We’ve got our 2 strawberry hats for today. Tomorrow is the duck mission. 
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Enjoy!
We went to Koksijde a few years ago and it was awesome.
That race is basically all on sand dunes.
The Flemish crowd was booing the leader the whole way round at the end because he was a Walloon
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Should pick out that Dryrobe on the telly 
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Friends did spot us. I think just at the time we were stuffing our faces with frites
Great racing. Maybe not the most exciting course but there were some tough sections thrown in. Do it all again tomorrow 
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We go again. Today’s course is a complex mud fest. It’s going to be mad.
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A return to duck beanies today rather than feather caps. It is a bit cold today.
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Another good race by Cam Mason yesterday 
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Only possible on the continent
Incredible race. And the crowds were very hospitable to Cam Mason - recognising a good race. We were the two weirdos on tv staring straight at Joris’s crash - he was holding it and then ran out of shoulders to lean on and hit the rut and went over.
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I know it’s not quite the point you were making, but…
Genuinely, one of my favourite things is mascots taking part in minutes silence.
Stood there, with a ridiculous look on their face they can’t shift….
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Im a bit late to this, but I know the guy that used to be “Herbie Hammer” im gonna ask him about the silence
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Any read Brad’s new book? not sure how much is new, but I hadnt heard some of the scathing attacks on Brailsford and Team Sky. Apparently Dodgy Dave paid Brad an extra 200k a year to give to Sutton for Coaching services to get around BC rules on maximum allowed pay. He’s scathing n the lack or records kept by an organisation that were so “organised”. He’s attacked the link with BC and how it muddied the waters. And he went in on jiffygate, but started to sound a bit Lance at one point 
Im sure most would have known about Sutton and his treatment of the ladies and Braisford liked to “clear out the c**t$” also, hence Brads very quick demise. Blames much of his 2013 failures on mental health and his treatment from Brailsford over Froome attacking him on La Toussuire. Whist the book is a lot of woe is me as stated on the reading thread, its actually getting quite deep. I guess his NDA has run out or something
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I guess you can burn bridges if you know you’re not planning on working in pro cycling anymore?
Per the F1 thread, pro cycling has a history of dodgy dealing, but if you are blending that with a publicly funded governing body that doesn’t feel right.
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I’m guessing Team Wiggins didnt last too long either (funded by Sky) which was apparently a way to appease Brad to stop the dirt being dished.
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As per the F1 thread, that is not what happened.
The team, athlete and commentators have clearly stated what happened. And as they have, I have no doubts that’s what happened. I believe them all, 100%. And cannot see any vested interest in any party trying to lie and cover for one another.
As the latter doesn’t make financial sense.
There’d be an investigation by the governing body.
Which is absolutely independent and in no way funded by the very teams it aims to investigate.
Please stop your tin pot conspiracy theories.
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If you want to spend some of your 25k minutes listening, the book is on Spotify. I wouldn’t have bought it as Brad became tiresome, but yer, glad I have now. When I say Brad I mean “Wiggo”, Brad actually seems like a proper screwed up mess, or was.
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Amazing how he remembers all this new stuff when he needs a bit of cash
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Selective memory, he clearly had a reason to hold back before. And add his son’s cycling now, so maybe had to make sure BC weren’t still run by DB and his team.
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This is why have no interest. He is exposing some aspects he felt were wrong and/or didn’t like because it won’t negatively impact him. He isn’t speaking about it because it is wrong but because he wants to earn from it and doing so can’t harm him. Don’t care.
Like David Millar, only blabbed because he was in a police cell. If that hadn’t happened he would likely have kept at it.
Thomas Dekker’s book is the best post career book I have read. IMO it is he did this, it was wrong. There was pressure but he owns it.
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That’s a brilliant read, and a lot of yes I did that , it was wrong but I loved every minute, oh and I cycled as well
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