Pro-cycling thread

On Wiggle High5 video: https://cyclingtips.com/2018/08/the-shecret-pro-van-vleutens-super-july-and-that-wiggle-high5-video/

Andreas Stauff and Paul Voß.

https://www.instagram.com/besenwagen_podcast/

Chris Horner vs Oscar Sevilla at the Vuelta a Colombia.

Greipel to Fortuneo- Samsic

Just how reliable is monsieur Pruneta? :) Is Greipel turning into a lone wolf / one day rider now? Who in Fortuneo is going to lead him out?

Edit - Ok, it seems to be from L'equipe, but I still don't understand a word in French anyway :)

Well they have gotten invites to the tour the last 3 years, so possibly not. But definitely will be interesting to see how they use him next year. I'd love to see him win another tour stage.

Agreed, he's a good guy, if somewhat a bit too straightforward (which is not a bad thing).
Yes, more stage wins for Gorilla!

Its Barguil's team so guaranteed an invitation to the Tour.

van aert to ride for aqua blue sport as irish team acquires verandas willems

That sounds like a great acquisition for Aqua Blue, Van Aert practically guarantees them entry into some big races, and lots of publicity.

Fake news, according to Rick Delaney.

The announcement has been pulled from the Aqua Blue website, after Veranda-Willems published their own announcement which basically says they are in discussions but nothing has been agreed yet.

Has anyone here ever bought anything off Aqua Blue?

No idea.

They won a race today though! Opening stage of the Tour of Denmark.

yeah I bought a pair of vermarc bibs (mainly to enter into a competition). They came direct from vermarc but took a month to arrive, their site is a bit crap to navigate. It'd take a lot better siteme to change from buying from wiggle/crc/planetx.

+andyp ah no! Hopefully it does happen. Interested to see what the "number of other high-profile riders for the 2019 season" are. And I'm delighted for Lasse Norman Hansen, he's a nice guy so it's cool to see a dane winning in Denmark

Valgren to Dimension Data for the next two years.

I really hope it works out for him.

His agent must surely be on the take.

I think he shares an agent with Tao?

Connor Swift is also going to Dimension Data as a stagiaire

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bl-vvWrnXIV/?taken-by=teamdidata

Isn't he too young to retire?

Tour of Poland has answers tfor the critics who said they didn't have quite enough inflatables

mysterious double post...

anyone have a hint as to where are the start lists for the upcoming women's and men's Euro champs in Glasgow?

Entry list of all male and female riders are here but the start list links of events aren't live

http://www.uec.ch/en/event/59/2018-uec-road-elite-european-championships

Grim crash at Clasikoa; Landa and Bernal being put in neck braces. Bernal looks barely conscious :(

Ben King caused the crash because EF are cursed