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Ok, about to go for training ride, have I got everything? Water bottles filled with the right electrolyte/carbohydrate mix to keep me topped up? check. High tech synthetic clothing to keep me comfortable on my ride? check. Heart rate monitor to keep my efforts within the stipulated expenditure range? check. Rope, manipulated wire hanger, harness & green MTB tire to drag behind me to troll for interesting pebbles on the bike path? Check? This photo of a unique training device was submitted by DERF.
This next listener submitted photo was sent to talk about another issue. When I look at it there’s something very typical about it, almost too typical.
This photo may be along the same lines as NASA landing a man on the moon, or did they?
In any event, you can hear the Two Johns talk about this photo among our other timely topics. International news of the day is John G did beat the bookie with his prognostication of Menchov, locally the Cinci tradition of Ault Park kicks off & John K slogs up Mt. Mitchell, Ted King shares his Giro experiences & the feedback rolls in: Correction: Luv-a-vet climbed 3,000′ vertical, not 300′, thanks to everyone that filled us in on HTFU & the Aussie’s jersey color combo, a book report, or at least someone copying book reviews, knee pain from Sweden, Cervelo creak mystery cracked, arm/leg warmers in heat? Bianchi Donkey wants to send chosen ones to ride infront of the bulls as part of a special Two Johns ‘vacation’, To Wong Fu & Queen of the Desert get us talking Hugo Weaving & more!
June 5th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
i am upset, there was no call. i guess i am not good enough to be on the podcast. but hey, on a brighter note… i can pull the plug on the website when ever i want.
June 7th, 2009 at 7:40 am
that was a JOKE… why are all you fans so serious?
June 7th, 2009 at 8:37 am
Curtis, we know that without you we are nothing. You are the architect, the Great OZ, the Jacob, the puppet master…
June 8th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
I am wondering if that Slipstream dude bought a team membership. They were selling spots on the team which came with the right to wear the kit and ride the bike. Also came with a year’s worth of free burritos.
June 8th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
The slipstream picture reminds me of the Beastie Boys video Sabatage. The slipstream guy and the mustache behind him must be undercover cops set to bust illegal doping activity.
June 8th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
‘Cause What You See You Might Not Get
And We Can Bet So Don’t You Get Souped Yet
You’re Scheming On A Thing That’s A Mirage
I’m Trying To Tell You Now It’s Sabotage
June 9th, 2009 at 9:21 am
That lad is a real Frederick, it would not suprise me if he is a shifty eyed Spanish gentlenam on holiday in the states. The bugger also has a Pedro style lip worm, As Del Boy would say “what a plonker”
June 9th, 2009 at 9:40 am
The question I have is “who is still growing a mustache?” I understand people like Tom Selleck, Burt Reynolds, and any other person that has had one for a long time. A mustache in 2009 looks very out of place. Did he lose a bet? Is that guy behind him his cousin? Is Zabriskie his hero and loved the one he grew in early 2008? So many questions for this Freddy Frederick. So little time….
June 9th, 2009 at 10:11 am
I’ve saw the “Garmin” guy at the Clarendon Cup and have seen him around town a few times as well. I do a double take everytime I see him. Totally fools me at first because he’s always wearing that identical kit.
Strangest thing about him at the Clarendon Cup was he was just sitting there in the team area. Didn’t move the entire time, almost like he was posing as a statue. I’m glad someone took a picture of this guy because I didn’t have a camera with me.
June 9th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Thinking aloud: I wonder how MANY Garmin kits this guy owns.
Also I believe mustaches work best on people with extraordinary personalities/style, ie; Freddie Mercury, Tom Selleck, That Colon Detox Guy, Lando Calrissian, that guy from Golgo Bordello…eh?
June 16th, 2009 at 12:15 am
Hi Johns,
V for Vendetta is about Guy Fawkes, who was English, not Australian!
Emjayjay
June 16th, 2009 at 7:47 am
A bunch of retired middle age snobs blabbering away about nothing of any consequence. Does anyone work here? We are in two wars and you talk about broken espresso machines and argue over who has the right to wear certain kits, thanks for helping the our global dimwit reputation off to better start.
June 16th, 2009 at 8:20 am
YES!!! Someone finally sees us for what we really are (although we’re not quite middle aged yet and I still race with the 20 year-olds, and beat them every once in a while, but I do absolutely admit to being a snob) anyway, Bebe: we want more. Send us an email and tell us what kind of recumbent you ride. Sorry that you’ll never be able to wear your glasses under your straps without thinking of us ever again. Love always, John G. Oh yeah, I’m off to France next month to spread the love and help with our global dimwit reputations. My French friends love the 2 J’s.
June 16th, 2009 at 9:39 am
Lighten up Bebe! So no one is allowed to have any fun if there are any problems anywhere in the world? Who let her in? Does that mean I can retire now?
Is this is a symptom of the charity ride? Now if I ride (or talk about) my bike for any reason other than to rid the world of all evil, I’m a selfish asshole.
No one expects the big three sports to justify themselves through charities(although they do get involed in some). They are there to kick ass for our entertainment. Why should second tier sports have to live up to some higher standard, an inferiority complex? Screw that, I ride for fun and to kick ass. If I occasionally get talked into some charity event so be it but I don’t owe it to some whiney bitch like Bebe.
Yours (up),
LeGimpe’
June 16th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
bebe- There are more pics of you or your boyfriend/husband here: http://districtcycling.com/?p=290
xxoo- urbanhermit
June 16th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
I think a broken espresso machine is pretty catastrophic …
June 16th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Hey Johns,
I hope you invite Bebe to the Two John’s trip to Spain in July…I think that Bebe could run with the bulls!
June 16th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
BeBe…
Two John’s help enlighten the (cycling)world with a little bit of humor. It’s good for the soul. You know what “they” say…it takes more muscles (”effort” if you want to put it in track terms) in your face to frown than it does to actually smile and have a bit of a chuckle.
Try it. I promise that you can have full recovery in between sets.
53×11
June 17th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
And what exactly is wrong with middle age snobs? Just as I start to to get a grip on my advancing age you make me feel old again…Thanks!
To make it worse, I bet your really really hot looking ..with a name like BeBe you must be, Right? (or maybe not?)
A-K Zaaf
Yes Le-Gimp, you are still a selfish asshole.
Or was that just a rethorical question?
June 18th, 2009 at 4:31 am
Bebe,
Non non. You underestimate ze Johns. Just look, John has ze facebook page dedicated entirely to his heirloom tomatoes. How can you call that nothing of consequence. Zat, Bebe, is very, how you say, Green, non?
But what is this?? John G going soft?? She mentions ‘nothing of consequence’ and you fail to pull out ze route maps of a race zat never occurred??? Ahhh, a missed opportunity. Maybe ze next time….
Honest Marc
June 18th, 2009 at 5:37 am
Well you can’t have everything.
June 18th, 2009 at 5:54 am
Boonen didn’t inhale! It’s almost too good. I had to check the date to be sure this wasn’t one of Velonews’ April 1st pranks. Boonen = $$$ for cycling, therfore he can’t be touched.
http://beta.velonews.com/article/93553
I’m no apologist for the taking of illegal drugs but I’m having trouble summoning enough outrage to care. I want to care, but… meh.
P.S. Aren’t you proud, I didn’t even mention Clinton… ooops.
June 18th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Here’s a snippet of the ASO communicating with Quick Step and the UCI:
NSFW!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkcoobYUu8g
It’s gotta be good to be the ASO.
June 18th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Cough, Cough!! Oh sorry Bebe. I almost spilled my Cognac onto my official Two John’s Podcast smoking jacket. An almost tragic event, don’t you agree? I misread your statement and thought you called everyone bike slobs. I can assure you most certainly we are not. We are clean lot of bike snobs. As for middle agers, well some of live in the dark ages. I like consider myself a new ager. Say! Isn’t that Yanni now in the tea garden. He’s so hip as youngsters say. Cherrio!
Ps. They supply dapper blue blazers for new visitors at the club.
June 27th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
You are quite middle age. You could not beat my good friend Rahsaan Bahati who is 25. I, unlike you local Ohio trust fund babies, have to work and I was forced to sell my road bike for a cross bike. A recumbent it is not: I race mountain on a hand painted Tomac Buckshot Hardtail, I race Cross on a Redline Conquest Pro with SRAM carbon cranks, and I race an older Italian Olmo on the velodrome. oops right-wing-trust-fund-snobarellas from cincinati don’t race track.
And what has toodling around France got anything to do with anything? My cuz in Fallujah, is not eating brioche et bon pain, no? No, he is eating carrion from the side of the Apache. go, go eating bonbons, don’t forget to fill up your head as well.
June 27th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
Bebe, don’t you know that only Ohio Trust Fund babies banter about the names of their strong racing friends? Me thinks that you actually are a rich little girl but are trying to act poor because you think it’s cute.
But, in my mind I’m still picturing you as SUPER hot, but to keep the fantasy alive.
Ride Long, Ride Hard.
Derf
P.S. I hear carrion is high in protein and easy to digest because the maggots have already chewed it up for you. Might make the perfect roadside cycling treat!
June 29th, 2009 at 8:26 am
Bebe- I would like to talk to your friend, Rahsaan Bahati. He has been on the list of people that I think have something interesting to say about cycling; after I read an interview of him where he talked about how he got involved. Maybe you could ask him if he’d be on the podcast? He might be happy to spread some midwestern Hoosier love.
John K
June 30th, 2009 at 9:56 am
Hello hello!
Menchov did win a road race stage! Stage 5!
cheers!
June 30th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Bebe, the story of how you were “forced” to sell your road bike to buy a cross bike must be an unfortunate yet interesting one. Did the Man come down on you? Was it an IRS ultimatum? Perhaps the Bank threatened to foreclose? I’d hate to think some one actually held a gun to your head and gave you no option but to sell. That’s gotta be tough for some one who works like you do. Just can’t get a break.
By the way what does toodling around a velodrome have to do with anything? You know, just curious.