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Old 20-05.-2006, 05:50 PM   #1
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We all know this, but this photograph struck me... the pain is really evident... wow.

Anyone else have these kinds of shots, of pure suffering? Please post 'em!
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Old 22-05.-2006, 02:16 PM   #2
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Is it pain, or is he just butt ugly?
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Old 23-05.-2006, 04:19 AM   #3
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Is it pain, or is he just butt ugly?
Or the pain of being butt-ugly?
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Old 23-05.-2006, 04:36 AM   #4
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Is it pain, or is he just butt ugly?
LOL, I would say he is in pain, is not the most handsome man out there... and is somewhere at the 150km mark in a breakaway at the Giro!!!!
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Old 23-05.-2006, 05:35 AM   #5
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Oh wait, that's the way Mancebo looks all the time. NM.
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Old 23-05.-2006, 02:25 PM   #6
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Yes, it's the ubiquitous head-canted-to-one-side that gets me. Perhaps it is more aero? I can think in a crosswind it might be very practical.
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Old 23-05.-2006, 11:44 PM   #7
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Now how awkward would that be for the mail man every day? That is worse than any pain I have EVER felt on the bike before.
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The look on the Liquigas rider's face says it all, I think he just got a good look at the shoes the rider behind him is wearing.
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Old 12-06.-2006, 05:11 PM   #11
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Some pictures i took this year (have to look in my archive, should be more pictures with pain in there..)

picture 1: Martinez (Agributel) with the pain of a winner (stage 3 Criterium International 2006, Martinez won the stage)

picture 2: Verbrugghe wanted to win as well, he just got the pain (stage 3 Criterium International 2006)

picture 3: Boogerd screams out (stage 6 Tirreno-Adriatice 2006)

picture 4: Di Luca at Monte Bondone (stage 16, Giro d' Italia 2006)

picture 5: Gilberto Simoni gives all at Monte Bondone and got a second place (again beaten by Basso (stage 16, Giro d' Italia 2006)
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Yes, it's the ubiquitous head-canted-to-one-side that gets me. Perhaps it is more aero? I can think in a crosswind it might be very practical.


I heard that it relieves pressure at the base of the neck. Or maybe it was the back.
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go nuts.....some great race faces out there.
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When ya gotta go, ya gotta go....
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We all know this, but this photograph struck me... the pain is really evident... wow.

Anyone else have these kinds of shots, of pure suffering? Please post 'em!
I look like that all the time I'm riding...


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