Pro-cycling thread

La Route d'Occitanie reduced to a 30 kilometre stage today because of the heat.

…. Remco shoots back up into contention … !

It seems the regional authorities in the Tarn region have barred the race from going ahead today because of the heat, but the neighbouring region of Aveyron have no such ban in place, so the final 34 kms of the stage, all in Aveyron, go ahead as planned.

@reply me again and you're out of the Tour squad.

What a weird situation

Yes, it's odd. It's the talk of the Tarn.

Aren't these kind of weak puns beneath you Will?

I don't get it.

Was a sincere question, not another pun!

bdhu

Sincere/Sancerre? Not really getting it still.

Anyway. Some teams are desperate for points so I can imagine there will be that pressure on organisers to keep a race going when only the announcer and half a sprinter is left in it.

Talk pun was well played.

Pogacar just casually riding the peloton off his wheel in Slovenia.

carapaz has decided to never win a GT again

Doesnt bode well for our huey

Extremely Foolish

Chasing the money, good for him. He couldn't beat a Bora GC rider with Ineos backing so he probably wasn't going to win one again anyway.

Finally an excuse for the golden POC

I know he won once but he never really looks like winning to me whenever I see him race a GC. Just never seems to be able to impose himself somehow

Pogacar was giving his new Pirelli tyre sponsors the “fucking SRAM” treatment on every descent today.

Did wonder why they were going as slow as I go down all descents in all conditions

https://youtu.be/lLq9m07wx8c

I've never seen a stage win decided by rock, paper, scissors before.

I wonder if he could get someone else's tyres printed up to look like his sponsors, sort of how pros used to get frames made by their favourite frame-builder and painted up to look like there team bikes back in the past?

What they used to do at races like Paris Roubaix where they're using non-sponsor-correct tyres is just black out any marks or names with a black marker. Trickier to do with FMBs and Dugasts where the name is printed on the sidewalls, but they'd still give it a go.