Wigans goes there. Cadence!

[The Hitch]

Apparently many wiggins fans in England don't just try to imitate wiggos riding style, but also his day to day behaviour

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/acti...ar-declared-on-the-Lycra-louts-on-wheels.html

From Richmond Park on the edge of London all the way down to Box Hill and across to Cranleigh, you cannot fail to encounter a group of Wiggo-wannabes, clad in skintight clothing, trying to emulate Sir Bradley, Chris Froome, Mark Cavendish and other world-beating British veloists.

“One of my little pensioners came in here, and she didn’t look well. She had just run into some cyclists — three abreast — and had tried to overtake, but they wouldn’t move at all. Eventually she found an opening, and as she went past, they spat at her. She was really shaken. The spit was still on the car. It’s not just rude. I think that is the epitome of loutishness.”

 

[armchairclimber]

Apparently many wiggins fans in England don't just try to imitate wiggos riding style, but also his day to day behaviour

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/acti...ar-declared-on-the-Lycra-louts-on-wheels.html

That's just Londoners....rude in general. We're much more polite ooop North.

 

[Cycle Chic]

Ok I have another question on the doped bike of Wiggins.

How come it is only Wiggins and Froome who suddenly slip gears and their legs cant keep up with their pedals ?

I,ve never seen this on any other rider. If someone can name when another rider has had this happen ?

 

[EnacheV]

Ok I have another question on the doped bike of Wiggins.

How come it is only Wiggins and Froome who suddenly slip gears and their legs cant keep up with their pedals ?

I,ve never seen this on any other rider. If someone can name when another rider has had this happen ?

this one is easy

nobody looks so much at other riders

probably all have their weird pedaling moments but nobody cares

 

[Cycle Chic]

this one is easy

nobody looks so much at other riders

probably all have their weird pedaling moments but nobody cares

I,m being polite and don't want a warning but....that wasn't helpful AT ALL

 

[coinneach]

Ok I have another question on the doped bike of Wiggins.

How come it is only Wiggins and Froome who suddenly slip gears and their legs cant keep up with their pedals ?

I,ve never seen this on any other rider. If someone can name when another rider has had this happen ?

I do seem to remember Conatador watching Andy Sleck NOT doing this by changing up to the big ring, and look what happened to him then

 

[the sceptic]

Wiggins is back? another 1-2 in the tour?

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/wiggins-says-aim-is-to-return-to-levels-of-2012

"I've come into this season wanting to race," Wiggins said on Tuesday during a team training camp in Mallorca, "and that's the main thing. It's a little bit like two years ago, in 2012, and it's always a good sign being happy like that."

Asked about how he saw July, Wiggins said, "Chris is set to dominate the Tour for the next few years, and for me to be able to get back to the Tour" - and be in top shape - Wiggins has his own particular level established. "I need to be in the kind of shape that would make a podium place possible, just as [teammate] Richie [Porte] was last year and again in 2012 with Mick Rogers, Richie and Chris."

I thought Wiggins got fat and lazy and didnt want to climb anymore. But now he is ready to get back to 2012 levels?

Wiggins sees one of his key roles in the Tour this July as underlining to the public that Sky were winning clean, saying that he believed he was ideally placed to battle the waves of skepticism that had in some quarters greeted some of Chris Froome's performances in last year's race. That role, he said, was something that would take him back in some ways to his roots as a track rider with British Cycling and also "help take the pressure off Chris."

lol yes Wiggo the anti-doping saint will make everything more believeable again.

 

[ChewbaccaD]

Wiggins is back? another 1-2 in the tour?

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/wiggins-says-aim-is-to-return-to-levels-of-2012

I thought Wiggins got fat and lazy and didnt want to climb anymore. But now he is ready to get back to 2012 levels?

lol yes Wiggo the anti-doping saint will make everything more believeable again.

You forgot Porte--1, 2, 3

 

[Dear Wiggo]

If Porte does a Giro / Tour podium double...

 

[mewmewmew13]

I can't wait!
Will Wiggo start to look at his power meter just like Froome?

 

[ChewbaccaD]

If Porte does a Giro / Tour podium double...

Sky rides don't get tired, so I see a triple podium in the realm of possibility.

 

[del1962]

Be great if Wiggo does challeng for GT podiums, but I just can't see it

 

[thehog]

Sir Bradley Wiggins has revealed that he had to take his children out of school and move them to a new one in the wake of Lance Armstrong’s admission last January that he doped during all seven of his Tour de France wins.
Wiggins said that his two children, Ben and Isabella, were “harassed and bullied” by their peers who asked them whether their father had used drugs like the American.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ot...llied-over-Lance-Armstrong-drugs-scandal.html

 

[Dear Wiggo]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ot...llied-over-Lance-Armstrong-drugs-scandal.html

Unless he was never seen with them and changed their surnames, the new school wouldn't be much different, would it?

And so much for "I don't dope because it would impact my children". Has that morphed to, "My children have been impacted so GREEN LIGHT to DOPE".

 

[BroDeal]

Unless he was never seen with them and changed their surnames, the new school wouldn't be much different, would it?

And so much for "I don't dope because it would impact my children". Has that morphed to, "My children have been impacted so GREEN LIGHT to DOPE".

When Armstrong's kids were bullied about their father's doping, he decided he should come clean. When Wiggins' kids were bullied and their father's doping, he decided to have them change schools. He should have followed the rider he admires so much and sacked up for once in his life.

 

[Wallace and Gromit]

Unless he was never seen with them and changed their surnames, the new school wouldn't be much different, would it?

Completely unrelated to cycling, but that would have been my thought prior to my kids going to school. My kids have not been bullied (and as far as I know haven't done any bullying!) but there fairly frequent movements of kids between schools in the area due to bullying. Surprisingly, this seems a remarkably effective solution, from which one could conclude that bullying often results from specific relationships between kids, rather than one child being a bully and another as a victim as permanent statuses.

Obviously, there will always be habitual bullies and victims, but these appear to represent a minority of cases.

Just my observations. I'm no expert in the subject.

 

[Wallace and Gromit]

I thought Wiggins got fat and lazy and didnt want to climb anymore. But now he is ready to get back to 2012 levels?

Well I can say I'm going to win all my races this season. Doesn't mean it will happen, though! Talk in February is cheap. Anyone can do it.

With the Tour starting in the UK, Wiggo has got to be on the start line as with due respect of Froome, Wiggo, along with Cav, are the major box-office stars for the UK audience. Wiggo had his minor meltdown last year and will be taking this year's Tour campaign seriously.

Predictions of his performance levels at the moment are very difficult, though. For one thing, he's two years older and of an age where maintaining prior performance levels becomes hard, all other things equal. We also don't know what weight he will be at. If he appears with the build he had at the end of last season - i.e. lean but not particularly emaciated - then he's not going to be in the mix on the decisive climbs. He's more likely to be "driving the train" up the penultimate climb and on the flats before the final climb, before leaving Porte and Froome to do their stuff as he coasts home.

Then he'll get wheeled out with Froome for any press conferences. He can do his comedy routine in English and French and swear at anyone accusing Froome of doping, thus relieving Froome of a lot of pressure.

 

[coinneach]

Well I can say I'm going to win all my races this season. Doesn't mean it will happen, though! Talk in February is cheap. Anyone can do it.

With the Tour starting in the UK, Wiggo has got to be on the start line as with due respect of Froome, Wiggo, along with Cav, are the major box-office stars for the UK audience. Wiggo had his minor meltdown last year and will be taking this year's Tour campaign seriously.

Predictions of his performance levels at the moment are very difficult, though. For one thing, he's two years older and of an age where maintaining prior performance levels becomes hard, all other things equal. We also don't know what weight he will be at. If he appears with the build he had at the end of last season - i.e. lean but not particularly emaciated - then he's not going to be in the mix on the decisive climbs. He's more likely to be "driving the train" up the penultimate climb and on the flats before the final climb, before leaving Porte and Froome to do their stuff as he coasts home.

Then he'll get wheeled out with Froome for any press conferences. He can do his comedy routine in English and French and swear at anyone accusing Froome of doping, thus relieving Froome of a lot of pressure.

a wise post indeed: what would be interesting would be if Froome was out of the picture for some reason or another (eg crash): would Sky put their eggs in Porte or Wiggins?

 

[TourOfSardinia]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ot...llied-over-Lance-Armstrong-drugs-scandal.html

Lance still destroying families even during his retirement ...

Wiggo talks about it to the BBC here:
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/cycling/26045209

 

[Dear Wiggo]

Completely unrelated to cycling, but that would have been my thought prior to my kids going to school. My kids have not been bullied (and as far as I know haven't done any bullying!) but there fairly frequent movements of kids between schools in the area due to bullying. Surprisingly, this seems a remarkably effective solution, from which one could conclude that bullying often results from specific relationships between kids, rather than one child being a bully and another as a victim as permanent statuses.

Obviously, there will always be habitual bullies and victims, but these appear to represent a minority of cases.

Just my observations. I'm no expert in the subject.

An interesting observation, and I appreciate the input. My experience in the realms of bullying boils down to an attribute of one person being noticed and amplified for the purposes of control by the bully.

Whereas personal attributes (lisp, red hair, light coloured eye brows, etc) require observational skills on the behalf of the bully, the more noticeable and valuable the attribute, the more easily the bully can see it. In this instance, with your Dad being knighted, winning the tour de france and being mates with Lance, I think any bullies would find it hard not to notice the new kids in school and their particular circumstances.

This is all conjecture, of couse. Bullying is certainly not something I would wish on anyone's kids, ever, and I hope the move worked.

 

[will10]

a wise post indeed: what would be interesting would be if Froome was out of the picture for some reason or another (eg crash): would Sky put their eggs in Porte or Wiggins?

Does seem something of a luxury to have three potential podium contenders in one 9 man team. (assuming we see a 2011/2012 Wiggins and Porte pulls off another 6 month peak).

As for Porte or Brad, most teams would let the road decide but that seems to be the one approach that Sky are utterly imcapable of allowing to happen.

 

[Wallace and Gromit]

Does seem something of a luxury to have three potential podium contenders in one 9 man team. (assuming we see a 2011/2012 Wiggins and Porte pulls off another 6 month peak).

La Vie Claire in 1986 set a standard that is hard to beat in this respect. (1st, 2nd, 4th and 7th (albeit a very long way back) if memory serves.)

Though Astana in 2009 did OK and that was even with their 3rd best GC option crashing out early. Not the best example of clean cycling with a harmonious team, though!

 

[ebandit]

troll on wiggo

I don't know why you guys are wasting your time discussing this

wiggo is cleans..................he tells us all so

Mark L

 

[gooner]

When Armstrong's kids were bullied about their father's doping, he decided he should come clean. When Wiggins' kids were bullied and their father's doping, he decided to have them change schools. He should have followed the rider he admires so much and sacked up for once in his life.

Don't let Wiggins's genuine concern for his kids get in the way of your set agenda. Get real BroDeal.

 

[SundayRider]

If there is only a handful of clean tour winners - why didn't he mention them?