Pro-cycling thread

It has happened in the past though? Didn’t the Spanish teams (and motos) work together to deny Robert Millar the Vuelta?

It's France - they just do it for the love of protesting

Big day out for nibbles? He never misses a trick.

Nibbly will climb well, but Sago’s made of mercury, can’t imagine him keeping up when the road goes vertical.

Sounded a bit like one of the commentators Sympathized, wondered what the cause was

Farmers are complaining about bears being reintroduced for ecological purposes. Supposedly some dead sheep who fell victim to the bears on display along the route.

Oh wow. Funny Flecha was talking about riders being scared of bears when the race first visited.

Convenient El Presidente appears way after the protest.

Where is Alaphillipe? Nowhere near the front

Yes there seems to be conflicting reports, but with Quickstep and Jumbo certainly using it, as well as several other WT teams then clearly there is some advantage to be had to it. Recovery and weight loss certainly, but not rocket fuel.

Ok looks like he is being brought up now.

clearly there is some advantage to be had to it

Yeah, helping to sell tonnes of the shit to Cat 4s the world over. :)

Haha true. I think the theory is the body uses the ketones for fuel early doors so saving glucose for the pointy end of a race.

Anyway take my money!

Brian Smith sounded like he was quite pissed off with Carlton a few minutes ago (talking about orange jerseys)!

Bantz

He is not alone.... It must be a huge test of his character and professional etiquette not to say something along the lines of 'shut up you know-nothing stupid motormouth cunt'.

Bardet... ouch. déconfiture totale

Yeah looks like he's going to ship a lot of time today...

A great French tradition,
the first time, each Summer,
one hears 'Bardet has slipped out the back of the peleton ....'
[ITV4 Director shelves his tape of 'On a Ragga Tip
' for another stage].

Ha, did an actual lol at that, imagining it said in Smith's accent...

Carlton filled the dead air afterwards while Brian presumably composed himself :)

Yates now...

Feel bad for Bardet. Both Yates's seemingly.

Bardet sweating like a bastard and being overhauled by the sprinterz. Will be a DNF at this rate

Typical GT with Nibali playing with my emotions

These Wiggins alerts are awful. Whoever taught him presenter-stagecraft did a terrible job. Them hand gestures, “back to the commentary team”, etc. Groan.