Pro-cycling thread

Hookless rims are a terrible idea part 1 million. Thomas De Gent blows a tyre off the rim whilst JRA and the tyre insert wedges in the fork and takes him down.

https://youtube.com/shorts/GFyC9RKmMM4?si=ZpWe4Dz5oU0qXXpi

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Wtf is that green snake

Because he's not a winner. He said afterwards that he was happy with second. It showed.

Tyre insert to stop punctures

When you puncture and have one of these in, you can keep riding not completely flat-tyred for a bit. In theory. And possibly not at all when using hookless rims.

What a steal in uae

Not the most important race, but great to see Joe Blackmore take his second stage win and the overall GC at the Tour of Rwanda. He's from south-east London and was a regular at London and South-East cyclocross league races.

It was a fantastic solo attack from five or six km’s out ...
Rwanda and Kigali is going to be a great World Championships next year - riders are defo going to need their climbing legs !

I wouldn't be sad seeing him leave the sport.

"There is no place for Lefevere’s behaviour in modern cycling, and the sheer fact that he has been in the sport for so long should not be a reason for him to remain in it."

https://www.rouleur.cc/blogs/the-rouleur-journal/opinion-enough-is-enough-patrick-lefevere-s-comments-must-be-stopped

Tbh I don't think anyone would be sad to see him leave, including his riders. He's offensive and I imagine if you're associated with him professionally an embarrasment

Was riding all weekend. Before I read anything here (no spoilers), can anyone recommend a good highlights package, a good youtube summary for the weekend's races? Thanks

Eurosport are good at this now, with no spoilers in the video title or thumbnail. Just avoid the comments (generally a good idea for most websites)

https://www.youtube.com/@EurosportCycling/videos

Thanks mate. Perfect.

Le Samyn today - womens and mens …. always good racing for some reason despite the usually grim weather
Finish in Dour where there’s a festival in the summer …. that’s usually grim weather too …

Good finish in the women's. Hoping for someone other than Visma to win the men's.

Your hopes will be achieved, as they aren't racing.

Suspected they might not be having seen the women's line-up. It'll be worth watching, then.

Very nice, just heard on the radio that the Geraardsbergen beer thrower (who hit Vos in the ladies' Omloop last Saturday) has been identified and police are going to have a chat with him.

That's fucking disrespectful but also

Please can someone throw beer at me during a race?

Please can someone throw beer at me during a race?

You'll need to start doing races that people are interested in.

The start of TCR probably had similar spectator numbers to the Muur at Women's Omloop (and it only needs one).

They threw nuts at me when I rode up it on Saturday! Everyone's always well pissed up there.

Right I need to panic buy a subscription, what are my options?
I have nothing else in the household to piggy back off

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Monuments and Tours?