A twitter rant worth following
Mike Friedman, formerly of Team Slipstream and now on Jelly Belly-Kenda, started tweeting doping and cycling yesterday, and hasn't stopped since. I think it's been quite an engaging read to hear from someone that has raced at the highest level and is frustrated about what's going on in cycling in general, and the recent events of his Garmin-Cervelo.
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glad you put this thingy up
I was just about to :D
Some really good stuff from Mike in there. Sing it bro!
Mike sounds genially pissed off!
"I love bike races warm up, warm down, cobbles mountains or flats."
perezbike
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Alright, my Flintstones vitamins got a nod.
And I thought it was a secret weapon, damn, now everyone’s going to be taking them.
"It's a lovely thing, feeling that momentum. If you're lucky, it's also about grace." Tim Winton
Hell, I'm munching on a Pebbles as I type this.
It definitely got played into the ground. Even I was flinching after a while--Tyler Farrar, on that Transitions ad.
I save Bam Bam for race days.
And did you ever wonder…
"It's a lovely thing, feeling that momentum. If you're lucky, it's also about grace." Tim Winton
munching on Pebbles
Oh wait on a pebbles.. damned old eyes…
Anyone who has every thought a working Photojournalist has a glam job needs to rethink...
by Christopher See on Jan 28, 2011 11:47 PM EST up reply actions
clap clap clap
This is a telling one:
A friend working for a big team said it perfectly, Pro cycling is a joke, in part because most professionals won’t speak up.
"I briefly played on a soccer team where we took great joy yelling 'come on fuschia'" by Willj
next live chat?
"Ants don’t worry, they operate like a fantastic team, they accept obstacles and deal with them in a positive manner, they don’t complain and remain positive. An ant doesn’t work on emotion, is proactive and always chooses the ant role."
You realize
that he will spend half of that hour talking about his new puppy, right? Not sure I can handle that, man…
Jens! Voigt puts the 'laughter' in 'manslaughter'
what's wrong with talking about new puppies?
"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 Jan 30, 2011 10:03 AM EST up reply actions
Kelly Benefit Strategies claims Mike is on their 2011 roster.
Linky and check out the Friedman Power Hour
The skills really do go away if not practiced, and I don't mean to brag but I was getting very mediocre. - Tejay Van Garderen
These tweets are really restoring my confidence
Honestly. Thank you Mike. Especially:
A champion doesn’t take drugs to win, he either wins or loses. Its learning how to lose and getting up the next day to get back at it.
Favorite?
“sometimes doped riders win, sometimes they lose, sometimes clean riders win and sometimes they lose. Why dope at all then?”
Hmmmmmmm
Racing for Victory and Free Beer!
I see no value in this.
Then again, I really don’t see any value in Twitter.
I find it superfluous and glib.
What would Deming do? (+8:00 GMT)
As much as I like Freidman...this just seems like a anti-doping diatribe
While yeah, its nice to read and think about it won’t convert a doper into throwing his supply down the drain.
by Vlaanderen90 on Jan 29, 2011 1:53 AM EST up reply actions
Most of the time
But for races that aren’t being covered, it’s sure cool to get twit pics and updates from the follow cars.
"It's a lovely thing, feeling that momentum. If you're lucky, it's also about grace." Tim Winton
It's just like any new media
If you find the right authors covering things you care about, you can find some good stuff. Links to interesting stuff, humor, blah, blah, blah. If nothing else, you can amuse yourself.
Jens! Voigt puts the 'laughter' in 'manslaughter'
And yet, your statement took only 108 characters.
"In addition, it also showed an enormous lack of respect to my dog, whose name they changed." - Oscar Pereiro
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