BMC: team for the future

Apparently the BMC boys are in Europe kicking ass at the Giro di
Fruiti (thumbtacks in the road for all other competitors
notwithstanding).

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?...ay07/may12news

The team clearly has a bright future. However, one thing has me
worried:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos.ph...amp07/IMG_7780

Note that the two old farts ... er ... seasoned pros on the team (ie,
moninger and sayers) are the only tools not wearing helmets!! Surely
they can set a better example for the young guns than that.

On 11 May 2007 16:35:49 -0700, bar wrote:

Apparently the BMC boys are in Europe kicking ass at the Giro di
Fruiti (thumbtacks in the road for all other competitors
notwithstanding).

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?...ay07/may12news

The team clearly has a bright future. However, one thing has me
worried:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos.ph...amp07/IMG_7780

Note that the two old farts ... er ... seasoned pros on the team (ie,
moninger and sayers) are the only tools not wearing helmets!! Surely
they can set a better example for the young guns than that.

Nice troll.

--
JT
****************************
Remove "remove" to reply
Visit http://www.jt10000.com
****************************

In article ,
John Forrest Tomlinson wrote:

On 11 May 2007 16:35:49 -0700, bar wrote:

Apparently the BMC boys are in Europe kicking ass at the Giro di
Fruiti (thumbtacks in the road for all other competitors
notwithstanding).

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?...ay07/may12news

The team clearly has a bright future. However, one thing has me
worried:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos.ph...s/bmc_camp07/I
MG_7780

Note that the two old farts ... er ... seasoned pros on the team (ie,
moninger and sayers) are the only tools not wearing helmets!! Surely
they can set a better example for the young guns than that.

Nice troll.

Hardly. Wrong bait for this hole. He needs to ask us for doping advice
to stir things up in rbr.

Take that act to rbm,

--
Ryan Cousineau http://www.wiredcola.com/
"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos

On May 11, 8:08 pm, Ryan Cousineau wrote:
In article ,
John Forrest Tomlinson wrote:



On 11 May 2007 16:35:49 -0700, bar wrote:

Apparently the BMC boys are in Europe kicking ass at the Giro di
Fruiti (thumbtacks in the road for all other competitors
notwithstanding).

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?...ay07/may12news

The team clearly has a bright future. However, one thing has me
worried:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos.ph...eatures/bmc_ca...
MG_7780

Note that the two old farts ... er ... seasoned pros on the team (ie,
moninger and sayers) are the only tools not wearing helmets!! Surely
they can set a better example for the young guns than that.

Nice troll.

Hardly. Wrong bait for this hole. He needs to ask us for doping advice
to stir things up in rbr.

Take that act to rbm,

--
Ryan Cousineau /
"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos


Tough crowd. Cut a noob some slack?

"bar" wrote in message
oups.com...
Apparently the BMC boys are in Europe kicking ass at the Giro di
Fruiti (thumbtacks in the road for all other competitors
notwithstanding).

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?...ay07/may12news

The team clearly has a bright future. However, one thing has me
worried:


http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos.ph...amp07/IMG_7780

Note that the two old farts ... er ... seasoned pros on the team (ie,
moninger and sayers) are the only tools not wearing helmets!! Surely
they can set a better example for the young guns than that.

Well, you certainly should be able to judge someone else what with your
immense knowledge of how well helmets work.

Oh, wait, no country that has maintained statistics of bicycle accidents has
shown any improvement in their safety records upon massive increases in
helmet use.

Could it possibly be that you are a nitwit without the brains to be able to
understand who knows what they're doing and who doesn't?

In article . com,
bar wrote:

On May 11, 8:08 pm, Ryan Cousineau wrote:
In article ,
John Forrest Tomlinson wrote:
On 11 May 2007 16:35:49 -0700, bar wrote:

Note that the two old farts ... er ... seasoned pros on the team (ie,
moninger and sayers) are the only tools not wearing helmets!! Surely
they can set a better example for the young guns than that.

Nice troll.

Hardly. Wrong bait for this hole. He needs to ask us for doping advice
to stir things up in rbr.

Take that act to rbm,

Tough crowd. Cut a noob some slack?

Well, you got one. Hook, line and stinker. But that was pretty easy.

--
tanx,
Howard

Never take a tenant with a monkey.

remove YOUR SHOES to reply, ok?

In article . com,
bar wrote:

On May 11, 8:08 pm, Ryan Cousineau wrote:
In article ,
John Forrest Tomlinson wrote:



On 11 May 2007 16:35:49 -0700, bar wrote:

Apparently the BMC boys are in Europe kicking ass at the Giro di
Fruiti (thumbtacks in the road for all other competitors
notwithstanding).

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?...ay07/may12news

The team clearly has a bright future. However, one thing has me
worried:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos.ph...eatures/bmc_ca..
.
MG_7780

Note that the two old farts ... er ... seasoned pros on the team (ie,
moninger and sayers) are the only tools not wearing helmets!! Surely
they can set a better example for the young guns than that.

Nice troll.

Hardly. Wrong bait for this hole. He needs to ask us for doping advice
to stir things up in rbr.

Take that act to rbm,

Tough crowd. Cut a noob some slack?

No, but we'll call you dumbass for your trouble.

--
Ryan Cousineau http://www.wiredcola.com/
"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos

bar wrote:
Tough crowd. Cut a noob some slack?

You need to join LIVEDRUNK(tm) to get slack.

In article ,
Donald Munro wrote:

bar wrote:
Tough crowd. Cut a noob some slack?

You need to join LIVEDRUNK(tm) to get slack.

That's "sack." Dry sack.

--
Ryan Cousineau http://www.wiredcola.com/
"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos

in message .com, bar
') wrote:

Note that the two old farts ... er ... seasoned pros on the team (ie,
moninger and sayers) are the only tools not wearing helmets!! Â*Surely
they can set a better example for the young guns than that.

Oh, for heaven's sake don't be silly.

Cycling is less than two thirds as dangerous as walking, and no-one wears a
helmet when walking. On average a cyclist has one fatal accident for every
twenty one and a half million miles, or eight hundred and sixty three
complete circumnavigations of the earth. Cycling helmets are rated to
provide protection in falls up to 24Km/h. Fabio Casartelli was descending
at 100Km/h when he crashed and was killed. The force of impact scales with
the square of the speed, so Casartelli's fall exceeded the protective
specification of a bicycle helmet by a factor of sixteen times. Also - as
is typical in such cases - Casartelli's fatal injuries were not to the top
of his head, but to the side and front.

Quick summary: you'll never need it, and if you did ever need it it
wouldn't work.

Addendum: when I crashed while descending at 75Km/h, I was wearing a cotton
cap. Now, OK, if I'd hit my head in that crash I would not be writing
this. But I didn't (I had a slight graze on the temple, some lacerations
to my legs, and a broken back, but...) What happens in a high speed crash
is a matter of luck, but getting killed isn't inevitable and it isn't even
very likely.

--
(Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
;; Drivers in the UK kill more people every single year than
;; Al Qaeda have ever killed worldwide in any single year.