Pro-cycling thread

Année sans surely.
The man is held together with screws!

Formolo has 2.5km to go with a 1'30" gap.

Great stuff.

Edit: the seconds are tumbling now.

Kuss is looking like a very handy super domestique

Stylish victory

Great solo break. Very dull main field race.

Chapeau Davide (Already bored of Roglic)

yeah. The fact that Jumbo and Roglic are clearly better than everyone else means it neutralised it a bit.

Can Roglic hold onto this form for another 5 weeks?

Nobody knows. But no one's ever said before that winning the Dauphine was a bad omen for the Tour.

We’d need to be seeing other riders being better climbers than him, because he still has his world class TT to get seconds/minutes on the likes of Bernal.

I can’t remember how high the altitude is for the tour?

There's only one TT this year and that's a mountain one.

Is it all on ITV? Where can I watch without a subscription?

https://tiz-cycling-live.io/stream.php

He couldn’t last year, when he was in this kind of form at Romandie, which he won, then tailed off at the Giro and always looked slightly off the pace.

Still finished third mind, but he was the pre-race favourite by a mile, so that was a disappointing result for him.

No support as well for the final week. Seems to be a lot of people still coming to grips with racing though. Jumbo just seem to be handling it better.

Is the big race this year still the tour de France?

no, red hook crit

Nah, it's the World Zwift Championships.

No one watches outdoor cycling now.

Just wondering why everyone is doubting ineos.

Because normally they are the strongest team at the Dauphine.

Despite Roglic being impressive for a few seconds at the end of the last two stages, nobody should give up on Buchmann, Pinot, Landa, Bernal et al, it ain't over quite yet. The time gaps are small and a lapse of concentration could produce a less predictable winner from one of the riders who has yet to be actually dropped.

This. Roglic looks great but it's not as if he is putting huge gaps in every stage finish. Pinot, Quintana, Landa etc. are all in touching distance and we know Roglic can finish well.

It's not a normal season either, so we don't know what training regimes many of the riders are following and how they aim to peak for the Tour. As an example, Bernal has ridden ten race days so far this month, many of them in full on mountain stages, and it would appear that Ineos believe he needs a solid block of racing ahead of the Tour to arrive in his best condition. He looks slightly off the pace at the moment, but if you factor in the accumulated fatigue from his race program it's not a surprise.

For Froome and Geraint, as they are getting older, perhaps their peak performance is still TDF winning, but their bodies can hold that peak for shorter due to age?

Of course, Jumbo Visma, may well just be stronger this year and got the training, prep and riders right.

Team Sky/ Ineos/BC have been masters of peaking for Olympics/tour for a while, so definitely wouldn’t count them out yet.