a girl too, but shhhhhh, don't tell anyone.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

She started a thread then.
Then another.

I'll have to work on my form, maybe next year I'll post three Tour of Guangxi threads!

 

[RedheadDane]

It made sense at the time to take a poll first because I wasn't sure anyone even wanted a Guangxi thread and if I should bother finding and posting maps and all that.

Sure, the fun thing was that you started a new thread, rather than just adding the maps to the first one.
To use your own analogy: It's like you had a house, but then added curtains to another house.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Sure, the fun thing was that you started a new thread, rather than just adding the maps to the first one.
To use your own analogy: It's like you had a house, but then added curtains to another house.

I don't see it that way, I started building a whole new house in the second thread, and that one got the pretty curtains.

Also, the poll indicated people did want me to start a new thread with maps and whatnot, so that's what I did.

 

[RedheadDane]

I don't see it that way, I started building a whole new house in the second thread, and that one got the pretty curtains.

Also, the poll indicated people did want me to start a new thread with maps and whatnot, so that's what I did.

So, the original thread was more like the small building you stay in while your house gets build?

Well, I would have just added maps and whatnot to the original thread. And kept the title.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

So, the original thread was more like the small building you stay in while your house gets build?

Well, I would have just added maps and whatnot to the original thread. And kept the title.

Yes, the original thread title was a winner wasn't it?

 

[rallybanana]

Is the Guangxi thread going to remain a sticky thread...forever?

 

[RedheadDane]

Is the Guangxi thread going to remain a sticky thread...forever?

I'm waiting to see how long it'll take before AC notices.
Or someone tells him.

 

[Rob5091]

I'm waiting to see how long it'll take before AC notices.
Or someone tells him.

Should n't it stay until January? Would seem fitting.

 

[RedheadDane]

Should n't it stay until January? Would seem fitting.

Would have been fun... but he noticed...

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

I'm waiting to see how long it'll take before AC notices.
Or someone tells him.

As I have said before, I tend not to be very aware of the sticky part of the board: my place of arrival is the new posts page.

 

[RedheadDane]

I'm sad to report that people have been ingesting the "mou drug" again.