Pro-cycling thread

my two favourite British riders

What about sir bradley wiggins, sir mark cavendish and sir chris froome? Do you even wear a poppy?

Movistar practising bike changes is like watching the internals of a precision Swiss chronometer

https://twitter.com/As_Ciclismo/status/1323565579962372107

Whilst I don't think Hugh will get really close to Primoz on this TT - the final climb looks like it's more in his favour after his performance on the Angliru. Should be an exciting one this afternoon. Go Hugh!

Movistar are great value. They should win all these team awards for what they bring to pro cycling.

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I don't think Hugh will get really close to Primoz on this TT

Replace 'Hugh' with 'Pogacar' before the final TT of the Tour...
Carthy needs to go and ride his best TT, then he will have done all he can. Then see that Roglic delivers...

There's definitely a bit of a sirfeit of good British riders.

Is there a typo here? "Downshifting" is going "down" to a lower gear (bigger cog or smaller chainring)

If you see Canyon selling Movistar’s team bikes at the end if the season, don’t buy Nelson Oliveira’s TT bike. It’s just been dropped at the bike change.

go on HUGE

Carthy setting off. No duck helmet.

Will Barta is another Axeon alumni

carthy has a couple of massive levers - how can he not TT

Bianchi wins best looking TT bike for me.

Hugh only 11 seconds down at first check and Roglic 13 down!

HUGE up 2 secs on rog at the first time check - maybe the lad can TT after all. will he go for a bike change too? noticed soler didn't

Obviously Carthy is going to win the Vuelta, so to continue Tao Vs Carthy: is Hugh winning the Vuelta more impressive than Tao winning the Giro? Considering the opposition.

Edit - nevermind

ooft, carthy nailing it. rog a second down at the second check. wouldn't expect him to lose any time on the final climb either surely

Rog putting the squeeze on now

Who give a fuck about valverde

Spanish tv directors, mainly.

I know, he is too young to win the vuelta

are we going to get any footage of the climb?

carthy only lost 24/25 seconds? think he'd take that