Pro-cycling thread

^ there were Echelons for a bit, Vicky Campo bridged to the break well, Ewan abandoned, Gaviria won a sprint maybe, someone in black kit fell on a descent corner having overcooked it, Cofidis have a very dated Jersey design.

I probably missed something else?

TroBroLeon Eve

Ha!

So apparently Egan Bernal tried to get into an emerging breakaway with 164km to-go.

https://www.eurosport.co.uk/cycling/giro-d-italia/2021/it-s-chaos-egan-bernal-told-to-go-away-in-comical-breakaway-on-stage-8-of-2021-giro-d-italia_vid1475299/video.shtml

This guy’s hunger, just love it!

The first hour of the race with all the fights to get in the break generally is very much worth watching.

🤪 https://twitter.com/laflammerouge16/status/1393676922861805569?s=20

Horrible

Froome Dogg’s training playlist…

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Horrible

They need to find a different way of doing this.

Edit - I mean safer way of directing riders, not more creative ways of injuring volunteers

So for some reason they thought it was a good idea to just narrow the width to one lane on a long, straight segment, where you have a rampant peloton and most of them can't see what's coming?

No wonder he's not doing well at the moment.

What was he even flagging for? I don't see a traffic island or anything?
That's besides the fact he was literally standing in the middle of the road when a peloton is inbound. Who thought that was a good idea?

Perhaps it's part of a motorway-type junction and the left-hand lane leads to the turn-off they had to take? Still daft to route it that way.

We were always instructed to stand off the road and flag the turn but don't get in the way of riders or cars, race route or not. You had to do an actual training course to be able to stop traffic. Stand behind something solid if possible, not in front of it. What's that thing about common sense not being so common...

Absolutely. I never did the full marshal training, only helped out once at a CCH race, but as an assistant I had a quick run-through of all this.

It was here, not far from the finish on a sprint stage (Stage 2):

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@46.4667962,16.9871084,3a,75y,95.08h,83.32t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sBhazqfNKCuZSZwyaVKGg8Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

The hazard he seemingly intended to flag was the divider on the approach to a roundabout, where the peloton had to turn left:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@46.4667962,16.9871084,3a,75y,255.89h,79.63t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sBhazqfNKCuZSZwyaVKGg8Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

I don't know if the Tour de Hongrie is run on roads fully closed for the race, but at a place like this, at minimum they should either have put some barriers down to gradually narrow the carriageway--or narrowed it all the way along. What never works is having such narrowings very suddenly.

On a side note, the English version of the race web-site is very charming.

Ha ha. Is this seriously his playlist? It mirrors his personality tbh.

Sound engineer at the finish line here running around desperately trying to locate the source of the audio from a porn film which is inexplicably being played through various Giro sound channels. This is the source of considerable hilarity. #Giro2021 #RAI

https://mobile.twitter.com/nedboulting/status/1393863300232929281

#SoGiro

I’d love to think it’s an elaborate joke, but I’m not sure that’s in his wheelhouse.

Edit: Although apparently his famous smoked salmon and egg breakfast post was him trolling the world.

I must admit I was hoping to hear the audio.

Keep on movin' is a stone cold banger. Don't @ me.

After seeing 'the pro's Playlist' or whatever a couple times on cyclingtips, I'd be inclined to think it's real.

Bunch of posers. Playlist is class.

How is mohoric standing?

Oof, Mohoric...