Pro-cycling thread

St Bernadus brewery!

Jez Cox.

I reckon I'd be holed up in Café Bazaar all afternoon (assuming they're open today).

Stayed in the bike bar, most of the places off the main square are closed

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So will they decide as a team who wins (and in that case which of them?) or will they sprint it out between them?

Chapeau Sep Vanmarcke

Damn that gap between the Belgian roads' concrete slabs

I can't remember who won any race. I really don't care who wins. I enjoy the drama during the race.

Also me. waves

Yesterday was orval day. Excellent choice, sir.

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enjoyed watching Primoz realize that if he just gifts Remco the win then he would have to put up with much less complaining.

I'm not sure the real Merckx was ever given a win.

One assumes she had a German 'boyfriend' for a few years

Remco was keen to take credit for his dominant sprint performance after the stage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F6-E-dBKj8

Roglic just laughing meanwhile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tILjSyn5o-Q

What are jumbo doing then that apparently almost nobody else is? Is this the baking soda, beetroot juice and ketones kicking in and a survival of the strongest stomachs?

Plappy on SDP was talking about strict diet:

https://youtu.be/g1xrV89uoNE?t=1597

Like I said before I'd get the jumbo app if it had Thermomix integration.

https://twitter.com/GentWevelgem/status/1639936252014108676/video/1

Once a Rabobank, always a Rabobank....

So a simple healthy diet and I'll be a rockstar? Ok

Group 2 syndrome is a thing; Omloop KBK E3 and GW all seem to have featured disorganised, demotivated chase groups who are riding for second as soon as JV riders got away.

same in cross, iserbyt essentially races for the 3rd

really puts G and Tao's grand tour wins in perspective pre wout, MVDP, pog era eh

Tao still won in this era but none of the big boys were racing that Giro, like the cross races when the big 3 dont turn up

Lars van der Haar and Laurens Sweeck still make Iserbyt race for 3rd whether Him, Tom, or Wout turn up.

oof 🔥

Unless he gets really fighty. Then he beats everyone up.