Pro-cycling thread

Good stage in T de l'Ain. Dayumn LJ look strong.

Really shitty bit of road for the last 1km.

Oh yippee, it's Carlton quite frankly Kirby.

Is Magnus on? Might bother to turn on sooner

I blame Amey that you can get GCN only on an app.

I don't know what's wrong with me, but I don't mind him this season.

Heart says Gilbert, but guts think Van Aert, Sagan or Colbrelli are more likely. Someone with a strong sprint after a very long ride in the heat. Apparently the new parcours will make it harder for pure sprinters.

Teams of six will also make it harder for pure sprinters, after 300 hot km. Can see the peloton blown to bits on the Poggio if it arrives intact

Nope

Meanwhile Evenepoel timetrialling to victory in Poland. If he pulls this one off that would be extremely impressive.

That was fantastic

Good work. Did you put money down? :)

Sadly not! Kicking myself now.

I had a nap AND hugely enjoyed the last 30km, MSR delivers again

Mollema: "fucking SPD-SL!"

also kicking myself, putting a tenner on every race wout is in from now on.

I liked the bit where JA was fucking up every corner on the Poggio descent and had to let WVA take over

He did look a bit like me on a bad day. Possibly feeling the pressure from WvA.

Apparantly both Jungles and Alaflip broke their handlebars just after Imperia, Wilfried Peeters says in an interview. Last week Alaflip had 6 flats he says in that same interview. Using this as an excuse for not winning is plausible, but not great advertisement for their sponsors imo.

Bling’s custom shoes are a bit much (scraped the wall down Poggio. Yikes!)

Carapaz out of Poland following his crash yesterday. Looks precautionary rather than any major damage, but Stannard is out too with a dislocated shoulder.

Is that Matthews? An impressive sprint given that rash.

I’ve always found Alaphilippe hectic to watch. You’ll catch him at the back of the bunch sometimes making hard work of going in a straight line, like he’s on acid and thinks he’s riding single track through the woods. It’s part of what makes him so exciting to watch

making hard work of going in a straight line

ha, indeed, he rides a couple of kms extra every race because he's zig-zagging all the time

MVDP not good enough or just took a wrong bet on JA & WVA to get caught before the line?

That looked so easy for Roglič but absolute class from Bernal there tbf.

So when's the 1st head-to-head of Evenepoel and Roglic, Bernal et al?