Pro-cycling thread

Haha, Wout ~1km ahead of Groenewegen!

that was weird

Lol at edit Philipsen

Did Philipsen think he’d won?

Lol Philipsen

I know Philipsen finishes second a lot but didn't realise how much he enjoyed it until now

Phillipsen celebration lol.

I thought Ewan could climb :)

Laporte put Philipsen straight very quickly.

🦅 not sure about the celebration.

Ha, yes that’s more accurate!

Maybe that should be his new nickname: Big Bird

Brilliant.

Matheiu van der who

Impressive plan from Jumbo. Pukka tactics. I'm now a Wout fan for this tour. Proper old school team from the low countries. A Dutch supermarket...the perfect sponsor.

Anyone know what Superconfex did, as a business? Can't find it anywhere. (Edit - it was a fashion retailer https://www.imago-images.com/st/0084840214 .) But I have discovered that Yoko used to bill themselves as an audio/video outfit. They're from Taiwan. They now do PVRs and security cameras and all sorts of electronics.

I think Superconfex were a clothing retailer.

Very much looking forward to tomorrow

Me too. You can say what you want about cobbles in the TdF and I do think they’re in danger of maybe overusing them a bit recently BUT all the stages have been properly memorable.

Was it inrng who said Van Aert could wrap up the green jersey competition in the first week? He was spot on.

The terrain of the entire next week looks superb actually.

https://inrng.com/tour/

Would leave him free to do mountain duty for rogluc later. What a rider.

Red Bull prob gave him 50k for it

Van Der Poel just loitering, warming up for some madness.

Oh god, you’re right. Didn’t make that connection at all.

How much did Cav get for the HTC on-the-phone celebration?

Philipsen still a little work to do on positioning.

Thank you!