Pro-cycling thread

Landa's aff

Bardet’s tour over.

bardet's cracked...

thomas!

Thomas is going okay then?

wait, is that g ? coming on strong at the finish

Good effort from Alaphillipe-surprised to see Thomas making a dig there when Bernal was struggling

sorry g. Took a few seconds from the others

an interesting appetizer

One of the better stages I’ve watched

More off road finishes in future them . That looked great.

Happy Van Garderen day everybody!

Geraint is a beast

Every mamil in the home counties are off to get a pair of lightweights from sigma

One of my finest cycling memories is riding back down the Planche with Dan Martin, Koen de Kort and Oliver Naesen in 2017, zooming through the crowd that the pros were parting with their whistles. #boastpost

https://youtu.be/22bNzpHTEcI

VO2 Max Brutal!

Yesterday was great. I didn't feel like I got to see much of how the battle in the peleton evolved so will be seeking different angles today but the two-up fight up front was fantastic on those gradients

Almost a week in and no one is complaining that the tour is boring and arguing that the other grand tours are much more exciting. What's going on?!

It's been a great first week.

They’ve got the mix perfect. Everyone is happy to see a dragstrip sprint but not dat after day.

Stage 3 was superb and so was stage 6. It gave us an idea of who is in form without setting the GC in stone. That finish was a great spectacle.

It’s like Jean-Marie Leblanc never existed.

TVG update; he has crashed into a traffic island

Has anyone ever argued that the Vuelta is better?

Secret Pro (on the daily CyclingTips email) is claiming that the reason for the Ineos-Lightweight deal is that the team are struggling to get the Pinarello F12's to the 6.8kg weight limit. This sounds odd to me - I thought teams were regularly adding weight to team bikes to bring them up to the limit - but can't find a fully-built weight quoted online after a quick search