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WTF are you doing here?!

In retrospect my interest was purely nationalistic, and I never raced, I just liked riding my bike. The same bike I’m rebuilding now. That’s a great quote from Bill Hicks too, but it’s a shame to be introduced to it in this context.

All this doping/cheating shit really makes me question how realistic it is to have naively expected more from these guys, as if they should somehow be immune from human frailties. Though I’ve despised cheating ever since playing footy in primary school, I shudder to think how I’d answer some difficult questions about my distant past. From the way he responded to those questions, I dare say it plays on Phil’s mind to this day.

Phil was my idol when I started racing  in the 80’s. Have a autographed cap as well as collected any newspaper results/reports that I could get as cycling news wasn’t as big as it is now. Even posters up on my bedroom wall. My LBS gave me the old Shimano calendars that had wide, landscape pic of most of the classic european races, kept the ones with PA in them.

Saw that said interview and like you was gutted. All the umming and aaring, he arrrs a lot anyway, had guilty all over.

Now every time I see him talking, as the late great Bill Hicks once said,

“every word that comes out of your mouth is now like a turd falling into my drink…”

Gutted.

Reminds me of a line on The Paul Hogan Show when I was a kid..”it’s kind of like finding out that Muhammad Ali is a poofter”

*please excuse 70’s Aussie bogan homophobia

Zullo may indeed make beautiful frames, but that pus yellow with white and grey streaks paintjob TVM used the following season was a crime against humanity…

I’ve been trying to work out what the hell is going on with that saddle.
Looks like some kind if fairing.
Damn ugly addition to the poo coloured frame.

Oh, and the other thing to note was that Sean Kelly actually rode on those very wheels.
I had just had them built up by the shop in Toronto that I was racing for at the time.
For some reason or other I was away the week that there was a big summer crit that attracted some big guys to come over. Bauer was there, Kelly and many others.
In any case, when I picked up my wheels, the guys told me about it.
I always imagined that a bit of the hard man may have rubbed off. Sadly I was deluding myself.
Kelly was kind enough to autograph a PDM hat for me.

THAT is a fucking cool story, mate.

@Pedale.Forchetta

Looking at the photos, the one where he sport the TVM jersey, you can see that his bike is a Zullo, a beautiful Italian steel bikhe, still in production.I think that the Kelly Concord was Italian too…

Ah, indeed it was. Much like this one…

He, of course would have had the Columbus SLX Squadra, whilst this one was the humble Columbus SL Gavina.
I also had the Dia Compe aero levers as I swapped out the old Super Record ones. I think the Dia Compe ones worked much better than the Campag aero offering at the time.

Those PDM Concorde’s were some of my all-time favorite bikes ever. Just a quick scan of the list of dude’s who stomped on those things, and it’s enough to bring a tear to your eye.

Before anyone asks, that’s Gert-Jan Theunisse.

Correction, that’s Gert-Jan Theunisse, Ugliest Man Alive.

Looking at the photos, the one where he sport the TVM jersey, you can see that his bike is a Zullo, a beautiful Italian steel bikhe, still in production.I think that the Kelly Concord was Italian too…

Ah, indeed it was. Much like this one…

He, of course would have had the Columbus SLX Squadra, whilst this one was the humble Columbus SL Gavina.

I also had the Dia Compe aero levers as I swapped out the old Super Record ones. I think the Dia Compe ones worked much better than the Campag aero offering at the time.

Zullo had a booth at the 2010 NAHBS in Richmond. I can’t recall if this paint scheme was on display, but I hope it wasn’t.

And in the BMX photo of Cyclops, is that really 1996? Or is it 1986?

Oli Brooke-White:
Before anyone asks, that’s Gert-Jan Theunisse.

It’s like you’ve clocked cycling.

Marko :
@CyclopsDude, WHAT THE FUCK is up with the dude’s face on the left? It looks like he should be riding a Derney, not racing BMX. That is a weird picture.

Either that Dr. Evil’s offsider or on Fantasy Island

roche kelly :
The gruppo on the TT bike is Campag Record with Dia Compe aero levers, (not Mavic SSC) as Campag still had old style levers with cables from the top at the time. Not very aero.Phil & Jesper Skibby were the two riders that race tested STI before Shimano put it into production, one of the Shimano engineers travelled with them for the last months of the 1989 season and stripped the levers down & tested them after every race once the TVM mechanics had washed the bikes. I spent 30 minutes watching him at the 1989 Nissan Classic in Ireland after a stage testing the shift of the levers which looked almost handmade.Anderson was The V, he always turned up at the Kellogs tour in England & the Nissan in Ireland every year and won a stage & or a stage & the overall GC.Also the photo of the Collstrop rider posted by ‘il ciclista medio’ is Englishman Harry Lodge, not Phil A. The photo below it is Anderson & Sean Kelly in Liege-Bastogne-Liege 1989 in the race winning break with Pedro Delgado & Fabrice Philipot of Toshiba team. Kelly won with Phil Anderson 3rd, what a break with those two animals holding off the chase group by 5 seconds. 1989 the year of years for cycling!

My mistake and I blame Google images as they had his name listed below.(that’s my story and I’m sticking to it!).
Brilliant post BTW. I had recently read the same story re: Phil A. and Shimano, which was a two part series on the man and his legacy to the sport, in “Ride” magazine.
With your apparent wealth of knowledge, feel free to correct errors on my behalf.
Irashaimase

Funny story about that guy. He’s from Boise on the west side of the state and I’m from Idaho Falls on the east side. He got his three 1st place scores on the west side and I got mine on the east side so we were both bringing perfect scores into the State Championship. The thing is that I heard all year that he was talking shit about me and how he was gonna kill me in the SC. I didn’t lose a moto and kicked his ass all weekend an won the SC “while picking my nose.” About 5 seconds after that photo was taking he tried to come up under me and pimp me in the first turn but crashed instead. I got it on video and he stands up and picks his bike up over his head and slams it to the ground. I liked it a lot.

Of course, when I went to Nationals I got my ass handed to me and never made it out of the motos so there you go.

Ron:
There is a dude who shows up to our Thursday night road ride/race on a touring bike with bags sometimes still on…and with those sandals. Ugh. And maybe the most annoying part is that the guy has a custom touring bike, so ain’t poor. Please, buddy, just buy some close-toed shoes. I’d even accept mtn. shoes, just not the sandals.
(I must admit a bit of me thinks it’s kind of cool how little he cares, but then again, if we just ignore The Rules, where does that leave us?)

There was a guy that showed up at a group ride this past summer with open-toe sandals, flat pedals, and a pannier rack and bag. He also wondered when we were stopping for a lunch break (without irony). He made it through the 73 km ride, but we never saw him again.

Dan O:

@Cyclops – you are correct sir, concerning the history of Oakley – got their start as grip company for motocross, then exploded with the BMX scene. Interview with Mike Bell and the history of Oakley here: http://www.oakley.com/sports/bmx/posts/2709
I rode with Oakley Eyeshades for awhile. Still have ’em sitting in the garage somewhere.

The roots go deep. Cyclops (#607) bringing it home for the ’96 Idaho State Championships title.

Here is the pair that Gianni sent me. I had a pair myself, but they’ve gone the way of the Dodo bird.

As he autographed a Motorola jersey for me a few years back he used my back to support it saying, “Hur, hur, I’m giving it to you from behind! You Kiwis love that don’t ya?” For once in my life I truly didn’t know what to say…

Beautiful! He just went a few rungs up the ladder in my book.

is the woman in pink making a wanking gesture? Now if so, surely it’s not towards our Phil. Must be to the bloke beside her?

Is that a woman??

I thought it was a lad in a salmon-colored jumper. Either way, definitely making the gesture at the tool standing next to her/him. I mean, look at the guy. Obviously.

The gruppo on the TT bike is Campag Record with Dia Compe aero levers, (not Mavic SSC) as Campag still had old style levers with cables from the top at the time. Not very aero.

Absolutely spot on. I don’t know how I made that mistake, but you’re absolutely right. Still, though – I loved that SSC crank.

Very cool story. It’s interesting that the picture that got you going about the STI testing (Shimano Total Integration) collaboration has him riding a mixed bag of components. Shimano’s effort to force all the components to be from one group seem to have been successful, since these days even brakes and their levers are paired and can’t be split up. I miss the days of mixing Simplex shifters with Campy mechs and Dia-comp levers with Mavic brakes. Picking a group for their best bits was the true way of the Velominatus.

G’phant:

Marcus:
@G’phant
You really do want to be Australian don’t you?

Only when thinking about cricket. Or surfing. Or tennis. Or rugby league. Or, sometimes, rugby union. Or cycling. Or weather. Or mineral wealth and balanced budgets. Otherwise, never.

If ever make my feature film I am headed straight to the Land of the Long White Cloud. With Jake the Muss in a leading role of course.

Yet here I am reading through every comment about the Phil Anderson photo. Without some keen eyes on others I’d never have noticed the rock, paper, scissors/wank in the background. Fine analysis!

It’s also awesome that some of you grew up with cycling posters on your wall. I’ve full embraced the Velominati Method at this point, but I can’t imagine doing it since I was seven. That is phenomenal. Took me far too long to work through other sports on my way to cycling.

Either way, Phil has some serious guns in the then photo, plus some sweet as hair, and some fine white-framed shades going on. That’s a great photograph!

@BigCog – Sadly, you are not alone in this sighting. There is a dude who shows up to our Thursday night road ride/race on a touring bike with bags sometimes still on…and with those sandals. Ugh. And maybe the most annoying part is that the guy has a custom touring bike, so ain’t poor. Please, buddy, just buy some close-toed shoes. I’d even accept mtn. shoes, just not the sandals.

(I must admit a bit of me thinks it’s kind of cool how little he cares, but then again, if we just ignore The Rules, where does that leave us?)

il ciclista medio:
@frank
and one more thing I just noticed in the original photo – is the woman in pink making a wanking gesture? Now if so, surely it’s not towards our Phil. Must be to the bloke beside her?

They’re playing scissors, paper, rock for who gets to ask Phil for an autograph. You can se the guy is going for scissors. Loser.

Marcus:
@G’phant
You really do want to be Australian don’t you?

Only when thinking about cricket. Or surfing. Or tennis. Or rugby league. Or, sometimes, rugby union. Or cycling. Or weather. Or mineral wealth and balanced budgets. Otherwise, never.

Phil is a legend, and the TT pic is a great one.

As he autographed a Motorola jersey for me a few years back he used my back to support it saying, “Hur, hur, I’m giving it to you from behind! You Kiwis love that don’t ya?” For once in my life I truly didn’t know what to say…

All the same, Mr. Awang of Malaysia is elevanting the art here. I had no idea Malysians were so tough.

Sasquatch is more of a Rouleur, tho. And I believe JiPM can comment on The Skunk Ape. I’m thinking sprinter…

On the subject of Antipodean exponents of the V, check out this excerpt from the Rouleur blog in the wake of the Awang leg splinter crash at the track worlds: “Edward Dawkins, meanwhile, receiving attention from a trackside medic, was asked where he felt pain. The Kiwi, missing a section of skin from one shoulder practically equal in size to the massive tattoo covering the other, replied that he was from New Zealand. The question was repeated. So was the answer. “Did you not hear me, mate? I’m from New Zealand. We don’t feel pain.””

@Zoncolan
I loved the Panansonic kit as well. I remember there was a bloke that used to join our bunch, probably close to 20yrs ago, that rode a Panasonic steel frame! Not sure where he picked it up from or if it was just the decals, but it was a sweet looking bike from memory. And he kicked some arse on it.

He is just radiating awesomeness from every pore, orifice and piece of equipment in that photo. Even his left forearm is showing some serious muscle/vein popping action. Equipment glistening in the sunlight.
Smaller front disc,double discs, Oakleys with a shitload of padding, bullhorns, No.7 buzzcut (just long enough to let the locks rock but still maintain the aggro look), Merckx frame, The V shoes, naturally coloured hoods, shit, even the stripes on his shoulders – the complete V-Unit

Not to mention the massive guns and Mavic SSC groupset. Man, I wish they’d never made Mektronic (or Zap!) for that matter – and that they still had a reputation for making good components aside from wheels. That crank is the most beautiful ever made.

I was more of a Eric Vanderaerden fan at that age, i had a photo of him winning the GP Eddy Merckx in 87 on my wall.

Actually until just now i never joined the Velominati dots on that one before!
A-Merckx, an Ericiphany!

frank :
@MarcusNot just his teeth that radiated light. His entire self did. Check out the glint on his back.

Light, hell. Phil is radiating Awesomeness. I have to ask: Is your neighbor in Awesomeville?

Ummm.. check out the V on the tongue of the shoes! And what kind of bike? A-Merckx, of course.

Anybody else getting a little tingle right about now?

@Marcus
Not just his teeth that radiated light. His entire self did. Check out the glint on his back.

frank :
What freaks me out most about that picture is that the same dude appears thrice in various disguises. I wonder what mischief he was up to.

The yellow-shirted version is actually G-Phant…

Personally, I put the Oakley sticker on the side as a way to draw attention to my 80’s hair cut ‘lines’ made by the ‘stylist’…

@Cyclops – you are correct sir, concerning the history of Oakley – got their start as grip company for motocross, then exploded with the BMX scene. Interview with Mike Bell and the history of Oakley here: http://www.oakley.com/sports/bmx/posts/2709

I rode with Oakley Eyeshades for awhile. Still have ’em sitting in the garage somewhere.

I wonder if he is related to this individual on the far right:

spooky, that is rad.

Frank: I have a proposal for a guest article to your site that has a certain Velominati spin in connection with mountain bike Rules that I think the fellow Velominati would comment on in their typical manner..can I send this to your private email?

Absolutely – chuck it over to our contribute address and we’ll have a look. Sounds like fun!

It may already be known, but those glasses and the relationship with Oakley and more importantly, cycle specific eyewear, came about due to an allergy he had.

Over here on this continent, we believe that Greg LeMond and his background in ski racing are what brought those “ski-goggle”-like shades about. Interesting how those rumors shift based on the riders in question. In any case, he was certainly a pioneer and was a huge factor in helping Shimano develop their STI levers – which could be considered one of the key developments in our sport. I wonder which of those guys invented the internet.

That is a seriously sweet lid he’s got in the Motorola kit.

Very cool guy in any case, and a riot to have watched race. I love it when these guys stay active in the sport after their retirement; like they really loved the bike and can’t leave it. The riders who retire and stop being involved always makes me sad.

Looks more like you found a yeti out for a ride.

I suppose you can forget about double or triple-butted tubes for a bike that’s going to support a Yeti. Question is, how well do they climb for their weight? I’m guessing that so long as they don’t get messed with, they wouldn’t be too bad. They’re exactly the right amount of dumb.

(Am I the only one who thinks the guy in the red jersey looks like Roid Landis?)

Thanks for the shout out for Phil.

As Marcus mentioned, it’s not unusual to see him out and about on the road somewhere. Always happy to have a chat and give advice to the youngsters (or oldies, i.e. me). It may already be known, but those glasses and the relationship with Oakley and more importantly, cycle specific eyewear, came about due to an allergy he had.
He was also responsible in the development of certain other innovations amongst the peloton. Someone please correct me if I’m wrong (?) but didn’t he join forces with Shimano in their STI development?

Here are two very cool dudes. My preference is on Sherwin’s very cool white wrap arounds.

I have been reading some of those recent articles about Anderson. How awesome he’s still slogging along and getting results. Moreover, it’s got to mean something to the youngins coming up down there to have a legend in their ranks. Talk about building tradition.

Scroll down photos to see how Phil looked then and now – still going more than ok. You often see him riding along in Melbourne too – and often quite slowly which is a lesson for all of us.

And I love this story of him racing Hinault taken from his site http://www.philanderson.com.au

Without knowing it, Anderson was to earn even greater wrath from Hinault by naively offering him a swill from his bidon (drink bottle). The Frenchman, taking the gesture as an insult, promptly swiped it from Anderson’s hand. “I didn’t even know who Hinault was. I couldn’t even pronounce his name. But I was there with him and when I gave him my bidon. I was only trying to be sportsmanlike. I figured something was really up when he hit it away. I suppose I should have been intimidated by it all, but I wasn’t. Heck, I was Australian and couldn’t even spell Hinault, let alone know who he was,”

Zoncolan :
That was my first replica cycling Jersey. Memories.

Towelling pads on the shades. Legendary. It’s so he can soak up a gallon of Awesome and sell it to Fabian’s Mum.

Fixed.