It is easy to imagine photo ops and advertisements that the pros obligate themselves to for sponsors becoming tedious. Angles that sound good during an off-season drunken phone conversation are often just awkward when operationalized at the season’s first training camp and new sponsor meeting. I can’t imagine anything more emasculating than being constipated in addition to having to get into an inflatable hot tub with your protégé who just kicked your ass in his first Giro. Young hotrod Damiano Can-He-Go is kicking back and ready for some hottub sake while Gibbo is already regretting his decision not to keep their shorts on before climbing in.
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@frank
"chicks used to dig me"... in response to the use of the word "chicks," velomihottie the blond is not. I think I see adam's apple. Dear Merckx, Frank was checking out a dude. Wait, or in his defence, he was simply protraying Simoni. Na, you were checking out a dude the story will have it.
@frank
The wheels tell the story eloquently.
Gibo: Ksyriums.
Il Piccolo: Sporting the Cosmic Carbone.
This was a very short lived couple.
Gibo was that kind of rider that liked to annihilate the competitors.
I put him into the restricted leauge of the non-gentle riders in company of Hinault, Bruyneel, Armstrong, Virenque to name few; in opposition to the gentle-riders like: Fausto, Indurain, Gimondi, Bugno, Basso etc.
@Pedale.Forchetta
I like that categorization of riders. He definitely liked to destroy the competition, but he was also a little bitch. Is there a special category for guys like that? Oh, yeah - "Douchebags". Answered my own question.
The question is, would the couple have lasted longer had some fucking photog not forced them to climb into a hot tub together?
Ahahah good one Frank!
After the 2004 Giro the two fallen apart biterly
I can't image/explain what convinced them to have a bath together
I think the bigger question here has to do with the collection of cycling photographs Marko"”who also brought us Roulin' Dirty"”has stored on his hard drive. But, honestly, I don't really want to know about that.
This photo kind of validates that "Roadie" Dudes comments from a few weeks ago about the metrosexuals and cycling.
@Steampunk
@Buck Rogers
Just in case there was any question, I bring you the following, not to defend myself as much as to paint a picture of our supports rich (and sometimes stained) tapestry and my hard drive.
[album: http://filemanager.dutchmonkey.com/photoalbums.php?currdir=velominati.com/content/Reader Galleries/261290193903/|width=595|height=512]
NICE! Is that first one Tchmil at Roubaix the year he won?
Definitely some HARDMEN from the past (and Boonen from the present), but there does seem to be fewer of them now, or maybe I am just getting old?
@all
I think most readers don't realize we maintain an archive of cycling photos:
http://www.velominati.com/about/cycling-photo-archive/