thevaro
Apr 23, 2009 Jan 28, 2012 3 343
Discovered cycling late in life. Riding everyday to get back in shape. Fell in love with cycling when I saw athletes climb huge mountains and attack and attack until just one man remained ( Lemond, Hinault, Fignion, Armstrong and Contador )
... and sprinters dive into holes at 70 Km/Hr risking life and limb to explode over a finish line even though it was impossible to go any faster.
... thinking of starting a cycling club for old slow guys and gals in Whittier California.
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Horner,DZNuts,Wiggins,Levi,Cancellara, AC,Cav,Jens, McEwen,Chechu,Hincapie and ... LA
Williams Sisters, Mac
Alberto Salazar, Emil Zatopek
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The worst case scenario
by thevaro on Nov 28, 2009 12:01 PM EST
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I think the greatest fear a cyclist can have is going into a left hand turn on a steep mountain decent and realizing you're either going too fast or there is just not enough room for everyone and your the last man on the outside, slowly being channeled toward that outside edge and the chasm below. A few other terrible fan fears would be 'our' riders getting hurt, our team not getting an invite to the big race, someone giving Ricco a microphone, clowns, Johan Bruyneel, and crossing a stage next to Bernard Hinault without the appropriate credentials.
So here is my big fear, what happens if the Tour does not invite Astana to the 2010 TDF. The reason, of course, would be because of Alexander Vinokorov. It has certainly been their policy to exclude teams that have riders that have had doping issues in the past and Vino, not only had doping issues but he retired, and received only a one year suspension from the Kazak federation, and then looked like he was going to come back too early, caused some serious controversy at Astana, and may actually be running the entire nation of Kazakhstan.
Can you imagine the terrible worldwide injustice if Alberto Contador, the best grand stage racer in the world, was, again, not allowed to defend his title. His streak of Grand tours would be interupted causing him to win fewer TDFs over his career and making our future 'greatest' ever comparisons more and more difficult.
And if you thought that was scarry what if Andy has a bad and Lance is closer to his old self and we have an eighth tour victory for Mr. Armstrong. What a tragic missed opportunity that would be ... either to see Alberto crush the old man or for Lance to battle him until the last day and really give history something to remember.
So my questions is what should the cycling community do to prevent such a crime. ?
Wouldn't it be great if we had real pro tour with a solid cycling union that could prevent that from happening ?
I think that was one of the reasons for starting the Pro Tour, to make sure that all the big teams were always invited and politics and capriciousness would not exclude great riders from joining the battle.
Wouldn't it be great of Schleck, Menchov, Sastre, Armstrong, Cavendish, Wiggins, Cancellara and all the big names got together and some how could prevent such a tragedy from happening. !
So again, what can the cycling community do to prevent such a crime. ?
Greg Lemond - The Greatest of Modern Time?
by thevaro on Nov 11, 2009 8:37 PM EST
on Podium Cafe
Aren’t titles fun? So what I meant to say is, Greg Lemond the greatest cyclist of the modern era, P.E. ( Post Eddie ). [ed: I changed "all" to "modern" and added a ? No false advertising on the front page!] Actually, the question before us today is whether Greg Lemond "could" have been the greatest Grand Tour racer of our time. It’s an interesting question and I will tell you who has been putting the question out there in a minute. First, we need to re-live the awakening of American cycling.
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