They don’t call it the race of truth for nothing, and Ferdi ain’t no liar. There’s no hiding when your specialist chrono machine is also your specialist road racing machine, and aero headwear is achieved through flipping your leather cap around to face the Jeep loaded with drunk French truffle hunters that’s been tailing you for the last 27km. You want electrolytes? Lick your lips and get on with it. This guy was Swiss TT badassness long before Faboo was even a twinkle in his old man’s eye.
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Fully top drawer photo bretto. Hard as stainless nails. Awesome!
@brett
The perfect amount of suffering is demonstrated par excellence in that photo. God, I'm glad I'm mediocre. It's so much easier to be right fucked up.
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OMF'n Merckx, that photo and paragraph brought me to tears. How deep can one go? We really don't understand how deep, but he did.
@brett
Does he eat nails for breakfast ?
@Barracuda Ha may well have eaten nails for breakfast, cos it looks like one's just been sh*t out the other end.
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Love this photo of the fastest postman in uk - multiple national champion - Matt Bottrill