Pro-cycling thread

What would that mean for Bernal?

Ineos continuing the Sky route of hoarding all the talent.

Yeah but he'd be out the back fumbling with the zip if he didn't take a load of drugs as a kid, the fucking cheat.

It's live. The scheduling changes. That's why Tivo has the ability to record earlier and finish later. But on-demand being fucked up is pretty daft of the channel. Guess they use the same scheduling to cut their on-demand recordings. It's why recording the highlights and the live stage is a handy backup.

I watched the Eurosport coverage live on Tiz and it didn't cut out at all.

Imagine Steve Buscemi playing a dour northerner in a Ken Loach film.

Hugh Carthy.

His interview on Eurosport just then was great.

Judging by that interview, this is probably the happiest and most energetic he has ever looked off the bike:

Best comment on a cycling forum ever.

This Giro, especially the last week or so, has been a great antidote to the complaints of predictability and dominance in the last few years' of grand tours.

Loads of underdog breakaway success, Maglia Rosa changing hands a lot, Movistar's "you're all team leaders to me" strategy actually seeming to work...

Great stuff

I claim copyright on this insight as I said it in a private chat 10 mins ago.

Sky ruined cycling (🎣for @andyp)

I work for Hauwei and I enjoyed your private chat so much I thought I'd give it some more publicity.

Right, because Sky made last year's Giro really predictable and dull.

lol

I like his pain faces, they're really good.

He's also known for having the biggest right hand in the Northern Hemisphere.

Ahem ...

Not a bike rider, but ...

Leonard’s gigantic hands (9.75 inches in length, 11.25 inches in width) pounce on the slightest mistake.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/may/29/kawhi-leonard-toronto-raptors-golden-state-warriors-nba-finals

This is how grateful Hugh is for your pedantry:

Well, he should get used to the fact that I pounce on the slightest mistake.

Now if only I could get a keyboard with large enough keys to accommodate my huge fingers.

WTAF? Have you watched the giro/vulta at all in the last 5 years?

Funny timing. Yesterday Cyclingtips reviewed and panned the Ceramicspeed oversize derailleur pulleys, today Nans Peters wins using them.

That eight rider break was beautiful to watch while it lasted. They rode like a well practised team time trial squad.

Tour of Britain route is out and it goes past the end of my mums road, my road and my in-laws flat. If anyone is going to watch werneth low on stage 8 will be a pain- too narrow and twisty to watch safely, but the steady road climb from Marple just before it will be good

https://www.tourofbritain.co.uk/stages/stage-eight/

Well our local route goes from birkenhead park to delamere past cheshire oaks round the wirral and back to the park . Not a route anyone would pick when you have north wales on your doorstep.

Yeh it’s very odd some of the routes they pick!

It’s a shit route as per usual. Skirts the Peaks and North Wales without touching any of the great roads.

It’s cheaper and easier for the organisers to televise and manage this way and keeps the host towns happy but it’s a dismal spectacle.

Yep. I think they've been great.

But at some point in every GT someone in here has complained about it being boring - read back and see. You definitely couldn't this time.

I'd say the first week or ten days was really quite dull.

Good job the last week or so has provided the antidote.