Pro-cycling thread

Mushrooms.

day 3

Watching on Eurosport player catchup for the first time and the uninterrupted version has the commentary panned all the way into one speaker so you can watch the whole thing just with just the ambient noise and no fucking Kirby

Lopez looked dashingly stylish when he rode straight off the road yesterday.. Must give you a soulful boner seeing your work on tele hoops?

Is it the Giro where Astana are regularly "well prepared" and on the attack on the ups?

I dunno about ‘boner’ but it is pretty cool to see my work at the sharp and of world tour races on TV everyday. Lutsenko was pushing hard on the front for a while on his too today.

I got a thankyou message from Lopez the day he won at the Tour des Aples on it. He said he wanted to win that stage to prove he was worthy of a team leader bike. That message was way better than tv coverage any day!

Nice of Yates to avoid doping control gift that win

Really cool.

Such a cynic.

Except as race leader he'll definitely be tested.

Hah that’s cold!

Branson cannot run a business where there is any form of competition. It’s why he bids on government contracts these days.

ah, that's nice that you're known to the riders too and they appreciate the work that's gone into it-great to see that your work's up there on the world stage anyway man.

http://road.cc/content/news/240319-pro-bike-argon-18s-custom-painted-bike-miguel-superman-angel-lopez#gallery_34

Sexeh

Branson prefers to deposit adults from considerable height, so he would represent an improvement in terms of moral fibre.

Sick (fuel) burn.

He's been pretty drab so far in the Giro

Er have you watched Froome ride before?!

I'm with Andy on this one: he may well slowly, undramatically and drably close that gap still over the course of the race. I wouldn't write him off just yet.

He went up 11 places on GC yesterday .. fuck him, there are more exciting riders to watch.

there are more exciting riders to watch

#TeamCarlos

Didn’t realise Nieve was at Mitchelton Scott. They’ve quietly put a very strong and experienced team together.

Should be well set to defend the jersey as far as Yates is capable of taking it. Either way, this is going to be great experience for him.

Watch the final 40 late last night. Fuck yeah! Sucks we lost pink but oh no we got it back again in team form. Love Chaves.

You know Yates is English? Chaves is Colombian; Kreuziger is Czech; Nieve is Basque.

I could go on. Only Haig is Aussie I think.

They’ve quietly put a very strong and experienced team together

And without a name sponsor for this year too.

Is he? Oh shit, I thought he was from Brisbane and was just really tanned.

It's an Aussie team. See how I wrote "in team form"?

Much like Sky being British.

I guess I could claim all Sky victories as Aussie ones too. Thanks Rupe!

To be fair, it’s not different to the muppets who support Sky as a british team.