Congrats to the Brits!

[Quo]

Well done Bradley Wiggins!! ....a first for the Brits

[custard]

My uncle was nearly killed when, as a little boy, his brakes failed on the steepest hill in my town and he crashed into a wall at the bottom. For this reason I was never allowed to have a bicycle. I am one of the few people who cannot ride a bike. I feel my life is incomplete and I have had to compensate by having too much sex and drink.

[Morgans Choice]

Originally Posted by custard

I have had to compensate by having too much sex and drink.

I wish I couldn't ride a bike, now

[doubleback]

It would be good if the Tour de France came to Britain ...

[PC0845]

Read This :

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/oth...l-Kimmage.html

[custard]

Well, I can state honestly that I have never taken any performance enhancing drugs and that is probably why I am useless at everything.

[Octavian]

Froome is the real deal.
He carried Wiggins on his shoulders for the whole tour, especially in the mountains.
Wiggins is the most ridiculous "Tour de France" winner I've ever seen. LOL

[luckynumberslevin]

A glimpse into next years tour (lifted from theonion I believe) Enjoy



PARIS—A small but enthusiastic crowd of several dozen was on hand at the Tour de France's finish line on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées Tuesday to applaud the efforts of the 28 cyclists who completed the grueling 20-stage, 2,208.3-mile race without the aid of performance-enhancing drugs.
Enlarge ImageGreat Britain's Bradley Wiggins finished the final 56km time trial in a respectable and drug-free 4 hours and 38 minutes.

Finland's Piet Kvistik, a domestique with the Crédit Mondial team, was this year's highest-finishing non-doping rider (142nd overall). Kvistik claimed the maillot propre, the blue jersey worn by the highest-placed "clean" rider, on the ninth stage of the race when the six riders who had previously worn it tested positive for EPO, elevated levels of testosterone, and blood-packing.

"This is a very, very proud day for me," said the 115-pound Kvistik, who lost 45% of his body mass during the event, toppled from his saddle moments after finishing, and had to be administered oxygen, fed intravenously, and injected with adrenaline by attending medical personnel. "They say it is physically impossible to ride all of the Tour without drugs, but we prove them wrong this day."

"What day is it, anyway?" asked Kvistik, his eyes rolling wildly in his head. "I can no longer tell."

Kvistik's overall time for the Tour was 571 hours, 22 minutes, and 33 seconds, beating by over an hour the previous record for a non-enhanced rider, set by Albrect Påart during 1923's infamous ether-and-morphine-shortened race. Kvistik finished a mere 480 hours behind Alberto Contador, the overall winner, making 2007's margin between doping and non-doping riders the closest in history.

"It became most difficult for us on the 7th stage, which was almost 200 kilometers and the first stage through the mountains," Kvistik said while accepting the non-doping victor's 100-franc check from his stretcher. "Not only did the excruciating pain and weakness in my legs make it difficult to walk my bike on the steeper stretches, it was mentally very hard to know that half the other clean riders were dead or dying. Also, the other 141 riders finished the Tour in Paris that morning, which made it all that much harder."

"It's rather a shame that the Tour's 'clean' riders, or 'lanternes naturelles' as the fans call them, receive so little attention, for their monumental achievement," said cycling commentator Phil Liggett, reporting on the non-doping riders' finish for Versus-2, the little-sister network to Versus, who carried the main Tour de France coverage. "It's nearly impossible to compete in the full Tour while shot full of human growth hormone, erythropoietin, testosterone, glucocorticosteroids, synthetic testosterone, anabolic steroids, horse testosterone, amphetamines, and one's own pre-packed oxygen-rich red blood cells. To do it on water and bananas is almost heroic, no matter what one's time is."

While Kvistik's achievement is being celebrated by cycling insiders, critics of the Tour de France maintain that not enough is being done to combat the use of performance-enhancing substances in cycling's premier event.

"Nonsense—pure nonsense," said Tour general director Christian Prudhomme, who was vacationing in Switzerland as Kvistik crossed the finish line. "We have done everything we could imagine, both in terms of prize money and other incentives, to promote riders who compete without pharmaceutical aid. But we simply do not have the resources, nor the viewers the interest, to televise the entire two months it takes for a normal, unadulterated human to circumnavigate an entire nation on a bicycle."

Kvistik remains in critical condition at the Hôpital Neuilly-sur-Seine, where he was placed in a medically induced coma to aid his recovery from exhaustion, malnutrition, and loss of bone density. Attending physicians say he is not expected to return to cycling.


TDF if your not on the gear you're not in the gears.

[luckynumberslevin]

Olympic road cycling was shite on both days. Watched the womens today, couldn't help but think of father Jack sat in a chair looking at the peloton and thinking more dope, more dope. He he

[luckynumberslevin]

Originally Posted by Quo

Well done Bradley Wiggins!![/IMG]

seriously,
I must agree a very worthy winner without a doubt (along with the silver and bronze medallist) and I must also congratulate the women with their rides too. Along with all six winners from the road racing. They've represented their countries and performed exceptionally well and deserve all the rewards they have/will duly receive.

[doubleback]

I can see an upsurge of Wiggins-esque lycra louts on British roads, in the not too distant future ...

Well done to Bradders, though ...

[luckynumberslevin]

Originally Posted by doubleback

I can see an upsurge of Wiggins-esque lycra louts on British roads

you're not wrong, I bought a custom made road race machine two months ago from bianchi ( maybe should have bought a pinarello ) I just need to get the lycra now and i'm all set.

[doubleback]

Have you got the side-burns, though? I haven't had a haircut for a while, as I'm letting my highlights grow out. As such, my side-burns are becoming quite profound!

[custard]

Originally Posted by doubleback

Have you got the side-burns, though? I haven't had a haircut for a while, as I'm letting my highlights grow out. As such, my side-burns are becoming quite profound!

Sideburns were all the rage when I was a student. I have some pictures somewhere but dare not post them for fear of being seen to be narcissistic.

[doubleback]

Please, let me post the picture on your behalf. I still have the large file you sent me detailing all your conquests, which included photos ...





Here is a picture of Colonel Custard in all his regalia, circa 1880 ...

[luckynumberslevin]

Originally Posted by custard

Sideburns were all the rage when I was a student. I have some pictures somewhere but dare not post them for fear of being seen to be narcissistic.

I don't think you are a narcissist nigel because you are not in denial. A cissy I could well believe but on reflection I dont believe this to be true either. Now I have been called a narcissist in the past but they always reach the same conclusion that I'm just a complete unemotional bastard. And I've never argued with there findings.

[custard]

It's only ugly people being jealous of my good looks so they don't bother me.

[luckynumberslevin]

Originally Posted by doubleback

Have you got the side-burns, though? I haven't had a haircut for a while, as I'm letting my highlights grow out. As such, my side-burns are becoming quite profound!

sideburns for me are a definite no no. cannot afford the wind resistance.

highlights ???? for a sec i believed you and could imagine you in a few decades with a proper set of ginger sideburns and complementary blue rinse highlights. Then I came to my senses and realised you, like me, are too much of a real man to sink to such vanity. Now becky that's a different story

[doubleback]

I hate to shatter your image of my persona, but I do indeed have highlighted hair at the moment. It has been suggested that I am a Beckham from Peckham, however, I don't resemble that remark in the slightest. The truth of the matter is, there was no vanity on my behalf, I was helping out a young lady with her hairdressing coursework and donated my head of hair to experiment with. I also have to point out that the intended blonde highlights, are in fact, ginger ...

[Emkayracing]

Heptathlon

10,000 meters

Long Jump

Football