Rolling Pro Cycling Thread

He did the whole of the Tour that started in Corsica (2013? 2014?) with a broken pelvis

Re: Quinn Simmons: No more USA pros from rich-guy Colorado families please. Just turn over all the USA cycling development money to the Williams bros. Funny how Trek and Spesh have traded places on the 'Evil / Good' spectrum.

Imagine how much cooler USA cycling would be if Lance had not turned into a GC guy and remained a Valverde-style one-day Puncheur and the next gen USA star after him was Rahsaan Bahati... sprinting for the Green Jersey vs McEwen and Cav on the Champs. Instead of what we got, which was...Teejay :(

Its like horner (ca) and floyd (pa/ca) and hamilton (ma/?) never happened innit. One of them won a gt even.

v atmospheric ending to the stage today, some ride by Ganna too

i am missing the giro but the availability and pricing on this shit doesn't work. the old pirate shit i could do in the 00s and early 10s is too fraught and annoying. i thought about like vpn and gcn but fuck that lifes too short and i pretend to be a grown-ass adult so... post youtubular highlights when you feel it!

fwiw i had v positive interaction with flobikes concerning how their billing structure worked last year, and they did me right. still, i ain't buying a years worth of flobikes. they could bump a month to month up to $25 (from $13) and i might do a few of those, buuut as is, nope.

VPN + RAI free to air is the way to go IMO, although I haven’t had a a chance to watch anything yet. I should have a chance to to watch some today.

Anyone give any insight into why there is a pedelec category at the MTB worlds?

To provide Ad copy for bike brands.

As I suspected

lol i just threw the rai feed up, it looks like today happened...at night, holy shit, ha. thanks for the encouragement to just go for rai, Ed.

saw a reported de gendt take: "I had just closed 2'40" with a Movistar backpack. Then I was like: everyone can win, except you. When Filippo Ganna went, I would rather he won. I then made it a goal to ride on Rubio's wheel, so that he didn't get forward." haha!

Juju nearly made the same mistake in Brabantse Pijl yesterday as on Sunday (celebrating too early), only this time Van der Poel had gravely misjudged the sprint. Visible sigh of relief from Juju after the finish line.

De Gendt otm btw

Yates out of the Giro after testing positive for Covid
the rest of his team have tested negative so far but it must be pretty unlikely that no one else has it

also Paris-Roubaix cancelled boooooo

Shit, I hope Yates doesn’t suffer long term consequence of this.

Also boo on roubaix, an October roubaix and the forts running of the women’s race was a pretty exciting prospect. I’m still surprised the tour got to the end though and I’m not sure I entirely believe how few positives there were for the rona.

Getting thru tdf was pretty impressive to me.
Could be luck, but at that scale seems also an example of good compliance by riders and staff of personal discipline wrt bubbling.

Or could be a lil crafty deception, bit that is hard to pull off at scale, too.

RIP 20 roubaix. 🙁

The whole Mitchelton-Scott team and TJV's Steven Kruijswijk out of the Giro w/ the rona. Simon Yates already left earlier. And this is just after the first week... :-/

unnamed (so far) Sunweb rider as well

plus one staff member from each of Ineos and AG2R
what a mess

I'll be amazed if the Vuelta gets completed this year - might not even start

Michael Matthews is the Sunweb rider who tested positive

Sunweb rider is Michael Matthews. Praying 4 Kelderman.

Can't imagine the Giro finishing, let alone the Vuelta starting at this rate. Vlaanderen on Sunday may be the last big one.

xp

Jumbo Visma now out completely.

My money's on 'The Shark from Messina' being the last rider in the Giro and winning this.

Do they even start today?

A lot of careers could be ended by this, and worse.

They're well under way today

Vaughters is being a disingenuous tit. In or out, Man.

https://apb-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/SpotlightArticle_Blackbox107469-780x405.jpg

^^ me trying to see the Giro, Vuelta and Driedaagse De Panne stages at the same time today.

And I can't let this thread roll on without a mere mention of the best ride this year, Flanders last Sunday. The last km was pure poetry.

https://cdn-cyclingtips.pressidium.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/85B_6411-2-1.jpg

More of that here: https://cyclingtips.com/2020/10/a-photographers-view-of-the-best-race-of-the-year/

https://cdn-cyclingtips.pressidium.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020-tour-of-flanders-alaphilippe-crash-1-of-2.jpg

i'm impressed with alaphillipe's ability to be an impulsive jackass, to be so successful with that model, and yet also still be charismatically likeable.

like, i was glad he lost when he posted up early, but i still felt terrible watching him crash himself outta the ronde. (i am def one of those guys who thinks it was bad luck but on him).

Otm on all of that. I get nervous just seeing him ride, imagine being in a breakaway with him. But yes, very likeable all the same. His crash was def on him.

was v sad at the crash tbh cos 1) I was super hyped to see the headsup fight between him, Wout and VdPoel 2) the TV camera lingering on him rolling around in agony for far too long. was VdPoels turn today, what a sport.

After catching up on the stelvio I’m now watching the peloton opt to do the first 100km of today’s stage by bus.

Yup. Tbf a flat 260km ride in a third week is madness.

Meantime I’ve been watching the Vuelta — steady competition so far, Bennett’s win today was a nice burst right at the end.

Blimey: Hart and Hindley go into tomorrows final stage with the exact same time. We’ve not had that in one of the big three yet.

... and TGH is scottish !
https://i.imgur.com/55Vfg5p.jpg

Amazing today

rohan dennis has attained legend status with his rides on the stelvio and sestriere

tomorrow is going to be intense

loved didi in a mask

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FUCKIN' YASSSSSSS

Amazing

Will watch the TT in a bit, but what an epic finish. We have an embarrassment of riches in terms of talent to watch for the next few years. I'm now rooting for Enric Mas in the Vuelta so we can merge the GC and young riders classifications in all the grand tours.

Ineos will be wishing this season is over asap.

― Ilxor in the streets, Scampo in the sheets (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, October 6, 2020 12:57 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

This didn't age well lol. It's amazing Hart started the first TT just thinking he'd be there to support G (and lost a minute + there), only to win it. With 7 stage wins in the bag for them, and a good Carapaz in the Vuelta.

worth a watch - sunweb doc on the stelvio, sestriere and milan stages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHTgOFJxecg&feature=emb_title

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHTgOFJxecg