Who rides with WHITE TYRES? Just like Bloody Graham Langlands. Seems a bit pointless, they'd end up black after a few kays.

Cheers, no probs glad your happy. see, moving one bike out of the garage means i can make room for the next addition to my stable this year :D . it also appeases SWMBO for a short time..

appologies on the delay again. i was concerned about the rear wheel as i couldnt find an extension bar for my socket set to get the rear wheel off. glad your happy anyways. just remember me when your shipping those parts back from the states eh? ;)

Didn't you ever see the old white strip or latex coloured strip track tyres from years ago?

They used to call them 'dinger' or 'franger' strips :D

Just a quick pic of Will from TMC for the uninitiated!

Bettini had a gold helmet bike shoes. For his Athens win, in homage. It looked $hite. Even when he put Cooke into the barriers. :D

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That must be Henk then. On closer inspection it must be, fair skin. In the shadows the skin looked tanned but it is not, and the position is similar to Mcewen.

Has anyone seen Henk Vogels walk.

Actuallly he struts more than walks. It is a strut like a 20 year old Greek or Italian boy walking down Oxford or Chapel street Saturday night, on the prowl.

Very funny, actually looks like he learned to ride before walk, and walks like he is out of the saddle spinting, pulling on the bars from his shoulders.

I'm fairly certain it's Vogels as well. Looks like his style on the bike, low brake levers. (**** I am a vegie).

My dad just brought some Diadora ALU shoes. Silver, with gold anodised aluminium reinforcements in the sole. They look ga... really nice. :)

Actually, I would'nt mind a pair. Very classy shoes.

and that looks like the winning break, and he won it, so I'd say that's a positive ID on Henk.

nice pics Steve, what's the length of the Keiren track? It looks huge !

Some nice bikes on there too, I love the Vigore fixie, the gold one.

Its certainly Henk.


The reason he walks funny is he has an extra verterbra in his back (plus it might have been accentuated after his massive off a few years ago that nearly killed him) he always looks like he's just getting out of a chair and trying to straighten up.

If you meet him at a race, have a look at his bike....he's on about a 56 cm frame, 140mm stem! Short legs, long back and arms.

PS-check out his quads too (discreetly). Impressive.

He tried to flog me his Colnago at the Sun Tour a year or two ago. He looks at me and grunts 'how tall are you?' LOL. He might have known my face as I spent a couple of hours with him the day he won the Aussie Road title. Thing is, the thing would have fit me as I ride 56 high, 57.5 long, but I know how rough he is with bikes. The bike was a bit knocked around.

thanks Ed. nice to know. Great effort to come back. Up there with Sunderland, Museeuw and Pantani.

This is his year. If he is to put a stamp on his career it is now or never. At the moment his national title and a tour of Med/tour de l'Avenir will go down as his biggest wins. He was 50 metres away from a win in Gent Wevelgem, just too short, and 50 metres in the Giro, just too long. Hope he gets a big win this year.

One top 10 in Roubaix and an 11th signalled he had bigger things to achieve early in his career.

Guess getting beaten up in the bar fight with Ogrady and Millar and put in a coma stuffed his career up a bit.

Ha! I bought Mavic Cosmics off him at the 1994 Sun Tour!!!

(Whispers were flying that he'd "bedded" a young Tiffany Cherry as she reported on the race that year...)

And yes....any bike that Henk has owned has had a pretty rough life.

how much do those guys want for their steeds classic1. I only put out 25 watts :D so it would not matter to me, as long as they were comfy and some nice Italian shifting :)

All the Euros sell their bikes?

Cookie had his new Ridley, and Wilson was still on his Lapierre at crits. Ahh, think I mentioned that. :D

I reckon his CORESTATES US Pro champs was his biggest win.....was (maybe still is?) the biggest payday in one-day cycling.

If he was a seppo, he'd have donned the stars n stripes.

you must have been impressed with his quads - or he yours. :eek:

forgot about that USPros win. Yep, would be the biggest win. He went close in the San Fransisco GP too I think. Pity Klier got him at Wevelgem. But Klier is a monster, next Wesemann, will break through and probably win both Roubaix and Flanders.

next gen. Boonen Gilbert Cooke Hushovd Klier Flecha Ballan Bennati Davis Bernucci

$6500 for a very used Naviagtors C50 (C40, can't remember) Colnago with Record and Zero gravity brakes. The bloke that brought it was from down my way. It broke a few months later! :(

To be fair, it wasn't broken when it was sold, Vogels was racing on it. Approach any frames at the Sun Tour with extreme caution!

It wasn't out the road :D . After the race, climbo, after the race.

That is a ridiculous price, I think a Petacchi Dogma went for about retail price on Ebay, it was for charity. But for a regular pro who does not have any cache to sell, 6,500 is alot. What, that would be about 11 retail new? Best idea is to have a holiday in the states and buy the bike there and come back here, with a free holiday and still about 1 grand in the pocket after costs of holiday.

Or support the LBS and local industry. But buying from Henk, is good to supports him, and his recovery. :)

tristan Hoffman's 853 TVM Gazelle could've been yours in 1995 for about $2200....brand new. Done about 1200km.

Nicolai Bo Larsen was offloading his Jack & Jones Peugeot for about $3000, when the Dura-Ace wheels were still prototypes and thus uber-cool...

heaps of others. Sun Tour is at a good time of year....pros would rather sell than lug back to Europe.

A C50 frame was going for about $6500 at the time, as the aus dollar was worth jack sheissen.

yes - in fact it was after the race.

I guess my poor attempt at gay humour didn't quite come across on the internet like it did in my head at the time.