Ode To Bradley Wiggins

[HalfMumHalfBiscuit]

Oh Wiggins, oh Bradley
I love you quite madley
You look tres sexee
In the yellow jersey
Vous etes tres bon
Avant le peloton
With your mates Cav and Froome
To Paris you'll zoom
Do your side burns help you steer?
When you win I will shed a tear.

[HalfMumHalfBiscuit]

Trying for a better ending...Although I prefer my ET one.

Dear Brad you proved you are the best
Not for you to have a rest
On to the Mall to set the pace
So GB win the cycle race
The spin on the velodrome
I wish I was there to see you bring gold home
Then bring on the champage and grog
And party like a total Mod.
On your favourite scooter
Tooting your hooter

[iismum]

Although, to be fair, Redgrave and Sampras/Federer made objective sporting history - i.e., they did things that no one else had ever done. Being the first person or team of a specific nationality to win something is important to that nation but not quite on a par. Having said that, I think that Wiggins may be the first Tour de France winner with Olympic medals for track events (anyone know if that is true?) so may actually fit into the former category, being such an amazing all-rounder.

Either way, it was an awesome achievement. Bring on the Olympics! Though I can hardly bear the weight of expectation ...

[HalfMumHalfBiscuit]

Love your Jam NarkedRaspberry.

I particularly love seeing all the yellow front pages of the newspapers, and hearing the beeps on Radio 4 followed by 'Bradley Wiggins has won the tour de France'.

[HalfMumHalfBiscuit]

Tiger, Chaz and SirEdmund - brilliant work. I apologise for my last one. I peaked on Saturday after he won the time trial and have been gibbering ever since.

[evilgiraffe]

Excellent work, all. And yes please to congratulatory hugs and kisses - DH is all the cyclist I need really, but the professionals don't half make good eye candy...

[toomuchapplepie]

To the tune of "yesterday"

Oh Brad-er-lee
I have read you're six foor three
That's a little tall for me


Oh Brad-er-lee
I see you live near Chor-lee
That's practically next door to me


I haven't yet suceeded in getting DH to grow go faster sideburns

[evilgiraffe]

Brilliant, applepie!

Anyone else think MNHQ need lobbying to make this a classic thread? It's already made it to discussions of the day...

[CapuccinoCannoliLover]

Evilgiraffe - agree, my DH scrubs up nicely in his lycra with smooth, tanned legs, but that didn't stop me perving admiring the majority of cyclists on the tour. Thatlldopig, your ode is still making me laugh! Love Bradley, but more of a Cav girl;

Brad, oh Brad, you are the dogs
with lengthy sideburns you hogs
the limelight
But when it comes to thighs, I'd rather have
The lovely musclely legs of Cav

That is the limit of my 39 week preggers addled brain I'm afraid. Immensely proud of Team Sky boys, but sad Le Tour is over.

[GrendelsMum]

We planned to call our previous cats Bradley Wiggins and Thomas Voeckler - and then wimped out when we imagined taking them to the vets.

Alas. We could have had two jersey winning cats this year.

[HalfMumHalfBiscuit]

GrendelsMum, great names for cats! Shame you wimped out.

[evilgiraffe]

Immensely proud is right. It's a weird sort of frustrated pride, though - I'm bursting with pride, and I want to tell them how marvellous they are in person, which will never happen :( the best I can do is come across like a mad stalker on twitter and/or Facebook...

If you're looking, Team Sky/anyone associated with any of them, please tell them how proud we all are, and that this weekend has been beyond exciting to watch - they have all been utterly brilliant. I can't even express how completely breathtaking this Tour has been. (this is the point at which in real life I'd hug you all SO HARD because I've run out of words)

I'm sure the relevant families are doing a good job standing in for me hugs-wise, though

[ThePan]

There's a house in the vicinity with a v large, well-designed sign on the side of the house with "Cav, Brad, and Chris" on it with an outline of a cycle. And there's often a car in the livery and sign of the "GB Cycling Team" outside.

Wonder who lives there? It's within striking distance of the Manchester Velodrome....

[ThePan]

evil - Sunday afternoon was edge of seat stuff, esp thinking the breakaway 3 were going to do it, and the commentator started a round up of what a great tour it had been, in prep. for Cav to not clinch the finish.

Is it unique for the maillot jaune to hit the front 2/3 km out and lead the sprinters to victory? Utterly amazing.

[HalfMumHalfBiscuit]

Good words evil.
I have to confess I was in a meeting today and realised I was grinning in a slightly mad way just thinking about the TDF win. Just so ruddy good.

[frostyfingers]

OK, I don't know how to make this link short - but....tis luvverly picture!

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[evilgiraffe]

Pan - you need to investigate! Set up CCTV or something. Or just shove a card through their door and keep your fingers crossed someone useful lives there?

Apparently it's unheard of for le maillot jaune to actually do any work in the final stage, so for the yellow jersey to lead out the rainbow jersey is a real one for the history books.

HalfMum - so glad it's not just me!

[fanjodisfunction]

I agree with all you ladies, the win was amazing and for Wiggo to lead out Cav, well Hagen then Cav was how it should be won. Team effort all the way.


(I know hes not a brit but hes a sky man I m a little bit in love with Hagen)

[HalfMumHalfBiscuit]

Have just
a) got bike out of woodshed
b) done 30 min bike ride with 2 ascents hills
c) one massive downhill weeeeeeeeeeeee!!! for Bradley in head down pose
d) only stopped once
e) negotiated a small stream and a hazel tree on way back

am off for a shower...

DH is shouting 'Put your bike back in the woodshed!'

[evilgiraffe]

Well done HalfMum! Downhill is so fun, you just go faster faster faster! My bike is in the shop getting real fancy cleat pedals put on it (because we couldn't wrestle the sodding old ones off ourselves) - I am in equal parts excited and terrified at the thought of riding clipped in...

[teahouse]

Bradley Wiggins with your sideburns,
shirt of yellow, how my heart yearns
racing hero, cycling mod
bet you have a lovely bod
swift of pedal, keep up the pace
sleek in lycra, my heart does race

[maillotjaune]

evil I remember my first clipless pedals. I was terrified I wouldn't be able to unclip at lights / obstacles but within half an hour I loved them.

[evilgiraffe]

That is quite encouraging! Thanks :)

[HalfMumHalfBiscuit]

This was not a road bike, was a mountain bike, v heavy, rubbish gears etc.. If I do a couple more rides I will get a road bike. .

[ThePan]

Halfmum - I just did a "Wiggo" at teatime! (doing a Wiggo" is here defined as going out for a ride inspired by nothing other than Sir Bradley Wiggins!). 42mins, 22 secs, including 3 'climbs'. ( I live in the Peaks - we don't do flat roads). Tried to pretend I was climbing Venteux..but not very convincingly.

[DownyEmerald]

It's all been so much fun - I just can't stop grinning whenever Cav hurtles past people, and I loved it when Brad did the leading out.

Been a TdeF fan since 1993, but it is a bonus having Brit guys to support.

And the thing with Cav is the cheekbones. I love good cheekbones.