The moment on TV bike sponsors dread

[Climb01742]

From Stage 17 in the Vuelta, when a rider calls your bike '“Cazzo di bici!” That's calling your bike a piece of poop. Oh my. All caught in glorious hi-def audio on the broadcast.


https://www.velonews.com/2018/09/vue...eltdown_478701

[mktng]

Get the man on a 3T Strada ASAP!

[buddybikes]

Ok, move from one set of Taiwanese decals to another. ...remember when pro's bikes were custom...

sure he should of been screaming at campy...

[El Chaba]

For sentimental reasons I'm sorry that Colnago and Campy were the victims, but a part of me is very satisfied whenever anything like electronic shifting, through axles, disc brakes etc. craps out in a big race in a spectacular way..This may have been the biggest event since the Brad Wiggins bike throw...

[72gmc]

Yikes. His teammate is right to be resolutely staring up the road. Way too much Aru visible to his left ...

[dancinkozmo]

....meanwhile at shimano HQ

[FlashUNC]

Interesting they're on the V2R and not the C64.

[cachagua]

When your results are due more to the technology of the bike, and less to the rider's training and determination (more, that is, than with a simpler bike), then when you don't get results, the bike is more to blame, and the rider less.

An illustration: a basketball is a pretty simple piece of sports equipment, and wouldn't it be ridiculous for a basketball player to blame the ball for bad play? There's nothing it can really do wrong. But there are numerous ways -- more, with every new technology -- that a bike can fail and affect your performance.

So I don't think the guy's out of line to call his bike a piece of dookie. I'm disappointed he apologized -- there was no apology necessary.

[93KgBike]

Originally Posted by cachagua

An illustration: a basketball is a pretty simple piece of sports equipment, and wouldn't it be ridiculous for a basketball player to blame the ball for bad play? There's nothing it can really do wrong.

Isn't that exactly what happened with Tod Brady and his footballs, and with all of baseball's baseballs?

Bad balls can definitely make a difference.

[cachagua]

Okay, let the illustration be garbage. The point still stands.

[Polyglot]

Originally Posted by FlashUNC

Interesting they're on the V2R and not the C64.

Ernesto probably got the contract builder to supply the team frames for free. Had he supplied the C64, he would have needed to pay the sponsorship deal AND the frames.

[93KgBike]

Originally Posted by cachagua

Okay, let the illustration be garbage. The point still stands.

[FlashUNC]

Originally Posted by cachagua

When your results are due more to the technology of the bike, and less to the rider's training and determination (more, that is, than with a simpler bike), then when you don't get results, the bike is more to blame, and the rider less.

An illustration: a basketball is a pretty simple piece of sports equipment, and wouldn't it be ridiculous for a basketball player to blame the ball for bad play? There's nothing it can really do wrong. But there are numerous ways -- more, with every new technology -- that a bike can fail and affect your performance.

So I don't think the guy's out of line to call his bike a piece of dookie. I'm disappointed he apologized -- there was no apology necessary.

There was a big kerfluffle in the NBA a couple years ago when the league changed the material in the balls a bit. So there is actually some stuff it can do wrong. For those athletes at the sharp end of sports at a world class level, the little things do make a difference.

https://www.complex.com/sports/2017/...l-nba-spalding

[Spaghetti Legs]

There was a thread here, or maybe another site on this. He crashed while descending and apparently trying to pull the chain out that had wedged between the small cog and the frame or some other kind of chain suck. It was reported that later he got a call from Ernesto Colnago and got his ass chewed up (again).

[EDS]

Originally Posted by El Chaba

For sentimental reasons I'm sorry that Colnago and Campy were the victims, but a part of me is very satisfied whenever anything like electronic shifting, through axles, disc brakes etc. craps out in a big race in a spectacular way..This may have been the biggest event since the Brad Wiggins bike throw...

Doesn't look like his bike has discs or through axles. Does appear to have campy wireless.