Chris Horner - you missed a few.

Once again, Chris "Mad Dog" Horner is in the cycling news, perpetuating the perception that he is just, ever so slight, bonkers.

No, I'm trying to be tactful, simply because he's been a team-mate of Andy and Frankie: in reality, he is completely bonkers. Ever heard him being interviewed, prior to the Vuelta? He is almost incomprehensible, despite having that lovely American fluency when he talks. In fact, it was his post-stage interviews in la Vuelta, rather than his staggering performance, that made me think he might be on drugs - not necessarily banned ones - as I've never heard him speak so sensibly before. But that's beside the point. Back to the news:

After winning la Vuelta, and conspicuously not being offered a new contract with Trek, or any other contracts for that matter, he recently released a series of odd tweets.

If you go to his Twitter account, and go back to the 7th October, you can read them all. They seem to be a series of descriptions of the things he has achieved, with the hash-tag "I did that" as though we are supposed to be so impressed with his great long list of sacrifices and setbacks, that we will rush to offer him a contract.

And as though every other pro cyclist out there hasn't suffered and sacrificed along the way..

The ones he missed were, of course:

You do realise that I made those ones up, of course.

And he's entirely overlooked the extremely well-known phenomenon whereby any rider having a really great, best ever season will have a totally crap following year. So by the time he's in any sort of position to earn his money, he'll be 43.  What team is going to offer him a contract, now?

Velonation have a report on him today, in which it is stated that he has been disappointed not to be offered the high salary that he "deserves", which shows a disgraceful lack of appreciation for the state that cycling is in at the moment, with teams folding all around, and riders like de Gent (age 27, with years of winning ahead of him) having to take an 80% pay cut for a new contract, and being grateful to get it.

Not to mention his ungainly riding style - ever noticed it? He's bow-legged at the ankles.

And now his latest tweet is saying unequivocally that he will be riding for someone else next year, and thanking the RadioShambles team for their support in the past.

Perhaps he should consider writing a book - "How To Make Friends And Get A New Contract. Not. "