Pro-cycling thread

The current Maglia Rosa is also Puddle Surf Guy

https://youtu.be/tuYz18avkX0

If you can carry momentum into it from the front, then a canny attacker might take the front with his sprinter on his wheel, launch up the hill whilst behind the sprinter let's the gap go, and hope you have enough of a gap to hold off the peloton as it gets organised behind.

Think it has a very narrow chance of success, but it's possible.

I'm looking forward to it!
Someone tell me when there's 15km to go please

JA has just removed himself from selection for Tokyo.

Is it 15km to go yet?

Despite the weather yesterday, he does come across quite wet behind the ears.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAoiQUZVZ8M

"the guys were reminding me to eat and drink" ... so if he gets isolated he'll bonk?

Probably.
Part of a domestique's job to make sure GC contenders are properly protection, fed and watered?

He doesn't have 5-10 years of professional racing and maybe not experienced catastrophic race losing bonks yet.

Sir Pidders is only a year older than him but seems a lot more mature in cycling terms.

He’s been cycling a lot longer, from much younger.
Also he’s won and raced in lots of different ways, and very used to racing in wet, muddy, cold conditions.

Evenepoel’s youth career was mostly winning by going solo and going faster than everyone else.

Skill sets will be quite different.

Evenepoel’s youth career was mostly football

FTFY

Is it 15km to go yet?

Yes, I enjoyed him talking about all that and his local chaingangs with Mitch.

Although Remco’s dad has ridden the Vuelta and won Wallonie, so he should know how to eat on the bike.

Are we already on the trashing him stage, because his teams were reminding him to eat.

And because he’s young and played football.

Is it 15km to go yet?

Been and gone. Great finish!!

Any my GCN isn't working...

Nope

Not yet

Almost...

So close...

Blink and you'll miss it...

OMG, it's IN the 15s...

Yes

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