Latest Quick.Step internet meme!

We take back everything we wrote about Web 2.0 just being one big autistic mess of badly written blogs about the 9/11 terrorist attacks and sub-You've Been Framed quality grainy videos of people falling over. It turns out that camera phones and embedded video DO have a very important purpose.


That purpose: Allowing us to watch Quick.Step sing karaoke.


Just think, back in 1996 there was no way for British people to see other people singing Metallica songs in Flemish accents without actually going to a Metallica gig in Flanders. This is progress.


Bettini seems to be the weak link in this fairly perplexing choir. Curse of the rainbow jersey?

Watch it here. They're all wearing sunglasses to make it seem more rock and roll, which means the whole video is a little bit like when they did Comic Relief in secondary school and your form teacher would turn up dressed as Ali G thinking that was the very height of popular culture.


Some old updates that aren't entirely awful


And there'll be even more coming to this spot just as soon as we can be bothered trawling through our somewhat embarrassing archives.

Simon and Anthony


Nigel and company


Johnathan & friends, even though they're always last with the news and the website is horrible


Dutch cyclists we like because they're better/more attractive than British riders

Bobke Strut is so good that it deserves a category of its own

Arrr, bike pirates

George!

Things we hate so much we're not even going to link to them

  • Trust But Verify
  • Trek
  • Assos

Our e-mail inbox isn't just for Japanese gambling promotions and the latest advances in penis enlargement chemistry, you know

What's the word "derailed" got to do with bikes anyway?

  • Err... bikes have things called derailleurs? Apart from track bikes, which don't.

If derailleurs evolved from fixies, how come there are still fixies?

  • Survival of the fixest.


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