Rolling Pro Cycling Thread

jesus @ that sprint

he shoulda raced mtb worlds, he had enough time to recover for road worlds.

For some reason there's a breakaway w/ Quintana, Kelderman and Pernsteiner, and the peloton can't close the gap, which is already 3min.

4.30 now. And we can't even watch it...

mental stage - 31mph average speed. gilbert said he was spinning at 110RPM (!) on his 54x11 (!!)

crowd chanting “¡HI-GUI-TA!” at podium was pretty great.

Yeah, he held on really great. I kinda feel for Pogacar, his first Vuelta's just a couple of days too long for him, but he's been great.

Again confirmed today Quintana cannae hack it uphill right now. Which retroactively renders yesterdays "coup" pretty much useless. I expect Lopez to knock him off third on Saturday.

Roglic caught in a crash, Movistar puts its foot on the gas. QuickStep and Astana giving Valverde a right bollocking.

🇪🇸 #LaVuelta19

After a crash in the peloton, which involved race leader Primoz Roglic (TJV), Movistar have now been removed from every other teams Christmas gift list... 🤷🏼‍♂️ Some order being restored now though, as the break with @ben_oconnor95 has 1’50”.

— Team Dimension Data (@TeamDiData) September 13, 2019

Hell of a run-in by Cavagna there!

VAI POGACAR

weapon

Love that guy

Difficult circumstances in🌈@Yorkshire2019 Road World Championships Men U23 Individual Time Trial. This is the European Champion 🇩🇰@JohanPrice in 🌧️#Yorkshire2019 (📺@Eurosport_UK)pic.twitter.com/D3YJssrnPZ

— World Cycling Stats (@wcsbike) September 24, 2019

"Difficult conditions" you say

looks like my commute to work this morning tbh

I couldnt view that here but im betting its like-

Think you're having a bad day? #Yorkshire2019 pic.twitter.com/g1jDOXF37w

— Elisabeth Anderson (@velobetty) September 24, 2019

lol all the comments i presume from brits going: “der schoolboy amateur! learn to steer a puddle!! loser.”

me, a yank: “whoa, do britishes have no drainage sewer infrastracture at _all_?? that’s fucking barbaric! lol savages. I guess it’s to put out all the stovetop chips fires they have.”

Not a great week to have the World's in Yorkshire. It's been pissing down all week and is going to piss down for the rest of the week too.

The above levels rain are obv ridiculous, but I'd actually welcome rain on Sunday. The course + rain has all the ingredients to make it feel like a classic rainy Flanders classic. I'm pretty stoked for it.

For spectators it's obv a different matter. Are you in the vicinity and plan to have a look NBS?

No, I live in London so Yorkshire's a bit of a trek. Some of my clubmates were talking about going up there, though.

pro tour riders must hate riding in britain

heavy roads, potholes everywhere, terrible weather... at least the crowds are good

Le Grand Depart in the 2014 TDF must have fooled them into thinking that conditions are generally warm, dry and sunny.

not convinced by this move by VDP - still a lot of weapons in the peloton behind him

take that back

spoke too soon again.... ffffffff

brutal. that was like a lightbulb going out

"double leg puncture" says boardman lmao

Brutal race. VDP just blocked by hunger. Trentin *finally* without VDP and then there's Pedersen.

poor trentin, turned on the taps and fuck all came out

Just caught up with this one -- crazy slog at times but damn, what a finish. Trentin just couldn't do it.

coronavirus.......... fuck up

not looking good for MSR or strade bianche

Giro might be in trouble at this rate :/
Het & KBK seem to be still on this weekend though

Giro might be in trouble at this rate :/

We'll all be dead by then, anyway

beast mode from asgreen at KBK

also lol at moscon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFqfqO6CQko

Nice one to keep us going, that.

TdF said today they won't do a tour without spectators, but are still hoping to go through with it this year. That seems positively in vain imo.

ah thx!

this is excellent

i got through much of the intro buildup, will be returning at leisure time. the sense of flow and environment is great. i do seem to distinguish my love of _racing_ as a thing, my appreciation of pro fandom as a thing, and my love of cycling qua cycling. i have tried to explain this to my non bikenerd friends/fam, and they get eye-rolly quite fast as i insist "these are different things. erm, to me."

omg i just got to the part of the tinkoff car watching sagan do the the kwaaremont and it is the fucking best, like “caint tell him nuthin he got his own way to do it” and the other guy is just “yup.”

belgium. what a country

the size of some of these classics riders, man. absolute units

lmao at all the DSs switching effortlessly between english, flemish, dutch, italian and french

DS1 *speaks italian*
DS2 "just speak dutch now. all the italians are fucked. he speaks perfect dutch."

I like that you're enjoying it so much :)

I'll lament the absence of the High Mass of cycling this Sunday

I'd been looking forward to classics season for months (as I do every year.) gutted it's a wash out but these are going some way to filling the gap

two world champs winning the 100th ronde... can't really write that stuff

*(not the 100th women's ronde ofc)

I'm more or less at peace w/ it now, but springtime is HUGE here in the lowlands when it comes to cycling. part of life. c'est la vie, but sorely missed.

I don't believe in the TdF going through either. Vuelta, maybe?