2013 Pro-cycling season thread

on a hill

Proper racing is winning whatever they throw at you.

*Hills are just hills and don't count for shit. Mountains on the other hand... mountains over hills any day.

in the wind

and mud

and rain and searing heat in traffic in space..

Bring it on...

Someone nicked all of Garmin Sharp's bikes overnight at the Tour Med

Not time trial fans then.

Goes to ebay

Garmin Sharp's entire fleet of road bikes stolen from Tour of the Med.

http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/13902/Garmin-Sharp-bikes-stolen-before-Tour-of-Mediterraneans-Mont-Faron-stage.aspx

I suggest Dan Martin and co get down to Brick Lane market tomorrow...

Cuddles at Oman.
If you didn't know, I didn't.

Guns at the ready, showdown.

Just been watching cav's wins in Qatar, impressive stuff, looking forward to showdowns with Lotto and Greipel

Different teams want to give us bikes to race on.. But it's not the same feeling as our own bikes so we will not race today

WTF? If I decided I wasn't going to go to work because my HP laptop was broken and they only had a spare Dell, I'd be given short shrift. Precious fuckers.

Yeah just ride 100 miles on a saddle you never used before on a bike that doesn't fit at 50km/h.

Get a clue.

must spread rep apparently but +1

Completely unconvincing. If you have a race to do, you do the race - if you have to borrow a strange bike, saddle or whatever, you do it. The only difference between borrowed bikes and their own is that they're not being paid to ride those ones.

In any other sport, a participant would borrow kit and make do and mend. Even golfers will borrow different clubs they've never used before, a much bigger difference than using another bike, and they're too lazy to even do a real sport.

Completely unconvincing. If you have a race to do, you do the race - if you have to borrow a strange bike, saddle or whatever, you do it. The only difference between borrowed bikes and their own is that they're not being paid to ride those ones.

In any other sport, a participant would borrow kit and make do and mend. Even golfers will borrow different clubs they've never used before, a much bigger difference than using another bike, and they're too lazy to even do a real sport.

Bullshit. The Tour of the Med is a training race, and there is little point in running the risk of a season affecting injury for a couple of days of unimportant racing. The number of pro riders who've got injuries from changing equipment is well known, so there is absolutely no point in taking a risk.

Won't someone please think of the golfers

Sagan in Oman.
Looking forward to see where he's at.

WTF are they aiming for cyclists in Spain or what

@TourDeJose: Incredible. Bram Tankink (Blanco) got hit by a car during training camp. Off to hospital with suspected broken collarbone

WAC driver...

Yeah just ride 100 miles on a saddle you never used before on a bike that doesn't fit at 50km/h.

Get a clue.

They need to HTFU.

I was anticipating that.

if you want to have a laugh. try a search for #tourmed on twatter

full on racing, last stage, a couple of seconds only between top contenders, but nobody knows where the finish is

oh, ze French...

ah, Roelandts (Lotto-Belisol) won the last stage

overall winner is Löfkvist (Iam Cycling). Damn, was hoping for Lars Boom who was 2nd on a second behind Maxime Monfort (RSNT)