Gentlemen, your daily does of bike pron. Sorry it's not a road bike, buuuuut.....who cares!

of course not Hard to tell, it happens so fast, never saw a replay of it. No fisticuffs in the infield.

Kelly could have kept going and got a medal though, he slowed right up and protested instead of riding it out.

+1

neatly encapsulates the fundamental difference between someone who actually understands bike racing and someone who's "knowledge" comes from watching racing on TV

Been up at the hospital chatting with Tanya. Looks excellent given what she's been through. Room totally occupied by flowers and stuffed toys, nurses complaining that there's no room for instruments.

Leg in some sort of bending machine for four hours a day. Up to 50deg bend today, needs 90 before she's allowed out of hospital. No pain (that the stioc little bugger would let on to!!) and healing well. Bit bored with hospital life, but enjoyed watching the TT yesterday.

Hospital #101: if you don't scream and cry you must'nt be too bad.
Apparently Tanya sat in emergency waiting for treatment for 7 hours because she wasn't showing signs of agony and despair. By the time they finally Xrayed her leg and said "OMFG!!" it was too late to organise a surgeon, so she lost a whole day's worth of healing time.

So if your knee, leg, pelvis, etc it mutilated in a collision with 2 tonnes of metal, be sure to grab the nearest nurse by the lapel and be sure that she understands that her pretty little head may come clean orf unless you get some attention real soon! (Don't really do that BTW, it's assault and you may end up worse off)

Sarah Jamieson. fair stomach?

Kiwi's are on crack again...

New Zealand cycling officials are examining a tape of last Friday's Commonwealth Games points race after suggestions that Hayden Roulston may have missed out on a gold medal due to a scoring error, according to a report in the New Zealand Herald.

BikeNZ endurance coach Terry Gyde received a video of Friday's race yesterday after television commentator Phil Liggett raised fears that Australian winner Sean Finning was wrongly awarded a 20-point bonus that should have gone to teammate Peter Dawson, meaning that Finning's total of 137 points would be 117 - two less than silver medallist Roulston.

"We're checking to see if there was a mistake but at this stage we're not too excited about it," said BikeNZ media officer Ted Jones, who is currently looking at possible courses of action if an error has been made.

It was Cooke's fault that he crashed.

As you'd expect, there was plenty of debate here about that when it happened, so I watched the tape of the crash about 20 times on slow-mo. Bettini obviously impeded Cooke's progress, slowed him right up, and veered him toward the barrier, but there was no contact when the crash occurred. What happened was Cooke went to whip his hand off the bar to do old "protest wave", and he lost control of his bike.

Shes a man, baby.

LOL

I haven't knocked anyone off in a sprint for 5 years. Mind you, I havent race in four years.

Very sweet Wokka.

Love the emblem on the headtube - perfect. Does it leave an imprint (ala 'The Phantom' rings) when you run down errant pedestrians?

agreed 531, I like you watched it over and over. I think the hand was going on to the side or back of Bettini, not to wave for protest at that stage, Baden was looking to win, then looking to avoid the inevitable when the hand came off the bike. I am confident he was going to give Bettini a nudge with the hand instead of alert the commissaires at that stage.

So, no contact. But no contact does not necessarily mean no catalyst. The last mini hook, the only mini hook, previously he just veered out on a vector, from the start to close the door, but that was not enough.

My point is like stage 13 last year when mcewen was ready to put his hands up and sat back down to either let Rodriguez win or put his hands up, and found O'grady catching the slipstream he threw a mini hook, and O'Grady veered a few feet to his right even though there was no contact. Action, reaction, yet no contact. I think it was this, plus Cookes dogmatic will to get that win posted. Both contributed.

O'Grady closed the door similarly on Piil in 2004 in stage 5 in 2004, the only difference was their back wheels had not crossed and the Piil had to change line and accelerate again on the outside. I don't know if it cost him the win but if O'Grady let him come up the inside and sprinted head on Piil might have won on the day. But it was not obvious he was coming around like Cooke was. Check the finish, Ogrady has then moved out and made Piil go the long way after already shutting the door. I think Piil thought twice about protesting.



Bettini's was worse, he never gave Cooke room to beat him. Both contributed to the crash, but Cooke would not have gone down without the mini hook that came last.

I'd hit it

lol ed

Now there's an idea! Maybe the next batch I should do in reverse?

Pulse - check
Female - check
All limbs in place - check
No hideous deformities or morbid obesity - check

All the prerequisites are in place, though note that the above can be used as a starting point or guide only.

Check out Jacques Kallis's crumpet....

fellas, I have 3 free tickets to Wired to Win the IMAX film at Carlton Gardens, Melbourne Museum. Sorry Sydneysiders and others.

I have seen the film, it is not great, but the tickets are for free. Odin, if you want you have first dibs on the double pass.... so you you can have two because you were somehow responsible for winning them, since I emailed the Robbie McClown poic you photoshopped to SEN First of the Bike. But I won as best talkback caller, infact, the only talkback caller!!!

The double pass is for the season, plus the single is the refund ticket I had when I paid to go see it myself when the tickets never arrived. The film hjad technical problems and they stamped the ticket so it can be used for any IMAX session.

So there is 3. First in gets them. But Odin gets to reserve them if he wants them.

Cheers fellas.
btw, I will mail em to you or hand them to you on Commonwealth Games rr if you are going. Either or, not concerned. Just reply in the thread, then I will pm you, as I am sure there will be 1000's who want the tickets.

Melanie Hincapie

or

Rahna Demarte aka Ms Gerrans




I think Melanie shades Rahna on the Thunder cheekbone scale on bonability. Plus the accent.

I was "warned off" Rahna years ago....funny.

Titanium is so 2004...

Cadel's bird ain't bad, especially considering he looks like Moe Szyslak

Chiara, she is very nice. Italian to boot.

Enter Ed stage door left with a comment to the effect that he would tap that.

+1 for Sarah Jamieson. Quite handy.

anyway, get out of the minors.....I've got pics of 3 or 4 of the hottest chicks you'll ever see, but I can't find any that aren't at least 'R' rated