Pro-cycling thread

Start list needs plenty of fleshing out.

https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/strade-bianchi/2019/startlist/roster

Which QS rider will take it?

No Sagan?

Focusing on Flanders, PR and then trying to hold form till LBL

Eurosport has an ad and commentary-free live stream of almost every race in their program if that’s your thing!

Cheers - must have missed this last year!

Stupidly Eurosport player doesn't allow you to select the audio language any more so I'm stuck with the poor French commentary. Luckily I can get Belgian TV free to air which is slightly better.

Use a vpn in from the region you want to watch.

Yeah I know. Fine at home, not so useful at work

Betancur alert.

Interested to see if Van Aert can go one/two better this year.

Irresponsible to send him to a region so renowned for its food imo.

He just has a very long-term fuelling strategy.

He’ll be more closely marked this season. But he’s also riding for a much stronger team than before.

I reckon Bananito actually has a chance. He could be riding into form after racing opening weekend (despite DNF in KBK). No Valverde means the team is free to do whatever they want too.

Wikipedia still has Betancur's weight as 60kg so I'll take that as gospel.

Three cobbled classics, three wins and they didn't even break a sweat. In Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne with Jungels up the road they were absolutely mob-handed at the front of the peloton and strangled any meaningful chase.

Not sure team strength will play a huge part. Strade Bianche seems like a hard race to hold any sort of control.

Can’t recall a finish where there’s been multiple riders from a single team still in the mix.

That said, QS still have a better chance than most because they have Alaphilippe and Stybar in the mix.

*I have vague recollections of Sagan helping Moser at the finish in 2012(?).

But omg m8 Sky make the TdF sooooo boring.

Thanks. Good find

Womens race is so fast they only have 15km of the race live :(

70k to go for the men

where are you watching?

Text feed

Rosa going solo.

And now live on ES

Yes that's what I was waiting for

Dat chase group