Pro-cycling thread

Tarling would have had that with a reasonable buffer on a clean run. Feel for him!

What was the least surprising thing to happen during the men’s TT?

I think he'd have got second for sure, it would have been very close for first.

Claire Balding referring to the new Olympic TT champ as Remco Evan-o-loop-ol.

Triathlete had shit bike handling?

Magnus Sheffield crashing

Correct.

Mens XCO final. Fabulous stuff.

Magnifique

R Tom is so good at making friends.

Doesn't matter, hopefully he's done with fat tyres now.

Not to you and maybe not to him, but it certainly does to some poeple. Why do you hope he stops MTB?

What else can he do in it? He's been world champ, now is double Olympic champion, he's got nothing left to prove. He should focus properly on the road and see what he can achieve.

I think the MTB stuff keeps him enjoying cycling. I suspect he'd get bored and retire early if he just stuck to road.

That GB tracksuit is horrid. Looks like he's about to rob some chocolate from an off license.

He should pack in road racing and become a hardline also ran / slopestyle influencer

He's said multiple times that MTB is what he enjoys most and wants a crack at DH. If road didn't pay the best I don't think he'd carry on not winning the TDF.

He should pack in road racing

yep but I think road pays more(?)

Always seems like road racing is pretty boring for him and all a bit of a pain the the arse compared to MTB. Clearly just doing it for the wonga.

Rubbish. He loves racing a bike, irrespective of the discipline.

But the money is in road racing and he's only really dabbled in it so far, he needs to commit for the next couple of years to see where his ceiling is.

He's only "dabbled" in it.

Hahaha

Yet to win a monument!

Ah, that's why Ineos have been so shit, they've hired a parade of part-timers, a degree of dabblers, a quotient of quitters, a melange of make-doers...

In four seasons of road racing, he's averaged 44 race days a year. That's a low average for most road pros.

Rubbish. He loves racing a bike, irrespective of the discipline.

But the money is in road racing and he's only really dabbled in it so far, he needs to commit for the next couple of years to see where his ceiling is.

But a Grand Tour isn't just 'racing a bike' is it. Have to deal with travel, media, politics, essentially living with the same people for a month etc etc. It's a hassle. Also, much of the riding is boring compared to bombing around an XC course. Not every day is the Galibier descent.

And as for 'dabbled', he's done 4 GTs lol.

It's about half the average so hardly what I'd call dabbling.

You're more than welcome to work half the hours of my job and I guess you wouldn't want paying for it coz it's just a hobby :)