Sweet Jesus, here is a DS you can’t bluff. Having Raas, Tchmil or Sean Yates as a director must make you a better rider; you will be getting little sympathy from the team car with one of these guys behind the wheel. Some ex-racers really let go when they retire but only Sean Yates looks meaner and leaner after he quits the pro peloton. This photo is quite a contrast to an old photo from his early years in the professional ranks.
We have always held Sean in very high esteem. He has always appeared unstoppable, indestructible, a cyclist who actually might end up winning a bar fight. I bet he can put some of the present climbers on the Sky team in a spot of bother on the flats any time he rides with them. He even looks bandaged up here like he went down in a corner. And that black wrist band, I reckon it is a HTFU, Rule V special. No need to speak to a rider when he drops back to the team car to moan about the work being done on the front for Cav, just a quick look towards his black wrist band is all it takes.
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@Ron
Not all of them though;
@scaler911
Ahhhhh, poor LeMelvis rears his head again.
@wiscot
"Friendo". Throw a bowl hair cut on him and he could be the creepy killer guy from "No Country for Old Men".
@scaler911
I think he is sprinting for the fried peanut butter and banana sandwich stand. Actually, it's his bitterness that is the saddest part.
http://static7.businessinsider.com/image/4f140eb2ecad04e126000012/hunter-s-thompson.jpg
I thought I'd seen this picture somewhere before - "Fear and Loathing on the Road to Milan" perhaps?
The OP picture reminds me of the sheriff from O Brother Where Art Thou.
That sandwich looks unrealistically good.
@Ron
I think I remember reading in peleton or Rouleur that Sean doesn't ride anymore due to a health problem.
@Keepers
If I am wrong about that I'd appreciate you not divulging my whereabouts to the man.
@scaler911
The before and after are tough to reconcile.
I'll remember the former, but its hard with things like this floating around. You can do it, though, because a Google search will keep turning this kind of stuff up.
@frank
The two may be tough to reconcile, but having met the guy, I gotta say he's still one class act. And even with the weight he's put on, he could probably still out-climb and out-ride me any day.
http://velominati.com/wp-content/uploads/readers/frank/2012.05.10.16.37.15/taste91-lemond.jpg
Holy crap, lookkit them guns!