Pro-cycling thread

That's miles better than Schick!

I never watch The Eneco Tour but it always looks ace.

15th with 100m to go and Sagan took out Kittel Greipel Bouhanni Kristoff Ewan etc. etc.

Worlds will be interesting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyRJy0B2i5A

The break were caught during the sprint, it was very messy and Sagan lucked in as it opened up for him at exactly the right time. I doubt the sprint at the Worlds will be quite as messy.

today (again) Peto Sagan showed he's the absolute best sprinter in this year's Eneco Tour.

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Tommy V retiring next year.

Who will keep shit stages interesting?

Hadn't even noticed him this year.

Remember his fit during the comedy slow tour stage?

Also, short shorts! And Yorkshire.

This was great.

Rolls off front.
Looks back asking the question.
Floats there.
No one steps up to follow.

'Fuck the lot of ya then, I'm off'

hold on, we need @andyp to tell us how flukey this was too ;)

Come on, the sprint on Wednesday was really chaotic and a gap appeared for Sagan at exactly the right moment, as he acknowledged himself with his Moses comment afterwards.

I missed yesterday's stage but was baffled by the images that I saw on Twitter saying Sagan had it, as it clearly looked like the rider in red (which I assumed was Greipel) beat the rider in the rainbow jersey (which in fact was the German National Champion's jersey).

he needed to pedal harder than anyone else in the front rows of (specilaist) sprinters to make use of said gap. his acceleration and top speed are baffling. me, anyway.

anyone have a stream for GIRO DELL'EMILIA?

Can we start a count down to the classics yet?

^There should be monument along in a while.

PISSING WET COBBLED CLIMBS Thankyou Eneco tour

Yeah. Will watch Lombardia. But just not the same as the spring classics.

Betancur watch: DNF at Giro dell'Emilia on Saturday.

Hardly surprising, Bologna is the (one of) the food capital of Italy, just think of all the restaurants tempting him as he headed towards the final climb.

Weird general question: why do you rarely see sprinters "pull up" like running sprinters because they've pulled something?

I'd think that would happen more often when going at full tilt, perhaps.

I welcome your thoughts.

I think it does happen but unlike in athletics where you have your own lane you can't really stop dead in your tracks in a bunch sprint) so it's a bit less pronounced perhaps.

Because it rarely, if ever happens. Hamstring injuries are incredibly rare in cycling, because the limited range of movement doesn't stretch it in the way that running, and especially sprinting, do.

Hamstrings, yes, but there are times when I've thought, "if I cane it now my knee is going to go." Maybe pro-cyclists don't let chronic knee injuries fester without proper treatment ;)

Or they just man up and do it anyway

Having done both (athletics one to a much higher level) I'd say it's down to the increased impact forces and range of movement involved with track sprinting.

Also remember that track athletes are much stronger/more powerful, exerting higher forces into those impacts. That and the larger "travel" for movements probably all combines for many more injuries...

...But then a cyclist crashes and breaks their collar bone for the 29th time and the time out is all level