{"id":157,"date":"2013-05-26T03:24:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T03:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgc.co\/2013\/05\/great-to-be-a-cyclist\/"},"modified":"2013-05-26T03:24:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T03:24:00","slug":"great-to-be-a-cyclist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singlespeedgoldcoast.com\/2013\/05\/26\/great-to-be-a-cyclist\/","title":{"rendered":"Great to be a cyclist"},"content":{"rendered":"
“It’s true,” Scinto said in a quiet, sad voice. “He’s mad, he’s a cretino, he needs treatment. There’s nothing else to say. We gave him a second chance and the sponsors put their faith in him and this is how he pays us back. It’s crazy that a rider thinks they can get away with it like that.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It makes the whole Lance Armstrong affair seem so dry and <\/span>uninteresting in comparison. Hopefully there’s still time for someone to get busted with horse testosterone or a good old fashioned cyclist sit-in or go-slow and the Giro will become my favorite event of the year.<\/span>
<\/span>If you’ve been following the Emma Way thing you’re probably by now feeling vindicated as a cyclist who has put up with too much shit and now someone’s going to cop it. I advise some caution on that. Don’t get ahead of yourself. Emma Way has contracted a lawyer\/media adviser and she’s hitting the ground running. Most troubling of all is this. Here’s a photo of Emma:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd here’s a picture of the poor dickhead she ran over:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nYou can see his problem can’t you? Whose the media going to support? The pretty girl or the guy with tattoos on his neck?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nShe’s already fronted the media and done a good job at presenting herself as the new victim in this spectacle. Toby seems like the most affable guy in the world and besides, he’s a cyclist, so it’s not like it’ll be the last time some careless fuck tries to kill him. Meanwhile the cycling media has gone it a hyperdrive of facts. Here’s one about her quip about road taxes: http:\/\/www.bloodycyclist.com\/the-road-tax-myth\/<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nProblem is you can’t fight bullshit with facts. If you could we’d get the politicians we deserve. <\/div>\n<\/div>\nI say good luck to Toby and his supporters. I hope he can win one for us. I just think we’d have more chance if he’d been run over by someone a bit dowdy.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What a wonderful week we’ve had in cycling. On a personal level there’s the arrival of my wooden monogrammed handlebars. Here’s a sneak peak. I got those fellas from Etsy. They’ve come all the way Thailand and they’re made from some rare rainforest timber whose harvesting causes the extinction of several rare but very tiny […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,49],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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