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.
I know as well as any of you that I've been checked out lately, kind…
Peter Sagan has undergone quite the transformation over the years; starting as a brash and…
The Women's road race has to be my favorite one-day road race after Paris-Roubaix and…
Holy fuckballs. I've never been this late ever on a VSP. I mean, I've missed…
This week we are currently in is the most boring week of the year. After…
I have memories of my life before Cycling, but as the years wear slowly on…
View Comments
@Oli
This.
@Campagnolo Vince!
Les Claypool also happens to be one of the most amazing musicians ever. He is/was the frontman of Primus, as well as a whole bunch of his own groups after and to this day.
I was going to post a video, but it really takes a lot of his songs to understand.
@DerHoggz
Oh, I love this guy -- as far as guy love goes. Trying to find a Primus (video) because it has a certain 'cadence' that (for me) connects to cycling -- and found badass PIG HUNT instead.
Lacquerhead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY7jSesdxl0
I am still inspired to learn the bass one day due to Claypool.
@DerHoggz
And he directed and animated Lacquerhead himself -- with some help. Go find Wynona's Big Brown Beaver and enjoy. Well here, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYDfwUJzYQg
@Adrian
It was a foot long veggie sub until he looked at it.
@DerHoggz, @Campagnolo Vince!
Not to mention writing and performing the South Park intro song.
@urbanwhitetrash
+1
Could someone with a Wikipedia account switch the photo of yates on wiki to the one on this page?
Got the HTFU wrist bands in the mail!! Only thing is, how, as a school teacher, do I get away with it, or at least remember to remove it before going to work??
"Teacher, what does your wrist band say?"
oooohhhh shit.
@packfiller
Turn it inside out.
@packfiller
How old are the kids you teach? Whatever it is, its probably not too young for the Rule 5 Talk.