Shaggy - cycling is one of the most exhilerating sports you can participate in....You can enter it at so many levels, you don't have to be brilliant at it to get the same buzz as the pros get - it's like a drug, there's nothing like being involved in a peleton where you are moving along with a bunch of other cyclists, you cn easily improve your average speed just by cycling along in a swarm - you can just get swept along and just love it...I've only got into it as past year or so ( i know Neil Young is a keen cyclist too..)
-
DALGLISH !! :respect
klopptastic ! -
The 8 laps of Paris today was sporting gold....My heart was pumping just watching it !!
Loved ever minute of it...
Hats off to Cav - unreal ability to turn on the speed.. DALGLISH !! :respect
klopptastic !Comment
-
No, used to bike to school 20 years ago.Originally posted by Shaggy View Post
My dad always watched it so I got into it too. Used to be great on channel 4. Greg lamond was my favourite rider. It is the ultimate sport. Man bike against the road. It's incredibly tactical. I've been watching for 30 years overall with a 5 year gap between 2005 and 2010.
On a side note, I'm delighted the sport appears to be getting clean again. Wiggins winning can only be good for the sport. Not only here but internationally.Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back. Oscar WildeComment
-
75kph?!Originally posted by Neil Young View Post
On a bicycle?!
I was gutted when my Raleigh Activator 2 (Green - limited edition) got nicked.
Comment
-
Aye, that's the finish i referred to earlier, it was even better too, because before Cavendish did that explosive finish past the leaders; he was part of the peloton, and they'd been chasing down the breakaway group ahead of them, all riders helping eachother to close the gap, and those in the breakaway group doing the same attempting to keep the gap level or extend it further, and that's what made the finish so great the fact they caught the leaders more or less on the last couple of bends, just in time for the sprint finish, timed absolutely to perfection for Cavendish to explode past the leading group sprinting for the line.Originally posted by rcasemore View Post
Brilliant to watch live, as they gave the distance between the peloton and leading pack, then time checked it every few minutes, with you left wondering if they'd manage it or not, as the miles ticked past and the finish got ever closer, so did the peloton, superb tv.
Brilliant finish.
Comment
-
-
Shaggy, I believe they give everyone that finished close to each other the same time otherwise you'd have total mayhem and deaths at the finish line.
This years TdF has been quite dull but from a tactical viewpoint, Sky have been very efficient and their team has been brilliant.
If us Aussies can take heart in something it's that Sky proved that Australian sports physiology and coaching is the world's best.
Last year was much more exciting apparently.
I bet the race organisers will change things after this year's showing.
PS. I ride too and I'm starting to understand what it's all about. It's utterly absorbing. Listening to the commentators history lessons is a highlight too!Was muß, das muß.Comment
-
Its been brilliant this year. You have the guy who won the king of the mountains that kept attacking on the mountain stages, 4 or 5 french stage winners in all. Kept them happy. Wiggins and Froome were majestic throughout. Cavendish worked his bollocks off and came away with 3 stages. The bloke who won the green jersey had a record points haul and looks a real star. Plus that Aussie bloke exploded on the hills and came up a long way short.Originally posted by foresterbloke View Post
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back. Oscar WildeComment
-
some people are saying that this year's TdF was boring, and that Sky squeezed the life out of the tour...
I look at it differently, Team Sky raised the bar this year - they came up with the tactics to win the Tour and give Cav his customary Paris stage win, surely other teams should be looking at this and saying "right, how do we beat Sky next year??"
With the right application and effort, it would be possible, this is the very essence of team sport...
I personally can't wait for next year's tour.... absorbing stuff.. DALGLISH !! :respect
klopptastic !Comment
-
It was no different really from the Armstrong dominance except this was Wiggins first tour win and by a guy that used to be a 5K time trialist; being able to transform himself from that into the beast of a rider he's become is nothing short of remarkable IMO.Comment
-
I've never watched cycling before, but thought I'd stick the last 5 minutes on to see him cross the line. It was mildly gripping. I can see the appeal unlike the bore of F1.
Anyway, I didn't realise he was a Liverpool fan
When three weeks of gruelling Tour de France competition came to a close on Sunday, it was a Liverpool supporter riding triumphant along the Champs-Élysées in Paris.
Reds fan Bradley Wiggins became the first British cyclist to win the elite race in its 99th edition, a feat labelled by many as one of the greatest sporting achievements in history by a Brit.
Wiggins, who also has three Olympic gold medals and six in total, took the yellow jersey - which signifies the aggregate race leader - at the seventh stage and kept hold of it until the conclusion, finishing with a time of 87 hours, 34 minutes and 42 seconds.
The 32-year-old's performance, which was aided by the support of Team Sky colleague Chris Froome, who finished the tour in second place, has attracted attention across the world.
Now Wiggins' focus turns to the 2012 Olympic Games in London, where he will be hoping to add to his haul of medals and cap a magnificent year of success.
Everyone at Liverpool would like to congratulate Bradley on his fantastic achievement and wish him the best of luck for the forthcoming Olympics.Comment
-
Really impressive, well proud of the British lads. Cav & Wiggo give really cool interviews.
Shaggy, try watching the highlights for an hour as opposed to the full thing, might help.3rd place. Worst champions ever.
Comment
-
I was half asleep for most of it. Not because it was boring but because I had to start watching at 10pm-2am.
Sagan sporting a bell on his handlebars was definitely a highlight
Was muß, das muß.Comment
-
Originally posted by BobTheCharmer View PostIts been brilliant this year. You have the guy who won the king of the mountains that kept attacking on the mountain stages, 4 or 5 french stage winners in all. Kept them happy. Wiggins and Froome were majestic throughout. Cavendish worked his bollocks off and came away with 3 stages. The bloke who won the green jersey had a record points haul and looks a real star. Plus that Aussie bloke exploded on the hills and came up a long way short.
I really enjoyed it all too.
Originally posted by Reece View PostAnyway, I didn't realise he was a Liverpool fan
RTFT, Panda Boy.
.
Suppose you have a physicist and a sociologist standing at the side of a field, observing a set of events unfolding on the field. The physicist does [describes] it using the terminology of mass and velocity and frequency of radiation and the rest. And the sociologist does it by describing it as a rugby match.
May the Lord bless this post.Comment
-
Radio 4 headlines earlier referred to "Tour de France winner, Bradley Wiggins". I got a tingle down my spine.
.
Suppose you have a physicist and a sociologist standing at the side of a field, observing a set of events unfolding on the field. The physicist does [describes] it using the terminology of mass and velocity and frequency of radiation and the rest. And the sociologist does it by describing it as a rugby match.
May the Lord bless this post.Comment
Comment