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• Even in a photo studio during the offseason posing for a cover shot Barry comes across looking drawn and wasted.

• Would you call this the less glamorous side of being a pro, or just the aftermath?

• @chipomarc

  Are you referring to the recent Canadian Cycling cover?

  I love the jersey. And note the bike comes from his father.

  @Xyverz

  My take was that this was the less glamorous side. Naturally the subject has shifted our focus to talk about doping, aftermath, etc., but I suspect you could superimpose most pros into this scene.

  @brian

  Welcome, mate.

  @scaler911

  Drew Bledsoe? Really??

• @Buck Rogers

  @Marcus

  @Jeff in PetroMetro

  Apparently even porn stars get bored and don't romanticize their job

  Hey man, don't ruin my fantasies here.

  Pro cyclist and porn star: two professions I think that sound great in theory, but the reality is rather...less than desirable.

  Note I didn't use the adjective "sucks" or "unfulfilling."

• @brian

  @Dan_R

  @Steampunk Great photo! For all The V, and my fellow Canadian V, I am a shattered fan and still impressed with Barry all at once. He really is a great cycling wordsmith and from the inside of the big show. The biggest show in fact, on a number of occasions. I hurt because I love the sport at all levels. I love the way Barry slogged for years for better masters. Pantani, DeKaiser, Mr 60%, Roberto Heras, Dave Z, the fucking list goes on. I can get excited watching any of these guys do magic, but yet I always hurt a bit inside like the kid on the steps, "say it ain't so Mikey."

  i know that makes all the worse for me,i stopped watching/caring about racing in 2002,after spending most of adult life on a bike,but after lance won that tour,i believed he was cheating or i believed frankie and besty.my last year of competive cycling 1990, i raced against lance once,here in vancouver ,the gastown gp.and guys (other american pros) were talking about him telling, them he'd done steroids,truthfuly i didn't believe them,but that was the first time i ever heard anybody ever mention drugs,for performance enhancing purposes, i mean olympic's etc i knew about it,after ben jonhson in 1988 every canadian did,and i suppose being in canada(we didn't much history with cycling),i believed that they merckx,hinault,kelly,bauer,lemond.roche etc all did clean. cycling was so pure,i mean you watched every calorie you,you trained in the pissing rain,it was,you know,to see how good you could be.so much suffering,for fleeting glimspes of glory and i don't just mean winning,finishing spring races in sleeting snow/rain,glasses fogged up ,can't see,sucking the wheel in front of you. damn i miss those days

  sorry to go on and on. cycling is a privilege not a right. also its not just lance,the festina affair,op. purto etc i had just had enough,but this year i had to watch ryder in the giro,and it all came back( the love),i even bought a new bike,then the lance stuff started,and there seems to be a real effort to race clean. i just hope it suceeds,again sorry for the rant

  Ranting is what makes this site so great. Glad you're here to join in the fun.

  Disagree with the "cycling is a privilege not a right." I'd agree perhaps that bike racing is a privilege (invited, prepped, licensed, etc etc) but cycling, particularly the VLVV, is very much a right. Those are in fact my roads, I do own them. Comes with a responsibility of course, but all rights do.

• @brian

  Your original post (first here?) seemed like one of the usual-new people come and make a stink, without looking to contribute.  However, in your posts since then you have piqued my interest, and I enjoyed reading about your experience.  Stick around, it is a great place that Frank and the other Keepers have cultivated over the years.  It is one of the unique places on the web for the close community it fosters IMO.

  Referencing the photo, what are the circumstances of it?  TdF I'm assuming, what year?

• Well, since doping is being discussed I wanted to share this.  I haven't had the chance to read it all yet, but a provoking look at what is going on in the governing bodies.

  http://velonews.competitor.com/2013/01/analysis/hoberman-qa-outlining-corruption-doping-collusion-at-the-ioc-uci_270482

  With regards to Lance's possible confession and being allowed to compete:  On the one hand, maybe it is in line with previous suspensions, has there ever been a life suspension before?  On the other hand, fuck Lance.

• @Steampunk well chosen!

  This is a photo by Camille John Mcmillan that is one of the true masters of cycling photography. Please do not alter (black and white) his photo, instead have a look at his beautiful site http://camillejohnmcmillan.com/

• @Steampunk

  @chipomarc

  Are you referring to the recent Canadian Cycling cover?

  I love the jersey. And note the bike comes from his father.

  @Xyverz

  My take was that this was the less glamorous side. Naturally the subject has shifted our focus to talk about doping, aftermath, etc., but I suspect you could superimpose most pros into this scene.

  @brian

  Welcome, mate.

  @scaler911

  Drew Bledsoe? Really??

• @eightzero

  @brian

  @Dan_R

  @Steampunk Great photo! For all The V, and my fellow Canadian V, I am a shattered fan and still impressed with Barry all at once. He really is a great cycling wordsmith and from the inside of the big show. The biggest show in fact, on a number of occasions. I hurt because I love the sport at all levels. I love the way Barry slogged for years for better masters. Pantani, DeKaiser, Mr 60%, Roberto Heras, Dave Z, the fucking list goes on. I can get excited watching any of these guys do magic, but yet I always hurt a bit inside like the kid on the steps, "say it ain't so Mikey."

  i know that makes all the worse for me,i stopped watching/caring about racing in 2002,after spending most of adult life on a bike,but after lance won that tour,i believed he was cheating or i believed frankie and besty.my last year of competive cycling 1990, i raced against lance once,here in vancouver ,the gastown gp.and guys (other american pros) were talking about him telling, them he'd done steroids,truthfuly i didn't believe them,but that was the first time i ever heard anybody ever mention drugs,for performance enhancing purposes, i mean olympic's etc i knew about it,after ben jonhson in 1988 every canadian did,and i suppose being in canada(we didn't much history with cycling),i believed that they merckx,hinault,kelly,bauer,lemond.roche etc all did clean. cycling was so pure,i mean you watched every calorie you,you trained in the pissing rain,it was,you know,to see how good you could be.so much suffering,for fleeting glimspes of glory and i don't just mean winning,finishing spring races in sleeting snow/rain,glasses fogged up ,can't see,sucking the wheel in front of you. damn i miss those days

  sorry to go on and on. cycling is a privilege not a right. also its not just lance,the festina affair,op. purto etc i had just had enough,but this year i had to watch ryder in the giro,and it all came back( the love),i even bought a new bike,then the lance stuff started,and there seems to be a real effort to race clean. i just hope it suceeds,again sorry for the rant

  Ranting is what makes this site so great. Glad you're here to join in the fun.

  Disagree with the "cycling is a privilege not a right." I'd agree perhaps that bike racing is a privilege (invited, prepped, licensed, etc etc) but cycling, particularly the VLVV, is very much a right. Those are in fact my roads, I do own them. Comes with a responsibility of course, but all rights do.

    your right,and thats what meant, racing is a privilege.i realized it after i posted.d'oh.

  @DerHoggz

  @brian

  Your original post (first here?) seemed like one of the usual-new people come and make a stink, without looking to contribute. However, in your posts since then you have piqued my interest, and I enjoyed reading about your experience. Stick around, it is a great place that Frank and the other Keepers have cultivated over the years. It is one of the unique places on the web for the close community it fosters IMO.

  Referencing the photo, what are the circumstances of it? TdF I'm assuming, what year?

   thanks,and your right about the site.i've been lurking here for awhile. love that you all love cycling,had been looking for a site to talk cycling.

   and thanks deakus and the rest for the for the welcome.cheers for the V.