{"id":2440,"date":"2010-06-29T14:09:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T03:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=2440"},"modified":"2010-06-29T14:18:52","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T03:18:52","slug":"everyone-needs-a-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=2440","title":{"rendered":"Everyone needs a hero."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the big lap of France just around the corner I find myself wondering who will capture the hearts of spectators in this year&#8217;s installment. We all have our favorites and it&#8217;s safe to say the most interesting riders are not always the best. Sure we&#8217;re keen for Cadel to fly the flag for Australia and all that but lets be honest, the dude is terminally boring. Contador is a right nonce, and Armstrong is so conceited I&#8217;m surprised no one has thrown a stick in his spokes. It&#8217;s the guys that have zero chance of winning but don&#8217;t mind a bit of fun that become the cult heroes of the race.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Thomas Voeckler\" src=\"http:\/\/imstars.aufeminin.com\/stars\/fan\/thomas-voeckler\/thomas-voeckler-20050820-63678.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"379\" height=\"449\" \/><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Thomas Voeckler loves a yellow jersey and doesn&#8217;t mind showing it off, a bit of a crowd favorite.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Robbie McEwen\" src=\"http:\/\/autobus.cyclingnews.com\/photos\/2004\/tour04\/stage12\/S-McEWENARRIVO12a-2878.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"500\" \/><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Robbie McEwen wins stages, pops wheelies and calls a spade a spade, a true Australian hero.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But here at Bottles and Chains we champion the riders that aren&#8217;t afraid to flaunt the rules and get loose. Thats why we can&#8217;t wait for someone to emulate our favorite rider of all time, a legend who didn&#8217;t mind quitting as soon as there was a hill, a guy who paid the fine for not riding in uniform every day so he could race around in stupid shorts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8230;this year we&#8217;re hoping to uncover the heir to Mario Cipollini&#8217;s crown of cycling awesomeness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Mario smashes ciggies.\" src=\"http:\/\/grahamwatson.com\/gw\/imagedocs.nsf\/images\/05cipo2\/$file\/10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"590\" \/><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>What a champion. Here he is smashing a ciggie mid race. You beauty.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the big lap of France just around the corner I find myself wondering who will capture the hearts of spectators in this year&#8217;s installment. We all have our favorites and it&#8217;s safe to say the most interesting riders are not always the best. Sure we&#8217;re keen for Cadel to fly the flag for Australia &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=2440\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Everyone needs a hero.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2440"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2445,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions\/2445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}