Pro-cycling thread

The break has done well this tour.

It's been a different style of tour and quite fun to watch but you can see why Sky do what they do normally and just grind people down day in and day out.

Today and tomorrow is going to be good to watch.

I think the AG2R USA national champ kit will be AMAZING

Stars, stripes and brown shorts? Get to fuck.

Tell you what: I’m not gay but Warbasse is an absolute dish isn’t he?

Let’s hope AG2R sign Jonny Brown from Hagens Berman then.

oh :'(

Warbasse was the 2017 US national champ.

Cracking racing in Spain right now, worth a watch if you can.

Quintana punctures at the worst possible moment.

For those not watching, Quintana, Kruijswijk and Pinot attacked and had a 15 second gap. Yates bridges across to them, dropped Quintana and is now 30 seconds ahead of the Valverde group.

Gap out to a minute for the Valverde group.

I want Pinot to take this stage.

Valverde has cracked.

Hope Yates gifts this to Pinot.

Cheats dont crack they go on for ever🤥

Pinot wins, Yates second at 4 seconds.

Valverde loses 1’10.

Movistar set up Yates really well there.

Ashamed to say I’ve not managed to watch a single second of the Vuelta this year. Sounds likes it’s been a corker.

I’d definitely not call it a corker, it’s been an interesting race, and the strongest rider looks set to win, but most of the action has been at the rear of the front group, rather than the front.

Valverde has cracked.

Post of the year.

What most didnt see was movistar working everyone over all day and not letting a break go , to their own detriment or maybe they will fuel up tonight and really attack tomorrow. Today was just a softening up.

Don’t think softening up would have involved Valverde coming in over a minute down.

Movistar do have the power to lay down the hurt, don’t think they expected Yates to bridge, and then force the pace himself in the finale.

The trouble is, their softening up today screwed up their own GC ambitions.

Tomorrow is such a hard stage that all bets are off, but both Quintana and Valverde looked knackered today.

I’ve seen Ernesto Colnago at Italian races and the treatment he gets is akin to how I think the Pope is treated in Catholic circles.

He takes the rap for other people’s abuse of children?

Tao's riding this softly-softly to become acclimatised to a GT, isn't he? I mean, being young and all that.