# Cadel **URL:** \ **Category:** Pub\ **Created:** [September 21, 2009, 4:17pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/cadel/41333 "2009-09-21T16:17:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Captain\_Commuter](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/captain_commuter/32/16_2.png) [@Captain\_Commuter](https://fixed.org.au/u/Captain_Commuter)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 4:17pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/cadel/41333/1 "2009-09-21T16:17:00Z")
I just don’t get the guy. Podium finish in the Vuelta\* and he looks like someone’s shot his fluffy little dog. Whose fault is it this time? \*I’m pretty pig-happy with the odd minor placing in a Vets’ crit ---
**Author:** ![Rohan](https://fixed.org.au/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/f19dbf/32.png) [@Rohan](https://fixed.org.au/u/Rohan)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 4:34pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/cadel/41333/2 "2009-09-21T16:34:26Z")
I’ll “out” myself as a Cadel fan. I don’t get all the hate towards Cadel. He rode well to get onto the podium, but would be understandably disappointed that he didn’t do better, given the position that he was in early in the race, and the bad luck he had during later stages. ---
**Author:** ![horatio](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/horatio/32/42_2.png) [@horatio](https://fixed.org.au/u/horatio)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 4:42pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/cadel/41333/3 "2009-09-21T16:42:07Z")
> [@Captain Commuter](#): > > I just don’t get the guy. Podium finish in the Vuelta\* and he looks like someone’s shot his fluffy little dog. Whose fault is it this time? +1 Most people I talk to say much the same thing when Cadel is mentioned in casual conversation. To me it’s like a classic case of somebody so focused on something, that they forget why that started doing it in the first place, and the enjoyment is lost… 😑 ---
**Author:** ![rgclements](https://fixed.org.au/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e99b99/32.png) [@rgclements](https://fixed.org.au/u/rgclements)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 6:06pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/cadel/41333/4 "2009-09-21T18:06:59Z")
I can’t say that I am a huge fan. He is like the Mark Webber of the cycling world. All the potential but always struggles to get there due to some other factor. ---
**Author:** ![Bender](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/bender/32/111_2.png) [@Bender](https://fixed.org.au/u/Bender)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 6:09pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/cadel/41333/5 "2009-09-21T18:09:15Z")
I just don’t like his chin. ---
**Author:** ![snowflake](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/snowflake/32/3245_2.png) [@snowflake](https://fixed.org.au/u/snowflake)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 6:17pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/cadel/41333/6 "2009-09-21T18:17:21Z")
> [@rgclements](#): > > I can’t say that I am a huge fan. He is like the Mark Webber of the cycling world. All the potential but always struggles to get there due to some other factor. Except that Webber doesn’t blame everyone else. ---
**Author:** ![straightXed](https://fixed.org.au/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@straightXed](https://fixed.org.au/u/straightXed)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 6:19pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/cadel/41333/7 "2009-09-21T18:19:25Z")
He’s too stuffed to ever look happy. Only dude not on the drugs 😉 ---
**Author:** ![horatio](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/horatio/32/42_2.png) [@horatio](https://fixed.org.au/u/horatio)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 6:24pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/cadel/41333/8 "2009-09-21T18:24:24Z")
> [@snowflake](#): > > > [@rgclements](#): > > > > I can’t say that I am a huge fan. He is like the Mark Webber of the cycling world. All the potential but always struggles to get there due to some other factor. > > Except that Webber doesn’t blame everyone else. lol :lol: ---
**Author:** ![el\_Brado](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/el_brado/32/99_2.png) [@el\_Brado](https://fixed.org.au/u/el_Brado)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 6:37pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/cadel/41333/9 "2009-09-21T18:37:45Z")
> [@Bender!](#): > > I just don’t like his chin. I thought he was getting surgery done on that thing to reduce the air resistance. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Commuter](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/captain_commuter/32/16_2.png) [@Captain\_Commuter](https://fixed.org.au/u/Captain_Commuter)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 6:50pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/cadel/41333/10 "2009-09-21T18:50:07Z")
> [@Rohan](#): > > I don’t get all the hate towards Cadel. It’s not hate coming from me, more like bemusement. Evans obviously works his guts out but my point was that podium in the Vuelta is hardly a defeat. It’s pretty fucking amazing really but he comes across so fucking joyless about it, like he’s somehow been ripped off. Not a good example for the kiddies. I want to admire the guy but I like my sporting heroes to be a little more gracious. By contrast, I really enjoy Gerro. He looks like he’s havin’ a ball, even when he probably isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![el\_Brado](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/el_brado/32/99_2.png) [@el\_Brado](https://fixed.org.au/u/el_Brado)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 6:59pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/cadel/41333/11 "2009-09-21T18:59:28Z")
> [@Captain Commuter](#): > > By contrast, I really enjoy Gerro. He looks like he’s havin’ a ball, even when he probably isn’t. +1 It’s like he has forgotten that whole bit about being dropped for the TDF. Back to Cadel… Anyone think he looks like Moe from the Simpsons? ![](http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2007/11/28/Cadel_Evans_port_wideweb__470x290,0.jpg) ![](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_O23cNNQsB88/SC3HNc7fYTI/AAAAAAAABug/o9gkfc_tLFI/s400/moes.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Rohan](https://fixed.org.au/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/f19dbf/32.png) [@Rohan](https://fixed.org.au/u/Rohan)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2009, 4:18pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/cadel/41333/12 "2009-09-22T16:18:00Z")
See Cadel’s most recent interview on www.sbs.com.au/cyclingcentral **cringe** ---
**Author:** ![Dxs](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/dxs/32/287_2.png) [@Dxs](https://fixed.org.au/u/Dxs)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 4:21am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/cadel/41333/13 "2009-09-23T04:21:30Z")
> [@snowflake](#): > > > [@rgclements](#): > > > > I can’t say that I am a huge fan. He is like the Mark Webber of the cycling world. All the potential but always struggles to get there due to some other factor. > > Except that Webber doesn’t blame everyone else. And instead of headbutting journalists, he speaks to them for too long. ---
**Author:** ![horatio](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/horatio/32/42_2.png) [@horatio](https://fixed.org.au/u/horatio)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 4:31am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/cadel/41333/14 "2009-09-23T04:31:20Z")
> [@Rohan](#): > > See Cadel’s most recent interview on www.sbs.com.au/cyclingcentral > > **cringe** > The ridiculous…the ridiculous, the ridi culous situation… 😑 😑 ---
**Author:** ![Rohan](https://fixed.org.au/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/f19dbf/32.png) [@Rohan](https://fixed.org.au/u/Rohan)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 3:59pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/cadel/41333/15 "2009-09-27T15:59:44Z")
CAAAAADEEEELLLLLLLLLL!!! Well deserved win. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![horatio](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/horatio/32/42_2.png) [@horatio](https://fixed.org.au/u/horatio)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 4:36pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/cadel/41333/16 "2009-09-27T16:36:09Z")
WOW! Well done Cadel… I think a few of us here should eat our hats… :oops: :oops: ---
**Author:** ![kiwicyclist](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/kiwicyclist/32/62_2.png) [@kiwicyclist](https://fixed.org.au/u/kiwicyclist)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 5:18pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/cadel/41333/17 "2009-09-27T17:18:15Z")
Link here: [http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/76th-uci-road-world-championships-cm/stages/stage-6/results](http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/76th-uci-road-world-championships-cm/stages/stage-6/results) Sounds like it was a stylish win too. Class. SW ---
**Author:** ![brendan](https://fixed.org.au/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@brendan](https://fixed.org.au/u/brendan)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 5:23pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/cadel/41333/18 "2009-09-27T17:23:55Z")
well, it wasn’t pretty, but it was nice to see him attacking (for once). ---
**Author:** ![iwearmoccos](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/iwearmoccos/32/26_2.png) [@iwearmoccos](https://fixed.org.au/u/iwearmoccos)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 5:36pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/cadel/41333/19 "2009-09-27T17:36:13Z")
> [@hjb1000](#): > > WOW! > Well done Cadel… > > I think a few of us here should eat our hats… :oops: :oops: Until he wins the Tour, I think our hats are safe. ---
**Author:** ![heatseeker](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/heatseeker/32/53_2.png) [@heatseeker](https://fixed.org.au/u/heatseeker)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 5:46pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/cadel/41333/20 "2009-09-27T17:46:55Z")
I am torn. Although I am extremely happy for him and more so for Australian cycling I can’t help come away a little disappointed from watching the World Champs. I prefer my World Champion to have more style, flair and charisma. Something that the Italians do VERY well. ![](http://www.themonkeycage.org/cipo3.bmp) [Next page](https://fixed.org.au/t/cadel/41333.md?page=2)