Pro-cycling thread

There was a Movistar rider in the Kristoff/Degenkolb group. Which surprised me.

Apparently he climbed off before they hit the hills.

Rumours that he saw a nice spot for lunch are unfounded.

Vanmarcke has a broken finger after his crash. Poor bloke, he's permanently shit out of luck.

Gilbert! I love a good solo breakaway! Smart riding from Terpstra too. Thought he might have had the edge on GVA but no.

This is fine

Did lol

don't lean

Gilbert learnend very well from E3 and Wevelgem that he would not have a chance in a sprint and that they would all start arguing in the chase. Massive high stakes poker chapeau.

Someone grabbed his bars, I'm telling ya!

There's no way The Best Bike Handler in the World just pranged a bit of fence.

I'm cryin' here.

So it was a coat?

No barrier leg sticking out. Sagan hit it and took everyone down, like a 4th cat.

They need to get rid of those barriers that have legs that stick out. And if you ride in the gutter to get smoother road. Well shit happens.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BSaIeCbgrfj/?taken-by=cyclingtips&hl=en

difficult to tell if it is the foot of the barrier or the banner/jacket-he definitely takes that top corner with his bars. Basically, too fucking close...

Sagan says something caught his bars, so possibly the coat. Still Sagan's fault though

Was it Stybar that happened to a couple of years ago too? Then there was Gilbert and the massive alsatian at the Tour. The lols of being a Pro cyclist...

Solo breakaway for the win on RvV, Gilbert's village should build a broze statue of him (next to the one they made for him for his LBL win).

Can we get the same person who did Ronaldo's statue pls?

is that a rapha transfer jacket?

I'm certain he's got time in his schedule for it anyway

his bars caught something, for sure. see .gif:

https://twitter.com/Peter_SagFan/status/848810962106896384

is that a rapha transfer jacket?

I'm sure it's still eligible for free repairs, right?

I'm not confident they would have caught PG. Anyway I find myself gently annoyed about the amount of press on his crash vs the vintage/old school/classic move by PG that cycling lore loves.
Reminds me a little of the 2015 stage 20 Vuelta win by Rueben Plaza who went on a huge 115km solo attack in the mountains and won, but all the chat was about Tom from the Windmills cracking. I understand the coverage, but don't like it when the solo effort gets overshadowed by "drama"

That was a classy win. Was really wanting Terpstra to try a flyer at 1km when it was a certainty that Gilbert would win.

Really hard to see, but it looks like there's a black jacket or something that snags his bars? Otherwise his front wheel must've hit something and bounced up, which doesn't seem that likely...

Don't think he can blame the jacket though, it's not like it suddenly appeared.