Jens does not feel pain. Pain feels Jens.

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Feeling somewhat called out by Bikesnob’s roast of Jens fandom today:

[quote=“bikesnobnyc”]Speaking of Tour de France riders formidable enough to bite the tops off of cans, one of the most formidable of all is Jens Voigt. Jens Voigt is the Shakespeare in the Park of the peloton in that it’s basically de rigeur to get excited about him, even if you secretly don’t care. This is because he’s undoubtedly one of the selfless so-called “hard men of the peloton,” and he’s usually affable in the face of adversity. However, VeloNews has released this revealing video in which he complains (some might actually say whines) about the inclusion of cobbles in yesterday’s stage: http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid28343239001?bctid=109510111001

While I can certainly sympathize and don’t hold it against him (especially given his severe crash last season), this video will also leave many an adoring Cat 4 feeling disillusioned and betrayed. After all, Jens Voigt is supposed to say things like, “I love cobbles and pain, ja?,” so that forumites will have new signatures for their postings about how Johan Bruyneel is the devil. So for Jens Voigt fans, hearing him complain about some pavé is surely like going to see Shakespeare in the Park only for the guy playing Hamlet to announce, “It’s too damn hot for this shit, you can all go fuck yourselves.”[/quote]

:slight_smile:

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oh snap

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DAMN

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SICK BURN BROHEIM

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He’s just pissed he lost his friend. The cobbles took out Frank and CVV. They didn’t just lose time like some folks expected the climbers would.

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Agreed. Not saying I’m glad anyone got hurt or DNF yesterday, but c’mon, this is supposed to be a hard race.

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cobbles + big peloton = clusterfuck.

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I was thinking it was more team solidarity, than anything. I know A. Schleck wasn’t hyped on the cobbles, so maybe he’s just backing up his captain?

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Also, one thing to say to BSNYC and that’s, “YOU SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH.”

Cobbles would’ve been a great idea for st7 or st8, but no, they had to have Morzine.

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im not gonna read the thread coz dont want to spoil TDF, but

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holy shit

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hey shimano, you’re a thing of the past.

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all sram 1 campy.

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SRAM does a really good job of putting their logos in visible places. You can tell there’s a team devoted to studying press photos and figuring out where the logos will show on TV and in the newspaper. Props.

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^Though, note how many different teams are represented in that shot.

Just watched stage 3 and the video of Jens after the race. Uh yeah, you interview any cyclist 45 seconds after he finishes and ask him about losing a good friend and a GC contender on his team… they’ll be upset. In any event, I’ve never been under the impression that Jens, as tough as he is, is much of a cobbles guy.

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My ribs are hurting but hey, broken ribs are overrated anyway. Fortunately, I didn’t land on my face this time and I’m still alive.

They’re sending out a construction crew to fix the road where he crashed.

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http://www.bicycling.com/tour-de-france/tour-features/saying-no-sag-wagon
That stage pretty much got off on the wrong foot. For starters, we just went out so hard. We started out climbing up the Peyresourde Pass and everybody came out with their guns smoking.

I came over the top only 20 seconds down on the front group, but about 2 kilometers into the descent my front tire blew and I thought, “Oh God,” and I went down. Just one year after my horrible crash, and there I was tumbling on another mountain descent. And let me tell you, about the only place that feels good right now is my right ankle. The rest of me is all road rash. Plus I’ve got five stitches in my left elbow and then there are some ribs that are not in the right place! I may have to get x-rays, but I hate x-rays (the radiation), and plus, if I’ve got a fractured rib, what can anyone do about it?

The worst thing of all was that I almost got forced out of the Tour for a second year in a row. The problem was that the first team car was behind Andy Schleck, and the second had decided to go up ahead to hand out water bottles at the foot of the next climb. As a result I had no bike, because mine was shattered.

So then the broom wagon pulled up and was like, “Do you want to just get in?” And I said, “Oh no, I don’t need YOU!” But there I am with blood spurting out my left elbow and no bike. Finally, the race organizers got me a bike, but it was this little yellow junior bike. It was way too small for me and even had old-fashioned toe-clip pedals. But that is the only way I could get down the mountain, so I had to ride it for like 15-20 kilometers until I finally got to a team car with my bike.

Then, I still had to get up to the grupetto. All I can say is that that desperate times need desperate measures, but I got up there. And once I did it was grupetto all day long.

Needless to say, I had plenty of time to come up with a fitting book of the day. It’s from the Disk World series by Terry Pratchett. In it, the protagonist is Conan the Barbarian, who is a 70-year-old who has just survived everything. At one point he, and his other old warrior friends capture this village, but then they find that they are surrounded by an army of tens of thousands, and his only reaction is, “Oh man, it’s going to take days to kill all these people!” And that’s the way I was today when I was lying on the ground. I just thought, “Oh no, I’m going to Paris this year, I’m going to Paris. There’s just no way you are going to get me out of this race for the second year in a row!”

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Jens is a mother fucking bad ass.

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living legend

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I like how he’s just like… they found me a bike. Like… where the heck did they just get this little yellow bike from?