Pro-cycling thread

Topsport!

Awwwwwwwwww

@Chadders81
Quintana's waaaay off the back, on his own and slipping around badly.

Mega respect if he doesn't climb off/fall off.

Finished 78th of 89 - in the 2nd to last group. 7'02" down.
77 DNF's

#respect

I'm only flicking to the TV window now and then (at work) so I can't tell anything about them since I don't speak Dutch.

You don't have to say whatever you have to say in Dutch, you know. :)

Why does Quintana ride a race like this? To practice for the cobbles in the Tour?

Yes. You can ride cobbles in training but to get the full experience doing them in a race will properly prepare you for them.

So negative from Van Baarle, just cooked? Figured if he towed Kwiato at all he'd be done in the sprint? Topsport used numbers well though.

After that, you can see why Cannondale-Garmin are without a win so far this season. Shockingly negative tactics.

Quintana is heavier than I thought. 58kg is only 8 less than Nibali and a smidgen less than Porte.

Gerrans is only 66kg. WTF?

Was Pozzovivo's win today the first for SRAM Wireless?

In Van Baarle's defence, Kwiato does shit all to close either, then gestures to him to pull, Van Baarle tells him where to go, and in those 3/4 seconds, Wallays is already well gone and then neither of them is going to work to pull it back and get outsprinted by 1 or 2 others.

Catalunya and Dwars-Door footage drops out so long you can google rider weights :-/

I was surprised by this. I'd have thought a long wind up would have suited Kwiatkowski.

The overhead shot shows that Kwiatkowski does at least accelerate before gesturing.

But it was so textbook by Wallays that one of them should have been on him like a shot.

Added: Van Baarle clearly hasn't read the textbook though, as he said he wasn't expecting Wallays attack.

It was always going to take a while, with AG2R being the only pro-your team using SRAM this year.

Dear Mr Lefevere,

That's how you win when you've got a numerical advantage in a break.

Yours sincerely, Jelle Wallays

Ps - I'm free next season.

That is actually a little surprising given he's practically a midget (5ft 6)

Are we saying 58kg is heavy for 5ft 6?

#nohopeforme

bit of an anticlimax that was. hope Boom's okay for P-R!

here's Fabs making friends with the Topsport riders in their hotel after his training ride and their race, who knows what they can do for him later on...

@Hefty Haha no, but i thought nairo was a proper waif. That height: weight ratio sounds kind of similar to that of a normal person as opposed to a pro climber

Purito is said to be 57kg and the same height I think. I can't think of many people lighter.

Cavendish is only a couple of inches taller and is 70kg.

I'm going to stick with 58kg being scrawny as heck.

It is.

I'm 5ft 3 and he weighs a few pounds less than me

Pozzovivo is 53kg!

Pozzovivo is an elf though