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Comment on The Perfect Amount of Dumb by Marko

Marko — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:55:41 +0000

@frank Apparantly having Tourettes gets you the yellow jersey in Paris-Nice. Sweet!

Comment on The Perfect Amount of Dumb by frank

frank — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:10:15 +0000

@Marko I think riding that hard might give you Tourettes.

Comment on The Perfect Amount of Dumb by Marko

Marko — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:51:57 +0000

Jens looks like he has tourettes.

Comment on The Perfect Amount of Dumb by frank

frank — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:12:09 +0000

@Marko
I’m not sure where to find it…I saw it on OLN or something back when it was on. I’ll look around. The Cycling Photo Archive has a picture of it, though:

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Comment on The Perfect Amount of Dumb by Marko

Marko — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:57:21 +0000

@frank No, where can I find it? Fun to see him off to a good start at P-N though. Looks like that nasty face crash healed up well. He's cool.

Comment on The Perfect Amount of Dumb by frank

frank — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:53:52 +0000

@Marko Have you seen the footage of him beating Levi at the Tour of Germany? The guy just fucking pounds up that hill...you can almost smell the lactic acid.

Comment on The Perfect Amount of Dumb by frank

frank — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:52:41 +0000

@john The Hour Record. It's universally accepted by everyone who does it (except Boardman) to be the most awful thing humanly possible in cycling. You definitely have to be a bit on the dim side to say, "Yeah, that one. That's the one I want to do." Man, that's going to be rad, though, when he does it. Campy Bless that guy.

Comment on The Perfect Amount of Dumb by frank

frank — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:50:52 +0000

@john Being a little dumb helps in a lot of things. Zoning out and not thinking about every pedal stroke in a 200km ride is definitely good. The military - I suspect - also benefits from the perfect amount of dumb; you konw, people not saying, "It's possible I might be over-thinking this one, but how's about I don't walk into that bloodbath over there and get killed? How's about I stay back here at the bunker, knock back a couple brewskies, and you guys fill me in when you get back."

Comment on The Perfect Amount of Dumb by Marko

Marko — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:11:49 +0000

I wanna go to survival camp with Jens and team Saxo Bank.

Comment on The Perfect Amount of Dumb by john

john — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:56:47 +0000

Oh good, being dumb is useful in cycling. At last Tomeke and I have something in common. Being a little dumb might help in the training too; going out for a few hours with the brain doing nothing more than guiding the autopilot and keeping the power plant humming helps make the miles zoom by.
Which is what Spatacus is going to have to do when he resets the hour record this year.