Pro-cycling thread

You serious? That one hand can also count their Tour wins - Wiggo, Froome, Geraint.

16th in his Nat champs or whatever doesn't make Woods sound like a TT guru does it?

How many Canadians have made any impact on world-level TTs?

I wasn’t making a point about nationality per se. More that, in a country where there’s a limited pool of pros, you’d expect him to do better were he a decent tester.

Put it this way, unless he's been chugging bidons full of testosterone all night and there's a wind tunnel at his hotel, I'd be betting against him.

I was saying that Geraint is excellent at TTs, and you don’t have to go as far back as his track pursuiting to so see it.

Ok, yeah, the point I was making to the missus yesterday was that Gerraint TT good, Woods TT unknown (to me) which likely means not so good.

He doesn’t even know which bit of the bars to hold. In fact, he calls them ‘the long steering thingy’.

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I should caveat all of this by saying I love Woods as a rider and I was in floods of tears hearing him talk about the story around his 2020 Vuelta stage win on Mitch Docker’s podcast.

Hatches pronunciation of Stefan Kung is amazing.

It's a little-known fact that Geraint's name is actually spelled GerainTThomas, but he hides that so he doesn't give the game away.

This TT looks pretty hard.

Porte doesn't seem to have the snazzy 3d printed titanium extensions.

They look like they’re being forced into a horribly slow grind at times. I bet those cobbles weren’t much fun.

‘Marrrrhhhccc Suuuulllaaiir’.

Or Marc Soler to you and I.

congratulations @andyp

and @hippy - 3 Aussies in top 10

Did a big lol at that 👏🏻

Pidders has won an XC chipper

His cock has alarm written on it. Um

When WorldTour pros are slower over 10mi than this fat fuck, yeah, that's a decent conclusion.

Yeah, not too shabby.
I only started taking notice when Dennis lost the lead. Access to the content is important.

Makes world tour success seem more attainable, until you realise they chucked in a 1.1km 11.7% cobbled climb near the start of a 10 mile time trial and it was pissing down with rain.

Froome blaming a chest problem for his shit showing at Romandie. If he got a TUE to take cortisone for the same thing in 2014, why not now?

https://twitter.com/Cyclingnewsfeed/status/1388904456595689474?s=20

#froomewatch

109th today, 3:23 down on the stage winner. Finishes 96th on GC.

It's like Matt Rendell has gone to work for the Daily Star.

If you add to Froome, Thomas and Wiggins; Boardman, Sean Yates, Simon Yates, Dowsett and Millar (all of whom have won tts in Europe) your one hand looks like it is from rural Norfolk.