Tour De France 2018

Who can explain that massive jockey wheel to me?
(Soz if the question has already been asked)

Who can explain that massive jockey wheel to me?

Marketing.

Uphill Sprint Schmint.

Give the fans the kind of uphill sprint they want. Three weeks of Alpine hill reps, no food or water allowed, fans given branches to liberally whip the stragglers.

Search for ‘ceramic speed’ on youtube. Claim to save x-amount of watts over standard equipment. But as @Tijs says, it is basically just marketing.

EDIT: Chava’s ride is just generally hot af. 10/10 would bang.

Who can explain that massive jockey wheel to me?

Chain wraps at a less severe angle which in theory saves a bit of wattage.

But yeah if you need them your team or sponsor buys them for you.

Bicycle homeopathy basically.
I thought with the increased budgets available for proper research we were mostly over that stuff.

next you'll be telling us that disc brakes are dead and espousing the benefits of fast tourers with s and s couplings and "short wheelbase"

Fair play to CS for trying to engineer-out the chain(!) - https://cyclingtips.com/2018/07/ceramicspeed-driven-drivetrain/

120 years too late ;)

Grmay?

Got bored?

"And the TdF has lost its only African rider"

Welllll......

Quickstep’s fleet of black Venge’s look quite ominous...

What happened to Chavanel's breakaway pals by the way?

When I started making lunch, there was a group of three, and by the time I'd settled back down there was just Sylvain.

interesting article in l'equipe about the scientist who apparently advised Froome on correcting his ridiculous sit on the top tube and pedal descending style who is now doing research on peleton aeroez:

Eurobike 2018

How is Gaviria a better climber? When/where has he displayed this?

ask Adam Hansen

this is the original article:

https://www.deingenieur.nl/artikel/racing-cyclist-in-peloton-saves-more-energy-than-previously-thought

is it april 1st yet?

Apparently Grmay was having "problèmes gastriques."

That must be really disappointing for him.

Very much this... Hansen is right about a lot of things, but not on this. There's been multiple times that Sagan has been able to get over hills/mountains with a front group, and Gaviria hasn't.

just watch stage 20 of TdF 2016 again, Sagan was pulling the peloton hard in a (not Alpine but) mountain stage to get Kreuziger into the top 10 of the GC, and some 'real' climbers were dropped...

and he narrowly lost the sprint to Greipel on the Champs Elysees the day after, mostly because his rear wheel slipped a couple of times losing traction.

Damn Louis Leon Sanchez is done.

LL Cool Sanchez is out by the looks of things. He can't have too many TdFs left in him so another sad one to see.

Such spirit - tried to get back on the bike