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This chap has turned up at our local gravel ride
Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2024 9:29 pm
by pistonbroke
Tomorrow there's a gravel race starting about 10mins down the road from us which runs through the hills of the lower Ebro valley. It's grown considerably in the 4 years it's been going. I saw a famous name on the start list this year and bugger me if it was the same.
Re: This chap has turned up at our local gravel ride
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:57 am
by voodoo_simon
Ermmm, don’t want to be that guy but I’m not great with faces nor names…
Re: This chap has turned up at our local gravel ride
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:59 am
by chris n
Guy on the right looks like Rupert Murdoch, but I didn't think he was into cycling
Re: This chap has turned up at our local gravel ride
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:01 pm
by Dyffers
voodoo_simon wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:57 am
Ermmm, don’t want to be that guy but I’m not great with faces nor names…
Sean Yates
Re: This chap has turned up at our local gravel ride
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:07 pm
by voodoo_simon
Dyffers wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:01 pm
voodoo_simon wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:57 am
Ermmm, don’t want to be that guy but I’m not great with faces nor names…
Sean Yates
I did think that just before I posed (only because of the ear ring) but the Marin hoody completely threw me. Was initially thinking one of the repack lads from back in the day (again, due to the hoody)
Re: This chap has turned up at our local gravel ride
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:24 pm
by psling
voodoo_simon wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:07 pm
I did think that just before I posed (only because of the ear ring) but the Marin hoody completely threw me. Was initially thinking one of the repack lads from back in the day (again, due to the hoody)
I'm not surprised the Marin hoody threw you, it's "Made in" !!!
Re: This chap has turned up at our local gravel ride
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:30 pm
by redefined_cycles
chris n wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:59 am
Guy on the right looks like Rupert Murdoch, but I didn't think he was into cycling
That's Duncan. Pizton Broke who started the thread.
Re: This chap has turned up at our local gravel ride
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:31 pm
by voodoo_simon
Re: This chap has turned up at our local gravel ride
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2024 2:05 pm
by Dave Barter
The Thompson Twins haven’t aged well
Re: This chap has turned up at our local gravel ride
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2024 2:51 pm
by Lazarus
Re: This chap has turned up at our local gravel ride
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:47 pm
by Alpinum
Dyffers wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:01 pm
Sean Yates
?
I know Simon Yates - the rope cutter
(Touching the Void made him "famous").
But Sean Yates?
Before I look him up myself, ask a chatbot search engine, I'd prefer a Bearboner explain him to me... please? Thanks
psling wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:24 pm
I'm not surprised the Marin hoody threw you, it's "Made in" !!!
read Marin at first too.
Re: This chap has turned up at our local gravel ride
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2024 6:54 pm
by voodoo_simon
Alpinum wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:47 pm
Dyffers wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:01 pm
Sean Yates
?
I know Simon Yates - the rope cutter
(Touching the Void made him "famous").
But Sean Yates?
Before I look him up myself, ask a chatbot search engine, I'd prefer a Bearboner explain him to me... please? Thanks
psling wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:24 pm
I'm not surprised the Marin hoody threw you, it's "Made in" !!!
read Marin at first too.
Short answer - ex pro cyclist
Medium answer - I’m going to answer this without fact checking Google in the spirit of your reply - Bit of a cult British cyclist known for being hard/tough. Better known for time trailing and riding on the front of bunches/pelotons for a long time, guess bit of a Rouleur, definitely rode for Motorola, maybe 7eleven too? Worked for Sky at one stage too.
Long answer - check Google
(and google his legs too…)
Re: This chap has turned up at our local gravel ride
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2024 6:59 pm
by pistonbroke
Where to start, 12 Tours de France as a rider, yellow jersey wearer and stage winner as well as multiple stage wins in the Vuelta, 8 TdF as Directeur Sportive including 2012 where he headed up team Sky, engineering Bradley Wiggins as first UK winner. Multiple British Champion on the road, track and time trialling. More controversially was described as Lance Armstrong's Leiutenant, mainly in his pre-cancer Motorola days but some of the dark days as well. Lives and breathes cycling and both his sons Liam and Jesse are at the top of the ultra cycling game.
Dave, I was thinking more chuckle brothers but hey-ho
Re: This chap has turned up at our local gravel ride
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:32 pm
by jobro
When Sean was a young lad he did one of our Sunday 25 mile TT's. He beat the entire field by 5 minutes. Time keeper accused him of cutting the course
Re: This chap has turned up at our local gravel ride
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:38 pm
by Dave Barter
pistonbroke wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 6:59 pm
Where to start, 12 Tours de France as a rider, yellow jersey wearer and stage winner as well as multiple stage wins in the Vuelta, 8 TdF as Directeur Sportive including 2012 where he headed up team Sky, engineering Bradley Wiggins as first UK winner. Multiple British Champion on the road, track and time trialling. More controversially was described as Lance Armstrong's Leiutenant, mainly in his pre-cancer Motorola days but some of the dark days as well. Lives and breathes cycling and both his sons Liam and Jesse are at the top of the ultra cycling game.
Dave, I was thinking more chuckle brothers but hey-ho
Not old enough
Re: This chap has turned up at our local gravel ride
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:09 am
by Alpinum
Cheers folks
I'm sure there's some info in your answers Google or Chatbots don't know about.
Well now it kind of should know since it's on here, but that wasn't my intention.
