Stick, ball…
We have a guest writer for our argument today, which we love as it allows us to wallow in our sloth.Â
Shocking as it is, many of us played other sports before we discovered cycling. We were baseball players, hockey goons, tennis partners, marathoners, maybe even golfers. (Those guys blowing by you in the park? They were rowers)
With that perspective, is our sport as crazy as we think it is? Spend five minutes watching a softball game in Central Park – those guys are lunatics. Or does cycling truly produce a different level of crazy? As we crank Bruce Springsteen’s “Glory Days,” tell us your jock tales from your days before you found the bike. Â Â Â
all rowers should be banned
Who cares about other sports, race the NY Crit Championships, May 31.
http://www.bikereg.com/events/register.asp?eventid=8494
my rowing coach telling the captian of the team after a egr test that a few more meters and he could be a good recreational rower
Why don’t you bring that race closer to civilization/running water/electricity
It’s a crit, not a barn raising.
“Move out of the sticks, fellas” — Mr. Wolf, Pulp Fiction
are those jazz hands?
i doubt the softball team in central park spends 12-15 hours a week throwing balls and swinging bats
recreational sex
I was heavily involved in Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. And before all you haters start, at the top level it really is like a sport, there’s a lot of skill involved and we would play so long that serious endurance was required.
Marathon bong hitter and line snorter.
i.
i was heavily into curling. until my broom broke.
Even though these dudes who play softball are total psychos who think they are Jeter or A-Rod, if you’re a half way good cyclist you can line up with the best at some point. Those softball guys will never play with Jeter, but I’ve raced (should say, been in a race) with Hincapie & Armstrong. That’s a cool experience.
Look at the guys just doing Gila, that’s pretty cool even if it’s a total ass-kicking.
NZ samurai dance, hoo haa, tongue wagging…
Also rhythmic gymnastics, synchronized swimming and dog shows.
Swimming, and I don’t miss it. Mind numbingly repetitive and often brutal workouts. Much prefer the white line on the road to the black line on the bottom of the pool. Cycling is awesome.
or at least i pretended to be one. Now i just get sketchy at the park and track…
http://tinyurl.com/dgyo72
Kind of a “Vito Spatafore” moment there, huh Sarge?
Although it involved a bicycle, freestyle was a totally different sport. There I was putting on shows at battery park with a guy by the name of Danny Parks. People were waiting for the ferry so we just set up shop and passed the hat. We were making $80 a day each doing tricks like quickspins, surfers, decades, 360’s, bunnyhopping 10 people and hang fives. Marco Quezada (the big time phographer now) always wanted to hang with us but he wasn’t good enough. Right Marco!
9:24 — while that is cool, same goes for marathon runners, and most of them aren’t ‘racing’ anything.
Just a little help, its called the Haka. And its a beautiful thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f3fvUvOiLQ&feature=related
that marathon comparison is beyond ridic
I was a competitive skiier through out high school (I went to a prep school that based its curriculum around skiing) and found bikes through the dry land training programs I was given in the summer- Once I found bikes and racing every other sport just seemed so soft and weak.
After my fresh man year in college (I picked my college based on the ski racing program) I have not skiied since…Biking have no comparision to any other sport other than maybe some weird combination of greco style wrestling(only other sport where guys are really worried about their weight) and cross country skiing.
The best part of switching out of a sport where I was actually competitive was that I never have had any success in bike racing that was close to the results I had in skiing.
Good luck at bear.
yawn
Yes, ‘ridic,’ but also accurate. Just putting the “I lined up with Armstrong & Hincapie” comment in context. (Which is not to say that it isn’t cool that good amateurs have the chance to ride in the same field as world class riders.)
it’s not a sport unless you can wear a skinsuit or have to consider shaving your t’aint.
Rowers have the hottest girlfriends
your an idiot
Rowers have same tan lines and wardrobe, easy to transition between the two. And yes, rowers have hottest girlfriends!!!
Lets See Some GF Pics and rate ’em
As in lifeguards at the beach? The ones in college seemed kind of geeky
she is hottie hottie, from NZ, me wanna laikka laikka leilei…
will be in May next year! so much for mid-feb training cramps.
What will Beardo do with the conflict?
boring
pfaffenburger is eeeevilllllll. he had a non-negative. go get em bitches!
Man oh man — wasn’t quite sure how to take this: that really is quite the cutting argument. After dwelling on it for a few hours, though, I decided I’d have to go with: I know you are, but what am I?
Love,
11:10
She has a great position on that Cervelo she rides.
One of the prettiest gals of CRCA
Are the powers that be in pro cycling trying to destroy it!??? Jeez. That just seems ridiculous to run them at the same time. Plus Tour of Cali is the only thing that keeps me spinning on the indoor trainer in Feb.
patrice bessy. 6th in the mens p12 at jiminy. 4th in the mens cat 2 in battenkill. do we the next genevive?
moron
http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/06/the-digital-ramble-bikes-on-film/
Like Patrice Oneal.
some moose knuckle there…
Soccer all the way. No ridiculous race prep, low stress situation, and its fun as hell to win more often. Go Man U FC! UEFA finals.
rubber/glue. ewe’re still an idiot.
Keep it in your pants, at least on the message board.
sorry, but there is absolutely NO way a woman got those results without being on some absurd pro team like high road, test team, TT1, etc…
patrice bessy is definitely a man, maybe a spelling error.
A quick google shows Patrice is a man.
Appears to be finished
C’est n’est pas possible. Patrice, c’est la meme chose de “Patrick”. Tu es vraiment drole stupide mec…je croix que tu dis, “iDot”, non???
Comprends?
I-D-I-O-T-E-S!
HEY 18:15, THANKS FOR THE NEWS FLASH BUDDY
ERR 18:45… IDOT!
I’ve always thought that my golfing has really improved my mental game. It helps me concentrate when i’m exhausted
and if I ate too much like I do now and gained several pounds the golf cart could still get me to the t boxes without any problem. I was also not the heaviest guy in the field ever and even if I was it wouldn’t have made much of a difference. It’s about the same expensive too with Carbon and Titanium goodies to buy your wife for mother’s day.
Wilson I have 4 words for you (RAD DOG wanna be) you were never a rad dog
it has to be killing you.
and oh yeah I used to drink alot now I drink a little for a sport?????
Cheers
MQ
in NYC cycling? Challenge to race, Treads up on Dyckman…then secret course…
Thriller!
Its close to midnight…
somn evil lurkn n tha daark…
Rad Dogs were first on the scene of NYC freestyling but quickly faded when they couldn’t keep up with the new tricks and you know it Marco. Dennis McCoy and I were killing them!