Pro-cycling thread

War, pestilence, plague and an invasion of giant termites.

;-)

Sooo when does the Vuelta start?.....

Any news on a reason for Rohan Dennis leaving the tour?

Three weeks on Saturday.

Mvdp pops a boner

https://cyclingtips.com/2019/07/the-2019-tour-de-france-in-100-frames/

Last night I stumbled across a Eurosport "summary of the tour 2019" and just as it was getting to stage 10 it stopped
Any ideas if there's a full program?

Been off grid for a week and just caught up on the final week of the TDF. Holy shit, amazing racing.

Kinda shocking and sad to see the new-normal extreme weather beginning to impact on century old sport events.

Egan seems like a totally sound fella and amazing role model.

Tour of the Inflatables starts Saturday !

No Cav in the DD start list, which I would of thought he'd be riding if he was doing the Vuelta ?

Gotta love the Tour of Poland, more blow ups than spectactors. Kwia isn't racing though, it seems he needs to recover after the Tour and generally disappointed with his 2019 form.

As for Cav, given that the team owner insisted he didn't go to the Tour, you feel if he wants to race he's going to need to go to another team.

He abandoned the Adriatica Ionica after one stage so hard to know what shape he is in now.

Hard to tell if he abandoned because of poor form or the weather though. Conditions were very, very bad.

Different angle on the Giro; getting dumped by your wife on the second rest day. Google translate gets the gist of it: https://www.tuttobiciweb.it/article/2019/08/01/1564645338/davide-cimolai-separazione-moglie-greta-giro-d-italia-inizio-nuova-vita-convocazione-europeo-sogno-mondiale

philip gilbert going to lotto-soudal on a 3 year dea it seems. the contract take him to age 40.

age 40

he'd need another contract to top grandpa horner

and two to top

Pidcock wins at Le Planche des Belle Filles in the Tour of Alsace. He's quite the all rounder isn't he? Can win TTs, bunch sprints, solo and now on mountain top finishes.

Just so greedy...

Our version of Alaphilippe!
Not sure a goatee would suit him though...

Any video? I’m lazy

Severe financial irregularities for Gary Verity of TDY fame.

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/latest-news/police-request-information-concerning-welcome-yorkshire-expenses-investigation-433465

the amount of expenses claimed by Verity over the six-year period is considered to be a six-figure sum.

The money was just resting in his account.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/aug/03/chris-froome-on-dauphine-crash-aftermath-like-a-scene-from-greys-anatomy-cycling-ineos

Was reading this/BBC cut-and-paste. One big question for me is after that isn’t his biological passport going to be totally fucked? I’d have thought for such injuries he’s gonna be pumped full of good stuff. Very unlikely it will have ‘exited’ his system, and even less likely it ‘won’t’ provide performance enhancement if he did ever race again.