Pro-cycling thread

Watching Eurosport player live without commentary all I can hear is the whistling wind!

Typically as the tv coverage starts the racing gets dull, the main peloton has caught the group of 22 that was ahead.

I was hoping to see echelons and panic but it is just the regular small break being slowly reeled in.

Gilbert just wants to keep warm and get to the bus as quick as possible.

No sign of titchie Ritchie in the main peloton.

5 minutes back apparently

Him and Yates got shelled out the back in the wind; Yates only had one team mate with him.

Yates finished with the front group.

Just catching up on Eurosport player. I liked Colbrelli's scream as he crossed the line :)

That sprint was crazy; from 250m out and holds off Degenkolb??

and Demare, Greipel and Kristoff...

he does have the best 'merican mobster movie name though

One of the benefits of coming in 16 minutes down the day before.

Just saw where Tao finished in Strade Bianche; ahead of Moreno Moser and Mr Nibbles.

Still waiting for Froome's official Team Sky tweet4Dave

Fuck yeah Sam Bennett

Hang on, ginger beard GTFO

Just catching up on Paris Nice and I really fancy Colbrelli for Milan-San Remo. That was a hell of a sprint.

That really is a step up for Sam bennett. Quite a win.
Really nice to see.

Paris nice has produced some worthy winners so far, really enjoyable.

He's been in the top ten twice previously so has a chance. If he can unleash another sprint like the one on Monday then he has a very real chance.

PN TT should be good today, pretty serious finish.
Maybe Porte, if he's got some form. Hard to tell.

As inrng points out, Porte has a tendency to drop his head once his objective goes out of reach. I think the change from an Aussie summer to a northern European winter has had a detrimental effect to his form and morale.

If he makes the podium at the Tour, no-one will remember where he finished at Paris-Nice.

Sky been buying Chinese crabon knock-offs?!

Doubt it, they aren't the kind of people who risk things getting stuck in Customs.

Oh snap!

I've gone off the idea of getting a PRO trispoke front wheel:

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/racing/gianni-mosons-front-wheel-collapses-bizarre-crash-tirreno-ttt-318733