Steele Von Hoff's 2014 Pro Thread

FYXO had paris-roubaix on at his shop for a couple of years there, but that's northside wheelers now. total thrush might have it! haha. I'll keep an eye out in any case.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/media/ALeqM5jLqloSVO8B6Bfq_O1jyeVMmEE_tw?size=l

smdh at this look, factory pilots windscreens are a concept that do not need resurrection.

otoh it does look like winning, which forgives almost anything

LOL, My current goggles are factory pilots.

I would wear POCs if I weren't poor

yeah well, you make that shit look good! :)

i didn't really mind hejedal's Plastic Man POC plastic aviators, but man the slagter shades are at least not meant for his skinny face imo.

by the way, slagter's annihilation of the contenders in his second P-N win was amaaaaaaaayzing. it's one thing to blast off gilbert style, it's another to be so confident in your dominance that you can just cover three straight attacks, while riding on the front, always in the wind, while side-eyeing your opposition- like it ain't nothing. then a few hard strokes and taking it.

http://www.steephill.tv/players/720/eurosport/?title=Last+Km+of+Stage+7&dashboard=paris-nice&id=watch-slagter-win-paris-nice-164754485&yr=2014

Haven't got enough bandwidth to watch that but the reports seemed pretty impressive. There seem to be an embarrassment of classics young pretenders right now. Should be good watching them battle to ruin Boonen and cancellera's last hurrahs.

can i just

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http://www.tririg.com/articles/2012_08_Taylor_Phinney_BMC_TM01/650/2012_08_Taylor_Phinney_BMC_TM01_2.jpg

He is the reason I have a pair, he was on the post-giro show a couple of years ago wearing them and I went straight to eBay. Still haven't found any pink skinny jeans, though.

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oh well, it was phinney pere in pilots

lol, i forget he could just be raiding the old man's cupboard

i mean i know he's not, but if anyone was ever going to...

Whenever I think of Davis he's in those bolle shields from coors light era. I had a pair of them they fucking pink. Fluoro pink. With this weird as detachable foam lined sweat bar.

"Were" f'ing pink

I think POC needs to revive detachable foam sweatbar, that was a feature.

I could do with some neon pick Bolles to go with my neon pick jersey and neon pink bar bike. POC pinks are more giro or fuchsia.

wanna embrace pink properly in next kit. has it been overdone?

I don't see a lot of it out on the roads of Melbourne, other than that one team that takes design cues from Lampre.

GF got me a great neon pink jersey and arm warmers from Northside Wheelers for Xmas, it has been my colour way since then.

lol guys how old are u my old ticker will not take another flouropink era i fear

richard moore tweeting last night post-MSR saying he chatted with kristoff at katusha team launch - was already fancying his chances, also said he feels as good after 290km as he does after 100

Bloody DVR crapped out when Nibali attacked so I didn't get to see the end.

my feed froze at 700m to go! after a minute it went straight to congratulatory hugs, but i saw the replays.

fwiw I saw it all.

Ed - picture Nibali pulling away up the Cipressa, opening up a gap of about 45 seconds on the chasing peloton while getting closer and closer to the leading two. The Eurosport commentary team (now some Irish bloke partnering Sean Kelly, instead of the excellent David Harmon) say that he's gone so far out, he must be hoping he can catch those two by the end of the descent so that he'll have someone to share the work on the flat section before the Poggio. However, not long after that he goes flying straight past both of them and leaves them for dead on the soaking descent. But the gap is narrowing, slowly but surely, and he only has about 15 seconds when they reach the Poggio. He gets reeled in and instantly dropped. No attacks stick, the lead group, with Cavendish still in it, begin the terrifying descent into San Remo...

Hunter - they enter the final straight, Cavendish opens up his sprint early on the left (as we look at it), he goes into the lead, then suddenly seems to lose all energy and sits back down again, Kristoff storms clear and Cancellara is left banging his handlebars in frustrated cartoon villain style.

Interestingly I think it was david harmon on the SBS feed

kelly on mine, but with whom i can't say.

wait we didn't talk about contador and his breakaway trailer paperboying the final climb in that tirreno stage, did we? because im pretty sure when pistolero paperboys it's steep. amazing.

http://www.steephill.tv/players/youtube3/?title=Last+2.5+Km+of+Stage+5&dashboard=tirreno-adriatico&id=kN1BUAv4fdI&yr=2014

that looked fucking. awful.

30% are you even

Flanders was really good today, I thought

I thought terpstra was going to get across at the end while the front four were freewheeling along looking at each other in the last km!

Damn, pity SBS only had the last 36km but at least the DVR kept up with it.

OPQS is looking like too many chiefs not enough indians, especially with boonen not firing on all cylinders. Also would have been interesting to see where gearing thomas may have ended up if he hadn't spent so much time on the deck.

Can't argue with Cancellara's tactical nouse, even if he can't TT off the front like he used to he can still out think the you guys in a small bunch. I have to ask the question, has he really lost the ability to dump people like he used to or has the change in course joined with a desire to win differently? It certainly makes for better TV.

Track standing in the velodrome next sunday?

omg that crash roll at steephill esp jvs :(

Gearing Thomas

basque country looks like it'd be nice to visit

In other news, the wheels appear to have come off the sky GT bus. Froome is MIA with an injured back, Porte has been pulled from the giro and Contador looks very very strong.

it's no "steele von hoff" but the name "stig broeckx" sounds and looks legit for cobble action.

^^agree w/ this, born for it

haitch, total rush is doing a Paris Roubaix screening on sunday, if you are interested

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/17xIAuFInNBhRkAhUSxm-Zd-STAiO37FG4QgYFIilvS0/viewform

I can't! doing dinner with the fam, probably won't get back in time unforch. there's a few places screening it by the looks - TR, fitzroy revolution, a bloc...

I know him more from MotoGP, but figured this was a good place to ask the Brits:

What is Carlton Kirby's accent exactly? I figure it's Northern, but is it Manchester? Sheffield?

Kind of nondescript, really couldn't say where he's from.

Great race.

i like the winner, but i thought it was pretty boring. it would get to the edge of exciting and then fizzle regroup.

I enjoyed that,

Slightly marred by the fact that on my ride home someone in a white ford falcon estate to the trouble to lead out of their window and hit me. No lights on so not even the slightest inkling of their number plate.

Not sure it was boring, I had my money on degenkolb when it all came together. I was truly impressed to see sky ride a decent classics race even if I didn't think they had much of a chance from that final bunch. In the end though Boonen's super domestique work secured the win.

was bummed to see gva go down and have to chase back in, i was hoping he'd get a shot out of that group.

hope youre ok ed, that's super scary.

I'm fine, it could have been a lot worse.

Thomas:

I was on the back just trying to catch my breath. I was hoping that Brad would go but when he didn’t, the [Giant-] Shimano guy started coming and I rode with him. I was hoping that Brad would hit them in the end, but I guess he didn’t felt confident in doing so. Maybe he was waiting for Fabian to try something, I don’t know. I committed myself for him and that was it.

Wiggins:

There’s a tinge of disappointment. I really had legs, even in the final, I felt strong. I was pinching myself a little bit, I don’t mind admitting that. I attacked, and then after that, I don’t know really, I just felt out-numbered. And the run-in was quite fast in the last five kilometres. Terpstra played it perfectly with Stybar and Boonen. It was a real honour to be in the final, going past Boonen on the Carrefour was special. And then to come on the velodrome with a group like Cancellara. To be there was great. It gave me confidence that I can do it now and match those guys.

ppl r riding 4 u stop pinching urself

I did wonder what they were up to - I thought maybe everyone was waiting for the inevitable surge from Cancellara that didn't come. I was hoping Wiggins was waiting for them to get over the final proper section of cobbles and then just try to break clear and time trial his way home.

http://open.spotify.com/user/nicstevenson/playlist/4UzwfZhomtYoZpdnQ8c109

Not sure I like the idea of the top cyclists competing in all three grand tours. I mean, I love the idea of seeing the big fish go head to head more often, but comparing the cycling calendar to sports like tennis seems a bit wrongheaded given the energy expense over such long periods of time. Am I missing something?

Ooh hello, a finish *and* a start in Rodez next year? That is highly convenient for my parents' place.

one TT at the start! froome unimpressed according to reports.

the "all the big names at all grand tours" thing would help strengthen the position of the giro and vuelta, which would be good. I'm sceptical to say the least at the level of form each contender would bring to each race, though - which is probably the main issue that counts against it.

RIP Paul Sherwen.

https://www.twitter.com/lancearmstrong/status/1069342584840089602

seems a bit too early for a dedicated TdF thread but: froome out, broken femur

Remco?!

Pro tour bout to be dominated by low country cyclocrossers and colombian climbers for the next half decade

one group has vo2max and handling that will break you, the other has watt's/kg ftp that will...also break you. they must fite each other now.

mvdp just did another last lap CRUSH on shurter and now fluckiger. it's...his world man.

bike racing
it's good man

bike racing
it's good man

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PR this year one of the best races i've seen in ages

yup

Rolling Pro Cycling Thread

not sure about this glasgow course - the elite RRs coud be carnage if it rains. so twisty !

what a race. psyched for the U23 and women’s elite RR next week

I’m a roglic bidon truther

GC kuss

“why did he hi five and not try to get the red”

i think he’s just awesome like that and also doesn’t need the boys to suffer any extra on his account tbh lol

GCN+ dead, I'm devastated

Pog has activated beast mode

what if i was pogacar in maillot jaune
what if i was lipowitz no myth

Love a good breakaway stage.

#strongestrider

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/sports/cycling/samuel-abt-dead.html

Great stage (11). Was it weird they slowed for Pogacar?

Yes amazing stage. The (mostly 2-man, sometimes 3 and briefly 5-man) breakaway averaged 30mph (!) for 97 miles with 5700 feet of climbing.

Not weird to slow for when the Yellow jersey crashes, it's not considered good sport to attack when the Yellow Jersey is on the ground/flatted/mechanical... although obviously this has happened a few times in the tour that I can remember (Kruijswijk in 16, Shleck in 10, probably several dozen more times i can't recall).

Of the 171 finishers (+1 withdrawal) of today's stage, only 14! finished within TEN minutes of Pogi.

my old teammate reminded me of this flashback today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCOXDSuTNwU (start @1m49s)

Alaphilippe crashes
dislocates shoulder
pops his shoulder back in
gets in a breakaway
drives breakaway
wins group sprint from the break

and thinks he's won the stage

There has been no shortage of unlikeable American cyclists but qu1nn s1mm0ns might be the worst in decades. i thought he might shaped up after his suspension but he gave a post-race interview today which just furthered his contemptibility. What an absolute rotten apple. Where's Hunt3r?

Pogi almost taken out at the finish... wtf

here. i changed accounts and all my bookmarks and habits went out the window. on a rare surface scan of sna i saw "steele" and was jus lol wtf what's this.

it's too late for fun discussion. i am going to retun to the votives to pray that cycling satan delivers pr1m0z a buyout to movistar in time for the vuelta. trident? bident? nah mas is already 30, they need a polident. it would be glorious. it's the fucking vuelta, nothing serious-- horner won it at 41, eh? he did win it still, right?

when the tour has 2 stages left and i'm posting about the vuelta possibilities, that's how good it's been haha. (jk it's been fun enough).

Great idea for Parisienne stage, Montmartre is tailor-made for der #strongestrider, loved seeing the shattered & fractured remnants of various grupettoos rolling in on les Champs instead of the typical boring 200m finale.

I hope it takes.

Hunt3r, thoughts on qu1nn s1mm0ns? did you ever race him as a junior?

he’s a MAGA chud

https://www.threads.com/@woutvanart/post/DMqBYmnIk3Q?xmt=AQF0QTjgz9sp86pyP77uxYrOb2nxFgGpW29jerXRS_ny3Q