Pro-cycling thread

Sorry it’s my fault, working at home with low level tasks to do this afternoon and the tour on in the background. This always happens when I do that. Might do well staying awake

Steady, there's a Cat 4 climb to fight out between the sprint and finish...

I was amazed nobody went down, so many close calls.

I think the highlights of the stage so far for me have been Neilson Powless's weird dreams, that Claasy combine shot and the KOM chicken.

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Neilson Powless's weird dreams

More on this for those of us in an office today please?

Jakobsen down

That was fucking shit.

Chaos. Not even a good sprint.

I miss the old Cav trains.

Really enjoyed the overhead cam jutting backwards to a random crash in the final 200m.

MVDP brushing Bini to the side to make space for Jasper was cool, otherwise

[t]hat was fucking shit

I can't stop staring at that palm tree earring

What was Cosplayboy doing in the break?

Everyone saying how safe the race circuit is before three separate crashes.

Didn't see the first two but Uno-X guy gonna casually drifting everyone into the fence looked fun.

I'm still trying to work out which 90s boy band that guy is from.

Highlight for me was the digger precariously twirling a guy on a bike from the boom, was cool when he 'climbed' up the higher bales.

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Peter Kendre

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Some of the filler content when the stage was really boring was a feature called '17 questions with' or something like that.

So they ask Powless if he remembers his dreams. He said most of the time he forgets them within 30 seconds of waking up, but he remembers a nightmare he had when he was young and he still gets it when he's sick, particularly when he has a fever.

He's in the desert in an abandoned western ghost town kinda place.

In the distance he sees another town, then it suddenly explodes, like a nuclear bomb has gone off. The town is gone, and he's watching it all happen. Then he wakes up.

It sounds positively Lynchian. I'm half expecting a woodsman to appear immediately after the adjacent town has exploded asking for a light.

I liked Powless anyway and was happy to see him in the KOM jersey but he's so wholesome and fresh-faced and all American - I bet he loves good coffee and cherry pie - I think he might be the Dale Cooper of the peloton, so now I like him even more.

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"I believe I was visited by a giant last night"

Nah fam you ride a SuperSix, that's a Cannondale.

Sponsored by Crust Bikes.

Who is the man with the palm tree earring (other than sounding like one of those paperbacks they sell in airport WHSmiths), I missed that?

I missed this too sadly @SteadyCam

the digger precariously twirling a guy on a bike from the boom

Well written summary, thanks! And also lol I would not expect to read about Powless dreams today

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZGJXG1ydg/

Pete Kennaugh, ITV4 coverage.

We’ve entered Pete Kennaugh’s New Romantic phase

And I like it!

Show's how shit today's race was, when the main talking point is some blokes choice of jewellry.