Pro-cycling thread

Head down riding was just as much of a problem in TT'ing before the advent of TT extensions. Think he is just salty that his TT bike/equipment isn't as fast as his old one....

Wanty off to a cracking start of the season. 🍟

I say this as someone who is not a Froome fan, but he is one of the greatest GT riders of all time. I think his view deserves respect.

Without doubt he has an amazing engine but he has always loved crashing.

I'm not sure where we are in the revisionism cycle on Froome's bike handling, but I thought at his peak it was agreed that he was actually a more than competent bike handler? The only time I remember him crashing out of a GT where he really had a shot at winning was 2014.

It feels churlish to suggest that his career limiting crash was his own fault, and I'm sure it informs his current comments that he was on a TT bike at the time.

He crashed in the U23 TT worlds and in a Giro TT recon as well.

SMIDSY!

Anyone know where I can get hold of the PB Staff merch?

Famous cyclist with a vlog commenting on recent topics of conversation in cycling in his vlog = salty and blaming his tools. Right.

No proper pro has a vlog.

Campanaerts begs to differ

Poor mans only got 18k subs.

Dowsett?

Yeah but Chanel is the real star there.

It feels churlish to suggest that his career limiting crash was his own fault, and I'm sure it informs his current comments that he was on a TT bike at the time.

I have always liked Froome, but IIRC wasn’t he was riding his TT bike no hands down down a descent during a storm while putting his jacket on? And didn’t his team mate (Puccio?) tell him to put his hands on the bars just moments before? That doesn’t seem like the bike’s fault to me.

Froome says he was wiping his face with one hand when it happened and it wasn't Puccio, it was Wout Poels.

I thought it was a gust of wind between two buildings. Does anyone remember a good feature on it? I’d like to revisit.

Just here to comment on Ganna getting DQ for swapping to a rim braked bike @savetherimbrake

Alexander Vinokourov has called one of his sons Alexandre. The other is called Nicholas. Wonder which one he prefers.

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failed A-test for toon aerts :/
https://mobile.twitter.com/BenjiNaesen/status/1493669397013086208
edit: https://mobile.twitter.com/Baloise_Trek/status/1493665578346766341

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His team have confirmed in a statement

His dog has breast cancer.

What a tit.

https://twitter.com/cyclocross24/status/1493682901237616653

Traditional pasta recipe

I'm always accidentally dropping medication into things I'm cooking