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1gear said:Im not wrong though, its my opinion that its boring so im obviously right.
1gear said:Oh, and your wrong about the best riders are in road riding. Cavendish started off on the track, and he is quite a good rider.
1gear said:And, most are on drugs or take some illegal supplements at some stage. Some of the best UK riders take testosterone in winter to bump them up for the summer.
cheese_dave said:I'm having cycling conversation flashbacks...
No no, something completely elsebean said:cheese_dave said:I'm having cycling conversation flashbacks...
Sorry for my part in that if the conversation has been done before here.
bean said:1gear said:Im not wrong though, its my opinion that its boring so im obviously right.
Tosh. You are obviously wrong ;-) If I say the world is flat am I right because it's my opinion?
You find it boring. I have no problem with that. You saying it's boring is different.
1gear said:Oh, and your wrong about the best riders are in road riding. Cavendish started off on the track, and he is quite a good rider.
Even though Cav didn't start on the track, this is my point.
Talented cyclists move from other disciplines to the road. Not the other way around. Unless they are past it.
Theo Boss, Wiggins, Boardman.
1gear said:And, most are on drugs or take some illegal supplements at some stage. Some of the best UK riders take testosterone in winter to bump them up for the summer.
Most sportsmen take illegal supplements in sports where there is money to be made.
Drugs have been part of sport since the Greek Olympics.
spandexcodpiece said:Of course, one could always watch Big brother instead !! Oh look! Brad has been asleep for hours, and he has just turned over on to his left hand side, I wonder what the significance of that is ? " I don't know, do you think he might wake up and go to the toilet in a minute" ?....just a thought,(yawn),folks:lol:
1gear said:No, if your opinion is that the world is flat, then you believe that. If you want to tell me that the world is flat, and that its a FACT its flat, then your wrong.
1gear said:TDF and any other bike racing is boring, especially in England. I dont want to ride around around a race track for loads of laps.
1gear said:Chris Hoy isnt past it(although he is an old man) and he doesnt do anything else, is he not talented?
1gear said:Face it, some people dont like to sit and watch cycling for hours, even when they have done cycle races. Also face it that not all talented riders ride in road races. Its abit obvious that a rider who does short sprints on the track hasnt got the right muscles. A road rider will have more staminer, a track cyclist that does short sprints will have alot of power, and completely different muscles and build, which means that them riding on the road wont be that good. It also means that a road rider wont be as good in short races on the track.
So, to conclude all this, not all riders that are good on the road will be good on track, and not all of them will be able to different disciplines in cycling. Its just the fact that some different disciplines do have the cross over, and means that some riders can also ride in more then their chosen disciplin.
Infact, if i could remember back to my sport science days, there is someone that studied this, and said that sports people will have the right memory in their muscle, and have the right needs for a different sport that they can swap over.
Its also why rugby players went to do ballet one time to work on footwork, because they could get the cross over from some of the bits of ballet.
1gear said:"Well only crit races go round lots of laps. Road races tend to be bigger circuits and fewer laps. Pro races are rarely laps at all and go from point to point."
Mallery park here, they use that, which involves quite a few laps of it. Same with Darley moore.
1gear said:As for the cross over, a certain person said that the throwing of a ball will help with the throwing of the javelin. It uses the same schema(im sure this is what they call it)
Its the same that the schema of ballet can be used in rugby.
1gear said:I ride for Sherwood CC. I only really got into 10mile TTs properly last year and did 23:36 as a PB. I ride fixed wheel aswell, got a fixed wheel TT bike. I went for a 20mile TT on the fixed TT bike but got a puncture about 100 meters from the start.
Work has taken over riding though, but i ride to work and back every day.
spandexcodpiece said:I suppose you guys going on about watching Le Tour and other long , drawn out cycle races realise what you have just done! You have succeeded in sending every other forum member to sleep at their computers !!! I am in to cycling big time, there isn't a finer way of getting fit, and staying that way! But apart from a few highlights,very few, it is just not very interesting to watch road racing, certainly not for Brits.. You guys will be telling me you watch Motor racing next! In my view, that is the most boring thing you can watch on the box. It is absolutely impossible to know what is going on, even the commentators don't know half the bloomin' time!!
spandex...
Touche sir, touche! ...and of course, you have hit the nail on the head! ...What is boring for some is not necessarily boring for others.bean said:spandexcodpiece said:I suppose you guys going on about watching Le Tour and other long , drawn out cycle races realise what you have just done! You have succeeded in sending every other forum member to sleep at their computers !!! I am in to cycling big time, there isn't a finer way of getting fit, and staying that way! But apart from a few highlights,very few, it is just not very interesting to watch road racing, certainly not for Brits.. You guys will be telling me you watch Motor racing next! In my view, that is the most boring thing you can watch on the box. It is absolutely impossible to know what is going on, even the commentators don't know half the bloomin' time!!
spandex...
I won't be telling you to watch motor sport. I agree it's boring. Not the most boring though. Football takes that biscuit for me!
I doubt many people will be reading this thread in the first place because most Brits have no interest in cycling, so I doubt it's sent many forum members to sleep ;-)
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