Lance Armstrong for President~!

Top Ten Signs Lance Armstrong Is Getting Cocky


10. Race starts at 9, Lance rolls out of bed around noon

9. Has already figured out that the trophy can hold a 3-gallon margarita

8. He eats frosting by the fistful

7. For the last leg, he rode one of those crazy 1920s bikes with the big front wheel

6. Deliberately crashing into things to get more air time on sportscenter

5. Making a couple extra bucks delivering pizzas during the race

4. After the starter pistol is fired, he hangs around hitting on french babes

3. Turns to the other riders and says, "oooh, I'm sooooo scared"

2. Instead of training, spent last 2 months pimping his bike

1. Has started selling ad space on his ass

Originally posted by Bollocks:
I agree 100%…if you gave Armstrong the same bike Merckz was riding during his reign and set him off on the tour, and on the exact same course, there's no doubt in my mind that Armstrong could not have beaten Merckz time….

Originally posted by Bollocks:

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
[QB] Leaving her to raise three kids, all aged five or less, on her own. Nice guy.

I'm sure the huge alimony/child support check every month helps a little….and for the record, he's pulled out of the olympics because he wants to spend time with his kids after the tour. Let me tell you something from experience Rhett, sometimes the American injustice system prevents dads from seeing their kids as much as they'd like. Some fucking senile judge decides who, when and how often a dad gets to spend time with his own flesh and blood, so I don't want to hear any bullshit about "leaving her to raise three kids, all aged five or less, on her own", that just shows how ignorant you can be sometimes.

Originally posted by pepper*sans*salt:
I wanna give Lance a big shoutout for giving France another reason to hate our guts. :mad:

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
[QB] Seems like if he's got three young children at home, he would have made a better effort to save his marriage. But what do I know.

I dont think it takes a bucketful of empathy to realise that becoming a five or seven time tour champion and all round media whore might completely change your life, and cause you and you partner to grow totally apart.

Originally posted by mark e smith:

Originally posted by Bollocks:
I agree 100%…if you gave Armstrong the same bike Merckz was riding during his reign and set him off on the tour, and on the exact same course, there's no doubt in my mind that Armstrong could not have beaten Merckz time….

I think you are way off here. I dont think bikes have changed that much, what has changed is knowledge of sports physiology and advanced training methods. Also Merckx won a lot of other races, he did not just concentrate to peak for the tour. That was mostly a Greg Lemond invention.

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
So when you start winning Nobel Prizes for all of your fine work in the science world, that will cause you to grow apart from your wife, divorce her, and seek out a lame rockstar to date? Oh well, at least there probably won't be small children involved.

And why pump out three children in give years if you've grown that far apart?

Originally posted by Bollocks:

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
So when you start winning Nobel Prizes for all of your fine work in the science world, that will cause you to grow apart from your wife, divorce her, and seek out a lame rockstar to date? Oh well, at least there probably won't be small children involved.

And why pump out three children in give years if you've grown that far apart?

So we can assume it was his fault, and his fault alone for the break up of the marraige can we?

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
So when you start winning Nobel Prizes……

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
Seems like if he's got three young children at home, he would have made a better effort to save his marriage. But what do I know.

Kristin Armstrong (February 2003): Marriage problems were "brought on gradually by a number of pressures, rather than one big blow-up. We've been together 4 1/2 years, and we've had six homes, three languages, three countries, one cancer comeback, three children, four Tour de France wins and one rise to celebrity. You're not supposed to cram such a huge amount of events into such a small period of time."

Originally posted by Bollocks:
Lets start with carbon fibre shall we, that around in Merckx day was it?.Eddie's bike weighed waaaaaaaaaaaay more than Lances does.

Originally posted by mark e smith:

Originally posted by pepper*sans*salt:
I wanna give Lance a big shoutout for giving France another reason to hate our guts. :mad:

Why would they hate your guts?

Its just a dude riding a bike. His souplesse has been a joy to watch.

Originally posted by mark e smith:

"Carbon-fibre is another innovation, dropping the weight of a racing bike from 9kg to less than 7kg."

At that level of cycling, that is a lot.

Originally posted by Bollocks:

Originally posted by mark e smith:

"Carbon-fibre is another innovation, dropping the weight of a racing bike from 9kg to less than 7kg."

At that level of cycling, that is a lot.

Not so much compared to the overall bike+rider weight.

Do you think Lance would still have won the tour if his bike weighed 2 or 3 pounds more?


I think he would.

Originally posted by mark e smith:


Do you think Lance would still have won the tour if his bike weighed 2 or 3 pounds more?


I think he would.