Jackass

In article <[email hidden]>,

Robert Chung said:

On May 14, 3:54 pm, "[email hidden]" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

I've seen Masters Fatties abuse
their bicycles during MTB races and throw them down in
disgust for much smaller slights.

I've given up on throwing my bike around. It's a sacrifice, it really
is, but I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see
me throwing a bike. I feel I owe it to the families to be as -- to be
in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think throwing a bike
around during a war just sends the wrong signal.

You know, giving up golf, er, throwing bikes seems to be a lot like giving up
sweets during a war for some people: it makes for a nice soundbite but doesn't pan
out in reality (there's that word again). Of course, pointing that out would be
"petty [censored]."

--
tanx,
Howard

Whatever happened to
Leon Trotsky?
He got an icepick
That made his ears burn.

remove YOUR SHOES to reply, ok?

In article <[email hidden]>,

Paul G. said:

On May 14, 5:02 pm, ronaldo_jeremiah <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

On May 14, 3:38 pm, Scott <[email hidden]> wrote:

Throwing a bike is always lame.

Well he threw one down from the top of the stairs
Beautiful women were standing everywhere
They all got wet when he smashed that thing
But off in the dark you could hear somebody sing

It started back in 1963
His momma wouldnt buy him
That new Schwinn Varsity
He settled for a Huffy with a crack
But hes stIll trying to break his mommas back

There out to be a law with no bail
Smash a bike and you go to jail
With no chance for early parole
You don't get out tIll you get some soul

Late at night the end of the road
He wished he still had the old bike he rode
He'd rock it like a baby in his arms
Never let it come to any harm

Excellent.

--
tanx,
Howard

Whatever happened to
Leon Trotsky?
He got an icepick
That made his ears burn.

remove YOUR SHOES to reply, ok?

Paul G. said:

On May 14, 5:02 pm, ronaldo_jeremiah <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

On May 14, 3:38 pm, Scott <[email hidden]> wrote:

Quoted message said:

Throwing a bike is always lame.

Well he threw one down from the top of the stairs
Beautiful women were standing everywhere
They all got wet when he smashed that thing
But off in the dark you could hear somebody sing

It started back in 1963
His momma wouldnt buy him
That new Schwinn Varsity
He settled for a Huffy with a crack
But hes stIll trying to break his mommas back

There out to be a law with no bail
Smash a bike and you go to jail
With no chance for early parole
You don't get out tIll you get some soul

Late at night the end of the road
He wished he still had the old bike he rode
He'd rock it like a baby in his arms
Never let it come to any harm

John Hiatt - Perfectly Good Guitar

| There's a still image on CyclingNews of him standing there waiting for the
| team car with his bike. So somebody handed it back over the barrier to
him
| as he stood by the side waiting.

I saw that photo. Pretty frightening place to be standing, I would think.
And the chain in the middle of the road... glad that didn't get flipped up
by the pack and cause a crash.

That photo does discount my theory. On the other hand, could be that a
spectator recovered his bike and handed it to him, and what's he going to do
at that point? Tell him no, keep it? :>😉

In any event, in typical Giro fashion, it seemed like a pretty narrow run-in
for that final kilometer.

--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReactionBicycles.com

"William Asher" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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| Ryan Cousineau wrote:
|
| > In article <[email hidden]>,
| > "Mike Jacoubowsky" <[email hidden]> wrote:
| >
| >> > David Millar is a jackass.
| >>
| >> OK, let's think about this one just a little bit. Sure, he tossed his
| >> bike. But it was in the final section of road where there were
| >> barriers on each side, and there are two reasons to get it out of the
| >> roadway-
| >>
| >> #1: There's not much room there, and an approaching pack getting
| >> ready for the final sprint would likely plow into it and crash.
| >>
| >> #2: It makes it darn clear to his support car that HE NEEDS A BIKE.
| >>
| >> Seriously. His bike had to get off the roadway, period. The fact that
| >> he threw it with such force, well sure, he was pretty upset. Had
| >> every right to be. But really, in a case like that, it should be
| >> almost instinctive to get your non-functioning bike out of harms way.
| >
| > Fascinating bit of post-hoc reasoning. I can't help but feel the
| > Slipstream mechanics may have wanted him to leave the bike a wee bit
| > closer to the barriers, so they could retrieve it.
| >
| > But I do like your theory.
| >
| > This was, in fact, a much stronger toss than the notorious Riis throw.
| > This leads us to the shocking conclusion that Riis was clean when he
| > threw his bike.
| >
|
| There's a still image on CyclingNews of him standing there waiting for the
| team car with his bike. So somebody handed it back over the barrier to
him
| as he stood by the side waiting.
|
| I still think it was a woossie throw, he never got his whole body into it.
|
| --
| Bill Asher

ronaldo_jeremiah said:

Quoted message said:

David Millar is a jackass.

Scott said:

Geez, cut him some slack. Frankly, I'd be concerned if he DIDN'T show
some anger/emotion.

I'm told you can buy slack on the cheap in some places in Philadelphia.

Quoted message said:

Now, if he'd been a steroid-inflated baseball player who'd just struck out
in the bottom of the ninth, he'd have broken the bike over his knee. THAT
would've been impressive.

Millar sucked quite bad compared to Riis in the bike throwing contest,
particularly as Riis TT bike probably weighed a lot more than Millars
bike. Probably just another mkanifestation of the Millar line.

Fred Fredburger said:

I just claim to have spotted a terrorist. Throwing your bike at terrorists
is the patriotic thing to do.

Unless the top tube is full of semtex (purely to get around the 6.8kg
rule of course).

Fred Fredburger said:

Robert Chung said:

On May 14, 3:54 pm, "[email hidden]" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

I've seen Masters Fatties abuse
their bicycles during MTB races and throw them down in
disgust for much smaller slights.

Quoted message said:

I've given up on throwing my bike around. It's a sacrifice, it really
is, but I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see
me throwing a bike. I feel I owe it to the families to be as -- to be
in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think throwing a bike
around during a war just sends the wrong signal.

I just claim to have spotted a terrorist. Throwing your bike at
terrorists is the patriotic thing to do.

I too have made sacrifices in the War on Terror.
As part of our national effort, for the duration,
I've sworn to give up terrorism.

I sure hope we can win this war soon enough.
A man needs his hobbies, after all.

Ben

Quoted message said:

I too have made sacrifices in the War on Terror. As part of our national
effort, for the duration, I've sworn to give up terrorism.

I sure hope we can win this war soon enough. A man needs his hobbies,
after all.

I'd have thought your other hobby of killing off the 3rd world population
would take up all your time. Unless of course you've got bored and decided
to leave it to the cyclones and earthquakes.

On May 15, 2:02 am, ronaldo_jeremiah <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Scott said:

Yeah, like YOU'd have handled it differently.

Dumbass -

You've got that right.

Quoted message said:

No reason for him to be so upset, he'd only just spent roughly 5 hours
working his [censored] off to put himself in a position to win a stage of
the Giro, only to have his chance taken away due to a mechanical.

Yeah, I know, that's never happened to anyone before in the history of
bike racing.

Quoted message said:

Geez, cut him some slack.  Frankly, I'd be concerned if he DIDN'T show
some anger/emotion.

Millar has been given so much slack, he's really not entitled to any
more.  He's lucky - very lucky - to be able to make a living racing a
bike at all.  Further, he's outspoken about wanting to do things the
right way.  I hardly think making an ass out of yourself on
international television coverage, and implicitly belittling your
equipment sponsors, is the way to do that.

After his immature move on that Vuelta mountain stage, the scores of
bad equipment decisions in major races, and getting caught red-handed
with hot sauce, this guy should be doing his best to maintain a more
positive profile.  Even moreso now that he is older, and a team owner.

Throwing a bike is always lame.

-rj

I'll say. Even if his chain didn't break, and he had won the stage,
he'd still be a jackass.

Joseph

"Donald Munro" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

ronaldo_jeremiah said:

Quoted message said:

David Millar is a jackass.

Scott said:

Geez, cut him some slack. Frankly, I'd be concerned if he DIDN'T show
some anger/emotion.

I'm told you can buy slack on the cheap in some places in Philadelphia.

Hincapie had a hard time finding some there.

Mike Jacoubowsky said:

That photo does discount my theory. On the other hand, could be that a
spectator recovered his bike and handed it to him, and what's he going
to do at that point? Tell him no, keep it? :>😉

I don't think he was thinking very rationally at that point. He was [censored] and threw his bike and someone handed it back to him. He wasn't
thinking of a narrow run-in, we was thinking how he was *that* close to a
road stage win and was in a blind rage. It reminded me of the story from
Ball Four about the guy (I forget the payer's name) who got tossed from a
ballgame and went berserk. He kicked in the water cooler and threw it out
onto the field. The player was alleged by Bouton to have said he went
berserk because right as he got tossed, his greenie kicked in. Adrenaline
will do that to you too.

--
Bill Asher

William Asher said:

Mike Jacoubowsky said:

That photo does discount my theory. On the other hand, could be that a
spectator recovered his bike and handed it to him, and what's he going
to do at that point? Tell him no, keep it? :>😉

I don't think he was thinking very rationally at that point.  He was [censored]
off and threw his bike and someone handed it back to him.

I think the spectator should've kept it. It's hardly any different
than a baseball that's been hit into the stands, is it?

-rj

Donald Munro said:

Quoted message said:

I too have made sacrifices in the War on Terror. As part of our national
effort, for the duration, I've sworn to give up terrorism.

I sure hope we can win this war soon enough. A man needs his hobbies,
after all.

I'd have thought your other hobby of killing off the 3rd world population
would take up all your time. Unless of course you've got bored and decided
to leave it to the cyclones and earthquakes.

It doesn't really matter what he's doing, he's covered.

There is no behavior so atrocious that it can't be excused by the War on
Terror.

If you replace the word "excused" with "forgiven" and "the War on
Terror" with the name of your favorite deity, I think you'll recognize a
very old idea in a new package.

In article <[email hidden]>,

Donald Munro said:

Quoted message said:

I too have made sacrifices in the War on Terror. As part of our national
effort, for the duration, I've sworn to give up terrorism.

I sure hope we can win this war soon enough. A man needs his hobbies,
after all.

I'd have thought your other hobby of killing off the 3rd world population
would take up all your time. Unless of course you've got bored and decided
to leave it to the cyclones and earthquakes.

Hell, the Burmese junta is having so much fun right now with Ben's hobby
that they even refute my theories of rising tides and boats and global
warming for people living below the high-water mark.

--
Ryan Cousineau [email hidden] http://www.wiredcola.com/
"In other newsgroups, they killfile trolls."
"In rec.bicycles.racing, we coach them."

Bret said:

What's the big deal? He broke his chain, so he threw the bike away and got
a new one. I do that too.

Hey I get a new Pinarello every time my chain wears out.

Donald Munro said:

Bret said:

What's the big deal? He broke his chain, so he threw the bike away and got
a new one. I do that too.

Hey I get a new Pinarello every time my chain wears out.

I get a new car when the ashtrays are full.
Best,
Bill Black

Ryan Cousineau said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Donald Munro said:

Quoted message said:

I too have made sacrifices in the War on Terror. As part of our national
effort, for the duration, I've sworn to give up terrorism.

I sure hope we can win this war soon enough. A man needs his hobbies,
after all.

I'd have thought your other hobby of killing off the 3rd world population
would take up all your time. Unless of course you've got bored and decided
to leave it to the cyclones and earthquakes.

Hell, the Burmese junta is having so much fun right now with Ben's hobby
that they even refute my theories of rising tides and boats and global
warming for people living below the high-water mark.

"Burmese junta" sounds so cool! Maybe if the UCI changed their name to
"Burmese Junta" they'd be taken seriously. Who'd want to cross them then?

Fred Fredburger said:

"Burmese junta" sounds so cool! Maybe if the UCI changed their name to
"Burmese Junta" they'd be taken seriously. Who'd want to cross them then?

Or a really badass team who switch their opponents all the time.

Donald Munro said:

Quoted message said:

Hey I get a new Pinarello every time my chain wears out.

billb said:

I get a new car when the ashtrays are full.

I'd still be driving my first car then (I think it was a beaten up
old Toyota if memory serves me correctly).

billb said:

Donald Munro said:

Bret said:

What's the big deal? He broke his chain, so he threw the bike away
and g

ot

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

a new one. I do that too.

Hey I get a new Pinarello every time my chain wears out.

I get a new car when the ashtrays are full.
Best,
Bill Black

With what?

--
Bill Asher