Pro-cycling thread

I enjoyed two paragraphs in particular:

Pidcock, a junior and under-23 world champion, rides for Team Wiggins Le Col, sponsored by former Team Sky rider Bradley Wiggins, and is much admired by Brailsford. Protests against Ineos, he said, could potentially deter him from joining the team. “It is definitely a factor isn’t it?” he said.

Back outside the Ineos bus, Robert Spacey wheeled up in full Team Sky kit astride a £4,000 Pinarello, hoping for a glimpse of Froome. The 65-year-old, a member of Worksop Wheelers, said he was just glad the team had found a new sponsor. If they hadn’t got a backer they would have collapsed. It’s not a cheap job, this,” he said.