sorry, breh. i'd love to support you in this, but i need proper motor oil and, of course, leather. :mouf
this effete spandex biz is too aia homo for me. :pd
i need more of that fierce truckstop papa grizzly, big bore, long stroke, rock hard iron action :phil
I was gonna build a bike but I think I'm too lazy.
It's hard as fuck to find a sporty bicycle with no gears.
no jesuit you, you servile of the oligarchs!
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I've been riding again now that the snow has melted, still without functional brakes since last fall. It's kind of thrilling actually. You really gotta commit to crossing intersections. Fuck you death, I'm not afraid. :pacspit
Got some preview pics of vularai's new peddle powered whip
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:rejoice
:fabulous
A quality bike is definitely one of the first investments I'll make if / when I ever get my shit together. Well, I want a quality bike but also a junker on the side. There's a certain something about having a junker you can use and abuse without a care. Beat it up, toss it on the ground, run that shit raw. :noah
Is shifting different on these nicer bikes? Always do it while pedaling.
Left side are gears 1, 2, 3, and right side 1-7 on my bike. Don't know what you call them, but I know how they work on my bike :P
I already knew this but what a farce of a sport. Were they just sitting on it?
Hopefully Bedhead Bardet saves us from another :zzz Tour with an amazing stage run ŕ la the 2015 Critérium du Dauphiné or 2016 Tour.
Did people slack on sprint trains because of the roster reduction or because no one is going to take the green jersey from Sagan? The world may never know. (Quick Step isn't the most logically run team so they're inoculated against both I suppose.)
Julian Alaphilippe is having a nice tour so far. Doubt he'll survive the mountains with Quick Step though.
Roubaix is going to be :noah, I'm so stoked.
Also I guess I should out myself as a Direct Énergie supporter. :shaq2
i also have no idea how i eluded this thread for so long. cycling is a huge part of my identity
Movistar SD Arrieta, yesterday:
"Another race will start for us after the cobblestones stage. But we don't have three leaders. We have only one leader: it's Nairo Quintana because of his past at the Tour de France."
The only thing that really bothers me is the question is how can we make breakaways a viable alternative in the flatter stages instead of a fool's errand (or hopeless publicity stunt). I'm not sure it's possible in this age of radios.
Sagan :lol
great bit of coverage - well spotted by Millar
Boulting I wonder why Ag2R have come to the front - looks like Naesen and Vuillermoz - not sure why they are there
Millar - Could be because of the wind maybe a change of direction its a tail cross at the moment --- (
sudden helicopter shot showing 90 degree turn in road and long flat straight) ...no look they will turn and it will be a cross wind and that will start to cause mayhem starting from the back ( peloton completely lined out now) - echelons could form
Boulting ( intrigued) yes , yes gaps are forming , Kristoff chasing ...a group has gone clear
Prediction accuracy 100% : Insight 100%
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Kirby: Some cyclists from the same team with the blue and brown jerseys are on the front . Maybe it's a feed zone. Well they are feeding on the excitement of the crowd. Oh this is marvellous.
Elon Musk is really sad it's not raining, would have loved to get his submarine out to rescue a trapped rider. Quintana would fit it easily.
He could save the world you know.
Dekker_Tifosi wrote:
Kittel, Cavendish and Groenewegen make the time limit with only 30 seconds to spare
elle colorés me surprised, Thomas attacked Froome and vice versa. This will throw a wrench in the Sky finely tuned locomotive, hopefully, because otherwise Froome seems on the level with only Dumoulin as a serious contender if it comes down to the ITT...
Vomistar :trash
We have a better idea of who really contend for the podium now.
elle colorés me surprised, Thomas attacked Froome and vice versa. This will throw a wrench in the Sky finely tuned locomotive, hopefully, because otherwise Froome seems on the level with only Dumoulin as a serious contender if it comes down to the ITT...
Vomistar :trash
We have a better idea of who really contend for the podium now.
Again, I am only a casual watcher and I only saw the last 30km today, but Thomas and Froome looked like they just got out of the shower ready to go when they crossed the finish line.
How in the world is that possible?
Much of that stress seemed to be of Vaughters’s own creation. He’d been relying on some creative accounting — to put it kindly — for the last few years to effectively inflate the team’s budget beyond its actual means. Every team in the WorldTour has a bank guarantee with the UCI, so that if the team folds, salaries continue to be paid for about three months. Slipstream had been leaning on this guarantee, only funding itself through October of each year. If it didn’t find a sponsor by then, it would run out of money and the UCI would pay salaries through the end of the year.
Edit : on financing, a quote (origin unclear)found on CN regarding Vaughterd...QuoteMuch of that stress seemed to be of Vaughters’s own creation. He’d been relying on some creative accounting — to put it kindly — for the last few years to effectively inflate the team’s budget beyond its actual means. Every team in the WorldTour has a bank guarantee with the UCI, so that if the team folds, salaries continue to be paid for about three months. Slipstream had been leaning on this guarantee, only funding itself through October of each year. If it didn’t find a sponsor by then, it would run out of money and the UCI would pay salaries through the end of the year.
http://forum.cyclingnews.com/viewtopic.php?p=2207998#p2207998
idk if Bardet can podium this year. He lost yet another teammate last stage and the mountains are going to add up fast with Naesen. He'll need an amazing solo (again).
Sucks that he's on the back foot and Uran is out.
QuoteThis Sagan bloke is utterly dominating the sprints.
Beat the plucky French hope.
Why aren't the crowd booing? :P
Maybe they are asleep?
tour ratings are down for both france and the uk
it's hard to know if its solely attributed to the world cup, the recent scandals surrounding team sky or the tour being the same damn thing year in and year out due to the expensive sky train. my guess is all three
Guess Movistar needs a couple more leaders
I guess it's like a scene in a heist movie when they put the crew together
"So who's in Froomey's 8"
"We've got a solid crew, G, a lot of good guys. Kwiato and Week Three Wout you know. JC from the Valverde gang and this Colombian kid we've been hearing all about"
"Who's the muscle?"
"Our man Luke as usual and Moscon."
"Moscon, are you crazy?"
"I know, I know, I've heard the stories too, but I did a score with him in Spain and he was OK"
"But the kid's a hothead"
"Sure. Look, I wanted Kneesy from the Italian Job, or Dutch Dylan, but this comes from the top. The Big D has insisted, so forget about it"
At Km 0, riders shall be positioned in the same order as the general classification after the previous stage. They shall be distributed into five different groups. The first twenty riders in the general classification shall be included in the first group in offset rows with the wearer of the yellow jersey in first place. Riders shall then position themselves freely in the other groups corresponding to their places in the general classification.
I suspect the GC domestiques sprinting up through the field to 'help' might cause more carnage than anything at the front.
QUINTANA MADE IT TO VALVERDE
:gddr5
WHERE ARE YOU BIKE BORES
oh, tomorrow is a flat recovery stage :fbm
Also Froome was apparently shoved down by a policeman (mistaking him for an amateur, the race was still going for the last riders it seems) while riding down post stage.
All in all it's been a petty Tour. :fbm
https://www.instagram.com/p/Blpp8mdgmvx/?hl=en
all the injuries indured during this year's tdf really puts all the diving during the world cup in perspective, no?
https://www.instagram.com/p/Blpp8mdgmvx/?hl=en
all the injuries indured during this year's tdf really puts all the diving during the world cup in perspective, no?
When I met John Degenkolb I thought to myself, "You're this small? But you're such a badass! ???"
Dawaj Rafal!
It looked like Zakarin's brakes started to give way at the end of the stage before he fell off the back. Not a great look for the only SRAM team.
Is the tour still a thing? Serious question, how is viewership nowadays? Only hearing bar things about this years Tour.
:doge
It looked like Zakarin's brakes started to give way at the end of the stage before he fell off the back. Not a great look for the only SRAM team.
zakarin is such a shit descender though. it was more likely a flat spot causesd by the way he was skidding around the corners
he also did the gc group a favor by going in the back... even the Eurosport commentators were mentioning how he needed to go in the back before he causes an accident
Team Sky to become Team Ineos, possibly with even more budget.
Direct Énergie rumored to get a sponsorship from French Big Oil company Total.
Is this green washing ?
There's talk of BIG MONEY and BIG TRANSFERS around with Total now in the fray, latest rumors are Kristoff and Alaphilippe. I'm a little concerned that we'll see once more a top French rider suddenly plateau and underperform after he gets his top contract with a French team. I don't know if it's complacency, management issues, skewed perception or something else but it never really pans out optimally.
If Froome were Kenyan-Kenyan and named something like Chris Frumchotui, he would've been the darling of this forum for at least a couple of years.
VK, just wanted to say that while I don't care for the Giro I'm really appreciating the updates. :respect
QuoteQuoteWhat just happened? Somebody destroyed a bike in front of break:D
I was only listening to RAI coverage and they were talking about some crazy guy throwing stuff.
I could not see what happened, fortunately nobody got hurt.
EDIT: it has just been reported by RAI that, apparently, he was a bit inebriated and wanted to participate in today's stage, he was obbiously denied that, so he lost his marbles
Wiggins is wild
QuoteI think Carapaz just likes grimacing for no reason
Perhaps he trains with Voekler in the offseason?
Scott would have done better with Nieve for GC
Quotei put 500$ on campenaarts x 1.75, easy money.
YIKES
It‘s easy to hate on Froome and Team Sky in general, but I hope he will be a ble to recover soon.
The tone of the comments to this news has been incredibly vile.
looks like this is 51's race to win
WHAT THE FUCK
https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racing/tour-de-france/difficult-weather-forces-tour-de-france-shorten-stage-20-just-59km-432930
vuelta, anybody? :-\