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Team Sky in Dublin today

  • 16-05-2015 1:08pm
    #1
    TripleMinor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 106 ✭✭


    Did anyone else see Team Sky cycling around Dublin today.

    I was coming down the embankment towards Tallaght and saw about 10 guys in full Team Sky kit...I saw a group coming up so i stuck out my hand to give a quick wave and it was only when I was alongside them I noticed they were all in full Sky kit.

    They were all in great form giving full waves back.

    Did anyone else see them or was I seeing things?

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  • #2
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    TripleMinor wrote: »
    Did anyone else see Team Sky cycling around Dublin today.

    I was coming down the embankment towards Tallaght and saw about 10 guys in full Team Sky kit...I saw a group coming up so i stuck out my hand to give a quick wave and it was only when I was alongside them I noticed they were all in full Sky kit.

    They were all in great form giving full waves back.

    Did anyone else see them or was I seeing things?

    Roche was in Dublin yesterday according to Twitter


  • #3
    bazermc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,116 ✭✭✭bazermc


    Are you sure it wasn't just a bunch of Fred's ????


  • #4
    helimachoptor
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,693 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    They are lads work for sky and are doing a charity cycle to Kilkenny for pieta house


  • #5
    niallo32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 622 ✭✭✭niallo32


    Passed them in Brittas myself around 11.45 this morning - thought it was odd!


  • #6
    Inquitus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,763 ✭✭✭✭Inquitus


    bazermc wrote: »
    Are you sure it wasn't just a bunch of Fred's ????

    The Sky kit lads were a bunch of Fred's, but Nico Roche was also seen on Sally Gap today on his own.


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  • #7
    mr spuckler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,123 ✭✭✭mr spuckler


    saw a bunch of them down near Powerscourt last Sunday morning too


  • #8
    harringtonp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,569 ✭✭✭harringtonp


    Inquitus wrote: »
    The Sky kit lads were a bunch of Fred's, but Nico Roche was also seen on Sally Gap today on his own.

    Bunch of Freds, love it. When exactly did it become popular as the cycling equivalent of Micks or Manuels ?


  • #9
    Tony Beetroot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 640 ✭✭✭Tony Beetroot


    Were they cycling Pinarellos or paddy spec giants?


  • #10
    aidanor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 284 ✭✭aidanor


    I passed a guy on his own in full sky kit on old military road, sallys gap, what caught my eye was the matching sky helmet.. mad to think it was nico roche!!


  • #11
    ckeego
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,295 ✭✭✭ckeego


    aidanor wrote: »
    I passed a guy on his own in full sky kit on old military road, sallys gap, what caught my eye was the matching sky helmet.. mad to think it was nico roche!!

    Were you in a car?!:D


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  • #12
    aidanor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 284 ✭✭aidanor


    ckeego wrote: »
    Were you in a car?!:D

    HA HA, No opposite direction.


  • #13
    bazermc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,116 ✭✭✭bazermc


    Tony Beetroot wrote: »
    Were they cycling Pinarellos or paddy spec giants?

    Posh Fred's. So they all had pinarellos


  • #14
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,531 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    aidanor wrote: »
    HA HA, No opposite direction.

    When you tell your grandkids, phrase it simply as "I passed Nico on the way up Military Road when I was younger".

    Its not a lie per say.


  • #15
    Zyzz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭Zyzz


    Saw the UPC team out around Howth today as well


  • #16
    Euro Fred
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 217 ✭✭Euro Fred


    NFTO were in Corcaigh park the other day too


  • #17
    irishrover99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,033 ✭✭✭irishrover99


    I seen a guy fully kitted out in the orange CCC Polish team colours in the Pheonix Park yesterday. Cracking bike he was on too. Certainly didn't look like a ametuer


  • #18
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,222 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    irishrover99 wrote: »
    I seen a guy fully kitted out in the orange CCC Polish team colours in the Pheonix Park yesterday. Cracking bike he was on too. Certainly didn't look like a ametuer
    That kit is the worst in the peloton. There's no way anyone would fake it.


  • #19
    Harrybelafonte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,450 ✭✭✭Harrybelafonte


    irishrover99 wrote: »
    I seen a guy fully kitted out in the orange CCC Polish team colours in the Pheonix Park yesterday. Cracking bike he was on too. Certainly didn't look like a ametuer

    Someone races Mondello in a CCC kit.


  • #20
    bazermc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,116 ✭✭✭bazermc


    Any reason why all these pro's are in town? Apart from Nico who is a local lad (kind of)

    Its hardly the good weather :)


  • #21
    Daroxtar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,368 ✭✭✭Daroxtar


    Saw Lionel Messi and Steve Gerrard having a kick about in Maynooth the other day. Definitely them, they were wearing their team jerseys ..












    ;)


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  • #22
    Euro Fred
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 217 ✭✭Euro Fred


    bazermc wrote: »
    Any reason why all these pro's are in town? Apart from Nico who is a local lad (kind of)

    Its hardly the good weather :)

    An Post Ras, explains NFTO


  • #23
    el tel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,991 ✭✭✭el tel


    Lumen wrote: »
    That kit is the worst in the peloton. There's no way anyone would fake it.

    Their lovely orange wheel rims make up for it though :P


  • #24
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Lumen wrote: »
    That kit is the worst in the peloton. There's no way anyone would fake it.

    I know a guy whose brother rode for them. He lives here.


  • #25
    el tel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,991 ✭✭✭el tel


    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    I know a guy whose brother rode for them. He lives here.

    David McCann rode for them in 2001


  • #26
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    el tel wrote: »
    David McCann rode for them in 2001

    No not him. This chap is Polish.


  • #27
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,222 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    No not him. This chap is Polish.
    Is his name Fryderyk Frydewicz?


  • #28
    el tel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,991 ✭✭✭el tel


    Is his name Mr Sheen? He's Polish.

    boom-tish


  • #29
    daragh_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,124 ✭✭✭daragh_


    el tel wrote: »
    Their lovely orange wheel rims make up for it though :P

    Guerciotti Eureka with Ursu Wheels.
    http://www.guerciotti.it/en/bikes/road-bikes/eureka-shm50-ccc-polsat


  • #30
    scott.s
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 172 ✭✭scott.s


    irishrover99 wrote: »
    I seen a guy fully kitted out in the orange CCC Polish team colours in the Pheonix Park yesterday. Cracking bike he was on too. Certainly didn't look like a ametuer

    Saw this guy at the start of the Rás yesterday in Dunboyne (he wasn't racing).

    Full CCC kit, including matching overshoes and everything. Not this year's kit as it didn't have Sprandi on it. No idea who he is.


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  • #31
    bazermc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,116 ✭✭✭bazermc


    scott.s wrote: »
    Saw this guy at the start of the Rás yesterday in Dunboyne (he wasn't racing).

    Full CCC kit, including matching overshoes and everything. Not this year's kit as it didn't have Sprandi on it. No idea who he is.

    Take it to the "Fred" one more time!


  • #32
    wowy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 709 ✭✭✭wowy


    Inquitus wrote: »
    The Sky kit lads were a bunch of Fred's, but Nico Roche was also seen on Sally Gap today on his own.

    He sailed past us on the way up the gap on Saturday. Half of us hanging over the bars, and him toddling along probably with a heart rate of about 40....

    One of the group thought it would be a great idea to try to chase him. Needless to say, Roche was long gone, and our man bonked on the way home, so not a great story for him to tell the grandkids.


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