Cycling and Pain...

Is it pain, or is he just butt ugly?

zaskar said:

Is it pain, or is he just butt ugly?

Or the pain of being butt-ugly?

zaskar said:

Is it pain, or is he just butt ugly?

LOL, I would say he is in pain, is not the most handsome man out there... and is somewhere at the 150km mark in a breakaway at the Giro!!!!

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Oh wait, that's the way Mancebo looks all the time. NM. 😄

Yes, it's the ubiquitous head-canted-to-one-side that gets me. Perhaps it is more aero? I can think in a crosswind it might be very practical.

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Catabolic_Jones said:

Or the pain of being butt-ugly?

The look on the Liquigas rider's face says it all, I think he just got a good look at the shoes the rider behind him is wearing.

Bikeridindude said:

The look on the Liquigas rider's face says it all, I think he just got a good look at the shoes the rider behind him is wearing.

Paulo Bettini wears gold for a reason.

--Steve

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Some pictures i took this year (have to look in my archive, should be more pictures with pain in there..)

picture 1: Martinez (Agributel) with the pain of a winner (stage 3 Criterium International 2006, Martinez won the stage)

picture 2: Verbrugghe wanted to win as well, he just got the pain (stage 3 Criterium International 2006)

picture 3: Boogerd screams out (stage 6 Tirreno-Adriatice 2006)

picture 4: Di Luca at Monte Bondone (stage 16, Giro d' Italia 2006)

picture 5: Gilberto Simoni gives all at Monte Bondone and got a second place (again beaten by Basso (stage 16, Giro d' Italia 2006)

Catabolic_Jones said:

Yes, it's the ubiquitous head-canted-to-one-side that gets me. Perhaps it is more aero? I can think in a crosswind it might be very practical.

I heard that it relieves pressure at the base of the neck. Or maybe it was the back.

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go nuts.....some great race faces out there.

When ya gotta go, ya gotta go....

Powerful Pete said:

We all know this, but this photograph struck me... the pain is really evident... wow. :eek:

Anyone else have these kinds of shots, of pure suffering? Please post 'em!

I look like that all the time I'm riding...

with my finger on the brake 😉