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Old 22-12.-2007, 11:43 AM   #31
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[QUOTE=nns1400]...Dutch and German words just sound like supercalifragilisticexpialadocious to me...QUOTE]

If you're going to make a point of criticizing other languages...at least get the spelling of ours right...

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious


Geez...

Just saw your new avatar, are you never getting tired and more important... who is your doctor? He must be pretty good, you just never stop riding..
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Just saw your new avatar, are you never getting tired and more important... who is your doctor? He must be pretty good, you just never stop riding..
I have discovered a new way to ride 10% better than any other cyclist, doped or not, and am currently trying to sell the concept to Carmichael and Bruyneel.

The key is that I never sit down when I ride. I train 400 miles a week totally out of the saddle. At first it was difficult to stay out for longer than 30 seconds. But now I can go 200 miles plus without sitting down.

I use a spike instead of a saddle as a training aid. It works well.
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Old 22-12.-2007, 12:16 PM   #33
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Dave Z is frickin hilarious.
Dave Z comes across to me as a bit of an attention seeking sap. I can see this trait clearly cause I are one.
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Old 22-12.-2007, 12:20 PM   #34
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Dave Z comes across to me as a bit of an attention seeking sap. I can see this trait clearly cause I are one.

The last interview I saw with him vaguely reminded me of Jeff Spicoli...
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.........and I think that is generally true for most athletes in all the major mainstream sports. Some are even smooth enough (personable) to give a good interview, but still are not the brightest. You would think that most of them would make good coaches, but I have met many (not in cycling) that are at the top of their game and yet know very little about how to train themselves, much less, someone else. They have/had the best genetics for that given event and by that and some hard effort excelled when others in the trenches try much harder. Even after many years of training they still depend on coaches/trainers/doctors to spell it out what they need to do and when they need to do it. There are many on this website that are much better educated in physiology and training than professionals. I know education is a broad spectrum, but I am picking on the professionals in an area where they make a living and yet know very little about what makes them function and excel at what they do.
Do you think part of that though is because of the pro's implicit "I don't need to know what you're doing" nature of team doctor administered medication?

I was really interested in reading Jaksche's translated interview from Der Spiegel where he gave the impression he didn't want to know too much about the team vitamins etc. and that for him, half the excitement of changing teams seemed to be in finding out whether the new team's doctors could drastically change his performance. And Jorg sounded particularly intelligent. It seemed that everyone did not want to get too deep into knowledge of the "stuff" and what it physiologically was meant to do. If they (the doctors and managers) were too descriptive, they could have been subpoened later and had to explain away what they had said. Even the DS's rarely talked in direct language even though the whole team knew what they were talking about.

But I agree with you in terms of ourselves hypothetically being in that position. When you are playing around with drugs and transfusions that could kill you if they're not administered correctly, it would be reassuring to have some knowledge of what was going on.
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I have discovered a new way to ride 10% better than any other cyclist, doped or not, and am currently trying to sell the concept to Carmichael and Bruyneel.

The key is that I never sit down when I ride. I train 400 miles a week totally out of the saddle. At first it was difficult to stay out for longer than 30 seconds. But now I can go 200 miles plus without sitting down.

I use a spike instead of a saddle as a training aid. It works well.

Is the spike out of carbon?
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Is the spike out of carbon?
Yes...the spike is carbon...the aluminium one I used to have was really cold in winter.
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The last interview I saw with him vaguely reminded me of Jeff Spicoli...

Is that a bad thing? "What Jefferson was saying was, Hey! You know, we left this England place 'cause it was bogus; so if we don't get some cool rules ourselves - pronto - we'll just be bogus too! Get it?" Jeff Spicoli
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Is that a bad thing? "What Jefferson was saying was, Hey! You know, we left this England place 'cause it was bogus; so if we don't get some cool rules ourselves - pronto - we'll just be bogus too! Get it?" Jeff Spicoli
I think you've got it, Mr. Spicoli! Mr. Hand

(Fave line from the whole movie, BTW... )
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Yes...the spike is carbon...the aluminium one I used to have was really cold in winter.
But maybe the aluminium one is better for cross?
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Is that a bad thing? "What Jefferson was saying was, Hey! You know, we left this England place 'cause it was bogus; so if we don't get some cool rules ourselves - pronto - we'll just be bogus too! Get it?" Jeff Spicoli

So now the traffic is on the right side of the road, isn't it?
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Yo bumperoony.
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Yo bumperoony.

You mean the hotsell bump up the spam bumperoony?
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Yes look at page 2 of the Grand Tour Forum... Is anybody going to delete these Nike sell shoes spam?


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