Goddamm. What sort of Jackass crashes out of the TdF twice

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[email protected] wrote:
> Kurgan Gringioni wrote:
>
>>in ITT?
>>
>>Crashing in ITT is pretty fredly in an of itself.
>>
>>Crashing out of the TdF in ITT takes the fredliness up a few levels.
>>
>>Crashing out of the TdF twice in ITT - that's beyond fredliness. I'm
>>not sure what one should call it.
>>
>>Has anyone else done that twice or is Booby in a historical league of
>>his own?
>>
>>
>>thanks,
>>
>>K. Gringioni.
>>fan of Booby

>
>
> I say that Bobby has a ways to go before he can match Rasmussen's TT
> skills. Maybe Bobby has to learn to land better.


His real mistake was in putting his hand down. If you do that, you're
going to break something - be it a hand (as he did), an ulna, or a
collarbone. If he hadn't done that, he would have been dazed but he
might have been able to continue.

-Sonarrat.
 
sonarrat wrote:
>
> His real mistake was in putting his hand down. If you do that, you're
> going to break something - be it a hand (as he did), an ulna, or a
> collarbone. If he hadn't done that, he would have been dazed but he
> might have been able to continue.
>
> -Sonarrat.


It's a hard instinct to break. Same as sticking out a leg when your
sliding and falling...
The one thing you shouldn't do is your first reaction to do...

Scoot
SDG
 
"Kurgan Gringioni" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> in ITT?
>
> Crashing in ITT is pretty fredly in an of itself.
>
> Crashing out of the TdF in ITT takes the fredliness up a few levels.
>
> Crashing out of the TdF twice in ITT - that's beyond fredliness. I'm
> not sure what one should call it.


How about Kunichliness?
 
Scoot wrote:
> sonarrat wrote:
>
>>His real mistake was in putting his hand down. If you do that, you're
>>going to break something - be it a hand (as he did), an ulna, or a
>>collarbone. If he hadn't done that, he would have been dazed but he
>>might have been able to continue.
>>
>>-Sonarrat.

>
>
> It's a hard instinct to break. Same as sticking out a leg when your
> sliding and falling...
> The one thing you shouldn't do is your first reaction to do...
>
> Scott


He's in his mid-30s, has been in many Tours and has had several seasons
ruined by crashes already.. and yet he still hasn't learned to fall
properly. Baden Cooke ought to hold winter seminars.
 
Scoot wrote:
> Jonathan v.d. Sluis wrote:
> >
> > I agree, you need a special kind of class to be a true champion. Someone
> > who has beaten cancer can say he has that class. Bobby has yet to show it.
> > What has he been doing this winter, during christmas? Training? Because
> > that's what he should have been doing. That's what it takes: total
> > commitment. He should have been out there, on those roads, memorizing every
> > inch of them. Climbing up the mountains of France, not once, not twice, no,
> > ten times a day at least, at full racing speed every time. From september
> > last year, every moment of his life should have been dedicated to a single
> > goal: the Tour De France in july.
> >
> > Some people can live with the idea of coming up short, and perhaps Bobby is
> > one of those people. But if that's true, then he will never become what he
> > aspires: a Real Winner.

>
> You said it much better than I could have. Thanks....
>
> Scoot
> Soli Deo Gloria


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From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: End Times Postponement

Gabi,

No need to shine up the trumpet. Apocalypse called
off - irony still ungrokked by Americans. Thanks for your
help, take the weekend off. Get some rest, man.

Cheers and fanfares,
Mike
 
sonarrat wrote:
> He's in his mid-30s, has been in many Tours and has had several seasons
> ruined by crashes already.. and yet he still hasn't learned to fall
> properly. Baden Cooke ought to hold winter seminars.


Dumbass,
If you want to learn to fall, in that split second while you're in the
air, you need to be able to visualise yourself flying. That way you will
gently levitate to the ground. This is best practised in a low gravity
environment.

See the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy for more details.
 
ronaldo_jeremiah wrote:
> You're a genius. You should post your phone number so Bjarne knows how
> to reach you.


Bjarne only talks to people of good blood.
 
ronaldo_jeremiah wrote:
> You're a genius. You should post your phone number so Bjarne knows how
> to reach you.


Bjarne only talks to people of good blood.
 
ilan wrote:
> Well, there is Boardman, who crashed out when he was favourite in the
> first
> few kilometers of the TdF.



<snip>




Dumbass -


Boardman did crash out in the prologue, but he actually had a good
excuse for taking risks. He was a prologue specialist, his year was
made or broken by how he did in the prologue and the winner of the
prologue can be determined by fractions of a second (as it was this
year).

Booby was shooting for GC. There's no need to ride beyond one's skills
in the ITT - the overall GC is a long, long race.

The question remains: has anyone ever crashed out of the TdF in the ITT
*twice*?


thanks,

K. Gringioni.
 
Donald Munro <[email protected]>
> Dumbass,
> If you want to learn to fall, in that split second while you're in the
> air, you need to be able to visualise yourself flying. That way you will
> gently levitate to the ground. This is best practised in a low gravity
> environment.
>
> See the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy for more details.


Whereas if you'd actually listened to H2G2, you'd know that concentrating
on flying is one way to not fly and not fly with a particularly hard
landing.

Anyway, even if Bobby forgot to hit the floor, he'd probably get taken
out by a cocktail party in the small of the back.

--
MJR/slef
 
"[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> Scoot wrote:
>> Jonathan v.d. Sluis wrote:
>> >
>> > I agree, you need a special kind of class to be a true champion.
>> > Someone who has beaten cancer can say he has that class. Bobby has
>> > yet to show it. What has he been doing this winter, during
>> > christmas? Training? Because that's what he should have been doing.
>> > That's what it takes: total commitment. He should have been out
>> > there, on those roads, memorizing every inch of them. Climbing up
>> > the mountains of France, not once, not twice, no, ten times a day
>> > at least, at full racing speed every time. From september last
>> > year, every moment of his life should have been dedicated to a
>> > single goal: the Tour De France in july.
>> >
>> > Some people can live with the idea of coming up short, and perhaps
>> > Bobby is one of those people. But if that's true, then he will
>> > never become what he aspires: a Real Winner.

>>
>> You said it much better than I could have. Thanks....
>>
>> Scoot
>> Soli Deo Gloria

>
> The NSA has recently intercepted this email. Fear not
> as the members of this terrorist network are being
> rounded up as we speak!
>
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
> Subject: End Times Postponement
>
> Gabi,
>
> No need to shine up the trumpet. Apocalypse called
> off - irony still ungrokked by Americans. Thanks for your
> help, take the weekend off. Get some rest, man.
>
> Cheers and fanfares,
> Mike
>
>


No, I think the original question has been answered now.
 
in 512629 20060709 103636 MJ Ray <[email protected]> wrote:
>Donald Munro <[email protected]>
>> Dumbass,
>> If you want to learn to fall, in that split second while you're in the
>> air, you need to be able to visualise yourself flying. That way you will
>> gently levitate to the ground. This is best practised in a low gravity
>> environment.
>>
>> See the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy for more details.

>
>Whereas if you'd actually listened to H2G2, you'd know that concentrating
>on flying is one way to not fly and not fly with a particularly hard
>landing.
>
>Anyway, even if Bobby forgot to hit the floor, he'd probably get taken
>out by a cocktail party in the small of the back.


Reminds me of the Irish bricklayer who was killed jumping off the top of a building.

His mate said "it was my fault, I told him how I used to fly in Wellingtons".
 
On 8 Jul 2006 13:56:59 -0700, "Kurgan Gringioni" <[email protected]> wrote:

>in ITT?
>
>Crashing in ITT is pretty fredly in an of itself.
>
>Crashing out of the TdF in ITT takes the fredliness up a few levels.
>
>Crashing out of the TdF twice in ITT - that's beyond fredliness. I'm
>not sure what one should call it.


Rasmussen.

I don't know if it's a noun or a verb or even an adjective yet. But it should
be.

Ron
 
in message <[email protected]>,
[email protected] ('[email protected]') wrote:

>
> Kurgan Gringioni wrote:
>> in ITT?
>>
>> Crashing in ITT is pretty fredly in an of itself.
>>
>> Crashing out of the TdF in ITT takes the fredliness up a few levels.
>>
>> Crashing out of the TdF twice in ITT - that's beyond fredliness. I'm
>> not sure what one should call it.
>>
>> Has anyone else done that twice or is Booby in a historical league of
>> his own?

>
> I say that Bobby has a ways to go before he can match Rasmussen's TT
> skills. Maybe Bobby has to learn to land better.


Remember Rasmussen is a mountain biker. Falling off is normal.

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Donald Munro wrote:
> ronaldo_jeremiah wrote:
>>You're a genius. You should post your phone number so Bjarne knows how
>>to reach you.

>
> Bjarne only talks to people of good blood.


The definition of 'good blood' being...? Those with a hematocrit of
49.99999999999999? ;)

~bob
 
in message <[email protected]>, amit
('[email protected]') wrote:

> http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/tdf2006/news/story?id=2512486


Wow. Poor *******. There is so, so much irony in that single page.

"I've had no crashes or injuries and I'm heading into a stage that brings
out my strength as a rider -- the individual time trial. The race of
truth beckons!"

"... it's you who decides how hard you can go and how hard you can push
your body..."

"I elected not to go see the time-trial course Friday night, so I didn't
have the pressure of having it all on my mind. In the morning, I'll have
a little breakfast, drive the first 15 kilometers of the course, then
ride the rest of it. Riding the course is the only way to get a true
taste of what it will be like..."

Shame you decided not to ride those first 15Km, then?

Meanwhile, on the right, an AMD advert showing a time triallist in Disco
strip with the caption 'the face has changed, but the champions remain'.

And I thought Americans didn't do irony.

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In article
<[email protected]>,
bob sullivan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Donald Munro wrote:
> > ronaldo_jeremiah wrote:
> >>You're a genius. You should post your phone number so Bjarne knows how
> >>to reach you.

> >
> > Bjarne only talks to people of good blood.

>
> The definition of 'good blood' being...? Those with a hematocrit of
> 49.99999999999999? ;)


Too many nines.
0.4999999999999999 = 0.5 - 1e-16.
Whereas there are ~1e13 rbc in any one body. :)

--
Michael Press
 
In article
<[email protected]>,
Simon Brooke <[email protected]> wrote:

> in message <[email protected]>, amit
> ('[email protected]') wrote:
>
> > http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/tdf2006/news/story?id=2512486

>
> Wow. Poor *******. There is so, so much irony in that single page.
>
> "I've had no crashes or injuries and I'm heading into a stage that brings
> out my strength as a rider -- the individual time trial. The race of
> truth beckons!"
>
> "... it's you who decides how hard you can go and how hard you can push
> your body..."
>
> "I elected not to go see the time-trial course Friday night, so I didn't
> have the pressure of having it all on my mind. In the morning, I'll have
> a little breakfast, drive the first 15 kilometers of the course, then
> ride the rest of it. Riding the course is the only way to get a true
> taste of what it will be like..."
>
> Shame you decided not to ride those first 15Km, then?
>
> Meanwhile, on the right, an AMD advert showing a time triallist in Disco
> strip with the caption 'the face has changed, but the champions remain'.
>
> And I thought Americans didn't do irony.


It's not irony, it's hubris.

--
Michael Press
 
in message <[email protected]>,
Michael Press ('[email protected]') wrote:

> In article
> <[email protected]>,
> Simon Brooke <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> in message <[email protected]>,
>> amit ('[email protected]') wrote:
>>
>> > http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/tdf2006/news/story?id=2512486

>>
>> Wow. Poor *******. There is so, so much irony in that single page.
>>
>> "I've had no crashes or injuries and I'm heading into a stage that
>> brings out my strength as a rider -- the individual time trial. The
>> race of truth beckons!"
>>
>> "... it's you who decides how hard you can go and how hard you can
>> push your body..."
>>
>> "I elected not to go see the time-trial course Friday night, so I
>> didn't have the pressure of having it all on my mind. In the morning,
>> I'll have a little breakfast, drive the first 15 kilometers of the
>> course, then ride the rest of it. Riding the course is the only way to
>> get a true taste of what it will be like..."
>>
>> Shame you decided not to ride those first 15Km, then?
>>
>> Meanwhile, on the right, an AMD advert showing a time triallist in
>> Disco strip with the caption 'the face has changed, but the champions
>> remain'.
>>
>> And I thought Americans didn't do irony.

>
> It's not irony, it's hubris.


Indeed. Pride goeth before, errm, running wide on a bend with bad camber.

Ouch.

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