Rolling Pro Cycling Thread

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?

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.

("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.

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).

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.

virtual de ronde... hmmm

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

you're at it

now of this is happening fs

none*

seems highly unlikely but i like that they are hopeful

Finally a chance for Tim “I hate temperatures above 0” Wellens to win a frosty Giro!

Finally a chance for Tim “I hate temperatures above 0” Wellens to win a frosty Giro!

-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.

brb buying two extra televisions for Oct 25th: Giro finishes, Paris-Roubaix, Vuelta 😅

Some strong “let’s just do it and be legends man” vibes happening

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

what do we reckon... these races going to go ahead or nah ? expecting some cancellations on a case-by-case / country-by-country basis

Impossible to say really. Vuelta à Burgos starts tomorrow, and unless they cancel it tonight, they'll go ahead with it, I'm sure. Don't know what will happen if one or two or eight riders or staff members get the Rona. Spain is experiencing something of a second wave, it's flaring up all over the country.

You just reminded me Saturday is Strade Bianchi. What a long long wait it's been!

Looks like everything is going just as well as one could expect.

https://cyclingtips.com/2020/07/how-coronavirus-has-affected-bike-racing-an-on-the-ground-perspective/

from the comments there:

Meanwhile in Romania, a week before the Sibiu Tour, 750+ positive cases discharged themselves from hospital and new cases surged to record levels while the race was on. Alpecin-Fenix and Androni Gioccatoli-Sidermec pulled out before the race, but the riders from Bora-Hansgrohe, Israel Start-Up Nation and Bardiani that raced in Romania are now blocked by the Italian government from racing again until August 11 (meaning they'll miss Strade-Bianche and Milan-San Remo).

https://cyclingtips.com/2020/07/sibiu-tour-riders-blocked-from-racing-strade-bianche-milan-san-remo/

... the beginning of the end

interesting and not great

Start to the season couldn't have been much better w/ Saturday's Strade. What a ride.

Oh good, cycling’s back :-/

Vue de très près de l'énorme chute😱🥵 sur la ligne d'arrivée sur la 1ère étape du @Tour_de_Pologne 🇵🇱@FabioJakobsen @GroenewegenD@deceuninck_qst @Team_JumboVisma #TDP20
#tourdepologne 🇵🇱 pic.twitter.com/Fi7xXYkAHW

— Pistolero10 (@pistolero100917) August 5, 2020

yeah not watching that. heard it was horrible

highlights so far

remco still a beast
annemiek still a beast
wout still a cutie
RIP froome