Pro-cycling thread

You're right 3rd.

...basically lazy.

I seem to remember a mountain stage with him riding on the front to minimise damage to GC.

I hear what you say about attacking, but he didn't do much of that today either, just holding a tempo (which seems to be his style).

I can never decide if Quintana looks really young or really old. We definitely need a poll to sort this issue out.

He was riding like a right hard bastard today:

I reckon he's actually 65.

Also - how come commentators already seem to have settled on saying 'Lotto NL Yumbo' but still have difficulty with 'Mobistar'?

Gloves and kneewarmers are for pussies.

Having ridden up a mountain in a snow storm once, you are quite warm as you climb due to the effort. It's coming down where it all goes wrong.

Ah, the transition from thinking - 'I'm a hard bastard, climbing With snow melting into my sweat, this is so fecking epic'

to - 'I cant fecking see the apex's, and can only brake by cupping the levers and pulling the my Whole of my arms back, as my fingers dont work. I'm a total idiot'

I've only ridden proper European mountains once, but when I did, it included going up and down Tourmalet in a hailstorm, and that's exactly what I was thinking! The descent was probably the most terrifying thing I've ever done

I wore out a new set of brake blocks descending Tourmalet in similar conditions. Was horrible.

I was picked up and driven Down a mountain by race stewards a few years back. I'd gone well past the point of mental panick and negativity though. I was stretched across both back seats, as I couldnt phsically bend anything without cramping painfully. Explaining how very sorry I was for getting their car wet.
/CSB.

Wouldn't have happened with discs!
/scoble

I did the tourmalet in rain/snow too. Descending was hard work and tiring.

Braking is for puss... WOAHCLANGSCRAPEGRINDSMASH!

I had some, presume French people, offer to drive me down off a mountain in France one day during some atrocious conditions, in motherfucking summer! (they don't tell you about this shit in Oz schools).

Obviously, I told them to HTFU and carried on because I'm so moneysupermarket.

I was walking Down. The race organisers have buses Ferry riders Down off the top With their bikes. But this particular year they decided to run the buses from a 1/3 of the way Down, where the roads where better. Expecting people to ride down. But when the freezing fog and hail hit. Plans changed, and they drove the buses to the top. Unbekownst to me. A herd of fluoro painted bulls could have passed in that fog. I'd never have seen them. I collected my kit bag. Put what clothes on I could, With frozen lumps for hands, dumped my bike (fixie skidder) in a lorry, and headed Down on foot. Didnt really have a plan. Just wanted to get the feck off the mountain top.

meh.

I see your french snow and raise you: Descending Etna as fast as possible... because it's erupting and raining hot volcanic sand, at night.

Finally a Sagan win, about time. Maybe he overheard Tinkov calling Bert and giving him hell last night...

mere mortals heroic cycling stories one-upping thread >>>>>>

This rather begs the question: Why did they let him win? :)

no idea. didn't expect EQS to be such a bunch of pussies. they should be more like us, brave LFGSS members ;-) maybe Lefevere hasn't had something to complain about pointlessly for too long

Didn't they just get dropped?
I see Cancellara is 'speaking for the peloton' again. They should have ended the race lower down the slopes so that the stragglers didn't get cold. Andy Hampsten must be turning in his grave.

Quintana lost about half his lead but wins the TA. Mollema's TT style/position has improved dramatically, must have been coached rigorously by Cancellara. If only the TT would have been 10k longer... GC:

1. Quintana
   
2. Mollema
   
3. Uran
   
4. Pinot
   
5. Contador
   
6. Cummings
   
7. Poels
   
8. Pozzovivo
   
9. A. Yates
   
10. Kreuziger
    

I was just there. My missus bought me a trip so she could see a volcano.

I punched Etna in the cock after it spat at me.

Sagan >>>

Adam Yates!
And Steve c

I punched Etna in the cock after it spat at me.

^ should be on a tourist-t-shirt.