Fabian Cancellara throws down the gauntlet to Phil Gaimon - by inviting him for a race

Helmut D. Bate wrote:

No contest here: one of these is an actual top-class racer, and the other one couldn't hack it so has to settle for Strava KOMs.

I happen to like both of them, and Cancellara is a beast, but I wouldn't bet on him up something like Mt. Washington. Horses for wotsits and all that.

simonb wrote:

This Gaimon bloke sounds like a right  johhnyhandjob - a 2nd rate bike rider who is after some free publicity for a book that no one will read- I hope Cancellara kicks his arse big time

 

You literally have no idea what you're talking about - and neither do the other people who've weighed in with their internet outrage. Phil Gaimon's books are self deprecating, often tongue in cheek and generally pretty funny. It was a throw away comment as he's already said and something that many have said since the races in question, whike probably not really believing it themselves.

It wasnt him.who forced the story on us, someone picked up on a minor detail in a book and blew it massively out of proportion. That's it. Chill.

StoopidUserName wrote:

simonb wrote:

This Gaimon bloke sounds like a right  johhnyhandjob - a 2nd rate bike rider who is after some free publicity for a book that no one will read- I hope Cancellara kicks his arse big time

 

You literally have no idea what you're talking about - and neither do the other people who've weighed in with their internet outrage. Phil Gaimon's books are self deprecating, often tongue in cheek and generally pretty funny. It was a throw away comment as he's already said and something that many have said since the races in question, whike probably not really believing it themselves. It wasnt him.who forced the story on us, someone picked up on a minor detail in a book and blew it massively out of proportion. That's it. Chill.

I literally can't see the actual relationship between a race in actual 2017 to illustrate a point about something from 2010.

StoopidUserName wrote:

simonb wrote:

This Gaimon bloke sounds like a right  johhnyhandjob - a 2nd rate bike rider who is after some free publicity for a book that no one will read- I hope Cancellara kicks his arse big time

 

You literally have no idea what you're talking about - and neither do the other people who've weighed in with their internet outrage. Phil Gaimon's books are self deprecating, often tongue in cheek and generally pretty funny. It was a throw away comment as he's already said and something that many have said since the races in question, whike probably not really believing it themselves. It wasnt him.who forced the story on us, someone picked up on a minor detail in a book and blew it massively out of proportion. That's it. Chill.

Exactly this. If you're upset abput Phil Gaimon having a laugh, go and read Wiggins' book about how he never used any needles. 

KoenM wrote:

It would be a cool race, but it wont prove anything as Phil never said Fabian raced any other races than the 2010 Paris-Roubaix and Flanders with a motor! It's just the same with the mechanic story, ofcourse he says Fabian didn't use a motor, like he would say it even if he knew! 
Am I sure he did use a motor, no, and I hope trully hope he didn't, however there are some weird things that happend those days!
Changing bikes 3 times a race, without having a flat tire!
Just blasting away from an already very fast group in Roubaix, with the same cadance and not even breaking a sweat, or that's what it looks like at least. https://youtu.be/8Nd13ARuvVE?t=213
Al the other points already have been said so much that i'm not going to repeat them anymore!

So I trully hope he didn't use a motor, but if he did use one it's not really fair for Tom Boonen and Björn Leukemans. Just think about it what would u think if u lost against someone with a motor?! 
But we will probably never know if he did or didn't use a motor, the evidence is already gone!

Are you looking at the same video? FC's cadence is clearly higher than the group he breaks from.

All this internet-binary damned if you do/don't stuff is such boring BS. The tweet was a nice tongue in cheek call out. If Gaimon took him up, even better.

Oreos wrote:

Bit of a dickhead move by FC if I'm honest, don't understand what a race would prove other than him being able to say, well you didn't race me you're wrong as a 12yr old would.

Allow me to clear things up. This appears to be an olive branch by FC to PG. By offering him hospitality, FC hopes to show he can be the bigger man, that there are no hard feelings, and that he is not or no longer pursuing PG legally, and therefore moving beyond the initial offence he felt in being openly accused of cheating.

I think he is being the bigger man too. I hope that PG accepts and shows he is a big man too.

Leviathan wrote:

Oh and how can an exact quote from his book be 'out of context'? Pathetic cheap comments designed to sell books.

I have note read the book or followed the issue but here is how to take an exact quote out of context:

The book says "Many say that Cancellara cheated, that is obviously crap" and here is a direct quote taken out of context "Cancellara cheated".