Pro-cycling thread

Oh definitely, Ghys said in the post eace interview that he was would eather be 4th than on the podium with them hollanders...

Austrian T2 athlete using the bladder down the jersey aero trick from triathlon. Very surprised they have allowed this on a 10km TT.

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I look forward to this madison handlebar shape filtering down to road brake hoods

https://www.mythos.bike/shop/p/tx-1-1
Only 1.2k.
I've held a pair and they are pretty cool.

Van Schip says in an interview he still gets shouted at and gets called names by 'fellow' riders in the peloton for using the 200mm stem and the small bars. He says he's learned to deal with it, but is puzzled why, as it is proven that it works better aerodynamically.

Maybe it's when he can't turn corners? He's taken 39 riders out during neutral zones so far this year* :D

*truth may not feature highly in this post

Nice article on Pog vibes. Might trigger the Vingoistas.

https://escapecollective.com/what-its-like-to-work-for-tadej-pogacar/

You're a trigger.

MVDP is going for the cross, road and Mtb worlds collection, I wasn’t sure if he was doing Mtb. Short track sounds like a farce, they tried to arrange a qualifier last week but nobody entered.

Blevins is my pick for short track
Pidders for full xco

I'm intrigued to see if Pidcock can dominate as we'd expect on such a technical course in XCO. I believe in N11NO.

That's from facebook so I guess maybe not everyone can see it. It's Sagan on a particularly treacherous section of the XC course.

The 'Salmon Ladder' they're calling it.

Is he doing xco or just e Mtb?

short track

Would like to see Sam Gaze or Luca Schwar-whateva

He's on the start list for XCC

Cool. He’ll get nowhere near the top guys but good on him for showing up.
Interestingly different approaches to the build up to this
Pidders- rode the tour
Blevins- rode some us races, gravel, nationals
Schurter, and most of the other euro based guys seem to have had a short break then a few weeks training
Interesting to see who’s approach works out

I’ll take back what I said about Blevins for short track. Give me Schwarzbaumer

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WVA has had the Tour of Britain added to his schedule on PCS

The Katie Archibald piece on BBC I found really moving, and it's incredible how she's still managed to achieve so much despite everything that happened last year.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/66285102

Maybe he’ll finally win something.

What's the extra bit for?

I assume it's so you can rest forearms on the top of the bar and hold onto the little extra bits with ring and pinky fingers?

20 years old and a world champion.
There’s a new sprint name in the game.

MVDP practicing on the XC course. This guy.

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