F = MA

whats the name of the soundtrack?

3MTA3

firestarter by prodigy

EdZ

Hey! I'm 5'7''! Im not small, your just big I'm suprised at his weight, I have the typical cyclist build, absolutley no upper body and huge legs, and I only weigh 135-140 lbs.

botto 

mcewan has beefy arms (for a professional cyclist).

timmhaan

everyone suffers. but, he has made it to Paris many times so he can't be that bad of a climber either.

Duke of Kent

At the Tour of Elk Grove this summer, I got to say hello to Dave Z and Chris Horner, and stood around listening to them talk to the crowd. My opinion?

Dave Z = Awesome guy. Very nice, funny, odd. He crashed during the race, and due to "sponsorship obligations" couldn't ride a neutral service Scott CR1 with Mavics. Instead, he sat down in a tent of one of the local Cat1/2 teams and had a beer with some regular people, hung out, and shot the *****. Cool.

Horner = Very nice as well. Hard, hard dude who has been around the block but he's got a good head on him. Was nice to the little kids, too, who had absolutely no clue who he was.

Duke of Kent

You realize that's a pretty normal height and weight for a pro cyclist, right? It's like being 5'7", 160, and then riding your bike...a lot.

I always get a kick out of people that think that being 6'2" 200lbs is "normal".

biffstephens

He grabbed the bottol out of the guys hands and turns right around in front of him and gives it to someone else....a little kid I believe...

bdcheung

Sure. But he's still tiny.

Namenda

I'm 6'2, 210#...and I'm kinda normal. Well, except that I'm brilliant. Oh, and unusually handsome.

Wilchemy

Correct. I think that even the "non-climbers" in the pro peloton would completely smoke most of the posters on these boards on any road that points up a hill

classic1

Spot on Wilchemy. Guys like Vogels, McEwen, Malcolm Elliot and Wust who weren't known for their climbing ability in Europe have had high overall placings in the Herald Sun Tour against the home based elite riders . Climbs like Mt Buller, Mt Buffalo and Mt Hotham aren't easy climbs, even on a Euro scale. Hotham is 30km long.

WCroadie

Most? They would smoke everyone on here, or else they would not be on here posting, they would be getting paid to ride their bikes

DrPete 

Right there with ya, except I'm at 202 right now.

DrPete 

+1.

timmhaan

oh, come on - we got some good up and coming cat 4's and 5's...... .... (sorry, i couldn't even type that with a straight face).

jqnj

Talks the talk, then walks the walk. Wins when it counts. The real deal.

botto 

yep. i remember ol' malcolm kicking ass at the killington stage race back in '93. imagine that. bloody limey comes to new england, and beats us at our own game.

classic1

Elliot was a class act. IMO he should have had a better career in Europe. Still, a Vuelta points jersey and placings in a couple of classics are nothing to sniff at.

thunder

I just said in a pervious thread, if anyone has the footage from the bay crits in 2003 when Mcewen took the corner at San Remo on one knee and straightened it to put about 20 lengths on Hilton Clarke in 200 metres which included the hotdog 90 degree corner.

He jumped Clarke from behind going in, and got about half a dozen lengths and took the perpendicular at about 35 miles an hour.

Wilchemy

Yep, McEwan has scary fast acceleration. Saw him do pretty much the same at one of the Bay crits held in the foreshore car park at Rosebud (or Rye). Lays it flat round a turn and then exits to put a extra bike length into the others with each turn of the pedal. And that day he was testing new tires for the first time & still laid it horizontal. Easily one of the top bike handlers in the pro ranks.

ed073

True.

Got a roasting in the Belge press about his it. Was seen as an arrogant, unecessary act.

Professionals are public property, it seems.

ed073

THE best.

ed073

It was a staggering display of cornering ability. Could've nearly rolled to the line after exiting.

thunder

Why did I say San Remo, meant to say Sorrento, could have been Rye or Rosebud that year like you said Wil.

Only saw it on the teevee. Did you catch it live?

It was 2003 pretty sure, Brownie and Clarke and Snozza were riding as part of the SBR yellow team. Brownie was flicked by McGrory (? Ed is that right?) and did not ride the last stages. This after the Arlington or Mornington round where there were parked vans and cars on the side of the road where Brown deciding to shut the gate on Mcewen. Pretty amusing Brownie, could have easily been up on manslaughter charges with the bar looking for a judge that does C grade crits around Glenvale crescent to preside.