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Not sure whether this is strictly enforced and the status of some of the races we're talking about (obviously TCR isn't sanctioned) but from UCI rules:

No licence holder may participate in an event that has not been included on a national,
continental or world calendar or that has not been recognised by a national federation, a
continental confederation or the UCI.

I think Dombrowski finished on the Leadville podium so it's clear some riders DO ride these events but I guess the UCI chooses to not enforce that rule. I would assume it's to stop the teams creating or competing in a breakaway series whilst continuing with the world tour.

what shifter is that using? TT shifters or have they done some sort of bizarre rebuild of a normal one

Rapha are saying that they'll have EF riders compete in things like the 3 peaks CX, Leadville and Dirty Kanza and they'd love for one of the riders compete in the Transcontinental.

I live in Luxembourg and it’s the same here. Anyone who can afford to has their house built rather than buy an existing one. Other than the flats of course.. there are shitloads of them.

I think he's slipping into the ambassador role, I hope he can win a stage or two anywhere next year but he's getting to that age when sprinters traditionally can't compete.

I’ve got 160 and 140 on my gravel bike as From time to time I’m using it like a 90s MTB and kind of like to slow down in steep stuff. All things considered it’s a bit much most of the time.

Worked for a guy like that. Some of the shit he ended up doing to "win" in certain situations was mind boggling. How he justified some of his behaviour was equally mind boggling.

Thanks. you think Cathay are irritating, try flying Luxair. You have to book bikes ahead of time (fair enough) but they reserve the right to unload your bike and send it "on a later flight" even if they've already accepted it (bikes aren't essential luggage was the excuse). The first you find out your bike isn't there is when you wait for it at the other end and it doesn't turn up.

For trips when they only have two flights a week to a specific location, it's a pretty shit way to do things.

With the recent spate of deaths you wonder whether something about modern training methods is causing more damage to hearts that already have some issues.

Previously riders who died unexpectedly were often on stuff that thickened their blood but obviously nothing like that has been indicated here.

Does anyone have a clue what their policy is for a bike bag? It’s under the single-bag limit but neither airline gives me any info that makes sense. I’ve called both twice and both have said I have to pay or that I don’t. Or that it’s down to the check-in agent. It’s a bit irritating.

Mind you I should have learned my lesson. A few months back I got told to collect my misplaced bag in a non-existent terminal by a Lufthansa idiot who then put the phone down on me when I told him the terminal didn’t exist.

Maybe speaker phone from the pub?

No room lower down without fouling on bottle cage? Or more likely you want the stop where it comes out of the frame or close to. I used to have a pulley based one on a bottom-pull mech which was placed in a slightly awkward location from a crap gathering location.

Awesome isn’t it. Some of these races (see also Tro Bro Léon) are just putting some of the shittest roads, paths and farm tracks they can find near their route and calling it a road race.

oops. Duplicate

Imagine if it was possible to express outrage about things like rape without somehow conflating it with religion or race. PEGIDA don't seem to have done much in the Vatican City recently...

The cadence sensor is only odd as he's got a power-meter that has cadence built in.

Pretty random. A feature on a what, 7-8 year old frameset built up in a fairly standard (if messy) way. There's some odd stuff on it too.. why the cadence sensor, why cable tie the pump over the top of the rear brake cable.

The guy's story is interesting, coming to it quite late and all, but the bike, not so much.

I don't know where I read it but the contract value of those 5 years was rumoured to be more than 10 million pounds.

Great piece here on Twitter mobs and specifically why nobody should listen to them.

https://quillette.com/2018/08/13/nobody-­should-listen-to-twitter-mobs/

Got as far as "Nobody should be fired for tweets" before realising that the article was likely to be trash. People are entitled to say what they want; they're not entitled to avoid the repercussions of saying those things.

Bought one in the 40% off sale at Scicon. Will see how good it is

There's some gold there... I honestly don't know who starts to build a bike and thinks "I need every single colour on the bike and it can't be replicated anywhere else on the bike"

Do we owe him some kind of opportunity to represent himself any further than he already has via his social media accounts? Are we beholden to afford him the benefit of doubt that he clearly has no interest or intention in giving others?

Got to give the other side an opportunity to respond is the usual bullshit argument, no matter how crazy or unacceptable their response may be.

That's not really the worst angle though is it...

I give you this fugly fucking mess..

Whomever coined the term "Hunger Games on wheels" needs a kick in the arse. It somehow makes out that people are expected to die during the event rather than realising deaths in ultra-events are just a microcosm of those cyclists experience all the time

@Oliver Schick - They said there was a metre between the road and the barrier where Mike was riding. So presumably they are saying that the driver was on the shoulder. Looking at Google maps down there, there's a shoulder but I've no idea how long that continues for etc.