Pro-cycling thread

Kittel's retirement is a tremendous loss for the sport.

Mmm agreed.

New AF Aviation First team bus livery reminds me of something...

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Presumably being flown by 'Tex' Johnson (the Boeing test pilot who barrel rolled the 707 prototype without permission for the lols).

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aka The Facilitator which is available via Ann Summers

Team Wiggins to cease at the end of the year.

Which is a real shame, as it was well on the way to becoming one of the best options for developing u23 riders.

Why is the start of the TTT on a huge pile of coke?

Have we had this yet?

https://twitter.com/laflammerouge16/status/1165308927430582272

What's the stuff up your nose during the warm up about??

Those sunweb socks were very long

Just said to Simon I was cheering on Jumbo. #cursed

Who was whingeing about Lopez being called Su-PEAR-man the other day? It's going to be wall to wall Su-PEAR-man now.

The crashes were caused by a broken garden hose

hose pipe

Lucky there were no spectators injured. Far too fast round that corner!

"I would've made it if it weren't for those pesky kids!"

Viviani the Younger?

Fish shop cleaning up apparently, when they hose it down before they shut.

I read it was a faulty paddling pool.

#puddlegate

Do you think one day Sean Kelly's going to snap and violently beat Carlton with the nearest blunt object?

I don't care if it's a fucking animal pen and actually I like sour goats milk you massive massive twat

It might not be a well but I'm still going to throw you in it when I've finished with you

Whilst the news comes as no surprise, I think Kittel's retirement is a tremendous loss for the sport.

I agree completely. He was a cross-over star--someone who was popular with cycling and non-cycling audiences alike. I suppose keeping up with road pro standards became harder for him sooner than for more slightly-built riders. I'm sure it's a sensible decision, but I'll miss him, too.

Over 150 wins, multiple stages in all the GTs over a ten year period at a time when two of the other greatest sprinters were active? I’d argue he is.

Some people initially dismissed him as a bit of a flat-track bully. :)

He certainly came into his own. I think he would have won more initially at T-Mobile if Cavendish hadn't been first in the pecking order there. They had a good old rivalry even then.

So what's the deal with Tao coming in nine minutes down today? I thought he was supposed to be the 'protected rider' for Ineos--are they going for stage wins so that he needs to be behind for the race to let him go in breakaways? Or was there a crash, or was he simply not that good?

Both he and Wout came in late, not seen anywhere why.

Ineos riders were at the back of the peloton all day, something was not right. Not a word from the commentary that I saw