Pro-cycling thread

an Turin is arguably the best city in Europe so there's that too.

Sad to not see them head up the Susa Valley a stage though

It’s a better roadside spectacle for the fans no doubt. I bet most French TV viewers were bored however.

GCN with no ad breaks is muy bueno

Maybe it's just because I'm in a strange country with little/no native TV available but Eurosport is available ad free from the UK feed for me here. The French and German ones too

The only thing worse than a GT starting with a TT (or TTT) is when the race organisers put a TT on a Sunday. It's such a 'fuck you' to the viewers.

Nope, ad free in the UK too. You can listen to French and German commentary too on Eurosport - I assume GCN have the same options?

Huge crowds too.

Yep. I was marshaling. #hippyisfat

Yeah or a Saturday. They are soo boring. Can’t recall the last exciting one

Stage 20 of last year's Giro.

The final TT in the 2017 Giro was pretty good too

21 no?
It was very firmly tongue in cheek given the Tour as well...

@xavierdisley looks like one of yours? Is the disc yours too?

No TTs are crap and a big reason most of the world looks at pro cycling like wtf. GTs need a cricket 20/20 style format that ditch TTs and add in some other new stage format, like a crit stage without 3 hours of boring flat bullshit before 8 actually interesting laps.

Yep: While the rear wheel of Ganna's bike is still the Blur 633 Disc from Princeton Carbonworks, the front wheel is an unbranded Aeox Titan from Aerocoach - a wheel also used by Jumbo Visma against Shimano's wishes.

From the CN article

More than one team running our stuff, although it’s a bit inconsistent: one team have been explicitly forbidden from riding our wheels by Shimano, even after doing their own independent testing, and they are super pissed that teams like Jumbo and INEOS are doing so. There are more behind the scenes who are in the process of finishing their testing and in negotiations with their sponsors but we’ll see what happens.

How about down hill, brakeless, whoever gets furthest wins. Guaranteed crashes, think of the clicks

I don't think Redbull needs another event to sponsor.

Anyway I was a bit drunk and finally had the courage to say TTs are my least favourite part of pro cycling (aside from the doping and pinarello dogmas)

I’m not drunk and I agree. Only a very small part of the TT even in the most exciting ones is exciting.

Tight clearance around the brake faring on Ganna’s rig.

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those also definitely don't look like Grand Prix tyres either - rebadged GP4000?

LOL.

they are gatorskins

of course

GP Supersonic style compound but put into the older GP4000 moulds for aerodynamics

I love GT TTs. Favourite is probably Wiggins crushing the last in 2012 TDF. Watched the entire stage with a few other keen followers on a very sunny day in Berlin on a stag do, in the dark, quiet back room of a bar drinking steins.

Still peeved that I was driving through the Pog win that paid out on a pre race bet for the overall. Managed to get to a TV for the last few minutes and will never forget how disorientating that was.

I find the team TTs much less appealing, even with crashes, which somehow just seem more unfair.

And obvies @taogeogheganhart winning last year