http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Cavendish wins en Tue, 26 May 2026 10:01:18 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1056&page=2#post-10756 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:40:56 +0000 gembo 10756@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>there is a jail in Shotts, of all the ones I've been in (professional capacity) it is the toughest. Long sci-fi like walks down large plastic tubes to get to the prisoners living conditions. We were always keen to get out at lunch time but downtown Shotts was not replete with cafes. I sometimes consider cycling out there to check out the gentrification (if any).</p> <p>Ford Keirnan from Chewin THe Fat (a very keen cyclist) voted Gino's Dad his top Scot (for the millenium or new year or somefink). When asked why he said it was because one night about 11pm Gino';s dad was serving him and said the following, in characteristic Italian Scot's, "Haud oan a wee minute, ah cannae serve you noo as ah've goat tae get the big polis a wee cuppa tea" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1056&page=2#post-10755 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:38:10 +0000 wee folding bike 10755@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Gino hasn't worn the wig for about 10 years and his dad died a long time ago. It's now Gino's son who works there. I think Gino's mum is still around but I haven't seen her for a wee while.</p> <p>You'll still get a decent feed for about £5 and the veggie pizza had jalapenos in it yesterday. The topping varies a bit depending on what tins they have open. If someone has a knickerbocker glory then you'll get pineapple on your pizza too.</p> <p>I had a Brompton S2L-X with me. As you will remember the Cafe isn't big but I sat the bike on the floor beside me and Gino never turned a hair (boom boom). That's my kind of establishment. The person I was having lunch with was an old uni friend who I hadn't seen for about 8 years and he expressed some surprise at how such a "funny wee bike" could get from Airdrie to Glasgow. </p> <p>Ahhh, Edinburgh Alpine, I didn't know there was one. A guy called Allan Rogan (I think) used to run the Glasgow one and worked in Dales before that.</p> <p>My MSP, Karen Whitefield, has a lot of comments on her web page about busses to a Jail near Shotts somewhere. My comments are about wars and how Keir Hardy might feel about her voting patterns or Lord McConnell helping the Tories so they get deleted quite quickly.</p> <p>I checked her expenses and couldn't find any mention of bus travel. It seems they are OK for other people. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1056#post-10751 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:43:01 +0000 gembo 10751@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Uni Cafe - how much is Spag Ball now? was £1.37 in my day with cappucino 30p and 2 oz of sports mixtures 16p and the small cone off the son with the bad elvis wig 20p. So a slap up meal for less than two quid but it was 100 years ago.</p> <p>THe Edinburgh Alpine guys used to work in Bike Co-op I believe. THe bearded one is quite thin, with strawberry blond hair and now pretty good beard.</p> <p>Same wind - well the Strathclyde Passenger Transport used to run their big orange buses to Carnwath which was always a sight to behold 20 miles short of Edinburgh but then Saughton Jail has more than 50% of its inmates coming from The Dear Green Place </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1056#post-10708 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:19:08 +0000 wee folding bike 10708@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Uni Cafe for lunch but had the same wind as you.</p> <p>Was this the Alpine guy who used to work in Dales? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1056#post-10695 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:54:14 +0000 gembo 10695@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ahh McDonald's, that explains it. Everyone else gets their gelatine from a pig or a cow but they extract it from the leetle fishes. I bet Fanta in the real world outside of McDonalds does not have fish in it [but then I checked your reference and there is fish in everything, or molluscs].</p> <p>My vegan friend also draws the line at ising glass finings. Obviously, he would go for beer without it but it is really only the co-operative that will label bevvy as non-vegetarian.</p> <p>Picked some wild raspberries out at carnwath today (quite windy on the way out but blown back). Exchanged nod with guy from Alpine Bikes who has grown a beard. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1056#post-10633 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:32:28 +0000 wee folding bike 10633@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Number one son's chum didn't know why there weren't on the veggie list, he works in McDs, so I checked it out and the Googles said it was fish gelatine.</p> <p><a href="http://www.vegetarian-gourmet.com/fishy_fanta.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.vegetarian-gourmet.com/fishy_fanta.html</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.gmwa.org.uk/foodguide2/index.php?page=viewquestion&amp;id=160" rel="nofollow">http://www.gmwa.org.uk/foodguide2/index.php?page=viewquestion&amp;id=160</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.veggiewines.co.uk/popularmixers.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.veggiewines.co.uk/popularmixers.htm</a></p> <p>Isinglass I knew about but don't drink beer/wine/spirits so I'm not bothered. My vegan hill walking chum seems to ignore it... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1056#post-10628 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:24:20 +0000 gembo 10628@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>fish gelatine? Does son's chum mean ising glass finings made from swim bladder of the cod/sturgeon and found in many popular beverages (well guinness, various beers) or does he mean beef/pork gelatine used to filter other drinks such as sherry/wine? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1056#post-10586 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:46:39 +0000 wee folding bike 10586@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've never imported Coke but I have been drinking it for the last few days since number one son's chum told me that Fanta and Lilt have fish gelatine in them. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1056#post-10581 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:07:52 +0000 gembo 10581@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If he hadn't been so completely out of it in the first few days he would have cycled off with the green jersey. Apparently, he has finished his romance with Miss Paraguay and been back to Isle of Man to visit his brother doing a six stretch for importing coke. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1056#post-10580 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:41:57 +0000 LaidBack 10580@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>He flew across the finish line like a genetically modified Manx Cat! </em></p> <p>I think that must rate as one of the best sprint finishes ever.<br /> Watched the round up on ITV4 so feel quite knowledgeable... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1056#post-10548 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:07:10 +0000 chdot 10548@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"That was a really superb finish on the Champs Elysees. Great stuff."</p> <p>Indeed</p> <p>All his stage wins -</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K_1Dnl0mdA" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K_1Dnl0mdA</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1056#post-10547 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:57:39 +0000 Min 10547@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That was a really superb finish on the Champs Elysees. Great stuff. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1056#post-10489 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:01:35 +0000 chdot 10489@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Again</p> <p><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4140/4821435022_a048b63a78.jpg"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1056#post-10457 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:09:48 +0000 chdot 10457@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="http://cyclestyle.com.au/wp-content/uploads/Screen-shot-2010-07-11-at-PM-05.48.03.png"></p> <p><a href="http://cyclestyle.com.au/mark-cavendish-lycra/" rel="nofollow">http://cyclestyle.com.au/mark-cavendish-lycra/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1056#post-10143 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:45:33 +0000 chdot 10143@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>And again</p> <p><a href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4138/4798827230_70d56c7ecc_o.jpg"><br /> <img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4138/4798827230_0147565aee.jpg"><br /> </a></p> <p>"<br /> Mark Cavendish's third stage win of the 2010 Tour de France was overshadowed when HTC team-mate Mark Renshaw was disqualified for head-butting.<br /> "</p> <p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/8826472.stm" rel="nofollow">http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/8826472.stm</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1056#post-9863 Sun, 11 Jul 2010 13:39:44 +0000 gembo 9863@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>likeable winners at anything might be quite rare? loveable losers more common? John McEnroe quite an amusing commentator but Superbrat on court etc Ballesteros in good mood/ young blood was likeable champion. Vulnerable winners? How common? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1056#post-9861 Sun, 11 Jul 2010 13:30:10 +0000 Min 9861@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I like to read cycling biographies and I have read quite a few. So far only Tommy Simpson has come across as likeable. I haven't read <em>Boy Racer</em> yet though, I'm not sure I want to know! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1056#post-9859 Sun, 11 Jul 2010 13:22:53 +0000 gembo 9859@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes of course, some of them are such athletes that they have super human powers of recovery and then there is Floyd Landis demonstrating the pharmaceutical bounce. Big Ed once lost a stage and he was so annoyed that the next day he just went out there and blasted form the start, and for some reason, even tho he had recouped the time and was winning the stage by miles he just couldn't stop, he was so pumped up and in the zone he failed to notice the rather obvious statement he was making. This was collectively interpreted as Big Ed just proving a point as of course he was very anti-drugs. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1056#post-9857 Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:52:38 +0000 recombodna 9857@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Alledgedly </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1056#post-9855 Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:30:30 +0000 gembo 9855@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Very few likeable Tour winners. THey are focussed on only one thing, their lives are consumed by it and the drug use has altered their brain chemistry. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1056#post-9839 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:23:08 +0000 1lesscar 9839@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cav is an amazing talent and all his boyish personality traits just show that he is truly passionate about the sport he competes in. I don't really think it matters that much that he sticks his fingers up in the Tour of Romandie, or throws his bike and helmet about after Wednesday's finish. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1056#post-9833 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:51:13 +0000 recombodna 9833@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Great finish today!! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1056#post-9830 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:14:03 +0000 chdot 9830@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>And AGAIN</p> <p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/8806155.stm" rel="nofollow">http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/8806155.stm</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1056#post-9788 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:35:58 +0000 recombodna 9788@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote> but the emotion he showed on the podium yesterday (the full waterworks) won me over again.</blockquote></p> <p>Oh you mean when he was greeting like an bairn...heh heh. Seriously though folks You can't take away the fact that he's a brilliant sprinter and he's obviously got a lot on his shoulders at the moment. I was really happy for him yesterday he just needs learn to take the rough with the smooth. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1056#post-9785 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:15:37 +0000 PS 9785@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've been growing to dislike him over the past few months, but the emotion he showed on the podium yesterday (the full waterworks) won me over again. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1056#post-9769 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:10:36 +0000 chdot 9769@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Not a cavendish fan..."</p> <p>"Well I like him."</p> <p>That's what I like about this forum... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1056#post-9767 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:09:27 +0000 Cyclingmollie 9767@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well I like him. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1056#post-9758 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:03:00 +0000 recombodna 9758@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not a cavendish fan... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1056#post-9756 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:35:21 +0000 chdot 9756@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/3833422880/"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2444/3833422880_c68b8e3a09_o.jpg"></a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1056#post-9755 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:08:48 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 9755@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>He was in danger of becoming a likeable character???</p> <p>Yes people like Cipollini had arrogance by the bucketload as well, but he had a certain elan and panache to pull it off... </p>