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Lee is a professional cyclist with the UCI Continental CCN Cycling Team. Lee is quite possibly the world's oldest neo-pro ever - receiving a contract to ride for a UCI Continental team three years ago at 37 and has since raced around the world, from East Java to Korea, Oman to Qatar. Lee has even managed to get on a startline or three in the heartland of the sport - Belgium, where he was comprehensively and properly spanked. Lee loves the millions of lycra-clad folk around the world who head out each weekend to suffer and dream, to emulate their heroes on their local hills and descents, to become noble, dammit, even if only in their own minds. They are the true guardians of the sport. Communicating with them is what makes it all so worthwhile.
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Quite right Mark, my mistake! I blame the Amstel beer 😉
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Terpstra didn't win Paris-Roubaix, Sagan and Boonen lost it
Thanks for the comments guys, yes it was a shame that there were no fireworks in then end. Wiggins says he felt great but then, why not attack? But a cracking race all in all!
Terpstra didn't win Paris-Roubaix, Sagan and Boonen lost it
Yeah I think it is not good and really did not need to see VS clattering into that woman, not the youtube vids compiling crashes.
If you race and have crashed you know how bad it is.
Is it wrong to enjoy seeing cyclists crash?
I’m on a tour with these guys, FYI: http://www.veloclassic.com/, fantastic.
The Tour of Flanders from the cobbles
Time to eat that hat then, thanks Fabian…!
What we know ahead of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix
My first road bike was a Barry Hoban, a proper clunker, and I actually met him in his garden shed when I was 15, his old mate had taken me under his wing and introduced me one day when we were riding in the area. I was in awe! Great article Chris!
A word from Barry Hoban, the man who beat Merckx
Hi guys, thanks for the comments! Yes Justin, Sagan was on great form that day though it has to be tempered by saying it IS Harelbeke and not the biggies. Also, I get the feeling that fab Fab is putting on a bit of an act, maybe trying to give the idea he is below par a little. Seen no massive attacks from him but if you look carefully you can see he is looking pretty darn good.
Sam, yeah he needs to think about his team also, I think Cannondale is really a one man show most days which doesn’t help him at all. Rumors are that he is moving and I’d be surprised if he doesn’t…
Can Peter Sagan gatecrash the Cancellara/Boonen Classics Show?
Amgen sponsors a bike race. Marlboro sponsors a lung cancer ward. Alliat Tech Systems sponsors a rehab unit for victims of landmines. What’s wrong with that? 😉
The hypocrisy of USA Cycling
Thank you SB. Yes that is a great chart, it was the blueprint for a book in itself… You know, there were reports on this ‘appeal’ in the cycling press but not one article I found mentioned anything about all the stuff in the not-so-distant background to this. It’s lazy at best.
The hypocrisy of USA Cycling
I agree with just about everything you say Sarah, all we can do is keep making the noises, making our points, start boycotting races where dopers are and even consider making the point of not applying for licenses from bent federations, in tandem with signed petitions that make a more forcible point than one letter alone can.
The hypocrisy of USA Cycling
OK I can see how it reads like that but I don;t really expect anyone outside cycling to care about cycling, perhaps I should have said ‘sporting world’. Thanks for the comment.
The hypocrisy of USA Cycling
Sean I’m gonna name drop here (‘really, you?!’ haha) but i got to chat with him in Qatar, very nice guy too, but I was surprised to see just how big he is, he and Sagan are very similar builds, you can just see the power even when they are standing still. Boonen was recently interviewed and he said he is hoping FC turns up in full form, as he wants, as he said, ‘a battle’. Fantastic!
Spring Classics: Boonen gives a masterclass, Van Avermaet doesn't
MG I could write similar about The Fab Fab but as Bones says, in this context we are kinda waiting for both to be on absolute top form to see what one will do to the other. Now THAT is a race i am hoping for in the coming weeks. And if you’re not star struck by Boonen and /or Cacnellara, then you don’t really understand what they are doing out on those roads…
Spring Classics: Boonen gives a masterclass, Van Avermaet doesn't
That has always been the case Frank, nothing new there. The point here though is that the rider himself wants to be in the race, not in the Giro. If the Movistar management are trying to divert attention from the TdF in the hope that the cycling world merit other races more, then doing it this way is a little cruel!
And clearly that is not what they are doing, it’s obvious that Alejandro put in his tuppence and ‘convinced’ the management to push Q off to Italy for May, so that he could carry on fooling himself that he is the actual team leader. The guy’s an unrepentant doper and part of the old school, Q is a breath of fresh air and exactly what the Tour – and the cycling fans, weary of the pattern of one-man dominance – need.
Quintana’s non-appearance at the Tour is a travesty
Yes I think his natural understated manner plays a part, and he proved me wrong before too, when I thought he was ‘boring’ (seems so harsh to write that now) when in fact I strongly suspect he was riding pretty much clean against a jacked up peloton and still bringing in very good results. Along came the Fleche, the Worlds, Stage 10 at the Giro in 2010 and then the Tour in ’11 and I thought ‘Hang on, this guy is better than decent’ and, yeah, my first hat was munched. It looked very much like the majority of dopers were having to scale it back and that the massively talented non-dopers then really came to the fore.
Just a hunch, but looked that way to me. Anyway, I wish him all the best and a cracking 2014!
Old Man Evans comes good
Sean, it seems you have to dope, be ‘successful’, get a fat paycheque for a few years, build a fan base, THEN get busted and you’ll get a job in management.
Or wait.. am I being too cynical?
Doping cheats must be banned from cycling and management for life