Pro-cycling thread

UCI announces gr*vel world champs so fuck cycling

Am counting the number of fucks I give and the amount of time I will spend watching. Both counts are stuck on zero.

Altitude, heat, cadence, recovery (within a day and over successive days), psychology, experience.

Probably loads of other factors.

Maybe he's easily distracted by lovely views?

Uran, Carthy, Bettiol and Bissegger all out of TDS with COVID

Remco must go back in time and join Sky in 2013 to become a good climber.

Which other riders have Remco’s profile – small, light, powerful, can win TTs – but can’t climb?

every super-domestique out there

oh wait, they can climb

for him to be the next mercx he needs to go to the modern version of dr ferrari, thats where Axel went

aw man, I thought Carthy was going to end up on the podium

Underrated observation. Have they tried blinkers on him?

He’s 22 though, from what I understand, generally grand tour endurance builds up and people tended to be GT contenders from 27 onwards.

Remco can climb, just not consistently.
If his physiology can’t hack the cumulative fatigue of a grand tour, the heat, the wet, that would be a shame.

Maybe relocate him to Andorra for the off season?

31 riders now out of the TDS with Covid, including Vlasov, the race leader.

You have to start to think that it makes more sense to cancel the race now, rather than persist with it.

He's also come into cycling relatively late and completely skipped being an U23 so he isn't going to have the same endurance base as others yet.

That is my excuse for being a poor climber. As well as being fat and having no watts to give.

Cavendish.

It's certainly my explanation for why I'm climbing so slowly...

Ah - balls.
TdF is going to be seriously impacted now with so little time to recover properly.

How many grand tour winners have had a bushy beard? Maybe that is your problem

Lol

I was a bit underwhelmed by the Giro wardrobe. I really hope the TdF fits are back at the level of 21, which was absolutely insane.

Pidcock the latest Covid case and out of the TDS.

Chavez looked pretty dapper in his bucket hat pre-race but I guess you’re talking about the GCN crew.