Not content with walking away with the night's big prize, Saint Bradley of Wiggins wasn't about to call it a night after the SPOTY cameras went off. It was back to the after-show party and time for a cameo on stage with the Rick Parfitt Junior Band, bashing out a decent ryhthm guitar line to Oasis' Wonderwall. Probably he'd have preferred something from The Jam back catalogue, but Wiggo knows how to play a crowd. And the chords are easier…
WiggoWall – Bradley joins the house band for the SPOTY after-show party
Is there no end to the man’s talents?
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 13:22
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Miller 6 hours ago
Weak fork not necessarily weak. I did the same once, not so dramatically as here, but the fork was still toast and I cracked a wrist bone. Mechanism is, if the tyre catches the mudguard, the guard can start rotating with the tyre. The mudguard stays instantly dig into the tyre, because geometry, the front wheel locks completely solid in about a quarter of a revolution, and the rider gets brutally thrown off the front while wondering what just happened. This is why front mudguard stays need a breakaway fitment.
Mr Blackbird 8 hours ago
@Rendel Harris Or less unelegant?
Bezzard74 8 hours ago
@shufflingb So far I've had no issues with the port going wrong (unlike my Hammerhead Karoo V2, which melted!) 20+ hrs run time means I don't usually have to charge on the go. My plan for Pan Celtic means I'll have tome to charge when sleeping, and on the go as a last resort. I am looking at an angled USB C Male to Female cable though, to move the port below.
Rendel Harris 8 hours ago
@mdavidford And indeed, looking in my copy of the complete OED, it's nearly 200 years old at least and is cited for first use by Thomas Carlyle, so you can't get a much better provenance than that. It is a bit ugly though, isn't it? "The previous criticism of a lack of strategy" or "that we were lacking in strategy" would be rather more elegant.
mitsky 8 hours ago
Re, Brandon Herrera 1) Given the exceptionally lenient sentences drivers who kill with their vehicles receive, it is almost like they get away with it. So, as has been said before, if someone's intention is to kill then using a vehicle could be the way he "... could get away with it..." 2) If he is this incensed about cyclists on roads slowing him down a little bit... How does he feel about all the other people IN MOTOR VEHICLES who force him to sit stationary in rush hour traffic? 3) My guess, as I've said before with the likes of him, is that he feels emasculated by cyclists. Which fuels his anger towards them. He feels weak because he himself isn't "tough" enough to be on a bike on public roads when faced with the danger of (ironically? paradoxically?) crazy people like him behind the wheel.
mdavidford 8 hours ago
Why does 'unstrategic' require a [sic]? You'd think if it's good enough for the OED it would be good enough for road.cc.
the little onion 9 hours ago
Putting aside any imperfections, the emphasis on quality of infrastructure, and distinguishing between everyday and racing cycling is something to be welcomed! Good luck wales.
Mr Blackbird 9 hours ago
How are the 20mph speed limits being accommodated for the TDF stage? Is the stage avoiding all urban areas and villages or will there be special permission to exceed 20mph because the roads are closed - albeit not to pedestrians? Although there are clear benefits from the 20mph limit, it has seriously kerbed cycle road racing and time trialling in Wales and is starting to have a similar effect in England. If the aim is to attract more people into cycling, doesn't it make sense to find a way of accomodating competitive club cycling alongside active travel and leisure cycling? Just think of all the youngsters who will want to emulate their TDF heroes after seeing them racing in the flesh.
Fursty Ferret 9 hours ago
Hasn't it always been the case that active travel has been abused? Councils claiming to have put in hundreds of miles of bike lanes and claiming funding for it, and the consequence being that they simple paint bike symbols between the pavement and the existing white lines marking the edge of the road? Or my personal favourite of taking the money from central government and painting a bike lane, but then allowing car owners to store their metal cubes in it 24/7, and then wonder why it's (a) unused by cyclists and (b) they're getting complaints about cyclists riding in primary position.
19 thoughts on “WiggoWall – Bradley joins the house band for the SPOTY after-show party”
I cant help like him.
hat
I cant help like him.
hat
Ok, he’s gotten a little more
Ok, he’s gotten a little more respect from me….. 👿
fair play to the man,but why
fair play to the man,but why did it have to be an oasis track X( (you may tell i’m not their biggest fan 😉
Rock on!
Rock on! B-)
He should have played Roll
He should have played Roll With It
😀 😀
You might want to add this
You might want to add this picture of him heading home……
http://twitpic.com/bmt8hw
Gkam84 wrote:You might want
Wrecked :O
bikecellar wrote:Gkam84
Wrecked :O— Gkam84
Shocker – man wins big award and celebrates. B-)
It is a shocker while all the
It is a shocker while all the other guys are hard in training 😉
Gkam84 wrote:It is a shocker
Just as well that he got a headstart on the rest of the squad and put in an 11 day/ 7 hours per day training block in Mallorca just before Sunday, then 😉
Dont think we need to worry too much about Bradders work ethic. When he’s on, he’s seriously on.
A friend of mine was there,
A friend of mine was there, and sat near Wiggins. He says Wiggo was pretty far gone before he even arrived.
Good. A sportsman winning the personality award who actually does have a personality.
I want that suit.
I want that suit.
Not a day he is ever likely
Not a day he is ever likely to remember 😉
There’s a longer and worse
There’s a longer and worse shot video here where he plays a Jam song first. Looking at the pic of him after, well I can’t play the guitar when I’m that mashed. But then my time trialling is pretty lacklustre too.
could not be more english.
could not be more english.
I’ll see him in the lanes and
I’ll see him in the lanes and tell him to get a wo-wo pedal…
Should have been a Quo number
Should have been a Quo number with Rick Parfitt Jnr, surely ? Easier chords too 😉
Come on Road.cc you’ve got
Come on Road.cc you’ve got Wiggo’s number…
schwag that suit or the Spoty Silver Camera Thingy..
Have a wonderfully chrismas all, great online Mag…
Man Alive but we are living
Man Alive but we are living in a golden era…..