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Tugboat
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Ten thousand squid??? As Darryl Kerrigan would say... "tell him he's dreaming".
10,000 quid Cannondale
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Joel
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10,000 quid, no hookers but the wheelset is mavics.  what's happening to the world!
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wobbly01
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| Posted: Mon 6th Oct 11:35pm Post subject: |
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Man thats an ugly bike, and it doesn't help that they have the stem up the wrong way and all those spacers. Why did they make the frame outa aluminium and carbon? why does it only have a set of kssyriums? and most of all why the hell does it wiegh 7.5 kg? -I thought the whole point of the 6.13s was that they only weighed 6.13kg?!!
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Tugboat
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Woohoo... Frank Vandenbroucke the train wreck that never stops is all set to try again.
| cyclingnews.com wrote: | Vandenbroucke wants another comeback, again
The enigmatic Frank Vandenbroucke has reportedly begun working on another comeback, according to Belgian news agency Sporza. The 33 year-old former winner of Paris-Nice and Liège-Bastogne-Liège recently explained that he is planning a final racing return.
"I will live as a priest," he said from south-eastern Flanders. "Last year I trained a whole winter with knee pain, although I didn't say it at the time, because they don't really believe any longer.
"My left leg was missing 36 percent of its strength and in June I wanted to operate on it for the last time," he said. "I have now been working on my body for more than a month. The muscle mass is not yet totally back, but doctor De Clercq guarantees me that the knee will come good again."
Vandenbroucke started his professional career with Lotto back in 1993, before a move to Cofidis in 1999 saw his career really take of with Liège-Bastogne-Liège victory and two Vuelta a Espana victories adding to his Paris-Nice win the previous year. The rider has suffered a more troubled recent history, with a separation from his wife and attempted suicide well publicized throughout European media.
"In the next six months I'll try to make something from this preparation," he said. "I want to live as a priest, train and then look for a team."
The man who was once the darling of the Belgian public has undergone plenty of change in his private dealings, but he believes he's now found more focus in that area of his life. "Everything is good with my children," he said. "I may see my daughter again in Italy and I want to travel there for the last week of each month. I can train there too."
"I am now a bachelor," he added. "After my relationship with Sarah I had four or five months where I was seeing another woman, but nothing came of it. I live for myself now."
He added that he has plans for life in retirement, whether his comeback is successful or not. "After my career I want to remain involved in the sporting environment," he said. "As a manager in football, for instance. I want to make a second part of my biography after my first one sold 20,000 copies." |
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SamultheCamul
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| Posted: Tue 7th Oct 2:51pm Post subject: |
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| wobbly01 wrote: | | I thought the whole point of the 6.13s was that they only weighed 6.13kg?!! |
6 and 13 are the atomic numbers of Carbon and Aluminium, they bikes themselves are boat anchors
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ryda
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| Posted: Tue 7th Oct 10:06pm Post subject: |
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these are from the powerhouse musem in Sydney
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wobbly01
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| SamultheCamul wrote: | | wobbly01 wrote: | | I thought the whole point of the 6.13s was that they only weighed 6.13kg?!! |
6 and 13 are the atomic numbers of Carbon and Aluminium, they bikes themselves are boat anchors |
hmmm, possibly should have spotted that myself being the chem major I am, I guess I must have dulled my mind with to many arts papers this semester!
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Fergie
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But you have to admit that the chicks doing Arts papers are far hotter!
Hamish Ferguson: BA
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wobbly01
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Yip can't argue with that -Just as I read your post I looked up and saw two incredibly hot ones walk past, I love the library at exam time 
David Ayre: soon to be BA/BSc (hopefully)
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OliverBendix
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From the Taupo museum, the bike that the originator of the cycle challenge rode the first time rode the lake with some mates:
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XCrider
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| Posted: Thu 9th Oct 8:07pm Post subject: |
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any got a old bike seat to suit a retro roadie bike or know of where to buy one churr churr 
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specializedman
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| Posted: Thu 9th Oct 8:14pm Post subject: |
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Fark that taupo guy must have had pretty awesome skills!
That would be a heavy bike and i bet the brakes suck.
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Tugboat
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| Posted: Thu 9th Oct 9:39pm Post subject: |
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That seat position doesn't look legal if he was planning on TTing.
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specializedman
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| Posted: Thu 9th Oct 9:45pm Post subject: |
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Imagine what the carbon colnago is worth?
It wouldn't be real gold on the cranks etc would it?
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Oli
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Yep, it is real gold.
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