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 salacious inaudible (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 07:04 (four years ago) link
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?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 07:14 (four years ago) link
No, I live in London so Yorkshire's a bit of a trek. Some of my clubmates were talking about going up there, though.
― the salacious inaudible (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 18:51 (four years ago) link
pro tour riders must hate riding in britain
― stoffle (||||||||), Sunday, 29 September 2019 12:57 (four years ago) link
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.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 29 September 2019 13:31 (four years ago) link
not convinced by this move by VDP - still a lot of weapons in the peloton behind him
― stoffle (||||||||), Sunday, 29 September 2019 14:22 (four years ago) link
take that back
― stoffle (||||||||), Sunday, 29 September 2019 14:39 (four years ago) link
spoke too soon again.... ffffffff
― stoffle (||||||||), Sunday, 29 September 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link
brutal. that was like a lightbulb going out
"double leg puncture" says boardman lmao
― stoffle (||||||||), Sunday, 29 September 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
Brutal race. VDP just blocked by hunger. Trentin *finally* without VDP and then there's Pedersen.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 29 September 2019 15:26 (four years ago) link
poor trentin, turned on the taps and fuck all came out
― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Sunday, 29 September 2019 15:34 (four years ago) link
Just caught up with this one -- crazy slog at times but damn, what a finish. Trentin just couldn't do it.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 October 2019 23:51 (four years ago) link
coronavirus.......... fuck up
― ||||||||, Friday, 28 February 2020 09:34 (four years ago) link
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
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 28 February 2020 10:06 (four years ago) link
Giro might be in trouble at this rate :/
We'll all be dead by then, anyway
― the salacious inaudible (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 28 February 2020 23:20 (four years ago) link
beast mode from asgreen at KBK
― ||||||||, Sunday, 1 March 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link
also lol at moscon
― ||||||||, Sunday, 1 March 2020 15:45 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFqfqO6CQko
― ||||||||, Thursday, 2 April 2020 10:31 (four years ago) link
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.
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 2 April 2020 10:38 (four years ago) link
ah thx!
― blather rinse repeat 2020 (Hunt3r), Thursday, 2 April 2020 10:43 (four years ago) link
this is excellent
― ||||||||, Thursday, 2 April 2020 10:50 (four years ago) link
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."
― blather rinse repeat 2020 (Hunt3r), Thursday, 2 April 2020 14:38 (four years ago) link
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.”
― blather rinse repeat 2020 (Hunt3r), Friday, 3 April 2020 04:06 (four years ago) link
belgium. what a country
― ||||||||, Friday, 3 April 2020 08:51 (four years ago) link
the size of some of these classics riders, man. absolute units
― ||||||||, Friday, 3 April 2020 09:13 (four years ago) link
lmao at all the DSs switching effortlessly between english, flemish, dutch, italian and french
― ||||||||, Friday, 3 April 2020 09:26 (four years ago) link
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
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 3 April 2020 09:28 (four years ago) link
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
― ||||||||, Friday, 3 April 2020 09:42 (four years ago) link
two world champs winning the 100th ronde... can't really write that stuff
― ||||||||, Friday, 3 April 2020 09:47 (four years ago) link
*(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?
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 3 April 2020 09:50 (four years ago) link
No chance the tour happens. Worlds? Lombardia? As the last races standing? If this goes long enough the Melbourne to Warnambool is going to have some new found relevance.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 3 April 2020 11:35 (four years ago) link
("what is that growing there?" "i dunno...uh" "barley i guess.")
^^springtime DS commentary recognizing that 'springtime is HUGE' in the lowlands. i can't remember exactly what the commentary was, but i was glad the editors left that in there.
― blather rinse repeat 2020 (Hunt3r), Friday, 3 April 2020 16:26 (four years ago) link
Lombardia, gheh, first and last race of the season, hadn't thought of that.
Still rooting for the Vuelta though (which will depart in the Netherlands).
― Ludo, Friday, 3 April 2020 16:48 (four years ago) link
i was thinking lombardia would be an interesting site and a difficult one given the extreme difficulties they had there. i'd love for cycling to "lift them up," but they may need better therapy than that.
― blather rinse repeat 2020 (Hunt3r), Friday, 3 April 2020 17:19 (four years ago) link
virtual de ronde... hmmm
― suggesteban buttez (||||||||), Sunday, 5 April 2020 13:39 (four years ago) link
The Tour de France has been officially postponed to 29 August owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, and will finish on 20 September, the organiser, Amaury Sport Organisation, confirmed on Wednesday. Shifting the centrepiece of the cycling calendar will involve a delicate juggling act with the other two Grand Tours, the Vuelta a España and the world road championships, and the five “monument” one-day Classics all jostling for space at the end of the season when it is hoped that major sports events in Europe will resume.
lads
― megan thee macallan 18 year (||||||||), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 16:46 (four years ago) link
you're at it
now of this is happening fs
― megan thee macallan 18 year (||||||||), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 16:47 (four years ago) link
none*
seems highly unlikely but i like that they are hopeful
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 18:16 (four years ago) link
Finally a chance for Tim “I hate temperatures above 0” Wellens to win a frosty Giro!
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 19:00 (four years ago) link
-1st August: Strade Bianche (Italy)
-5-9 August: Tour de Pologne (Poland)
-8 August: Milano-Sanremo (Italy)
-12-16 August: Critérium du Dauphiné (France)
-16 August: Prudential RideLondon-Surrey Classic (Great Britain)
-25 August: Bretagne Classic - Ouest-France (France)
-29 August -20 September : Tour de France (France)
-7-14 September: Tirreno-Adriatico (Italy)
-11 September: Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec (Canada)
-13 September: Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal (Canada)
-29 September -3 October: BinckBank Tour
-30 September: La Flèche Wallonne (Belgium)
-3-25 October: Giro d'Italia (Italy)
-4 October: Liège-Bastogne-Liège (Belgium)
-10 October: Amstel Gold Race (the Netherlands)
-11 October: Gent-Wevelgem in Flanders Fields (Belgium)
-14 October: A Travers la Flandre (Belgium)
-15-20 October: Gree - Tour of Guangxi (China)
-18 October: Tour des Flandres (Belgium)
-20 October - 8 November: Vuelta Ciclista a España (Spain)
-21 October: Driedaagse Brugge-De Panne (Belgium)
-25 October: Paris-Roubaix (France)
-31 October: Il Lombardia (Italy)
So not gonna happen? Stoked for this insane, one-off super season crammed into autumn, put me down.
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 07:47 (three years ago) link
brb buying two extra televisions for Oct 25th: Giro finishes, Paris-Roubaix, Vuelta 😅
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 07:51 (three years ago) link
Some strong “let’s just do it and be legends man” vibes happening
― inveterate practitioner of antisocial distancing (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 08:47 (three years ago) link
Women’s Paris-roubaix is the best news. If the do it right it will be Paris-Roubaix without that tedious getting to the cobbles bit
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 09:42 (three years ago) link