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  • NBC has ruined the Tour de France - and where the f*ck is Magilla Goril

    From Pavan Pharter@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 20 04:30:52 2019
    First we have that idiot Bob Roll who adds about as much intel as a talking bag of rocks.

    Next there is Phil Liggett, who's raspy voice is irretrievably and forever linked to having Lance's remaining nut and shaved ball sack deep in his throat for nearly a decade.

    Lastly, and I haven't even watched a moment of this year's tour to even know of this is true but some dickhead (or group of dickheads) decided it would be a good idea to give Lance Armstrong a say and a spotlight.

    Haven't you fuckwits learned anything? Might as well have Dr. Ruth and Hillary Clinton on discussing Hillary's sex life and how fat Jenna Bush is.

    Magilla - come back to RBR - stop hanging out with the cunts on Facebook with Henry Chang as your overlord. You might as well have spayed and neutered you bad monkey

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  • From Theodore Heise@21:1/5 to Pavan Pharter on Sat Jul 20 17:50:03 2019
    On Sat, 20 Jul 2019 04:30:52 -0700 (PDT),
    Pavan Pharter <pavanpharter@gmail.com> wrote:
    First we have that idiot Bob Roll who adds about as much intel
    as a talking bag of rocks.

    Next there is Phil Liggett, who's raspy voice is irretrievably
    and forever linked to having Lance's remaining nut and shaved
    ball sack deep in his throat for nearly a decade.

    Shiny.


    Lastly, and I haven't even watched a moment of this year's tour
    to even know of this is true but some dickhead (or group of
    dickheads) decided it would be a good idea to give Lance
    Armstrong a say and a spotlight.

    Don't disagree with this; bad move.


    Magilla - come back to RBR - stop hanging out with the cunts on
    Facebook with Henry Chang as your overlord. You might as well
    have spayed and neutered you bad monkey

    Ronde Chimp? He was never as entertaining as he thought he was.

    --
    Ted Heise <theise@panix.com> West Lafayette, IN, USA

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  • From HankB@21:1/5 to Pavan Pharter on Sun Jul 21 12:02:07 2019
    On Saturday, July 20, 2019 at 6:30:22 AM UTC-5, Pavan Pharter wrote:

    Lastly, and I haven't even watched a moment of this year's tour to even know of this is true but some dickhead (or group of dickheads) decided it would be a good idea to give Lance Armstrong a say and a spotlight.

    If you need more Lance Armstrong, he's doing a podcast called THEMOVE and you can subscribe in your favorite podcast catcher or just go to https://player.fm/series/themove and listen.

    HTH

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  • From sundquist1961carl@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Theodore Heise on Tue Aug 27 13:03:20 2019
    On Saturday, July 20, 2019 at 12:50:04 PM UTC-5, Theodore Heise wrote:
    On Sat, 20 Jul 2019 04:30:52 -0700 (PDT),
    Pavan Pharter <pavanpharter@gmail.com> wrote:
    First we have that idiot Bob Roll who adds about as much intel
    as a talking bag of rocks.

    Next there is Phil Liggett, who's raspy voice is irretrievably
    and forever linked to having Lance's remaining nut and shaved
    ball sack deep in his throat for nearly a decade.

    Shiny.


    Lastly, and I haven't even watched a moment of this year's tour
    to even know of this is true but some dickhead (or group of
    dickheads) decided it would be a good idea to give Lance
    Armstrong a say and a spotlight.

    Don't disagree with this; bad move.


    Magilla - come back to RBR - stop hanging out with the cunts on
    Facebook with Henry Chang as your overlord. You might as well
    have spayed and neutered you bad monkey

    Ronde Chimp? He was never as entertaining as he thought he was.

    --
    Ted Heise <theise@panix.com> West Lafayette, IN, USA

    Hey Ted,

    Many of us have gone to rbr on Facebook. Feel free to join in there. It's a bit more tame than the good old Usenet rbr days, but better than nothing.

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  • From Ted Heise@21:1/5 to sundquist1961carl@gmail.com on Thu Aug 29 16:41:32 2019
    On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 13:03:20 -0700 (PDT),
    sundquist1961carl@gmail.com <sundquist1961carl@gmail.com> wrote:
    On Saturday, July 20, 2019 at 12:50:04 PM UTC-5, Theodore Heise wrote:
    On Sat, 20 Jul 2019 04:30:52 -0700 (PDT),
    Pavan Pharter <pavanpharter@gmail.com> wrote:

    Magilla - come back to RBR - stop hanging out with the
    cunts on Facebook with Henry Chang as your overlord. You
    might as well have spayed and neutered you bad monkey

    Ronde Chimp? He was never as entertaining as he thought he
    was.

    Hey Ted,

    Many of us have gone to rbr on Facebook. Feel free to join in
    there. It's a bit more tame than the good old Usenet rbr days,
    but better than nothing.

    Hey, good to know. Thanks for the suggestion, Carl!

    --
    Ted Heise <theise@panix.com> West Lafayette, IN, USA

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  • From henry.krinkle154hopper@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 30 12:23:09 2019

    Hey Ted,

    Many of us have gone to rbr on Facebook. Feel free to join in there. It's a bit more tame than the good old Usenet rbr days, but better than nothing.

    Real men stay here rather than be censored by a gay asian fluffer. No thanks.

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  • From Ted Heise@21:1/5 to henry.krinkle154hopper@gmail.com on Mon Sep 2 21:11:59 2019
    On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 12:23:09 -0700 (PDT),
    henry.krinkle154hopper@gmail.com <henry.krinkle154hopper@gmail.com> wrote:

    Hey Ted,

    Many of us have gone to rbr on Facebook. Feel free to join in
    there. It's a bit more tame than the good old Usenet rbr days,
    but better than nothing.

    Real men stay here rather than be censored by a gay asian
    fluffer. No thanks.

    Now you've got me curious. Surely not Chang?

    --
    Ted Heise <theise@panix.com> West Lafayette, IN, USA

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  • From William Henderson@21:1/5 to sundquist1961carl@gmail.com on Tue Oct 22 12:12:19 2019
    sundquist1961carl@gmail.com writes:



    --
    Ted Heise <theise@panix.com> West Lafayette, IN, USA

    Hey Ted,

    Many of us have gone to rbr on Facebook. Feel free to join in
    there. It's a bit more tame than the good old Usenet rbr days, but
    better than nothing.

    It's a pity Usenet.rbr died, but I suppose everything has its day.

    25 years ago we had a great "Eurobikers" group with meetups and decals
    and events but it too faded.

    Unfortunately I don't do Facebook ot Twitter or any of the workalike, closelyresemble chatrooms.

    --
    Davey

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  • From Ted Heise@21:1/5 to William Henderson on Wed Oct 23 12:19:55 2019
    On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 12:12:19 -0600,
    William Henderson <billh@sdf.org> wrote:
    sundquist1961carl@gmail.com writes:

    Ted Heise <theise@panix.com> West Lafayette, IN, USA

    Hey Ted,

    Many of us have gone to rbr on Facebook. Feel free to join in
    there. It's a bit more tame than the good old Usenet rbr days,
    but better than nothing.

    It's a pity Usenet.rbr died, but I suppose everything has its
    day.

    25 years ago we had a great "Eurobikers" group with meetups and
    decals and events but it too faded.

    Unfortunately I don't do Facebook ot Twitter or any of the
    workalike, closelyresemble chatrooms.

    Yeah, FB is borderline worthwhile. The rbr group there is okay,
    but as Carl indicated not the same as the Usenet group in its
    heyday. Still, it's been fun to see *many* of the old usual
    suspects.

    --
    Ted Heise <theise@panix.com> West Lafayette, IN, USA

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  • From SLTom992@21:1/5 to Pavan Pharter on Sun Mar 1 09:00:30 2020
    On Saturday, July 20, 2019 at 4:30:22 AM UTC-7, Pavan Pharter wrote:
    First we have that idiot Bob Roll who adds about as much intel as a talking bag of rocks.

    Next there is Phil Liggett, who's raspy voice is irretrievably and forever linked to having Lance's remaining nut and shaved ball sack deep in his throat for nearly a decade.

    Lastly, and I haven't even watched a moment of this year's tour to even know of this is true but some dickhead (or group of dickheads) decided it would be a good idea to give Lance Armstrong a say and a spotlight.

    Haven't you fuckwits learned anything? Might as well have Dr. Ruth and Hillary Clinton on discussing Hillary's sex life and how fat Jenna Bush is.

    Magilla - come back to RBR - stop hanging out with the cunts on Facebook with Henry Chang as your overlord. You might as well have spayed and neutered you bad monkey

    After that comment about Bob Roll why don't you make the same sort of comments about the others? Bob was a not too shabby racer. He could climb with anyone but was assigned as a water carrier. No other person on Earth could have caught Andy Hampsten in
    that snow storm in order to give him heavy clothing.

    Are you supposing you could?

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  • From Davey Crockett@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 5 02:02:10 2020
    Sadly this used to be a great Forum


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    Davey Crockett

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  • From SLTom992@21:1/5 to Davey Crockett on Sat Mar 21 13:51:28 2020
    On Thursday, March 5, 2020 at 1:03:57 AM UTC-8, Davey Crockett wrote:
    Sadly this used to be a great Forum


    --
    Davey Crockett

    I was thinking the same thing myself. Every year the speeds go up and every year we hear the "doping" claims. They didn't go up any faster during the time of Armstrong than they do today because the increased speeds are due to shortening the courses.

    Doping may give you the idea that you're faster but it is entirely a matter of who is doing what. With Team Ineos they carry the team leader along until the last second.

    With other teams they used to have several fast riders and the team leader would rely on one or two stages to build a lead while everyone else would be burned out by the lesser team members making their break-aways early and becoming a serious threat to
    other teams. Things haven't changed a whole lot with the top teams who instead of having members in break-aways simply hold the fastest pace possible and protect their leader so that everyone else is floundering in the last minutes of the stage.

    Racing professionally has become quite systematic with the only surprises coming when people cannot hold to the plan. But amateur racing and early season pro races retain that thrill that is often missing in the grand tours.

    Category A and B racers put out the same power as the pros and you can find them locally. That is the real racing.

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