Pro-cycling thread

I know it's been said a thousand times, but carlton kirby is an utterly utterly shit commentator.

Couldn’t have fucked up the finale more

Zimmerman seems like a lovely boy

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

Absolute cretin

The road 'closures' at Tour Féminin Pyrénées today were as bad as anything I've ever seen. There was a car moving on the road, a small city centre road, with 1 kilometre to go - amongst other things.

https://www.besenwagen.com/131-schorsch-of-wallstreet

Summer reading for @amey

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oh fuck might be the first book i ever read

Not waiting for the audiobook?

The third, and final, stage of the Tour Féminin des Pyrénées has been cancelled because of the dangerous conditions on the previous 2 stages.
In the end the UCI is to blame for not overseeing the organisers of the races and having systems in place to check that everything that should be done has been done.
I wonder if there is any sport in the world which is considered to be well run?

cricket

Is today’s stage on TV? EuroSport 1+2 just seems to be Roland Garos and Le Man.

Highlights will be on Eurosport at 4 pm. Live coverage now on GCN, with 40 kms to go.

Currently they are in the Chartreuse massif, one of my favourite places to ride a bike.

Eurosport has Dauphine on now, , Suisse at 14.20 and ZLM at 14.25.

nice cadence Jonas, nice cadence
#froomewatch

Is anyone watching or discussing TdF: Unchained? Couldn't find anything via search engine

Watched three episodes, going for the fourth later on. Cut-and-paste Netflix formula, but enjoyable. The fake live commentary is a bit annoying, but the gopro shots of the peloton sprinting are wonderful and terrifying. How are you finding it?

Only watched the first so far and it opened a bit like a live, laugh, love segue but once they stopped the posturing shots with the romantic voice-overs it became a lot better.

I'm watching the English version but it has been suggested on Twitter that it is better to watch the original version in French with English subtitles. Personally I don't think i will do that.

looking forward to the rest of the series

It’s just like a long version of the montages they put at the end of stage coverage. It doesn’t really shine a light on anything. Very glossy though. Kind of like a visual podcast about the tour to the uninitiated rather than a hardcore fanbase.

there's not enough rider hotel corridor gossip shit talking for me. Shame cycling is so complicated they cant make a full season version.

Does anyone know if Netflix will be filming again this year at the tour?

I don’t know if this works but these clips of the Tour Féminin des Pyrénées are wild

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CtVrUE1giXZ/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

If the link doesn’t work, look at the most recent Instagram reel from @howtheracewaswon

Riders later binned the race as it was not safe see adam hansen twitter
https://twitter.com/hansenadam/status/1667797123381747712?s=46&t=S5ZG3sDpFqcelwXX-5R3xA