Pro-cycling thread

Aussie Cadel won the Tour before Belgian Wiggins or African Froome.

I don't have a horse in this race but British Tom Simpson won the Worlds before Aussie Cadel too.

Britain had won that long before Tom Simpson died on drugs...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1922_UCI_Road_World_Championships

This is the exact kind of talk that was required yesterday from you

A day late, typical Aussie.

Ulrika GreenEdge were the same.

Sorry. Ladies first innit. I'm a modern man...

Our time zone's better - we're always winning.

unfollows thread for a couple of days

I concede.

Just waiting for orica's back stage pass! Usually Jonesy is pretty quick at getting them up.

I bet they're all severely hungover still

@amey @hippy et al, I thought that the loophole with all the custom kit is that the pro peloton often ride "pre-production/prototype"equipment, so the rule bending continues before filtering down to financially viable production.

I had a kip on the coach, so might have missed another saying the same thing between the hippycaust

Belm?

Are you showing us the winning Contis??

They swapped out the FMBs while he cleaned up for the podium...

I completely understand it, I'm just saying it doesn't sit right with me and I'd have like any one of the other four to win more

Like I said "maybe it was the shock"

Giant defy certainly isn't. Degenkolb won on a rim brake model but the public versions were disc

Hang on, don't loads of the teams sell their bikes on eBay at the end of each season?

It was the public version from the previous model year.

Backstage pass is up:

https://youtu.be/8zxnA4asj44

The only account that matters is up, Phil Gaimon on Roubaix:

http://velonews.competitor.com/2016/04/rider-diaries/phil-gaimon-journal-paris-roubaix-adventure_402233

best thing ever!

For sure! Love watching the backstage passes and the reactions of the whole team (riders, DS, support) to wins always gets me a bit emotional :')