Flander's Hotitude Is On!
by nikki on Apr 3, 2009 12:40 AM EDT
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The fun is very simple. Huge encouragement to post your own pic of your favorite rider riding Flanders this Sunday (or at least on the start list). As in most of our cases, we don't yet have our own snapshots, so feel free to "borrow" other's. In doing so, in respect to the owner, please post the link to where you got it. We want to make sure we give full credit to the photographer - or at the very least, the location we found it.
If you're shy on posting the pic itself, we all love clicking on links here, so feel free to add a link to your rider's name. Simply highlight the name in your message (subject line will not work well, so do it in the message), click on the little link icon above the message part of your post and post the link of where your pic is. If you want to post the pic itself, go to the message part with your curser, click on the little icon of the tree and post the link. I recomend doing a preview to see if it worked first before posting. Some photo links are not friendly to posting so this is a quick way to check.
To start the post, I have to share a pic of one of my favorite guys, Meatball at Garmin. The man had an awful fall this morning at de Panne and his start could be questionable so in wishing him a speedy recovery, I wanted to share a pic. Here he with his roomie at the race Mr.Steven Cozza...
From: farm4.static.flickr.com
I also give you Greg Van Avermaet...
From: cache.daylife.com
And of course many of our favorites, the one and only Mr. George Hincapie (from my pics)...
Enjoy!
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I am laughing so hard tears are streaming down my face. Good thing I'm at home.
I need to go watch that again.
Ha! Wonderful.
One of the sweetest things today was seeing Tom Boonen go past me backwards on the climbs. .--Mark Cavendish, MSR
Hilarious!
You know, it actually looks fairly believable until you get to Hoste…who so does not have a body like that in real life….
Which is which in this "Boy Band?"
Now who is the the Heartthrob? The Shy One? the Cute One? The Older Brother? The Bad Boy?
Mon coeur appartient à les forçats de la route.
Where are these water polo players then? We agreed we were allowed other sports, right?
Meet Freddie Michalak…..
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/dumblondum/michalak002.jpg
Teehee! Reverse fig leaves....
The one second from the right has very hairy legs…obviously not a cyclist!
Sylvain Chavanel
Photographer: Bruno Bade
One of the sweetest things today was seeing Tom Boonen go past me backwards on the climbs. .--Mark Cavendish, MSR
Not a fan of this one either
No problemo with tats, that one just looks strano. Maybe it’s good up close or something.
GHH
A selection from his webpage:
One of the sweetest things today was seeing Tom Boonen go past me backwards on the climbs. .--Mark Cavendish, MSR
Forgot the cutest one...
One of the sweetest things today was seeing Tom Boonen go past me backwards on the climbs. .--Mark Cavendish, MSR
Dang! We missed it.
SportWereld had a cyclist hottitude poll, featuring many of the usual suspects (forgive them for leaving off that Italian guy—this is a Belgian newspaper, so they probably don’t know any better). Poll is closed, but you can go enjoy the pictures and see the results (did I mention this was a Belgian paper? I think you can guess who won…)
One of the sweetest things today was seeing Tom Boonen go past me backwards on the climbs. .--Mark Cavendish, MSR
You're not very good at this, are you?
One of the sweetest things today was seeing Tom Boonen go past me backwards on the climbs. .--Mark Cavendish, MSR
I wonder how often the check on our threads? LOL!
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
How ridiculous is that?!
They have other non Belgians but no Benna! They need to be educated. We should write them an email, forthwith! And I’ve never seen Sandy Casar mentioned in a hottitude poll before….
Well, they did include Mr. Guilty Pleasure.
Maybe they figured if you’ve seen one Italian in lime-green, you’ve seen them all.
One of the sweetest things today was seeing Tom Boonen go past me backwards on the climbs. .--Mark Cavendish, MSR
Their picture of Cavendish
is classic! It combines the “dramatic turn” from Amazing Race opening credits with the “finger point” from Isaac the Love Boat bartender.
lol, Isaac the bartender
So funny.
Could they have found a worse photo of Breschel? For a hottitude poll, they didn’t do so hot with the photos. Really, they should have consulted us.
No, I registered to vote, and then it said the poll was closed.
Their open polls are all about de Ronde.
One of the sweetest things today was seeing Tom Boonen go past me backwards on the climbs. .--Mark Cavendish, MSR
LOL! Feel free to help me out with more of these guys anytime.
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
right clicky
Right clicky the photo. Hit copy image location in the right clicky menu. Then, in the comment thingy here, hit the tree icon. Paste the image location into the box. Remove the garbage flickr adds after the .jpg, usually some qv=0223 like stuff. Hit post.
Go to the picture you want, right-click on it, then select "Copy image location."
Then come back here, click on this: 
and right-click again and select Paste. There’s a http:// already in the box by default, so make sure you don’t duplicate it when you paste your link in there. Check Preview before you post to make sure it worked.
One of the sweetest things today was seeing Tom Boonen go past me backwards on the climbs. .--Mark Cavendish, MSR
Tommeke and Devo....
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/076U37IaS27N2/340x.jpg
How about two for the price of one….I think Devo has the best legs in the peloton!
(can I do it this way)?
I agree, in a thread where it's all about the pics, I prefer to just scroll through them.
On others though, for less bogging down of the thread, I like the links. This one however is all about the pics. ha ha.
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
He's on my husband's VDS team
Very nice indeed!
One of the sweetest things today was seeing Tom Boonen go past me backwards on the climbs. .--Mark Cavendish, MSR
You notice a theme with me....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/karoluslinus/3390386374/"/>
This gal is a fabulous photographer too…I think!
Exciting stuff
Sydney 200, Men’s Coxless Fours, medals presented by Princess Anne. Aussie bronze medal winners at attention.
World’s 2004, Polish U23 road race team
That was my first post last year
Can’t find it now. I brought in the nekkid pics. Next one here and after that I did not log on until last month.
A similar photo
Appeared in a thread last year, and I still laugh at Jens’ comment.
No longer that I call them tights, I call them freedom ware.
by TheFigurehead on Apr 3, 2009 4:18 PM EDT up reply actions
you know who I want pictures of
when he was rowing? Me. I was never ever ever in that good a shape as I was then. Stupid youth not taking the time to appreciate itself.
You've got some great pics from TOC!
Loved looking through them. :-)
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
Do not dismiss the "hottitude" of the one dubbed "Spartacus."
Source: Roberto Hegeler
Mon coeur appartient à les forçats de la route.
Do not forget the future "model" of Cobble Champions:
Source: Absolutely Cannot Remember.
Mon coeur appartient à les forçats de la route.
Indeed--Cancellara and Boonen are just too cute together.
One of the sweetest things today was seeing Tom Boonen go past me backwards on the climbs. .--Mark Cavendish, MSR
The cuteness goes back many, many moons...
Source: AFP or Reuters.
Mon coeur appartient à les forçats de la route.
Edvald Boasson Hagen
source: Stayer Magazine
One of the sweetest things today was seeing Tom Boonen go past me backwards on the climbs. .--Mark Cavendish, MSR
Best photo of him yet. Those blond hghlights set of his ever growing forehead quite stylishly.
The scruff is perfect as well.
If he does well I will of course cheer for him.
He rode well in support of Ballan in 06 so we’ll see….
I already like your kathyq location. :-)
Found Will and Mike in her pics. :-)
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
Is this "dude" emulating Pippo Pozzato?
Source: Adbusters.
Mon coeur appartient à les forçats de la route.
a few surfing
andy irons, andy irons again, bede durbidge (cutey freckles), julian wilson (jailbait alert!)
Now that I know one of your favorites...
At the start of stage 4 of TOM last year. He’s super nice and very friendly.
Make sure you keep an eye on CycleTo – Bob will take care of you with lots of pics and fun videos. :-)
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
Cozza is one of my favorites! Stache or no stache.
I was a little sad to hear he has a GF…..I was holding out hope that he and my sister in law would date so we would be related. ;-) I never did get a chance to meet him at AToC. Glad to hear he is a good guy.
He's super friendly. I got to get a pic with him after the TT at TOC.
His GF is one of the podium girls from TOM, very pretty, and she too is very nice. They make a really cute couple. The TOM was kind of funny as people saw him and didn’t recognize him with out his mustache. :-)
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
Blast from the past
Here are a few pics of Flanders contenders that I took at the 2004 Tour. These are all at the finish of the final time trial into Besancon.
I was going through some of my old Tour Down Under photo's...
…when i found this one that might become an instant Hottitude classic. My goodness the Gerolsteiner team loved their riding!! I don’t think that the rider’s identity should be revealed for legal reasons.
errrr....am i supposed to sign this??
I think I know who that is...
With the help of a TDU start list, that is. Nice, ah, chest. If I’m right, I don’t think he’s riding Flanders this year.
Team Red Shorts--Let us show you what we've got
Well if this is Flanders hotitude then you have to include this beauty
Oh Koppenberg, you complete me.
source :Velonews
"It’s disappointing. Second place is the first loser."
~Heinrich Haussler (GERMANY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) Cervélo TestTeam
If riders who do well on climbs are climbers,
why aren’t riders who do well on cobbles called cobblers?
Team Red Shorts--Let us show you what we've got
Gobble gobble! Oh wait, you said cobble. :-)
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
Ah, that makes sense. Now, back to hottitude.
Gerald Ciolek (source: velo-pix.de)
Team Red Shorts--Let us show you what we've got
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