Pro-cycling thread

MVDP has a fever and won't ride the Omloop :-(

Disco, Jungle or Corona?

let's hope for the 1st, LOL

Danes go sub 3:45 to win gold. Fuck.

The Danes just smashed the world record again.

WOW.

Hope Dan Bigham has some performance bonus criteria in his contract!

Insane.

Getting very close to a 40mph average!!!
Would require a sub 3.43.69 ride....

That’s absolutely mad. As mad as British Cycling pretty much snubbing the Huub Wattbike set up.

53 seconds for their second kilometre.

Uae tour just been cancelled due to corona

Unofficially. Lots of riders and teams saying it has, but no confirmation from the organisers yet. Looks like their organising team need a media management course refresher.

Must be the media manager then !!
Simples 👉

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/51667939

Not a chance that Milan San Remo or Strade Bianche will happen. Or Tirreno-Adriatico for that matter.

Saw Froome go off course and have a sickening fall off a bridge last night. Checking here that it was just a dream. As you were.

COVID-19 decided to land in my hometown, of all places, yesterday :-/

How long before The Sun finds out and he's on the front page as a traitor...

Catching up to see crowd booing the Belarus guy in the scratch. Charming. Wheelsuckers unit, bro!

Ganna does a 4:01 IP.

mind boggling

Lynchfroome?

Just been reading the following article over on cyclingtips on the Danish team pursuit squad, and the comments below are really interesting.

https://cyclingtips.com/2020/02/denmark-smashes-mens-team-pursuit-world-record-for-third-time-in-two-days/

It seems their approach, and this is used by other successful nations like the Italians and the USA and GB women's squads, is to minimise changeovers as these slow the team down. Two riders do long stints, the lead off rider who does 3 laps, and the final stint rider who does 4 laps.

Just checked the weather for Omloop, pissing down and blowing a hoolie! Let the cycling season begin...

Gcn have the womens race covered .

But he still felt that simply by going to altitude he could overcome the gap between their two times. “A 4.03 at sea level bodes well for 85,000ft of altitude. That’s a good few seconds, for sure,” he said.
https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/latest-news/lambie-confident-of-beating-gannas-new-pursuit-record-450519