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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@brett
Actually that might be the perfect counterweight to the fabled Stuey v Jens mini-pump battle. Set the two confrontations up on antipodean points on the globe & that way the extreme levels of the V exhibited in each battle will cancel each other out and ensure the planet isn't thrown off its axis...
GQ magazine advises against mirrored aviator sunglasses for everyone except Robert Redford.
I think they should add Sean Yates to the list of exceptions.
@G'rilla
I think you should stop reading GQ...
Funny, I'm thinking more trainspotting than GQ, but that makes me like the pic more...
How did he get so thin eating that crap in his left hand?
When you are this hard it is important that you demonstrate the fear you strike in to all around you at every possible opportunity, in this case by casually slouching against your team Jag, facing the wrong way on a one way street munching on your keebab with extra chilli sauce and telling all passers by...."Ill ride in a couple of minutes once I have finished this bad boy" I salute you Sir Yates!
@Adrian
I do not think that he actually eats it. More likely he just beats his riders with it and swings it round for emphasis.
@Buck Rogers
Maybe he could visit my favorite Ferrari in a dark alley with it and teach him three points make a straight line!
You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talking... you talking to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you're talking to? Oh yeah? OK.
@Buck Rogers
It reminds me a bit of Brad Pitt's character in Ocean's 11--always stuffing his face with some godawful junk food, but still exuding the sense that he is a 100% cool customer that you do not want to fuck with.