Cycling forum awards

Chips Lovell

Given that Christmas is rapidly approaching, who's on for a few polls to mark the highlights of the year.

Suggested categories are:

Boards Cycling Moment of the Year: Wicklow 200, Ring of Kerry, Alps trip etc.

Cycling Personality of the Year: Possible nominees could be TinyExplosions (for organising the boards jerseys), niceonetom (for singlehandly creating a crimewave against traffic cones), Caroline_ie (for rounding us all up to do a Fantasy Tour de France), Blorg (for being Boards Mr. Mileage amongst other things).

Best Crash: I think several people will have multiple nominations on this one.

Nicest Bike Posted On Images of Beauty:

Poser/Euro of the Year:

Most ridiculous cycling related purchase:


Alright, if folks are interested, give your nominations in this thread and any suggestions for further categories.

DirkVoodoo

Most entertaining "you turn me on" post/thread of the year?

Best self-built bike of the year (points for budget/where original frame was "found"/attention to detail, etc.)?

Most likely to take EPO?

Most likely to beat Blorg up the Glandon (as if we didn't know by now!)?

Best helmet hair? *ahem*, *cough*

kenmc

Boards Cycling Moment of the Year : The kilbride walk of death.

Nicest Bike Posted On Images of Beauty: Mine of course (suspect everyones opinion on this will be a bit biased)

Best Crash: I think this will HAVE to be the 6-in-one

Lifetime achievement award for crashing : Blorg

Forgotten friends : Kona

unionman

Loudest lycra

Biggest Whinger (me on the Martin Earley tour, about the only nomination I'd hope for)

Slowest climb (actually me again, last one up Sally Gap as I recall. Sorry Caroline!)

King of the Mountains

Most likely to need bionic replacement in the future (unless of course blorg already has some. In which case, sorry again Caroline!)

Funniest thread / post

Scariest cycling story posted

Fastest descent (?)

Most outrageous 'Zen' claim about fixed gear cycling

Raam

Cycling Personality of the Year: TinyExplosions

Best Crash: 6 in 1

Nicest Bike Posted On Images of Beauty: Quigs Cervelo

Poser/Euro of the Year: El_Tonto. The Santa suit clinched it.

Most ridiculous cycling related purchase: Penexpers Surly, Penexpers Dahone

Categories...

Best Legs
Most Freddish
Most likely to be a Pro Rider
Least likely to be a Pro Rider

unionman

Raam wrote: »

Most Freddish

There will be skin and hair flying to claim this one

TinyExplosions

Most pro kit in one outfit (biased, but still)
Most Euro
Least Euro
Most Freddish
Best fakenger

Chips Lovell

Thread of the year is a good one. Forgot about that.

King of the mountains should be fun too. Can imagine a bit of a fight over that one.

I like Best Legs too.

Lots of categories proposed. We need more nominations though for each category to work.

Raam

I propose a rule on not being allowed to vote for yourself.

Gavin

I agree with categories of

• Personality - Nominate Tiny
• Best Crash - Unfortunately I've missed out on most of these. Nominate Caroline and Blorg. Can one have two nominations?
• Nicest bike - Can one nominate oneself?
• Poser/Euro - Tonto, although Raam and Tunney are up there too.
• King of Mountain - May have to take this to the road to have a convincing victor.
• Best Thread - Helmet Head perhaps?

I oppose such categories as "most likely to X" on grounds that they sound like something from an American graduation yearbook thing.

Chips Lovell

Raam wrote: »

I propose a rule on not being allowed to vote for yourself.

Agreed, but we should let Ken off since he was smart enough to get in there before everyone else copped.

kenmc

I think there's a difference between best crash and best crasher

el tonto wrote: »

Agreed, but we should let Ken off since he was smart enough to get in there before everyone else copped.

Woohoo! thank you sir, you have my vote in some category

Chips Lovell

I'm nominating Raam for poser. I've never met Tunney in the flesh.

I nominate rogerb for King of the Mountains.

Six in One has to be up there for the crash award, although Tiny's spill on an Orwell spin was pretty mad too.

Helmet Head gets my vote for thread of the year.

TinyExplosions

kenmc wrote: »

I think there's a difference between best crash and best crasher

Absolutely -the style in which you do it is as important...

best crash (or post crash) photo

worst crash (most idiotic)

worst cycling related injury (Caroline may have that, though Blorg could come close)

Raam

el tonto wrote: »

I nominate rogerb for King of the Mountains.

Seconded.

Lumen

el tonto wrote: »

Most ridiculous cycling related purchase

My metal-studded tyres take some beating on that score.

Particularly since I had to buy a new cyclocross bike to have something on which to mount them.

eta: arse, no voting for oneself. Does that get me a nomination for "most narcissistic", or will that suggestion itself trigger a spacetime-wrecking recursion?

TinyExplosions

el tonto wrote: »

Six in One has to be up there for the crash award, although Tiny's spill on an Orwell spin was pretty mad too.

That could be stupidest crash alright

TinyExplosions

if we're having a king of the mountains, we need a points jersey for best sprinter too then

Top commuter (distance or style?)

Chips Lovell

Raam wrote: »

Seconded.

Just because you couldn't vote for yourself.

Raam

el tonto wrote: »

Just because you couldn't vote for yourself.

Correct

Chips Lovell

Raam wrote: »

Correct

OK, someone nominate Raam to put him out of his misery.

unionman

TinyExplosions wrote: »

That could be stupidest crash alright

What happened there?

kenmc

el tonto wrote: »

OK, someone nominate Raam to put him out of his misery.

I nominate Raam for being thinner than a 700x23c tyre.
err I suppose that would be the thinnest cyclist award then

Chips Lovell

unionman wrote: »

What happened there?

He took off from the lights, or rather tried to take off from the lights, and ended up on his arse.

TinyExplosions

el tonto wrote: »

He took off from the lights, or rather tried to take off from the lights, and ended up on his arse.

As I did, chain came off as I was out of the saddle, leading to me on my arse

Raam

Never mind

DirkVoodoo

Thanks for stealing my idea

If Raam gets his own award, I want one too! I reckon I could match him on the stick factor, I'm not as tall though. Biggest head award?

Raam

DirkVoodoo wrote: »

Thanks for stealing my idea

Sorry mate, I was thinking for ages and thought that one was a peach

DirkVoodoo wrote: »

If Raam gets his own award, I want one too! I reckon I could match him on the stick factor, I'm not as tall though. Biggest head award?

We will have to go on BMI

Raam

DirkVoodoo wrote: »

If Raam gets his own award

I didn't get any award?

DirkVoodoo

Yeah, BMI wont work, mine is coming out at 21.1, or "perfect" (which I am!)

You are pretty much a shoe-in for that "thinner than a 700x23c tyre".

Unless...

Raam

DirkVoodoo wrote: »

Yeah, BMI wont work, mine is coming out at 21.1, or "perfect" (which I am!)

You are pretty much a shoe-in for that "thinner than a 700x23c tyre".

Unless...

Oh yeah, that award.
I got 18.4

Chips Lovell

Come on folks, we need more nominations. We'll have to put the polls up soon.

sy

Best photo award. ie taken by cyclist

sy

How about highest kms for the year! Any offers on this one?

flickerx

el tonto wrote: »

Come on folks, we need more nominations. We'll have to put the polls up soon.

Best self-build fixie? It was easy enough to get these nominations together, cos they're all in the one thread

Sean K's blinding white bike

Verb's Banana

Niceonetom's Capo (before he butchered it).

El Tonto's Pista Concept (slurp!)

Niallface's Black & White baby.

short circuit

sy wrote: »

How about highest kms for the year! Any offers on this one?

7300kms so far this year ... and now waiting for the real mile munchers to pounce .... my money is on Blorg ... any takers on that bet ..

flickerx wrote: »

Best self-build fixie? It was easy enough to get these nominations together, cos they're all in the one thread

Sean K's blinding white bike

Verb's Banana

Niceonetom's Capo (before he butchered it).

El Tonto's Pista Concept (slurp!)

Niallface's Black & White baby.

We have to split this into a self build and off the shelf ...
Off the shelf .. the capo has it .. till you look at the Pista ... drool
For a self build ... the black & white ... purely for the amount of work gone into the detailing ..... can we get a high res. pic .. so I have zoom in at the lugs and admire ...

Raam

No idea what my mileage is.

Nominate El Tonto/Tiny/Blorg as best roleur

Nominate Blorg for climbing

Thomas_S_Hunterson

short circuit wrote: »

the black & white ... purely for the amount of work gone into the detailing ..... can we get a high res. pic .. so I have zoom in at the lugs and admire ...

keep a box of tissues handy

Chips Lovell

Right, lets see what we have so far. I've taken the liberty of merging some categories, keeping in my own original nominations. I've left out any categories we had one or no nominations for.

Cycling Personality of the Year:
TinyExplosions (for organising the boards jerseys)
niceonetom (for singlehandly creating a crimewave against traffic cones) Caroline_ie (for rounding us all up to do a Fantasy Tour de France)
blorg (for being Boards Mr. Mileage amongst other things)

Boards Cycling Moment of the Year:
Wicklow 200
Ring of Kerry
Alps trip
The Kilbride death march.

Best Crash:
Six in One - six fall on the ice in Sandycove. Two broken bones result.
Blorg's spill near Glencullen.
Caroline_ie's high speed effort.
TinyExplosions' fall at the lights on his first club spin.

King of the Mountains:
rogerb
Raam
niceonetom
blorg

Nicest Bike:
Quigs Cervelo
Kenmc's Planet X
Sean K's blinding white bike
Verb's Banana
Niceonetom's Capo
El Tonto's Pista Concept
Niallface's Black & White baby.

Poser/Euro of the Year:
El Tonto
Raam
Tunney

Most ridiculous cycling related purchase:
Lumen's metal-studded tyres. (He had to buy a whole cross bike to find a use for them)
Penexpers Surly
Penexpers Dahone

Best Thread
Helmet Head
Should cyclists pay Road Tax & Insurance?

niceonetom

short circuit wrote: »

We have to split this into a self build and off the shelf ...
Off the shelf .. the capo has it .. till you look at the Pista ... drool
For a self build ... the black & white ... purely for the amount of work gone into the detailing ..... can we get a high res. pic .. so I have zoom in at the lugs and admire ...

hey hey, careful now. my bike ain't "off the shelf" - as it stands the only original components are the frame/fork, headset, and seat-post collar. everything else (wheels, cranks, BB, finishing kit etc. is after market). even the paint is gone ffs. though it's about to get yet another facelift whenever i get some time. pics to follow ...

i'm sure tonto would object to his build being called off the peg too. each component was chosen with love before being inexpertly hammered on with a shoe.

i nominate Tiny as "chief-bottle washer"; blorg as "least euro" (sorry man - the sandles); Raam as "KOM"; emty as "most willing to sacrifice his dignity to get a good photo"; tonto as "best poster"; caroline_ie for "most dramatic improvement in a a single season" (there could be competition there from unionman though, ROK too maybe?); flickerX for "resident reactionary bastard" (hey- i can't vote for myself right); ...

there are more, but i'll have to get back to you with them when i have more time.

Raam

nice work El Tonto.
Would it be worth trying to have a couple more performance (probably not the most suitable term) related ones?

I.e. fastest, strongest....

Also: best descender

Raam

For best thread, are non cycling forum ones permitted?
These two were peaches...
Cyclists, Go use the footpad.

Cyclist crashed into my car

TinyExplosions

el tonto wrote: »

Right, lets see what we have so far. I've taken the liberty of merging some categories, keeping in my own original nominations. I've left out any categories we had one or no nominations for.

Best Crash:
Six in One - six fall on the ice in Sandycove. Two broken bones result.
Blorg's spill near Glencullen.
Caroline_ie's high speed effort.
TinyExplosions' fall at the lights on his first club spin.

My concussion/glued back together head should be included -it was at least as stupid as the lights fall!
Also Ba's 'forgetting to pedal' on the track should be in there

Also,
Roleur of the year
Blorg
TinyExplosions
El Tonto

Sprinter / Track Master
TinyExplosions
El Tonto
RogerB (yeah, right! )
Raam

Descender
Caroline_Ie
niceonetom
El Tonto

Raam

TinyExplosions wrote: »

My concussion/glued back together head should be included -it was at least as stupid as the lights fall!

Also, Roleur of the year
Me, You, Blorg

Eh hello? No self nominations!

TinyExplosions

Raam wrote: »

Eh hello? No self nominations!

Sorry, was going on the earlier suggest of us 3 -your nomination!

Raam

TinyExplosions wrote: »

Sorry, was going on the earlier suggest of us 3 -your nomination!

Infraction for Tiny Explosions. Random UCI ruling imminent

TinyExplosions

Raam wrote: »

Infraction for Tiny Explosions. Random UCI ruling imminent

Not my fault, it was a cream I used... thought that they didn't need exemptions, cos it wasn't going in me, just on me... it's simple ignorance, honest!

Chips Lovell

TinyExplosions wrote: »

My concussion/glued back together head should be included -it was at least as stupid as the lights fall!
Also Ba's 'forgetting to pedal' on the track should be in there

Also,
Roleur of the year
Blorg
TinyExplosions
El Tonto

Sprinter / Track Master
TinyExplosions
El Tonto
RogerB (yeah, right! )
Raam

Descender
Caroline_Ie
niceonetom
El Tonto

Good suggestions. I thought about Ba's crash alright, but since he was pretty badly hurt in it I wondered if he thought it would be in poor taste? And surely rogerb deserves a nomination in the rouleur category rather than sprinter? Emty for KOM too? He was climbing like a demon by the end of the year.

Best improvement is a good one. Frank Grimes for his comeback from surgery?

Oh yeah, and footpad is a classic thread.

TinyExplosions

el tonto wrote: »

Good suggestions. I thought about Ba's crash alright, but since he was pretty badly hurt in it I wondered if he thought it would be in poor taste? And surely rogerb deserves a nomination in the rouleur category rather than sprinter? Emty for KOM too? He was climbing like a demon by the end of the year.

Concussion or broken wrists don't count as badly hurt and poor taste? I do take your point though

Agree on Emty for KOM, and Rogerb for roleur -was joking on the sprinter, we all know he can't!

el tonto wrote: »

Best improvement is a good one. Frank Grimes for his comeback from surgery?

Oh yeah, and footpad is a classic thread.

Or Caroline_ie -great improvement there

Caroline_ie

TinyExplosions wrote: »

Or Caroline_ie -great improvement there

3 weeks and 5 days left in the cast ... i haven;t really been 'back' yet :P

TinyExplosions

Caroline_ie wrote: »

3 weeks and 5 days left in the cast ... i haven;t really been 'back' yet :P

Start of year to when you broke your wrist = great performance. Particularly your ride up the Galibier while feeling pants!