Which bold rider has this stage circled in their tour bible? Wednesday July 18th, Stage 16, 197 km. The day after a the final rest day. A climbing day with two HC climbs followed by two Category 1 climbs and a serious descent toward the finish. The Aubisque, Tourmalet, Aspin and Peyresourde: you better be a fearless climber and a good descender, but a better climber. This is not a stage for Sagan or Fränkie Schleck (sorry Frank). If Wiggo was going to have a bad day, this would be a special one to have it on. And this follows a rest day? Could the weather finally make a difference? Will the mad tacker return? Will climbers just try to survive this stage to perform on the fearsome Stage 17? More questions than answers in the Velominati Super-Bunker.
All VSP bettors better give an extra shake of the monkey bones before casting them down. Study them well. There is much at stake: Fizik R3s for the winner, 2 pair of DeFeet socks for first loser. The rules are the same as for the first single stage VSP. Points are awarded for correct place only. Delgado might have enjoyed this stage but don’t be like him.
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@unnamed
I think Ive only said this twice since Ive been a member here and I think the first time was to you as well. Fuck off. Seriously.
@versio
@unnamed
Just get into the office to day after a cycling-related bender to read all of your shit. Because I am hungover and unproductive I will actually address your idiocy. My point about doing as little as possible was related to racing - not training, not riding your bike, channeling the V or whatever you want to call it. When you ain't racing, yes burn all your matches - but when you are racing (you seem to talk like you might?), you race selfishly, do as little as possible and try to win. And Wiggo has done that perfectly.
Do your fellow competitors think you are as big a cunt as we do? Although then again, maybe they like the stupid fucker who pulls the breakaways in for them - bet you are a champ at that. Because you felt the need to describe your own racing I am guessing you are a little battler racing in some shit US town in some shit division with a bunch of other shitty riders. And you feel the need for validation by coming on here and talking about your little race. You are an embarrassment you little boy.
Anyone up for a nice sorbet?
@xyxax
I think popcorn is more appropriate.
@xyxax Sorbet?
The cone looks like a V; hence it's Velomi-Sorbet.
@xyxax
yeah, why don't we meet at the metro station just down the road. I'll be there in five minutes.
Dear Versio / Unnamed / Whatever -
I like to think that I am a reasonable man. I understand that part of life's rich tapestry involves the occasional interaction with folk whose views, and methods of espousing them, are not always to one's taste. And I like to think that I am a forgiving man. Rare indeed is the person who has never made a mistake and so knows not the need for and bliss of forgiveness and redemption. And I like to think that I am a patient man. When patience is shown to me I recognise and cherish it, and I try my best to do the same for others (including those, such as small children and other lawyers, who demand much of it).
But you have threatened my ability to be reasonable, to be patient and to forgive.
Not by your incomprehensible ramblings. Not by your petty needling. Not by your barely-sophomoric sense of what I assume you think might pass for humour. Not by your pathetically puffed and preened grandiosity.
It is far, far worse than that.
It is this: I stand on the brink of finding myself agreeing with Marcus.
Should I take that final step into the abyss, I fear I shall never forgive you.
Time for the assos girl.
I'm trying to channel that image as otherwise i keep vomiting into the back of my throat when i return to readng the part about energy conservation and agreeing w @Marcus. Is that a sign of the apocalypse? Shit, still haven't won a race! Cant i have a few more days. Please.
see, @G'phant beat me to it! I need time to work on my finishing! Assos girl, release me!!!!
@G'phant
That may well be the most eloquently delivered backhanded compliment Marcus has received in a while...