The Shack has arrived

crashoveroid

Here is a pic of lance in the new radio shack jersey

ednwireland

that is one fugly jersey

Hungrycol

ednwireland wrote: »

that is one fugly jersey

Agreed.

papac

that is one fugly jersey

Yeah. Goes well with his personality.

lukester

Lance looks hawt as ever.

AstraMonti

This is bad. It's so not posh.. and Le Tour must and should be posh.

ednwireland

actually he prob. wont get a tour invite when the french see that !

RobFowl

ednwireland wrote: »

actually he prob. wont get a tour invite when the french see that !

They invited a team with BROWN shorts remember :eek:

crashoveroid

RobFowl wrote: »

They invited a team with BROWN shorts remember :eek:

Yes but they were French

blorg

I think he looks great. Go Lance!

penexpers

There's a picture linked off his Twitter of the first Team Radioshack ride and most of them are wearing Astana gear

TinyExplosions

penexpers wrote: »

There's a picture linked off his Twitter of the first Team Radioshack ride and most of them are wearing Astana gear

They usually do pre-season rides in older gear -lance did most of his in livestrong garb, and you often see new riders still using their old kits when out with the new team

Chips Lovell

Most people are contracted to wear their old kit until January 1

godihatethehils

If you don't like the jersey here's one of him without it...



:D:D

Chips Lovell

Not the nicest kit in the world, but at least they steered clear of the white/blue/black combos that currently dominate the peloton.

TinyExplosions

If the shorts are too much, there's always

Vélo

TinyExplosions wrote: »

If the shorts are too much, there's always

Just as well it's not a white saddle.:eek:

c0rk3r

Errr dont you mean

Yes i don't have any photoshop skill

DirkVoodoo

Reminds me way too much of the United 95-96 away kit. Barf! Always looked like something you might wear for P.E. in and english public school:



At least it has less grey I suppose.

Chips Lovell

Ah yes, the famous kit they changed out of at half time once because Ferguson said they had touble seeing eachother.

I was thinking earlier it resembled this other travesty of football kit design:

niceonetom

Grey polyester.:rolleyes:

DirkVoodoo

el tonto wrote: »

Ah yes, the famous kit they changed out of at half time once because Ferguson said they had touble seeing eachother.

I was thinking earlier it resembled this other travesty of football kit design:

I don't remember that one. It wasn't one of those "3rd kits" for european games was it? What a team!

Junior

I presume ye've heard that Dr. Allen Lim has moved from Garmin to The shack as well ?

niceonetom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwt-DUpKPYA

Fcuk gels - potato is the way to succeed.

edit: would giving lance the same two-potatos-in-a-foil-bag serving be in slightly poor taste?

Chips Lovell

DirkVoodoo wrote: »

I don't remember that one. It wasn't one of those "3rd kits" for european games was it? What a team!

Was there away kit from 1994 to 1996.

Junior wrote: »

I presume ye've heard that Dr. Allen Lim has moved from Garmin to The shack as well ?

Yep. Rumour has it he felt underutilised.

petethedrummer

Allen Lim was the person leaning out the window pouring water on Floyd Landis during his infamous stage 17: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2EyqE-pDFE ... probably my favorite doped performance of all time.
Though here's his explanation of how it could have been possible. http://www.cycle-ops.com/t-floydlandis.aspx


also

All this makes his rumored move to Radio Shack seem deeply cynical. Even if we set aside the checkered history of the Armstrong/Bruyneel alliance, Lim must reconcile his belief that "6.7 watts is not physiological (sic) or humanly possible, unless you're a hybrid human horse or a greyhound human dog or another species", with Armstrong's reported 500 watt (6.75 watts/kg at 74 kg) output at Alpe d'Huez in 2004 (thanks to Shane Stokes' twitter feed).
http://nyvelocity.com/content/features/2009/allen-lim-radio-shack

Man this professional cycling business is a tangled web. Its more of a soap opera than a sport.

ednwireland

petethedrummer wrote: »

Man this professional cycling business is a tangled web. Its more of a soap opera than a sport.

Saves us having to watch eastenders

Junior

el tonto wrote: »

Was there away kit from 1994 to 1996.



Yep. Rumour has it he felt underutilised.

500k under used ! Seemingly what I had heard on the grapevine was no time for scientific research and development with the riders. Also he has cited being able to work with Taylor Phinney more closely as one of his main reasons. However I still can't reconcile Lim that was portrayed by Kimmage, with the Lim associated with Landis and now Lance..

petethedrummer

I suppose to get working at that level of the sport and presuming you're not explicitly involved in the doping end of things, you're gonna have to turn a serious blind eye and compromise a few principles.

At the end of this interview he says the benefits gained from Doping might be achieveable by clean methods and the placebo effect.
http://velocitynation.com/content/interviews/2009/allen-lim-clean-perspective

Yet he said 6.7 watts/kg is impossible to achieve but a guy he's going to work with has acheived it by some means or other.

Junior

petethedrummer wrote: »

I suppose to get working at that level of the sport and presuming you're not explicitly involved in the doping end of things, you're gonna have to turn a serious blind eye and compromise a few principles.

At the end of this interview he says the benefits gained from Doping might be achieveable by clean methods and the placebo effect.
http://velocitynation.com/content/interviews/2009/allen-lim-clean-perspective

Yet he said 6.7 watts/kg is impossible to achieve but a guy he's going to work with has acheived it by some means or other.

But I think that's a salient point, now there is a choice, you can work with 'clean' riders, 'clean' teams, why now why cycling is at a corner, do you suddenly give up on principles and compromise your ethics, and your beliefs ?

Do I believe Lance is bad for the sport, yes in a doping sense as he believes if no one speaks about it, it doesn't exist, this causing no debate or input on how to move forward, does this omerta affect others - yes. In my eyes Lim has compromised himself beyond all reasonable doubt, if he was f*cked off with JV and the Garmin crew, there's many 'clean' options for him out there, other than Radioshack who epitomise the worst of 90's cycling culture.

blorg

I was reading recently how humans are actually pretty much top of the scale when it comes to endurance. Dogs would be one of the few species that come close. There are a number of human vs horse races which have been won albeit not as often by human runners, but I suspect over a longer distance the human would get the advantage.

Many animals can outsprint a human but almost none, if any, are actually unable to escape a human over an extended period. A skilled tracker exploits this to ultimately exhaust the prey they are hunting.

Part of this is that bipedalism is far more effecient from an energy point of view than running on four legs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUpo_mA5RP8

I am pretty sure Lance would beat a greyhound on a bike up Alpe d'Huez.

DirkVoodoo

Thanks Blorg, if I'm ever lost in the outback and find I need to hunt some wild animals to survive starvation, I'm sure this fact will come in handy.

petethedrummer

blorg wrote: »

I was reading recently how humans are actually pretty much top of the scale when it comes to endurance. Dogs would be one of the few species that come close.

I read that the wolf far exceeds a human in Vo2 max terms.




Ooops meant this wolf

Planet X

Might have been mentioned earlier but I see Pereiro has joined Bertie at Astana.
Interesting.

Raam

Planet X wrote: »

Might have been mentioned earlier but I see Pereiro has joined Bertie at Astana.
Interesting.

I thought that fell through after Astana wanted to renegotiate wages.

Planet X

Sure, they don't pay wages anyway!

papac

I read that the wolf far exceeds a human in Vo2 max terms.

Gives a whole new slant to the expression "fitter than a butchers dog":)

Raam

Planet X wrote: »

Might have been mentioned earlier but I see Pereiro has joined Bertie at Astana.
Interesting.

Raam wrote: »

I thought that fell through after Astana wanted to renegotiate wages.

Actually, it would be appear to be happening now
http://twitter.com/SSbike/statuses/6470753172

Planet X

Good auld Shane, ex. Sorrento!