Pro-cycling thread

You need to be though, still can't belive poor Girmay's cork to the eye last year

Very nervous riding from Primoz

Yes, he looked shit scared as he crossed the line 14 seconds ahead of Evenepoel.
What a great stage. Tao is looking so good. And what a lovely Irish brogue Ben Healey has.

He sounds the same as Dan Martin 😅

Tao is looking top drawer. He'll be ruing those 19s he lost behind that crash.

https://youtu.be/CLbwUNE5xyc

Great break by Ben Healy. 50km out there alone (I think - the highlights cut in a weird place again) is big.

What's with his brake levers though (I know that's not a recent picture - but I noticed it in today's stage and it looks like he consistently has them both pointing inwards almost 45deg).

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Aero gainz - all the cool kids in the peloton are doing it.

A slightly less extreme inward angle can also be more comfortable depending on your wrists, bars, etc

Almost likeable

Watching the mtb world series race , the drone footage is brilliant.

The panning shots of the sprint finishes in the Giro have been great this year.

Wet cobblestones 😬

What's with his brake levers though

As @Momentum says aero gainz, often coupled with stupidly narrow handlebars (34cm or similar) for the same reason.

It's not just the pros now, I know people who race here with similar setups. As well as the extreme inward angle it's de rigueur to angle the levers up more too.

The old adage of not having bars that are too narrow because it narrows the chest/constrains breathing seems to have gone out of the window.

@WillMelling @birofunk Hello, can we have less of this please. Emigration is a significant part of Irish identity, and given that a lot of it stems from historically poor economic conditions due to British rule, it seems a bit much. Thanks.

Uh-oh, did you just @ will?

Smack smack

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Oof rog having a bad day

Seems to be close between Tao/G/Remco

Anyone lipreading what G said?

Isn't little bastard his nickname for remco?

Yup

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Not sure what you're on about. I was just pointing out him and Dan Martin both have the same accent. I'm Irish by the way

G would have won had he kept his visor on

Tao only 2s slower than Remco is great though

I wonder what odds you would've got this morning of having 15 riders within a minute of Evenepoel's time? I was expecting far bigger time gaps myself.