Pro-cycling thread

He seems to be a very precise one week racer. 8 days was almost too much.

Women’s tour a shit show

Amey is right. Noone cares about the Vuelta.

Funniest thing I’ve seen in ages

Basically ineos blew it for jorgenson to win by 2 seconds then.

That was a great last 5km.

Think Jorgensen might have pipped it if he went solo instead of swapping the win for a couple pulls.

Roglic pulled something from somewhere as I was certain he was gone gone. Pesky baselayers.

willmelling and andyp owe me an apology

i will accept £99+VAT

I think we have to wait for a Labour government for VAT to be added to bullshit.

No-one cares about the Vuelta, until such a point when it's the only GT missing from your palmares, then it becomes critically important.

Has Thomas ever won a grand tour that he started as leader?

He's only won one. He was co-leader with Froome for that, who finished third.

The correct answer was, No.

Was that the "wrong decision"?

He complained about overheating on the climb. He was also the only rider with a base layer on i seen.

And there were a lot of unzipped jerseys.

Seems he got caught out with the old “looks crap but it’s really warm” weather.

Think Jorgensen might have pipped it if he went solo instead of swapping the win for a couple pulls.

Highly unlikely, the psychological benefit of having even a small respite from riding hard at the front is often understated, and it has a physiological benefit too.

Maybe he was trying to be more Valverde

https://amp.theguardian.com/sport/live/2018/sep/30/cycling-mens-world-road-race-championships-live

That’s a very shady road to travel down. End up doing instagram posts of gravel races and what worse could Alejandro do than that.

On the flip side he is rocking brown shorts now AG2R sacked them off.

I’m all in on him then. All sins are washed.

Just read ( via Cycling News ! ) that the original owners / founders of GCN have bought back the rights from … whoever - Disney / Discovery / American Corporates etc …. really hope this means that at some point in the future there will be a cycling only streaming channel ….. I’d even put up with Kirby if it meant we could go back to cycling only related content - and not having to give money to fucking Disney

Given that they're just about to layoff 15 staff, I wouldn't be too sure

Discovery/Eurosport has kept all rights to live feed as I understand it, GCN has none of those rights.

Cunts ! Oh well , back to Tiz then…..

Although my sympathy is with those staff members, if one of them happened to be Kirby I wouldn't be suicidal.