Pro-cycling thread

I think it was people who pre-ordered the jersey, in their "pick our [non-yellow] jersey" voting process

https://ridewithus.teamjumbovisma.com/

I sincerely hope there's a Ivonna Humpalot somewhere on there. Or at least a Matthieu van der Poel

LOL, wish I'd thought of MVDP

Who else gets one of these ‘Road to the Tour’ videos may reveal their intentions. Nice to see DB getting stuck in. (Not worth watching BTW.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNiiO-pUFWI

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hyped for the tour lads #sportarecav

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Shame about all the sponsor logos

we all need a police escort on Layhams, its full of cunt drivers

Hopefully they won't be too noticeable on the bike, like with MVDP in the past.

we all need a police escort in England, its full of cunt drivers

ftfy

They need to fix Roglics

Where is Niki Terpstra?

Building up to retirement?

Is nicer the way Andre Greipel does this.

This is superb. Kate Wagner is an architectural critic, turned cycling journo who writes well but also approaches the sport with fresh eyes. She’s covering the Tour for Procycling too.

https://www.bicycling.com/racing/a36727940/primoz-roglic-2021-tour-de-france/

we know grandpa

McMansions was on Ted talks like a decade ago

Friebe’s been banging on about Wagner for a while. Lovely stuff, though, and not enough of it in cycling.

I wish I could read Italian as Bidon looks to be worth the time, too.

I'm not surprised she likes writing about cycling, compared to architecture.

"It's like swirly on top and and stuff but let's a bunch of light in and still hasn't fallen down.. unlike Primoz"

She explains architecture writing well in this interview. The good stuff is about much more than aesthetics:

To write about architecture is to write about society, public life, aesthetics, labor, politics.

https://stories.substack.com/p/what-to-read-kate-wagner-is-capturing

Great article, that. My sister had one of those 30 minute interviews with Roglic yesterday, said he was "nice" but so dull they might not publish it.

Also does the illustrations in the piece herself too. Great writer

Illustration is drawing. Not writing.
D'uh.

Hence the punctuation ;-)

Put your house on Enric Mas to win!

Have you watched series 2 of the Netflix documentary?

Interesting that she trained as a classical musician. That explains the wonderful eloquence that we both share.