Pro-cycling thread

The last corner or more than that? We were at 300m to go and except for the crazy last bend that tightened halfway through and caused the EF crash the rest of the run in seemed straightforward when we walked in.
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This pic is the EF car which had to come and give the guy who crashed a new bike at 300m to go and caused chaos for all the dropped guys coming round the bend

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This stuff about the oil is completely mad. I mean, however important your cause may be to you, why did you think this would be a good idea that would help your cause?

The sleep-o-meter gauge of cycle sport:

I keep falling asleep watching the extended highlights, which I take to mean that (the coverage at least) is boring thus fall.

When will Mas put 10 minutes into Jumbo and Remco?

Sometime between falling asleep and waking…?

Was it oil, or an oil like substance? A lot of environmental activists use food dye water and gum. Looks like crude oil but washes away. Very easy to pump too, so I’m told.
The only statements that I’ve seen about what it was have come from the police and media, so I’d treat it with circumspection.

Falling asleep and waking, until a few km's to the finish and then out cold!

I can’t find it but I read an article that essentially argued that the extreme protest for tackling climate change helps bring the more moderate action into the acceptable window.

Personally I’m all for it. I love bike racing but love not dying in a forest fire more, and it isn’t like road cycling has done much to tackle it’s carbon footprint.

And anyway, the intended action wasn’t going to endanger the peloton more than the shite organisation of the last few stages.

Wasn’t climate change protesters tho was it (Catalan separatists?) and it would have been potentially fatal.

Genuinely lol'd hearing that yesterday. He's pure Partridge .

^^^ You're all for something that could kill riders? Or end their careers? I bet you'd have a proud look in your eye if you were the one having to break the news to someone's wife or child.

Yes it was independence protestors. We were talking about the stop oil protest at worlds on the way to the start and after we walked round a bit we all said how insanely car and fuel heavy the bike race is. Including the team buses sitting with their engines and generators running at the finish, and 4 helicopters overhead.

I do find it funny when an article pops up about environment protesters at cycle races and most of the comments are along the lines of ‘how stupid are they to protest a cycle race the idiots’. I assume they’re comments made by people who don’t watch the races and see the caravans and logistics. Also imagine they’ve likely just come from commenting on a post about cyclists saying they are the scourge of the road or something. We just need environment protestors to block cycle infrastructure and maybe then car drivers will back the cyclists up.

My mistake, I’d read or probably assumed it was climate protestors.

G said on his podcast that the protestors planned to dump oil on the peloton as they exited a tunnel. If they'd done that there definitely would have been a massive crash and a load of injuries (at best). No way of justifying that, whatever the cause.

It’s certainly moving beyond peaceful protest, however disruptive, to an attack. Is climate terrorism coming? The macro rationale above could be used to justify almost anything.

Isn’t that always the case it’s just a sliding scale.

Had a weirdly vivid dream premonition that a Movistar ride crashed and took down Remco on a bend on a descent.

Woah woah woah, keep your tokoloshe visions out of this thread! You’re giving me Velogames anxiety.

It would certainly be a sliding something if oil was dumped on the peleton.

Kirby slammed Movistar in commentary yday. Convinced he’s on here.

I know Kirby gets a lot of hate, but I think he was excellent yesterday

Did I miss something early in the stage … seems crazy that this break got away with all those riders up in the GC?

You and everyone. Shit coverage continues.
There were some crashes, but I think SQS just screwed up when the final break eventually went.

Sep kuss is 5 mins ahead along with a load of others in the top 20 . Remco is in the peloton.

Almost four minutes of a gap at the bottom of the final climb. Kuss looking good for the overall tonight, I reckon.