Tour de France 2021

All this after yesterday and that TT mad

Call me a cynic but I can’t help thinking this is a fairly ‘extraterrestrial’ performance

Wouldn’t he be going even faster if he wasn’t cross chained?

Make him do it fixed next year

Race of 2 speeds come to mind

This is a joke, flew past Yates. Still in the big ring...

Izaguirre tried to stay with him, bless

Struggling to recall such a dominant ride

This is like watching pantani

He’s won the tour on stage 8. Does he even need a team?

I suppose crosswinds are the only hope to try and put him under pressure.

Suppose he loses 3 mins in a crosswind stage? What does it matter. He will just go on another rampage like this.

Bizarre that it could be such an interesting and engaging week of racing but still have such dominance. Credit to the sport I guess.

So someone - I forget whom - mentioned further up the thread that there was potentially some kind of benefit to going big-big. Very much against conventional wisdom but there you are.

Anyone encountered a source for this? I doubt he's cross-chaining by accident.

Edit: it was @snoops

See SRAM's comments here, there's some convenience to it I guess https://road.cc/content/feature/cross-chaining-it-really-all-bad-213468

What’s the gap to the grupetto? Any danger a bunch of people are going to get time cut (I hope not)?

As ever, sram encouraging people not to use their front derailleur if possible because its shit.

I love my Yaw front derailleur.

That water bottle.

Davide Formolo turning himself inside out.

Tiny Fanta time

This first week has been great, but is it just me or is Pogacar's seemingly absolute dominance going to make the next two weeks a little bit, um, dull?

So that’s the tour done then.

Pleased for Dylan Teuns - I like him …. I hope Bahrain send Fred up the road for their win tomorrow … !

Can jumbo now ride to defend WVA’s podium?