Lance Armstrong tweets about his new bike… and it's not a Trek

In reply to farrell: Cycling's most famous cheater perhaps certainly not its most famous cyclist even when his cheating wasn't general knowledge. Maybe road.cc would like to tell us and their sponsors what it thinks its doing by giving this piece of filth publicity?

PaulVWatts wrote:

In reply to farrell: Cycling's most famous cheater perhaps certainly not its most famous cyclist even when his cheating wasn't general knowledge. Maybe road.cc would like to tell us and their sponsors what it thinks its doing by giving this piece of filth publicity?

Don't be so silly.

When you've unbunched your knickers name me one other cyclist that could possibly be more famous than the worldwide/global phenomenon Lance Armstrong and his brand?

farrell wrote:

PaulVWatts wrote:

In reply to farrell: Cycling's most famous cheater perhaps certainly not its most famous cyclist even when his cheating wasn't general knowledge. Maybe road.cc would like to tell us and their sponsors what it thinks its doing by giving this piece of filth publicity?

Don't be so silly.

When you've unbunched your knickers name me one other cyclist that could possibly be more famous than the worldwide/global phenomenon Lance Armstrong and his brand?

Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, Miguel Indurain and Greg Lemond are four for starters.

PaulVWatts wrote:

farrell wrote:

PaulVWatts wrote:

In reply to farrell: Cycling's most famous cheater perhaps certainly not its most famous cyclist even when his cheating wasn't general knowledge. Maybe road.cc would like to tell us and their sponsors what it thinks its doing by giving this piece of filth publicity?

Don't be so silly.

When you've unbunched your knickers name me one other cyclist that could possibly be more famous than the worldwide/global phenomenon Lance Armstrong and his brand?

Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, Miguel Indurain and Greg Lemond are four for starters.

Do you genuinely believe that or are you just talking with your sausage out?

There is not a chance in hell that those riders are more famous than Armstrong. You can debate the rights and wrongs of that fame all you like, but that doesn't make Armstrong less famous.

farrell wrote:

PaulVWatts wrote:

farrell wrote:

PaulVWatts wrote:

In reply to farrell: Cycling's most famous cheater perhaps certainly not its most famous cyclist even when his cheating wasn't general knowledge. Maybe road.cc would like to tell us and their sponsors what it thinks its doing by giving this piece of filth publicity?

Don't be so silly.

When you've unbunched your knickers name me one other cyclist that could possibly be more famous than the worldwide/global phenomenon Lance Armstrong and his brand?

Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, Miguel Indurain and Greg Lemond are four for starters.

Do you genuinely believe that or are you just talking with your sausage out?

There is not a chance in hell that those riders are more famous than Armstrong. You can debate the rights and wrongs of that fame all you like, but that doesn't make Armstrong less famous.

Absolutely, you really think if you asked everyone on the planet to name a "cyclist" more people would say Hinault or Indurain than Armstrong ? Just because you want something to be true doesn't make it so, just ask Lance !

Mat Brett wrote:

PaulVWatts wrote:

Maybe road.cc would like to tell us and their sponsors what it thinks its doing by giving this piece of filth publicity?

We don't only write about people we like or whose actions we approve of, you know. You've read a daily newspaper, right?

Simon stuck up a story on Jeremy Clarkson yesterday.

The Clarkson story had a positive message. Most newspapers don't report on criminals as if they're heroes. What's the message behind this story? It seems to be that spending 10 years lying, cheating, wrecking peoples lives and ruining the reputation of the sport you make a living from is OK. We will still give you free advertising. Anything to produce copy is it?

PaulVWatts wrote:

Mat Brett wrote:

PaulVWatts wrote:

Maybe road.cc would like to tell us and their sponsors what it thinks its doing by giving this piece of filth publicity?

We don't only write about people we like or whose actions we approve of, you know. You've read a daily newspaper, right?

Simon stuck up a story on Jeremy Clarkson yesterday.

The Clarkson story had a positive message. Most newspapers don't report on criminals as if they're heroes. What's the message behind this story? It seems to be that spending 10 years lying, cheating, wrecking peoples lives and ruining the reputation of the sport you make a living from is OK. We will still give you free advertising. Anything to produce copy is it?

Is it free advertising? What's Armstrong selling? And exactly how does this portray him as a hero? You're reading way too much into it. There's no deep and meaningful moral message here, it's just a bit of factual reporting.

Seems to me it's a story of interest to a lot of people (in a good or bad way - but it's certainly generated some traffic). If you hate Armstrong so much that the sight of his name offends you, you could always skip to the next article...

PaulVWatts wrote:

Mat Brett wrote:

PaulVWatts wrote:

Maybe road.cc would like to tell us and their sponsors what it thinks its doing by giving this piece of filth publicity?

We don't only write about people we like or whose actions we approve of, you know. You've read a daily newspaper, right?

Simon stuck up a story on Jeremy Clarkson yesterday.

The Clarkson story had a positive message. Most newspapers don't report on criminals as if they're heroes. What's the message behind this story? It seems to be that spending 10 years lying, cheating, wrecking peoples lives and ruining the reputation of the sport you make a living from is OK. We will still give you free advertising. Anything to produce copy is it?

Jeez, get over yourself Paul. Where is he treated like a hero in the article ? Says he been dumped by his sponsors. The fact is that lots of people will be interested to see what he's bought now that he's been ditched by Trek, it's a bit of gear based gossip, nothing more.

PaulVWatts wrote:

In reply to farrell: Cycling's most famous cheater perhaps certainly not its most famous cyclist even when his cheating wasn't general knowledge. Maybe road.cc would like to tell us and their sponsors what it thinks its doing by giving this piece of filth publicity?

Just a small point. if he/it is so unimportant why are you reading/commenting on here?

He did. He gave Dr Ferrari a fortune. By all accounts.