Pro-cycling thread

Well, fuck you then! We dont all look the same!

i remember that Geraint Thomas / Luke Rowe podcast episode with Rohan Dennis, talking about his OCD on the bike, counting pedal strokes until a point ahead of him, during TT. rather fun

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Some people just like a challenge, I suppose!

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/latest-news/77-year-old-rider-tackles-stelvio-pass-downhill-night-no-bars-brakes-video-302234

Dumoulin not starting at the Vuelta anymore today

EF very much all in for Hugh Carthy...

feeling the caja rural kit

a consistent banger for me. reminds me of the werder bremen mit

or 'kit' as it's commonly known

Shame they’ve been sent on the Spanish equivalent of a potato chase.

And as I type that Saez’s job is done. Garcia has a 9 km climb to close a 3 minute gap. Big ask.

An odd and disjointed selection of riders have been through the doors in recent years for sure.

You wonder what’s going to become of Bardet there but he never seemed to have great support around him in the mountains at AG2R anyway so plus ca change.

Are you sure?

Scratch that; just found an official source that confirms it.

It’s all kicking off in the GC group and the Spanish director cuts back to the Valverde group. Again.

Lots of gaps, should be some GC changes but nothing dramatic / unexpected it seems.

gosh, the commentary is diabolical - why the need to mention hes wearing yellow lenses for the low sunlight or whatever

Gah!

this climb looks diabolical. rog normally looks so stony but even he's gassing

Valverde loses 1:39 by my calculations.

and goes up one place on GC

As I said, nothing unexpected.

Movistar now have a vice like grip on the bottom half of the top ten; 5th, 8th and 9th.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6BdwqkT5Cs&ab_channel=INEOSGrenadiers

Jai comes across pretty well.

Props to the team for putting it out. It’s a bit of history, warts and all.

Watching that Sunweb video (and the Movistar series, and MS' Backstage Pass or whatever it's called now) I'm struck again by how good directeurs sportif are at driving.

Or at least, I'm impressed there aren't more accidents given that they're often driving at speed between groups, overtaking other cars, dodging motos, all while delivering tactics, handing out bottles, watching TV, listening to race radio and communicating with their riders.

Often on roads that would be hairy to drive on if you were giving driving your full attention.

It genuinely is impressive and terrifying.

Fewer cars (than normal roads), ex-racers, closed roads. I'm sure someone out there could do the stats.

Meanwhile

In what way?