Pro Cycling Discussion 3: 2024 The Year of Crashes?

[Zebra Cheeks]

I’m not sure he’ll have to exert himself too much in this last week with that 6 min time gap.

I think that became the plan. Finish it on week 2 so you can’t take it easy

 

[Flower2dPeople]

TdF training rides for Pog until the end of the Giro.

 

[Videer]

Todays stage cut even more as the first 80km are cut due to bad weather in the high mountains.

Easy win for Pog if UAE is up for controlling the flat.

 

[Videer]

POG unbeatable today with cold and wet buffs. UAE did not even have to work hard.

Pog had his clothes and sunnies robbed off him by Italian mafia at the finish line tho?! Where are the Carabinieri?!

 

[Yorick]

No point even watching anymore.

 

[Zebra Cheeks]

Jonas got a butterfly tattoo on his arm

 

[Flower2dPeople]

Jonas got a butterfly tattoo on his arm

His in his rebellious stage. If I'm a gc rider and an alien with a butterfly tattoo dropped me on a climb, I would retire from road racing and go full on gravel where the competition is easier.

 

[Zebra Cheeks]

No point even watching anymore.

I’m just here for the podium battle

 

[Yorick]

Yeah of course there’s that.
Agreed.

 

[Videer]

G and O Connor looked pretty weak on the finale, Tiberi looked good. I dont think that the cat killer Tiberi can gain enough time on them to score podium because he has lost so much during his weak days.

Though it is a hard final week, anything could happen!

 

[therealdope]

No point even watching anymore.

You'll miss Pogacar when he's done.

 

[Zebra Cheeks]

You'll miss Pogacar when he's done.

I know I will.

I feel like Jonas vs pogacar is one of the greatest rivalries in sports with one of the most memorable moments in cycling (granon). I mean, yeah, when they are going on uncontested 80km flyers it’s boring at times. But for me the last few years it’s like a build up until they face off again.

 

[Zebra Cheeks]

they are thinning from so far out. If your in the right move today you can gain minutes

 

[Zebra Cheeks]

Happy for steinhausser. That was a great win for him. EF quietly building quite the team of young up and comers

 

[Videer]

Win number 4 for the ciclamino monster today? Merlier has been worse than expected tbh! Most of the others sprinters have abandoned.

 

[therealdope]

WHat gear are these guys riding? If the motobike speed is correct the break is going 54k/h and the cadence looks like it is 85.

53x11 at 90 rpm is 54.5k/h so these guy must be running a 54t chainring.

 

[Videer]

I think 55/54-42 is probably the most used chainring combo for shimano sponsored teams on flat stages. SRAM has 56/43 I believe.

 

[Flower2dPeople]

I think 55/54-42 is probably the most used chainring combo for shimano sponsored teams on flat stages. SRAM has 56/43 I believe.

So Dura-ace at 55x11 and 56x10 for Sram?

 

[therealdope]

I think 55/54-42 is probably the most used chainring combo for shimano sponsored teams on flat stages. SRAM has 56/43 I believe.

Ridiculous. I can remember when 53x12 was the standard 'big gear'.

 

[Yorick]

You'll miss Pogacar when he's done.

When he's done?

From the looks of him, he'll be around for a decent amount of time.

Unless you're implying he's propped up.