Pro-cycling thread

Perfect

Apparently there's bike changes on the TT today, plenty of room for disaster.

oh wow - here we fucking go!

More important questions- is SRAM going to force 1x on Vingegaard, and is Specialized going to make Quick-Step riders wear the aero-snood.

Dsm having a shocker. Two riders missing their start and then degenkolb crashing on the first corner.
The escape collective article was really good. I'm usually ambivalent to bored by TTs but this one is interesting.

The indignation there!

Another off on that white line.

Enjoyed the bonus Pinot stuff yesterday.

Something odd at the start gate with Uno X

Pulling over to put your rapha climbing shoes on ?

Total nerd question: In one of the little ads on ITV about Skoda’s sponsorship of the Tour, the red Skoda drives off making a definite vroom noise, but it has a green bar on its rear reg plate to indicate it is an EV. Is it very wrong of me to be bothered?

Piss poor attention to detail.

Not the right thread but anyone else seen fake green number plates out in the wild? Saw an Impreza WRX and a mid 2000s BMW X3 with green plates recently. Seems massively sad that people are triggered enough by green plates to buy / install a fake one.

I'd advise anyone driving a Range Rover in South London to do the same.

JFC TT stages. It's the cycling equivalent of when football fans take a coach to some shithole town to watch their side lose in the rain. Boring and miserable

Spotted a Bentayga (6.0L W12 version) with a green plate in Mayfair, obvs.

Back on point, I've got Pog to gain 11 seconds on Vingo today and take yellow by one measly second.

At least a 2 minute delay watching ITV4 online as it was showing Latour was at 34:25 on the screen with 1 mile to go whilst the letour.fr website showed him finished with a time of 36:33.

(Assuming what was being shown on telly was actually "live".)

ITV4 commentators thinking Campenaerts is doing the whole stage in one gear for lols.

More bike change chat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze_fH6fOPJ8

Ciccone looks brilliant in that skinsuit

From the post ride interview, he basically did! He had a bike issue, so decided to just see how he got on in 54 x 17 for the whole thing.
Mad lad.

54 x 17

Lufguss 2009

Here we go

Jonas 20 secs faster than WVA after 4mins!?

If it’s true he’ll blow

Vingegaard gone too quick from the gate?

He's got 20 secs on Pog now!