[John_D]

Re: Cycling : Tue Sep 18, 2012 8:32 am  

Wiggins: I'll invest my own money to set up an elite women's road race team. He also wins bonus points for using the phrase "tuppence ha'penny"

Wiggins: I'll invest my own money to set up an elite women's road race team. He also wins bonus points for using the phrase "tuppence ha'penny"

Re: Cycling : Tue Sep 18, 2012 8:43 am  

Is this Wiggins pointing out to his employers that they should be stepping up to the mark? Fair play to Wiggo though and hope that if Sky don't come in then he stays true to his word.

Prediction for Cavendish. I mentioned yesterday that I believe that he is there to do business. I predict that the business he is doing is with Rabobank.

Rabobank have recently had a change in the management and are fairly unique in as much as the team is owned by the bank. They had a very poor season last year and the team already contains several members of his old HTC train including the vital man who has been missing for him this year.....Mark Renshaw.

[John_D]

Re: Cycling : Tue Sep 18, 2012 9:17 am  

Haggis Fax wrote:

Prediction for Cavendish. I mentioned yesterday that I believe that he is there to do business. I predict that the business he is doing is with Rabobank.

He'd better retain his world title then. Don't think orange would suit him

Re: Cycling : Tue Sep 18, 2012 9:59 am  

I think we can safely say that won't happen.

[John_D]

Re: Cycling : Wed Sep 19, 2012 1:28 pm  

Dowsett second in the clubhouse. Ain't going to stay there - the big hitters are all on the road.

[John_D]

Re: Cycling : Wed Sep 19, 2012 2:03 pm  

Tony Martin about to catch and pass C*ntador. Safe to say I think he's got this...

[John_D]

Re: Cycling : Wed Sep 19, 2012 2:26 pm  

He has got it, but only by 5.4 seconds from Taylor Phinney.

Re: Cycling : Thu Sep 20, 2012 11:26 pm  

just noticed that spain may not be able to stage the 2014 worlds due to the country's financial problems. wonder if GB might make an offer to step in, last held here in 1982, we are due one and could get it on the back of the olympic success

Re: Cycling : Sat Sep 22, 2012 7:51 pm  

It would need to be a more exciting parcours than the Olympics. Id love to see a proper ride on the fred whitton

[John_D]

Re: Cycling : Mon Sep 24, 2012 8:35 am  

Superb from Gilbert yesterday. On that last climb, as soon as Nibali's backside touched that saddle, boom, see you later.
Mind, Belgium had all the bases covered. If it had come back together, Boonen was still in there for a sprint. Genuinely pleased for Gilbert though and bloody impressed with JTL again.
Also, Gilbert speaks French in a really odd accent.