Pro-cycling thread

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Watch those elbows @tom_dumoulin 🙈 #Giro100 pic.twitter.com/LfnIrONZxb

— Eurosport UK (@Eurosport_UK) 16 May 2017

Eurosport had live rider power figures in 1989!! Why have I never heard about the Look powermeter hub

Quintana has the chance to get straight back on the attack. Not a huge climbing day but will be good to see if he puts Dumoulin under pressure.

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Those climbs arent nearly big enough

Plus the poor whee man will be fucked from what was essentially a competitive FTP test

No one is beautiful enough to kiss Tom Dumoulin.

If you want to win the Giro you have to put Sunweb under pressure at every opportunity. The next two stages are flat, so someone should test them today.

#armchairds

[cunning plan] Dumo should have his teammates box Quintana in on the flat stages, make a gap and do his thing for the last 100k, he'll have a day to spare come the final tt [/cunning plan]

Sagan bossing it in ToC, wow. finding his way through the pack like water, then a long sprint and managing to hold off Kristoff.

Are you really surprised? That's his 16th stage win at the ToC in his career. It would be more of a shock if he didn't win a stage.

not surprised, I just immensely enjoy seeing him riding like this. 'wow' as exclamation of admiration, more like.

Turbo trainers are out.
Brian Smith agrees with andy for a proper battle today.
Steve cummings on TV too.

<3 steve.

LOL at J Edwards crib sheet. Not sure why he got the job.

Wonder if Adam Yates might take victory today.

Split totally already.

Peloton absolutely detonated on that first climb.

Settling in for all of this.

Amador in the break is going to be a big headache for Dumoulin and take a lot of pressure off Quintana

Poor sunweb.

Movistar. Use up Amador. They are going to have to at some point, why not tomorrow.

And today's #armchairds award goes to...

Trek rider stacked it over the barrier? Pellizzoti?

Also, what was going on with the Movistar riders with the puncture gesticulating at each other?

Come on Landa!

@andyp appears to have a crystal headset which he uses to predict the outcomes of professional bike races #withgreatpowercomesgreatresponsibility

I think he can time travel.

Rider safety aside, the presence of motor vehicles is annoying from a purely aesthetic perspective. There are so many aerial shots where you struggle to make out a handful of riders amongst 10 + cars and motorbikes.
If I wanted to see a bunch of cars moving at ~30 mph I could just look out the window.

CA technologies and the Apple Watch can just fuck off now.

@andyp certainly is the most successful lufguss armchair DS, gets it right almost all the time

TJ dropped. Oops.