Devolder Gossip

Apparently he want's to go Shackward, but he's under a contract for 2010. And he shivs Boonen without quite naming him, I think.

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Heh! "No one knows me better than Dirk"

And riding for him your biggest result was what? Most Aggressive Jersey in the Tour of Belgium?

by Jens on Aug 27, 2009 12:57 PM EDT reply actions

won 2005 dePanne (which postal/disco use to own)

"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind

by umwolverine on Aug 27, 2009 1:35 PM EDT up reply actions

Won courtesy of a TT effort no doubt

Even Demol couldn’t screw up raw power.

by Jens on Aug 27, 2009 1:46 PM EDT up reply actions

Devo: Dumber than Dirt.

by ursula on Aug 27, 2009 6:31 PM EDT reply actions

If Devo is dumb then will his dunce cap be like those Devo hats from the ancient "Whip It" video?

Mon coeur appartient aux les forçats de la route.

by Josenka on Aug 27, 2009 6:46 PM EDT up reply actions

Exactly. He's third form the left

by ursula on Aug 27, 2009 9:26 PM EDT up reply actions

More death by association. Devolder does not deserve this.

But I like the Devo hat comments, very funny.

Me, I’m excited to see that The Shack may very well put together a worthy classics assault team.

No horn, watch for finger.

by sminer on Aug 27, 2009 10:33 PM EDT reply actions

Again, you're reading connections that don't exist, and creating Lance hatred from whole cloth.

Devolder’s supposed lack of brainpower has been a standing joke around here for…as long as he’s been going on what used to be doomed suicide breakaways. It dialed down a bit when those breakaways started working, except for a brief stint at the uphill t.t. where he modeled a particularly useless helmet, and stunk up the race.

by JFS_PGH on Aug 28, 2009 1:04 AM EDT up reply actions

and I can prove it

Devo
Interesting. Up until today Devolder’s MO was great engine with no brain attached. In his races he would habitually set off on a suicidal attack that was both very impressive in that we all knew that very few other riders could ever match it, and very dumb because he would always attack too soon and get caught. But today he came up with the winning move, attacking at the right time, and naturally, nobody could catch him in time.
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by ursula on Apr 6, 2008 11:43 AM EDT actions 0 recs

by JFS_PGH on Aug 28, 2009 1:11 AM EDT up reply actions

You're all being a little over-defensive this time.

But I understand why. My comment wasn’t meant to be taken so aggressively, hard to read I know. I was laughing at everyone’s comments.

No horn, watch for finger.

by sminer on Aug 28, 2009 7:58 AM EDT up reply actions

Honestly, sometimes it's s all in your head

No one hasmentioned LA in this post. No one is killing Devo in this post.

I don’t see why I can’t make fun of Dirk Demol without being painted as an LA basher? Demol has almost nothing to do with Lance. He always ran the classics part of USPS, and badly in my opinion. Why does pointing that out have anything to do with Lance?
Pointing out that a guy is gushing with sentimentality about a possible move back to the team where he won nothing, from the team that has set him up for 2 Monuments has nothing to do with Lance.

Besides, the story here is that he is NOT going to Shack this year so technically you can’t really tell from this that they will have a strong classics team. You can tell that they might be wishing to have one but that’s not the same thing. Me, I wish I had a pony.
Personally I think RS will have strong riders for the classics as I’ve said elsewhere. If things are like they used to they won’t get much out of it, but the team will be strong on paper.

by Jens on Aug 28, 2009 1:05 AM EDT up reply actions

Here, Jens.

Will this do?

by JFS_PGH on Aug 28, 2009 1:15 AM EDT up reply actions

And maybe the Shack talk is posturing for more money when his contract is renegotiated.

The first cyclist to stand up to him. And he did it in silence.

by flying dog on Aug 28, 2009 7:18 AM EDT up reply actions

Wins are hard to come by

but they have been serious contenders and strong in some of the classics and have had some decent results.

The bashing around here is never in my head, but like I said, this time was not to be taken all that seriously, sorry for the confusion. And really sorry to disrupt the snarkiness roll.

No horn, watch for finger.

by sminer on Aug 28, 2009 8:11 AM EDT up reply actions

It's just annoying since I try to steer clear of a lot of LA stuff deliberately

because I have very mixed emotions and the LA discussions never fare well with mixed emotions. They tend to end in black/white flaming sooner or later.
Therefore it’s frustrating when you use the “six degrees of Kevin Bacon”-logic to make things about Lance that in reality isn’t.

by Jens on Aug 28, 2009 9:11 AM EDT up reply actions