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Friday caption competition: Team Sky! We have a winner!

Cheer up lads, might never happen. Or rather it might. Whichever.

Choosing a winner from all the entries you fired in for this one was tough. I thought there'd be a few references to Shameless, Channel 4's cult TV series set not a million miles from the Manchester velodrome… for which this looks like a publicity still for a couple of new lead characters in the new series… I think it's that team shellsuit-type top that Sean Yates looks so at home in.  An honourable mention to Fringe then for being on the same wavelength with his "i'll be Liam and you can be Noel". 

But the winner has to be misforturob - who appropriately enough seems to be in Manchester for this borrowing from the film Goodfellas

"I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?"

Well, it made me laugh… humour's a very personal thing. Anyway we'll be having a ratch down the back of the road.cc sofa and a some suitable schwag will be heading north asap. 

In the meantime why not read Simon MacMichael's interview with Team Sky's head honchos Dave Brailsford and Sean Yates which is the reason we were sent these pictures of the two of them looking moody in the first place.

Dave is a founding father of road.cc, having previously worked on Cycling Plus and What Mountain Bike magazines back in the day. He also writes about e-bikes for our sister publication ebiketips. He's won three mountain bike bog snorkelling World Championships, and races at the back of the third cats.

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naffets | 13 years ago
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so this is skys idea of big signings for 2011 by making the bike smaller!

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celeb | 13 years ago
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Welcome to Findsbury park Dogma site, now turn those bloody headlights off Brad.

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CycleGringo | 13 years ago
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Sky say forget spending all your money on a virtual reality turbo trainer! Just head up to your local hill shove the bike on the top of a tesco trolley and spin away.

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automatic_jon | 13 years ago
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"I'll give you 'aggregation of marginal gains'"

"That's what she said..."

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henryrobertshaw1 | 13 years ago
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marginal gains approach towards genetic engineering and mutation payoff as team sky unveil their new 15ft ultra directeurs sportif...

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Pub_Cap_Scott | 13 years ago
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"maybe we can get some of that new "Tainted Meat" saddle sore cream from DZ Nuts for the chaps."

"..."

"It was a joke you twit..."

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MattFr | 13 years ago
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"We're pleased to unveil our latest project, the Great Bike of Berkshire. It will catch motorists eyes and remind them to look out for cyclists, as well as acting as a monument for British cycling's past and future glories"
"Dave, that's just Brads bike in the distance"

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phax71 | 13 years ago
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"Come n have a go if you think you're hard enough".

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croutledge | 13 years ago
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That's why the year didn't go as planned, your looking in one direction and I'm looking in the other!!

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bringmemyfix | 13 years ago
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PCSO Brailsford with a reformed bike thief at the Cycle Task Force awareness day.

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timbur | 13 years ago
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So, Blue Sky thinking in 2010 didn't really work. Anyone know a company called Joined Up?

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TheFatAndTheFurious | 13 years ago
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- We, de Management, don't approve of doping.
- Yeah, we don't like any Chinese restaurant.

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antonio | 13 years ago
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'Looks like our sky rocket was a dud Sean'.

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Rigobear | 13 years ago
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Seconds later the lads were left to rue another ill advised publicity stunt, finding the dogma up on bricks.

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handlebarcam | 13 years ago
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The happy couple announce that Hampstead Heath will be the location for what is sure to be the biggest wedding of 2011.

Sean: Wasn't Brad supposed to be here for this?
Dave: He's being fitted for his new custom cravat, just stick a bike on the horizon in his place, nobody will notice.

Photographer: No, you can't both have your hands in your pockets. One of you must fold your arms. And someone get a bigger box for the short bald bloke to stand on.

Matalan's new exclusively black and white tank-top and tracksuit range being modelled by Inspector Frost and MacGyver.

No time for the old in-out, love. I've just come to read the meter.

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jova54 | 13 years ago
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Sean: 'I hear road.cc are going to use the photo for a humorous caption competition'.

Dave: 'Well, if they can find any humour in Sky's performance this year they're welcome to try.'

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ColT | 13 years ago
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Brailsford thinking: I know f**k all about road racing, but I think I got away with it.

Yates thinking: He knows f**k all about road racing. Blue striped toothpaste, my arse.

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Argon Welder | 13 years ago
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I'm Sean's dad, can he have his ball back?

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Chossum | 13 years ago
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"So, next year we have a new strategy for the tour - for every minute Bradley loses, we break one of his fingers.."

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Damian_Hunt | 13 years ago
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Ladies and Gents, Team Sky's new management team; Albert Steptoe and Son.

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mrsminx411 | 13 years ago
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Brailsford and Yates are oblivious as Beldar Conehead sneaks up and steals the bike.

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PJ McNally | 13 years ago
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As seen on Gumtree:

"Road bike, nearly new, selling as just couldn't get the hang of it. Was never as fast as the man in the shop said it would be"

"Yeah - it's not nicked, either"

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WIHBTBB | 13 years ago
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Crickey Dave, were you on the cabbage vindaloo again last night.

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Hansemann | 13 years ago
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Whatever you are saying, you are wrong and I am right

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Hansemann | 13 years ago
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Whatever you are saying, you are wrong and I am right

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shay cycles | 13 years ago
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Brailsford: "We're a big team and we have big aspirations."
Yates: "Yeah, big team, big plans, little bikes!"

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Tubby Trotter | 13 years ago
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"we have ways of making you train....."  17

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paulbetts1968 | 13 years ago
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Hey Sean - know anything about track cycling?

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JC | 13 years ago
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"Team managers?, nah - we're the new bouncers for the new outdoor Rollapaluza"

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ColT | 13 years ago
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Lets face it, as a caption competition photo, there ain't much to go on really.  22

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