So will Vinny be riding? With CAS to rule on the Astana-Würth case before the Tour start things are looking shaky again.

Tour organisers have already sent a letter to Astana-Würth asking them not to start! Ouch.

id say hes not. apparranty an induvidual rider can protest as well as the team? may it be possible that all the riders will lodge prostests as well as the team therefore may not be yanked from the race till a week ot 2 in?

the other big risk is Ullrich's alledged involvement in all this. without him there this race will become an even bigger snooze....

You mean, it hasn't been a snooze for the past few years?

You need to go borrow out some vids from the 80's if you want to know what the tour was really like before it became the snooze-fest that it is.

*edit* Actually Wikipedia has all the results and synopsis by chronology, which is really interesting. Didn't realise in recent history Phil Anderson has been our best finisher, finishing 5th in 1985, and Cadel finishing 8th last year, which isn't too shabby for a mountainbiker from Melbourne.

https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...=205503&page=2

Post #49

Uhh....good advice dude...thanks.....

Feeling better today Thylo?

I've heard of a few others enjoying the "Gastro super-abs workout & weight-loss program" pretty bad in the last week so there must be a fun dose doing the rounds...

Wil, you are too funny. You actually went through all that garbage thread?

A thread on bike nerds without cars who can't get "chicks" on a nerdy internet forum, now that is f*%^*n hilarious.

Even more hilarious is the "How simply do you live?" thread - talk about a bunch of sad losers!

Hiring a prostitute for the night - $100, going on BF for dating advice - priceless.

i cant beleive osmone outed themselves like that on a public forum, unless they are taking the piss!

instead of a car, maybee they just need a tandem, or a recumbant with a sidecar?

or just take the saddle off their bike and get it all out of their system for $0.

i think that only works for the " oxford street " side of the operation, unless somone is after a mobile colonoscopy....

Bwahahahaha...

Yeah, sad I know...but I was looking for anything to distract me from work for a bit & when I saw the thread title & what sub forum it was in, thought "what sort of tool would start this?" and just got sucked into the motherlode of Loserville....

And then along came post #49.....pure gold!

Especially as he says he "won't beat a rusty frame"....that must be because he pays someone to beat it for him!!

Funniest thing I have seen on here for a long time

Maybe they need a new forum for "living car free - except when I need a root"

'my' shop has a 2nd hand pair of Campag Omega wheels (look like 32 spokes), with Daytona 10sp hubs for about $200. I'm not sure if 9sp runs on 10sp, or what

yep, it does, same hubs for 9 or 10s Campy.

Thanks for that Ozman. If I get a chance I might try and get down to "your shop" on the w/e and have a look at them. I run 10sp anyway so it's all good to me.

thanks for that laugh. At least that guy is to the point

Someone forgot to tell the OP of that thread, that if some woman won't go out with you because you don't have a car, they ain't **** and you're better off without them anyway.

Then again, I've been to the US and I'm not sure how you could exist without one unless you lived in a decent city with a decent public transport system. We were in LA once (Redondo Beach, total sh¡thole of a place) and went for a walk to get some food then go to a local bike shop. After walking for 45 mins we asked someone where it was and they said "Oh, real close, about 15 mins away".

Ah, cool, so we keep walking.....and walking......

Oh, you mean 15 minutes by car.

Don't you remember Missing Persons, from the 80's? Nobody walks in LA.

Well, you've seen Crocodile Dundee when he went to the US? That was basically us.

Did the same thing in Atlanta... bike shop at the end of the street, no footpath and rednecks in cars honking at the 2 weirdos walking!

From real conversation at McD's on way to Daytona beach from Atlanta:
Redneck: Hey, where you boys from?
Paul: Bonnie Scotland...where you from?
Redneck: Dooownnn thaaa swwaaammmpppp!
Paul: Lets run!

yer, when i was in sunny San Jose, it struck me that youd be right royaly ****ed if you didnt have a car. driving on the other sid eof the road was umm, well interesting as well constantly thinking i was about to have a head on..... and that tram thing that runs up to san fran and back is hardly worth mentioning either!

The only time I found it strange when driving in the States was coming out of shopping centre car parks etc & I had to think hard about which side of the driveway I should be on.

And i agree with Tiger that Redondo Beach is a ....hole. Huntington Beach was much better - for general "scenery" and there was even some okay waves to surf.

white pointers??

Nah, not really HDT. More of those around on the Oz beaches I reckon. I think Seppos tend to get uptight when the full pointer appears - refer janet jackson & superbowl.....

Just in general SoCal ladies (tho probably cosmetically re-arranged) around the area were quite appealing to a young single fella on holidays..