Pro-cycling thread

http://inrng.com/2019/09/world-championships-road-race-preview-yorkshire-2019/

Watched the women just past the Lofthouse climb. Slight worrying moment as spectators were acting as shepherds with around 30 sheep on the race route. Plenty of racers right off the back (8 mins plus with 100k to go). At least one finished as one was the only rider from Greece. Chapeau.
Watched the last 80k on a big screen in Massham market square. A few hundred people in the sunshine applauding the first 5 over the line.
Really nice day out.

Taking those two climbs out tilts it slightly back towards the sprinters I reckon.

Would love Sam Bennett to win.

The foot of the Buttertubs climb this morning;

I thought the same, fast forwarded her and listened to AVV when they finally cut back to her. Knobs. The whole fucking intro was "ooh Lizzie lives nearby". If they know so much about where she lives, why was it so hard to dope test her?

slightly

Slightly?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOR38552MJA

out the back

Ok its a bit wet and bound to be worse . It favours the Belgium's

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Three GT winners in the break, this is normal

I mean who'd have thunk Quintana and Carapaz just love the wet

Starts to get spicy about 12 do we reckon?

I'm at swimming till about then and have booked the telly for the afternoon.

They're at 210km now, they start the first Harrogate lap at 133km mark.

Rochelle has dressed for the weather

Dennis not even bothering blacking out his bmc today

Nope

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Bloody hell, the bbc are taking their time getting to the racing. let's look at this tweet, let's listen to VDP as he gets his hair cut.... just go to the race!!

Teunissen drafting his way back in...

And BBC are on a 30 minute delay

Man, the conditions are awful. Such a shame. I wish the race had been a week earlier.

I'd say a lot of them are regretting not putting shoe covers on this morning. There's going to be a ton of abandons

The race has been live on BBC red button / online since the start...

Driving into Harrogate and the fire brigade are out pumping water out of floods on the race route

Nice flightradar track of the video relay plane: https://www.flightradar24.com/OOLET/2248efbc

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Damn, Gilbert out. (possibly... maybe...)

Or maybe not. Evenpoel is Evenpoeling him back to the bunch.