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Pro cyclists who don't look like they're pro cyclists

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 felt 11 Sep 2014
Bobby Julich: associate professor of Computer Science, MIT
Laurent Fignon: owner of head shop in Spokane, Washington
David Millar: keyboard player in 1980 New Romantics outfit
Bjarne Riis: understudy for Frasier Crane
Fausto Coppi: first violin, Vienna Philharmonic
Tyler Hamilton, advertising copywriter
Alex Zülle, part-time chipmunk

Others?
 Chris the Tall 11 Sep 2014
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Marcel Kittle - 80s bad guy in Stallone movies
 malk 11 Sep 2014
In reply to felt:

Oscar Savile: DJ and charity fundraiser etc
Rigid Raider 11 Sep 2014
In reply to felt:

Cav: fish and chip fryer from, er, Douglas.
 Rubbishy 11 Sep 2014
In reply to felt:

Ian Stannard and Roger Hammond - look like they should be running a pub in an East end based soap opera.
 Hat Dude 11 Sep 2014
In reply to felt:

Chris Froome - living in seclusion on a cliff overlooking the cheerful, community of Whoville planning to steal Christmas
 Enty 11 Sep 2014
In reply to felt:

Great thread, back in a mo.

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 steveriley 11 Sep 2014
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Marco Pantani: lives by night, only ever seen lit from below with a big shadow
Chris Boardman: heating and ventilation engineer
Chris Hoy: genial high street butcher
Mario Cipollini: personal fitness guru, late night infomercial
 Bob Hughes 11 Sep 2014
In reply to felt:

great thread.

Miguel Indurain: deputy chief constable, shropshire constabulary
 Rubbishy 11 Sep 2014
In reply to SteveRi:

Michael Barry - Louis Theroux

Sid Barras - one half of an end of pier comedy double act (probably with Keith Lambert) with the catch phrase "They don't like it up 'em...."

Laurent Brochard - CBeebies presenter
 nr 11 Sep 2014
In reply to felt:

Louison Bobet: Well informed commissionaire for upmarket hotel in Monaco.
 Hat Dude 11 Sep 2014
In reply to felt:

Ed Clancy - Extra in Happy Days
Fabian Cancellara - Maltese pimp
OP felt 11 Sep 2014
In reply to SteveRi:

Perfect, esp Hoy and Boardman

Andre Greipel - Maxillofacial surgeon struck off for going too far
Cadel Evans - One time part-owner of dog rescue shelter
 Ramblin dave 11 Sep 2014
In reply to felt:

Peter Sagan: the one out of a boyband that your mum "isn't quite sure about..."
OP felt 11 Sep 2014
In reply to Ramblin dave:

Victoria Pendleton - failed TV chef who can't get soufflés to rise properly
 Chris the Tall 11 Sep 2014
In reply to felt:

Nairo Quintana - olive farmer, aged 102
Rigoberto Uran - drummer in dodgy 80's band
Valverde - the singer in the above band
Carlos Betancur - the roadie/bouncer for the above band
Removed User 11 Sep 2014
In reply to Hat Dude:

> Chris Froome - living in seclusion on a cliff overlooking the cheerful, community of Whoville planning to steal Christmas

The winner!
 Chris the Tall 11 Sep 2014
In reply to felt:

Greg Lemond - Kermit the Frog voice artist
Djamolidine Abdoujaparov - henchman to bond villain
Richard Virenque - chat show host
Kelly and Roche - irish crime fighting duo
OP felt 11 Sep 2014
In reply to Chris the Tall:

I had the young Greg LeMond as the rhythm guitarist (cobalt blue Strat) in your band, supporting his wife Kathy who's just joined the Carpenters on a six-month trial contract as a stand-in for the recently deceased Karen. There's been talk of Rigoberto Uran replacing Steve Tyler in Aerosmith, putting the future of the band in jeopardy and meaning that the LeMond family might have to be more reliant on Kathy's income than ever.
andymac 11 Sep 2014
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Graham Obree -washing machine repair man
Removed User 11 Sep 2014
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Robert Millar: star of any film about plucky northerners.
Richie Porte: Fries with that Sir?
Jean-Christophe Perreaux: Used to be in Hawkwind, forgotten exactly when.
Jacques Anquetil: Coach to Leslie Phillips and David Niven.
Bradley Wiggins. Had a bit part in Quadrophenia
Andy Schleck: British minor royal with a terrible secret.
Bernard Hinault: sinister presence at the head an old family dinner table (probably not too far from the truth).
 DaveHK 11 Sep 2014
In reply to felt:

Sean Kelly looks like an Irish farmer. Oh wait a minute...
 DaveHK 11 Sep 2014
In reply to felt:

Or perhaps Kelly as a Father Ted extra?
 Nevis-the-cat 11 Sep 2014


Virenque looks like an enormous steaming turd



andymac 11 Sep 2014
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Jens Voigt as Murdock from the A-Team (original)
Removed User 12 Sep 2014
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John Degenkolb - Shifty private detective
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Removed User 12 Sep 2014
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Fabio Aru - Gyro captain in Mad Max 2 (Bruce Spence)
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OP felt 12 Sep 2014
In reply to Removed User:

> John Degenkolb - Shifty private detective

Very good, although I had him down as a First World War poet. In truth, he's a bit of both, perhaps the thespian/spiv uncle of Private Walker from Dad's Army, with fingers in both the counterfeiting and the poetry pies. He's been kicked out of the Royal Flying Corps in disgrace and is now piloting illegal night-time flights to Brest to pick up consignments of pâte and nylons. Whilst idling on the runway for the French to deliver these, he pens doggerel verse to his sweetheart in Margate.
 jethro kiernan 12 Sep 2014
In reply to felt:

Lance Armstrong- American political candidate
 JJL 12 Sep 2014
In reply to John Rushby:

> Laurent Brochard - CBeebies presenter

Should get on with
Laura Trott - Blue Peter front woman
OP felt 12 Sep 2014
In reply to JJL:

and Andy Hampsten, who stepped in after John Noakes left
Rigid Raider 12 Sep 2014
In reply to felt:

Thomas Voeckler - le gentil animateur du jardin des enfants au Club Mediterranée.
 Bob Hughes 12 Sep 2014
In reply to felt:

Fabio Aru - Children's TV presenter
 Phil79 12 Sep 2014
In reply to jethro kiernan:

> Lance Armstrong- American political candidate

And probably would have been if he hadn't got caught.
 Hat Dude 12 Sep 2014
In reply to felt:


> Alex Zülle, part-time chipmunk

Tony Rominger, Full time chipmunk
In reply to Phil79:

I wouldn't write him off!
 ti_pin_man 12 Sep 2014
In reply to felt:

Tom Ritchey - failed 70's pronstar actor
In reply to felt:

More to the point does anyone look like a cyclist?
 Hat Dude 12 Sep 2014
In reply to DubyaJamesDubya:

> More to the point does anyone look like a cyclist?

I do - until I get on my bike
OP felt 12 Sep 2014
In reply to felt:

> does anyone look like a cyclist?

That's what I'm starting to wonder. There are some that don't look like anything else in particular, your Boonens for instance (although he could have stood in as a body-double for Harry in Afghanistan). I started the thread having seen Julich on the telly -- I'd never seen his face before -- and thought that this guy just does not look like a pro cyclist (a thought I always had about the young D. Millar, as well).
 Chris the Tall 12 Sep 2014
In reply to ti_pin_man:

> Tom Ritchey - failed 70's pronstar actor

Gary Fisher - Saville Row tailor by day, Jazz impresario by night
 ewar woowar 12 Sep 2014
In reply to felt:

Why Paula Radcliffe is no longer seen running...

She had a sex change and is leading the Sky team in the Vuelta!
 paul walters 12 Sep 2014
In reply to Phil79:

> And probably would have been if he hadn't got caught.

Plenty of time for him yet.....
 DaveHK 12 Sep 2014
In reply to jethro kiernan:
> (In reply to felt)
>
> Lance Armstrong- American political candidate

Or, Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

Removed User 12 Sep 2014
In reply to felt:

> Very good, although I had him down as a First World War poet. In truth, he's a bit of both, perhaps the thespian/spiv uncle of Private Walker from Dad's Army, with fingers in both the counterfeiting and the poetry pies. He's been kicked out of the Royal Flying Corps in disgrace and is now piloting illegal night-time flights to Brest to pick up consignments of pâte and nylons. Whilst idling on the runway for the French to deliver these, he pens doggerel verse to his sweetheart in Margate.

Yes, this works n all.
 TeeBee 12 Sep 2014
In reply to Hat Dude:

> Chris Froome - living in seclusion on a cliff overlooking the cheerful, community of Whoville planning to steal Christmas

Or sitting covered in a blanket in Elliot's basket as he pedals across the moon?
 Morgan Woods 13 Sep 2014
In reply to felt:

Thor Hushovd - looks like he could play inside centre in rugby
G0rdrilla 13 Sep 2014
In reply to felt:

Bradley Wiggins - Paul Wellers personal hairdresser.
OP felt 13 Sep 2014
In reply to G0rdrilla:

More like Paul Weller's personal hair.
 niallk 13 Sep 2014
In reply to felt:

Brilliant.
 DaveHK 13 Sep 2014
In reply to felt:

Sylvain Chavanel - actor in a toothpaste advert.
 ericoides 15 Sep 2014
In reply to DaveHK:

Chris Horner - astronaut who denies he landed on the Moon
In reply to felt:

Daniel Teklehaymanot, west coast rapper/mc
OP felt 15 Sep 2014
In reply to The Mystery Toad:

Abraham Olano, NUM activist, Rhondda valley

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