Lance knows what it is, so does Frankie Andreu, and damn if Cheryl Crow doesn’t know it too. But I don’t have a clue. If you have been caught quacking in the peloton, what did you do?
Please cure my ignorance…
I thought it was quawking?
http://www.frankieandreu.com/histories/history97.html
From back in 1997 by Frankie regarding the Paris Roubaix:
"The hardest thing about the race is the fighting. All day long you’re in a non-stop battle for position. The worst place is the approach to the Wallers-Arenberg sector. The ride into the Wallers forest is hairy – just mad. Getting to the forest is just like a big field sprint, only it lasts for 10 kilometers! There is nothing, absolutely nothing like it. I mean you got guys quacking (hitting for position) left and right, teams running trains up both sides of the road. Guys are hopping over the curbs, grabbin’ your saddle. It’s crazy. "
I knew this forum would come through for me!
So was Robbie McEwen quacking (or, as Mister Danielson has it, quawking) today at the finish line, or was that Extreme Quacking?
I think that was the whole effing duck on that quacker. Like he dosn’t know there are about 5 million eyes watching. But that is how reputations are made. Everyone knows Robbie is a tough guy. We had this discussion with Cookie in the Giro. Sometimes you gots to take em to the curb in field sprinting. I know it is wrong, but they seem to do it year in and year out. Sometimes you get relegated sometimes you don’t, that is bike racing.