“Go f*ck yourself” – Luke Rowe hits out at fans blaming him for Paris-Roubaix crash

DrS wrote:

Well if he doesn't like the hassle, maybe he should look where he's going and not bring down other riders due to his ineptitude 

You're seriously accusing Luke Rowe, INEOS Grenadiers road captain, key player in five Tour victories, rider of every Paris Roubaix since 2013, of ineptitude and not looking where he's going because he skidded across the road with a front wheel puncture on what is notoriously the most difficult stretch of road in pro cycling in conditions that would have made Noah pack it in? No wonder he feels like telling people to fuck off.

Yes 

Well you're being just a tiny bit silly then, aren't you.

If that's your third post I shudder to think what your first two must have been like. 

On the other hand, we shouldn't encourage you. If we do you might go through all six hours of tape of an enthralling, brilliant race, and send endless posts calling out as inept every rider who fell or had a mechanical resulting in someone else getting involved in their incident.

Oh dear, are you one of those silly little trolls who got told to fuck off.  Clearly you've never ridden a bike in your life Mr Muppet!

Clown!

Hi Dr S. 

When did you last ride the P-R. You sound like you know what you're talking about.... 
 

Luke Rowe is becoming the peloton's Mr Angry/Sweary. I'm not convinced it's something to aim for.

agreed, obv I dont know what kind of grief he was getting on social media from it, but sometimes its better not to engage in the same terms, a simple look it looked alot worse on the tv coverage than it was, as it joined after Id lost control and was recovering & none of the riders involved blamed me, its just bike racing in those conditions, probably would have sufficed IMO

bobbinogs wrote:

Bit of an astonishing media blurt from a professional in any profession.  When will folks learn that deleting stuff from social meejah doesn't make it disappear, and that the best response is sometimes none at all.  If in doubt, sit on your hands!

Or gain respect from saying what deserves to be said!!

Wasn't even deleted, don't know what this writer is on about. It's on his Instagram story

No not well said. I am sure it could have been said much better.

No fan of armchair critics but really you are a public figure on an international stage representing your team and your sport.

Sorry, but that kind of response is just cobblers. Ineos have paid representatives, an entire army of PR people. Luke Rowe isn't one of them. Rowe is hired to ride, not to do PR. DOn't believe me? Try a thought experiment. If youre bad at PR but a great rider, will you get a job in the peloton? Probably. If you're great at PR but not  a great rider will you get  ajob in the peloton? Probably not.

If Luke wants to swear, that's him being authentic to who he is, and it will win him the respect of a segment of the audience. Every one of us who's sworn at the muppet who brings you down in a sportive because he tries to overtake on a wet bend, or who's thought WTAF when your minute man in a TT tries the same trick on a wet roundabout and goes bouncing across the road in front of you will think 'yeah, actually, that's the level of emotion when it all goes pop in that one moment...'

Any time now along will come an Ineos PR man to pour oil on troubled waters and guess what? At the end of the month the key metric, how many time s Ineos are mentioned on social media, will have ticked up, not down. You may not approve, but audience segmentation means that broad brush standards of decorum are dead, and channel multiplication means that Rowe's authenticity can be monetized. How may subscribers do you have for your cycling podcast?

Er so it's all about publicity and money? I was aiming more for decency and civility.

Since you ask I dont have or want a cycling podcast. I just believe that the small things we say and do can make the world a better or worse place and the greater the audience the greater the responsibility to be an influence for good.

Ride On wrote:

Er so it's all about publicity and money? I was aiming more for decency and civility. Since you ask I dont have or want a cycling podcast. I just believe that the small things we say and do can make the world a better or worse place and the greater the audience the greater the responsibility to be an influence for good.

Sorry, I must have missed your election as  commissioner of the tone police and the passage of the 'People on the Internet Get To Regulate Language for Everyone' bill through Parliament.

Seriously, I know you think your view matters, and that your crusade for decency and civility will change the world for the better, but it sounds a lot like censorship, and it seems to be the wrong problem in the wrong place at the wrong time.I mean, I don't want to worry you, but if a few f bombs (which is pretty much everyday speech in many places) get you agitated, I'd seriously advise you to stay out of any of the forum threads about trans people in sport, because the real live hate speech that goes on there would make your hea d melt. Or maybe not - one of the things I've learned about people who prowl the interweb commenting on what offends their standards of decency and civility is that they're rarely proportionate or universal in their concerns.

' they're rarely proportionate or universal in their concerns.'

Pot. Kettle.

Hell ohhhhhh!