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2019-08-21 - 2019-08-25 Tour of Denmark (2.HC)
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It’s valverde’s year. He’s gonna do it.
>hamburg cyclassics again forgotten thanks to the vuelta starting weekend
at least they run about 400m away from my parents' home again
kek
Movistar roster
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Chadapaz about to dab on Quintana and Boomberde.
Nice thread
>fOuR LeAdErs TaCtIcs
>Tour of Denmark
So all mass sprints? Country is even flatter than ours. Any chance of echelon kino?
btw, watch Nasu myanimelist.net
It's about Vuelta and it's totally based. Breakaway, crosswinds, echelons... Even protagonist's name is Pepe, kek. Here's totally not Johan Museeuw.
Bahrain Merida roster
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Katusha Alpecin roster
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BORA – hansgrohe roster
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Vuelta a España 2019 odds (Winner – Oddschecker)
Primož Roglič (Slo) Jumbo Visma – 9/4
Miguel Ángel López (Col) Astana – 3/1
Richard Carapaz (Ecu) Movistar – 7/2
Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Jumbo-Visma – 9/1
Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar – 16/1
Alejandro Valverde (Esp) Movistar – 18/1
Tao Geoghegan Hart (GBr) Ineos – 22/1
Esteban Chaves (Col) Mitchelton-Scott – 25/1
Rafał Majka (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe – 27/1
Tadej Pogačar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates – 28/1
From now on I will support riders that don't have twitter like Padun and the Izagirre brothers. Guys with cringy names like williesmurfy and theflyingmullet should be shot.
Sam Bennett to clean up the sprints
will have to wait untill the second week though :^)
3rd and 4th stages could end up with bunch sprint
is that Landa at the top?
Nieve
>Felix Gross Sharts
They have a hill jersey lol
>rating Boomberde over Chaves
*pssh* *glup* aaaaahhhh
Richie Porte 1/1
I hope Roglic delivers in the mountain stages this time.
At the Giro he was quite on the back-foot.
how much did city pay to have ITT in two Grand Tours?
Who will do a Dumoulin in the first week?
>Roglič
>Pogačar
>37 years old
>3 years contract
what the fuck are they thinking?
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He's well-known name so they got him for PR reasons. We don't know what they are paying him it might be a decent deal for them.
Imagine if he can pull off a San Remo win tho. Which would be huge for him and the team to have a champion of that caliber to do that.
>no good races before the vuelta
They could at least stream the Avenir
Should I get these?
probably tastes like disappointment
With ketones Tom will win everything next year and everybody will be SEETHING
>san remo win
they have ewan you know.
Quickstep has viviani. All depends on whether it’s a head or tail wind.
HIIME HIME HIME
SUKI SUKI DAISUKI
HIME HIME
m8 Tompoucen are fucking delicious, one of our best pastries
>Viviani
Fraud
Viviani transfers to Cofidis next season.
thankfully, there's no shounen bullshit in this movie
the only thing that is somewhat unrealistic, is that he was caught in the last 200 meters and still somehow managed to (barely) win the sprint
Real ones from a bakery ok, supermarket ones not so much
EF just posted their squad. Hyped to see how higuita fares
NO
MORE
EXCUSES
>crashes out in the first week
Summer in Andalusia, innit.
You've better seen the second one too.
>Bennettposting back in the menu
Y E S
Provisional startlist.
Also, Boomberde will wear number 1
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If it were a decent deal then QS would have kept him. No doubt they are paying him millions. He'll probably still be winning in 3 years though
I'm bored so my analysis:
AG2R: Latour could top 10 GC, Venturini will sprint and fail. Rest is shit
Cofidis: Jesus Herrada could go for stagewins. Rest is shit
Astana: Very strong. Superman will podium
Bahrain: Teuns and Padun for stagewins, maybe GC. Bauhaus will sprint and can get top 5 maybe
CCC: All shit. Koch could sprint top 10
Bora: Pretty strong. Majka and Formolo for top 10 GC, Bennettwinslol
EF: Very strong overall, multiple GC guys
FDJ: Dogshit. Sarreau could sprint top 10
Lotto: Le breakaway man will do his thing
Movistar: Very strong, multiple GC guys, good support
Mitchelton: Okay, Chaves and Nieve will do well in mountains, Mezgec has form
DQS: Jakobsen will sprint, maybe Knox in the mountains
Dimension Data: Shit, like always
Katusha: Shit, like always
Jumbo: Very strong, multiple GC guys and good support
Ineos: Not impressive, Hart and De la Cruz can maybe top 10 GC
Sunweb: Kelderman for GC, Walscheid will sprint, maybe top 5 sometimes
Trek: Shit. Brambilla for GC and fail, Degenkolb to sprint and fail
UAE: Excited to see what Pogacar can do. Aru redemption arc too
Caja Rural: Okay for a procontinental team, Aranburu could win a stage
Euskadi: Oscar Rodriguez won a stage last year so who knows
Burgos: Shit
>Sosa not going
WHAT ARE THOSE IDIOTS THINKING
is that the movie where devil didi has a cameo
Astana, Movistar and Jumbo all look good. You never know what they put in the water at Ineos so Geoghegan might put in a decent result.
yes
Gilbert is still kinda based and good for Lotto Soudal. He's always a contender in the classics campaign, he's been cucked a few times by muh Wolfpack not allowing him to ride but I reckon he'll get wins for Lotto
He'll never win anything relevant ever again.
Fraud
*blocks your path*
which stage is that
>for me its Vegan Bernal
Lmao, Team Ineos won't win a single stage, nor any other classments.
>233
>w
Eh
It's got to be Roglic to win the Vuelta, he has done no races from the Giro until now and is training.
Carapaz lost to Sosa, and Quintana and Valverde rode the Tour and will suck at the TTs.
Idk you would think that but I bet yellow lotto is gonna still fuck it up. Idk how.
Based Angliru. Absolute kino that day.
Not enough TT kms.
Carapaz wins again.
Carapaz is a one hit wonder desu
This was pretty cool, gonna watch the sequel tomorrow.
Two hits wonder after this Vuelta
>Astana
>no Hirt
suckers
based russian poster with consistent quality posts throughout this thread
>win 2 GTs in one season
>become a super dom for skeleton
muh dick
That’s the fucking worst event. Might as well have a weigh in then do it on swift. Whatta bunch of brainlets
At least no snow to block the road like in Passo di Gavia
I think they should do it every year so then we have the best mathematical outcome for watching gavia stages.
yikes
This kind of climbs who Tour needs
based
No fun allowed in Mormonistan
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>weed
>fun
>Landis said he once had a friendship with Greg Miller, but they had a falling out after he admitted to doping and also blew the whistle on Lance Armstrong and doping activities on the US Postal team. "I was back in Utah in 2009, I think, and I stayed with Greg Miller and his family," Landis said. "From what I understand he's told people, 'Floyd looked me in the eye and told me he didn't dope.' So maybe he's still bitter about that. But if that's the type of thing that gets you worked up, maybe cycling isn't the sport for you."
Kek. So either Landis is just an autist or nothing has changed
What sort of name is Floyd anyway?
I really don't know what to think of him. He's a brainlet caught in a huge machine that eats brainlets for breakfast and spits out bones leaving nothing behind. Kafkian, really. And yet it feels like he's learned nothing. Very odd guy.
I'll remember him for what was one of the best stages ever in TdF.
*breaths tru the mouth*
Gilbert/Stybar could go for breakaway wins for DQS
Gaviria can sprint for UAE
spot on otherwise
btw, whatever happened to UAE's plans to not let Pogocar ride grand tours till 2021? that desperate to save the season?
Usually it's sprints + wind. Stage 3 to Vejle is always kino, tho, a number og laps around a mini-Mur de Huy. This year they made more stages like that, so it should be a Binkbank type of race.
I completely missed Gaviria kek. Shows how irrelevant he is after leaving QS
Anyone who joins UAE becomes irrelevant it seems. RIP Formolo for next season.
Fausto Masnada signs with CCC for 2 years
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>step up
Not sure if going to CCC is a step up desu.
Roglic is extremely determined to win so he doesnt get overshadowed next year by the two dutchmen on the team
If you want to ruin your career, there's no better team to go to than Trek, UAE or Katusha.
I'm at work now but I would really like to go on PCS, look up the notable riders that moved to one of those teams, and compare their points by season before and after moving.
That would actually be interesting to do globally, to see which teams improve and worsen riders (overly simplistic but still fun)
>If you want to ruin your career, there's no better team to go to than Trek, UAE or Katusha.
I'd say Trek and UAE is a tad better than DiData.
Trek is a hell of a lot better than DDD, UAE, Katusha and Cofidis
>increases to 20 mil
>still only a half of Ineos budget
wew
>seething THIS hard just because our country exists and has more money than you
cope lmao
DDD are just not a real team where people want to go to me, so yeah. I didn't even consider them. UAE/Trek seem like teams who should be better. Cofidis are proconti so obviously the results will fade
Trek has signed a lot of old riders past their peak to milk their marketing potential, which is actually a pretty good strategy if your plan is to market bikes. Obviously having winning riders on your bikes would be even better. I do rate their future potential quite highly if Nibali has at least one more year left in his legs.
cycling is dead if a spic wins another grand tour
crikey
DQS final roster: Capecchi, Declerq, Cavagna, Gilbert, Jakobsen, Knox, Richeze and Stybar
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>be a seething foreigner
>see a british rider on the road
>notice the anger start building
>the nausea is starting
>suddenly expel about 10 gallons of liquid shit into your diaper
>tears streaming down your face
>"NNOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!" you wail through the pangs of emotional pain
>sir bradley wiggins appears before you in spirit form
>he walks towards you and whispers in your ear
>"pssh, nothin personnel kiddo"
OH NO NO NO NO AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>egan dominating
>remco dominating
It's the year of putting all your money on the zoomers.
>on the road
ironically these where all on track I think
Summer in Andalusia and A Migratory Bird with Suitcase were both very nice OVAs.
Ass: Jakob
>Ineos with Bernal, Carapaz and Sosa
lol you're going to cry yourself to sleep from now
They also don't allow alcohol or tobacco sponsors. Seems fairly consistent.
Poels should be able to get a stage win
Pidcock dead.
Ineos final roster
Poels to get BTFO just like Kwiato one year ago.
ayy
he was utterly BTFO by Pogocar this year on Volta Algarve, also while being aided by Geoghegan Hart
it was so humiliating I got second-hand embarrassment
Why did De la Cruz get cucked, as a Spaniard not even be allowed to ride Vuelta is pretty sad. Ineos is so evil
he'll be fine
It's a shame though, cyclocross is so comfy to watch
The new sponsor is literally a beer company though
It's impossible to make a bunch of ratfaced spics with kid faces into stars
true, it might be possible in england though
>El justo ineos
Giro flashbacks
>write one tiny parody
>gets so assblasted that he immediately writes a tl;dr while seething
So this is the power of autism.
>only 43% in the road
what a fraud
actually it's even worse since he didnt win any of the other stages
Found him. The Dutch crybaby again. Sad!
This. His downfall has begun, there is no way back for him now.
>Kanma to BORA
Sunweb on suicide watch
update on Pidcock
Davide Ballerini transfers from Astana to Deceuninck-QuickStep
Now that Dumoulin and Van Aert are teammates, do you think they'll ride for eachother at the upcoming Paralympics?
Bros
I miss cancellara
>mfw I hear he weighs now 90 kgs
My god poor lad, it's weird that we usually don't see much blood despite riders crashing all the time.
meanwhile Boonen looks pretty good
You have Hirschi who can win Flanders in a few years
Basedu, ultimate chad - him and Cipollini are all time GOAT
Cancellara is still based. You can watch some clips of Matt Stephens hanging out with him on YouTube. Fabian also organizes events where you can ride with him, I think they are called chasing Cancellara
while we wait for Vuelta, there's PostNord Danmark Rundt - Tour of Denmark (2.HC)
Stage 1
Silkeborg - Silkeborg
169,7 km
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Wout Poels going for GC according to my local paper, together with Geoghageahn Hard. 12 Years a Slave
He will fail of course, he cannot into pressure. Only reason he won LBL is because nobody expected him.
He won a good stage at the Dauphiné this year. But he usually has at least 1 off day in a stage race, so idk what'sthe point of comepting for 5 to 10 in GC...
I wonder what happens with the anglo autist if Poels wins the Vuelta. He can't spam the Ineos shit against us then and might actually die of pure SEETHING.
Is insulin doping or TUE stuff?
López needs good doméstiques like Fuglsang. Good move.
Probably TUE or else Team Novo Nordisk would not exist
>the state of the scaling on this profile
and what's up with changing diabetes anyway
well, Benoot has good shot at overall I think
Is this good for them? Don't know the guy.
They could potentially build the team around him, innit.
i hope he doesnt get to much of the wages and they told him that he wont be GT contender any more. They should focus on stage wins if Lopez isnt starting
for whqt race?
tour of denmark
glad they are finally changing diabetes the old one was getting boring
Benoot is such a conflicting rider. He is really good at a bunch of stuff like cobbled classics, hilly stage hunter, can even ride a decent GC in a stage race but kind of in-between everything. Can't outsprint people either and doesn't have a blistering attack
He has talked about maybe focusing on becoming a stage racer but he worries that then he might be 30 and realize he hasn't got what it takes either, and in the meantime have surrendered his qualities as a classics rider.
I hope he starts being successful at Sunweb
should just start marginalgainsing and win both gc's and cobble classics
I was just poking fun at CCCs results this year. I actually think it could be mutually beneficial signing. CCC doesn't have a super strong team so he probably gets to stage hunt instead of being a water boy that has to blow his load on the first hill for the team's GC guy or not even making the team in the first place. He's a promising talent and has three wins this season, one stage in the Giro and two in Tour of the Alps.
Also looking at PCS I'd rate his season better than the entire CCC team desu. Though you have to take into account the disaster that was the BMC to CCC change and how shit their team has been this year due to it.
I'm dissappointed with them so far too, but, correct me if wrong, weren't they starting the season late, some bull with the whole deal getting lately or whatever? Seem to remember hearing something like that and that the team was not set up properly before the season so it wasn't very clear how they'll go about it.
Eh, how they say here: "primary cats go over the fences".
Cheers.
Yeah the team had problem with securing a sponsor after last season when BMC pulled out. For a while it looked like they might not find one and let riders seek contracts elsewhere iirc. And when they finally got the sponsorship secured all the riders worth having already had contracts with other teams. I don't think anyone expected results from them this year. At least they have an excuse for not producing results, Dimension Data and Katusha have been even worse this season.
Don't worry too much about their lack of results and the bants they get from it. They should do much better next season now that they actually have a team.
Senechad showing off his new BMW on insta, based
True alpha.
Him and Garcia Acosta seem to be bros, chads stick together
Please dont die
very
I just learned MvdP is exactly 5 years older than Evenepoel. Is he already a washed up boomer?
yep should retire and let the flemish chads do their work
Degenkolb is now a lotto Soudaler!
David De la Cruz is IN!
*garcia cortina
WTF Chadapaz may not go to the Vuelta:
>Richard Carapaz's participation in the Vuelta a España is in jeopardy due to a fall in ... the Etten-Leur criterion. The Giro winner fell in the Netherlands last Sunday. He has bruised his right shoulder and suffered several bruises.
YES GO ROGLIC
Sauce?
OH NO NO NO
How the fuck do you injury yourself in a fucking criterium.
justice for de la Cruz
Welp, roglic's odds are about to fall even further, might wanna put money on him now before normies catch wind
>the Dutchs have to make up fake races to have Kruijswijk win anything
His last victory was in 2011 or some shit like that lol.
many such cases
reminds me how Izagirre bros decided to ride cx race "for fun"
Was referring to this btw.
Yikes that looks painful.
>Viviani can't even win a fixed race
>a few bruises
yeah he'll be fine
crits are surely the most dangerous of all cycling formats
Imagine his face when kruijs outsprints him.
2 more days, finally something to watch again.
Watching chess tournaments is more of a side quest.
rating?
Bad
In the beginning after a few hundreds of games when I started playing, I was around 1600 but steadily failed give a shit and just moved around the pieces and over the year I still played like that out of habit. Nowadays I cannot even beat some beginners because I just blunder all the time.
But watching tournaments and listening to the commentator bantering is good.
Roglic and MAL should be above the rest in normal form
>he rates Angel Lopez
he's a fraud
Footage of Pidock's crash surfaced!
>distance: km
Can't even put in the effort to pretend properly, sad!
>he rates the ski jumping fraud
Is there anyone that /cyc/ does not consider to be a fraud?
SeneCHAD
2.37 odds on bet365
Evenepoel
Tour du Limousin
>boomers
he is a fraud fleming though
>Elissonde to CN: "I travelled the whole day. I landed around 6pm to receive a call from Fran Millar saying she was so sorry but finally they changed the selection. I don’t know any reasons behind the scenes."
Kek. First Poels gets called up out of nowhere and now this, what is going on at Ineos
/Pinot/
Tour of Denmark is on with ITT, btw.
Grindsted Grindsted (17k)
Skelly officially won Vuelta today, lads
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judging from the giro Roglic is a step over MAL
did they forget to make a jersey for benoot?
Lel and what are they going to do when Brailsfraud and all his cheating scumbags get exposed within the next decade. Give the title to Mollema?
shameful display, Denmark
Movistar confirmed Carapaz will not ride the Vuelta, Rojas replaces him
Meh he was suppose to cuck Roglic one again like in the Giro.
Is there anything sadder than when a team sends their riders out on their regular bikes for a TT because they couldn't be bothered bringing the TT bikes? See it in the American races quite a bit.
based and skellingtonpilled
Wiggo 100% cucked and no longer the first "British" GT winner
fukc
I mean it's a small race but I think they still do the podium thing after the stage, right? So he must have gotten one maybe he just lost it or broke it lol.
May the problem is in ITT. Individual aero skinsuits are kinda tricky to make. Maybe his team skinsuit is superior to whatever race officials gave him.
Last year WvA broke the leader's skinsuit because he was too big, so he rode in his own kit. Probably something similar happened even though Jesper Worre (race director) said during the Tour (he did commentary for a few stages on Eurosport) that they had purchased all sizes this year. But he's an idiot, so.
>he was too big
FLEMISH'ED
Movistar did not let him start, it was a good excuse for them to take him out.
The bridges are burnt and he can prepare for the switch to Ineos next season, but I doubt he will be the main guy for Ineos if Bernal, Geraint and Froome are participating.
He needs to let those 3 fight in the tour and just do the Giro, if the likes of Sivakov and Sosa ride for him he has an easy road to get his 2nd Giro.
Sosa may be able to overthrown him though but in that case there's not much he can do.
why is the vuelta organisation so weird
Because they look flemish
w-w-who the fuck can even win the race now? fucking poels is one of the favorites now
I am excited for another JUMBO VISMA demonstration at the opening TTT
Merckx
>too big
for you
It's De Gendt's fault.
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Vuillermoz from AG2R is out of racing for the rest of the season with fracture.
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Wonder if they will even win, Hofstede Kuss and Bennett can't really TT and Gesink only just returned from injury. You have to finish with 4 or 5? The core with Roglic Kruijswijk Martin and Powless is very strong.
Is it UCI World Tour or NFL with daily replacements by injury?
Fucking roasties ruining everything
F
One more day.
Not that this means much but kinda fun fact
>-2
Roglic big favourite now
4
For me, it's Ghebreigzabhier
based bol
For me it"s 20 m
Pretty cool stage today at the Avenir to bad they aren't covering it.
>implying no López
>implying that's a wrong implication
Whenever I see a profile like this my brain things it's just a ramp they ride straight up on a completely straight road, instead of a hill or mountain with cornering roads
I think that's pretty natural
Fantasy team for vuelta.
What do we think ?
drop Gaviria, there no one to lead out for him. add someone like Tony Martin to pull on flats instead.
he doesnt need a lead out
Yes he does. He also isn't in good shape after injury and had jack shit of race days this season.
I don't know. I think it's hard to know what happens before a race. It is a lot easier to evaluate your team in 3 weeks from now.
Especially the Vuelta which has to be the most unpredictable of the lot
Bennett (best sprinter) and Jakobsen (best team) will win all the sprints
Tour of Denmark, Stage 3
Holstebro - Vejle
199.7 km
Evenepoel has extended his DQS contract until 2023
our commentator rightfully complain about terrible white-on-blue race number that hardly readble in overhead shots. who's fucking idea was that?
S
F
He is father now
Good riddance. Joke of a cyclist. S
eh, I have more respect for him now than for Cavendish, who just keep pointlessly dragging his feet
Yikes watch him develop into a forgettable 1 day racer instead of a GT Chad.
What a weakling faggot!
S, what a beta
yikes
I'm sure he can repeat the same results of being the Marauder of Mareczko but getting exposed against real sprinters, leadout men and le cyclocross man like the F R A U D he is
>Kittel retiring
lmao
Norwegian Tobias Foss is the new leader in Avenir, he already signed for JUMBO VISMA next year. They are unstoppable!
AG2R
G
2
R
Based Cosnefroy
we're winning all 3 GTs next year la'
Those standing looks kino, no groups were formed, everyone was just fighting against themselves to get their fat asses to the finish.
Must have been a great stage as expected, fuck those dumb frogs for not broadcasting it.
tomorrow stage will be broadcasted, although I don't understand the point of showing just the final stage
>they look at the bike first
Fuck You!
The last 2 stages will be streamed, too bad the Vuelta is starting so no one will give a shit at that point.
>Corendon-Circus
Lapped riders should be considered OTL tbqh
M O D S
>rating gt over one day races.
Pleb
>Rog
came here just to drop this 29 yo boomer.
t.hipster
based
nice
HOLY...
cute and funny post
even better
i diddnt like him but choosing his child over cycling is a big + in my book, he's set for live anyway
lol
Hnnnnggggggggg
It's just more fun to watch
lol if Roglic loses this Vuelta he's gonna be Dumoulin's bitch next year
kino crash
>he thinks Dumoulin will race next year
Roglic can win the Vuelta and Tom will still bend him over and fuck him.
cope, Roglic will cuck him if they go to the tour together by attacking which dumocuck can't do
Roglic is a former ski jumper
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA JOHNNY FOREIGNERS BLOWN THE FUCK OUT
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FUCKING SEETHING CUNTS SHITTING YOUR FUCKING PANTS ABOUT BRITAIN
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cute and affordable
Thoughts on the 2020 Olympics road course?
>Landa left
>Carapaz crashed
Pissening
Pretty good, the area around Gotemba is pretty kino with good enough gradients.
I imagine the leadout from Tokyo will be rather dull with tons of highway kilometers.
Not sure why the Fuji Speedway meme has to be included.
Could have been so much better, but could still be good if the riders make it super hard.
movistar is a shitshow desu
Allah wills it
Looks like a stage for somebody Flemish you know
Agreed
and good morning to all you euros
Who shall survive to Fukushima's radiation?
Wtf, why is it starting so late today....
brehs....
imagine the smell....
VERY good post
Sniiiiiiifffffffffffff
Imagine winning enough salmon to equal 9 Carlos Quintanas.
I'm going to buy my first road bike this weekend lads
hell yeah dude
are you going to race?
yess
ARe there Cat races in belgium like in america?
I think it would be better if they skipped Fuji and put a smaller climb instead. They need to find a balance for the sprinters and rouleurs. This course is unfair on sprinters. Rio was better. London was too flat.
for me, it's Frankiny
>They need to find a balance for the sprinters and rouleurs
Not really, no. Any route will always favour a certain type of rider. That's fine.
Well they can make it more fair by not including a bug fucking mountain. It's the Olympics, a one off race every 4 years. Everyone should have a chance. Many of the best riders in the world have literally zero chance of winning this race. You can change the world champs course because it is every year. Olympics should be as rider neutral as possible.
This can't be done. Would favour spring classics riders every years. Climber and sprinters would still havent got a chance
What about having multiple routes. A short route with lots of mountains, a medium length hilly route with cobbles, and a long flat route?
All start at the same time, and the three routes coalesce on the same finish line. Each rider is free to choose one of the three routes
Idea: Figure 8 crit.
Discuss.
what happened here?
quick step would crash the peloton with no survivors
Based Kamagurka.
There should be at least 2 races in the first place, there are different medals for every shitty different stroke and distance in swimming that can even be won by the same guy aka it's all the same shit but only 1 race for all kinds of riders? It's a fucking joke tb h.
Is there a /cyc/ group for a cycling fantasie game ? I never played one so far but would be interested if its with people from here
I used to but never do it anymore. Got too worked up when my guys fucked up or someone I considered but didn't choose won. Now it's comfy watching again and just enjoying the race.
Where did you play? I want somewhere it's free to enter I don't care about the possibility of winning prizes.
What did you had in mind?
It was a Dutch site but it doesn't even exist anymore
How was your morning ride lads? I managed to get 1000m of climbing in my shitty flat area. Never thought it was possible within a reasonable distance without going up the same hill 100 times.
>tfw power meter and heart rate monitor lost signal at the exact same time and never recovered
hmmm, I hope my bike computer is not fucked up now or something.
I'm watching the Tour du Limousin right now, last stage, rural as fuck.
You can always get a turbo trainer if you want to """climb"""
Id rather climb to my roof and jump off then desu, indoor cycling is absolute cancer
What about riding your turbo trainer out in the garden?
link me up lad
L'équipe tv if you have that.
Tour of Denmark is on, btw.
Stage 4
Korsor - Asnæs Indelukke
175.2 km
>the state of scaling on this profile picture
Vuelta will start today with 13.4 km TTT.
Is it even worth dedicated thread, lads?
whoah this a some serious danish cope for lack of elevation
kek
how embarrassing
>hill sprint
>51m
lol
Meh. Don't think a lot of people will watch this evening. We can fill up this thread and then do daily stage threads again
>all these HC summits
Brutal.
yeah, I think so too
TTT is the most boring shit anyway
>105bpm avg
>244W
How's the knee, Tom?
A terror scene for climbers
ATTENTION
I made a /cyc/ league in Velogames - the code is 36568624. Seems like you dont even need to confirm your mail adress
You have to choose a team of 9 riders and you can distribute 100 points. Roglic is the most expensive with 24 points
Kek. Jaywalking boomer got btfo
looks like this
100 points seems almost too much. I didn't pick both Lopez and Roglic but it wouldn't be too hard to fit them both.
Who /drijftenue/ here?
Both for Vuelta and Tour of Denmark
The deadline for joing is 18:45 CEST.
Shurely we can find more than 2 autists here
me but only for Vuelta
is that vince?
yes its nibbles
Had to cave in and edit my team to include Birdsong. Surely a big brain move that will pay off later.
TTT > ITT imo
please join our league la
o-our tour
alright, I have no idea what im doing though because I have not a clue how points are won.
don't worry none of us knows that
Me neither. Just clicked some shitters
this. I just threw a team together in 2 minutes
its my first time as well seems like everything is analog to real life price money, stage wins and gc give most points
We have 7 teams now btw
>Boomberde
*sip*
im too afraid he will crack like last year
ok, I'm in
Wonder how it works with the TTT, if I pick some 4 point shitter from Jumbo, will I get a lot of points for him when he wins in the TTT?
it says some about points here velogames.com
didn't bother reading it too closesly but it seems the points for the TTT is basically spread out on the entire team instead of giving every rider full points
i thought the same but apparently they capped the points to 30 till 2 for each rider of the winning team
>crash him
Saved.
Okay sure, made a quick (probably shitty) team
+++1 HOUR LEFT TO JOIN OUR VUELTA GAME+++
>you only need 5 minutes and you pick your riders one time for the whole vuelta
All these fucking jerseys and yet no Jumbo Visma jersey
Guess I'll go with based Rabobank
We now have 10 teams and i already feel bad for everbody who will join the thread when the race starts
Rabobank jerseys were more /fa/ anyway
suggestion: chose the nation of your team according to yours for convenience
good idea
Should have made it earlier.
Should have been here for pre-race shitposting
I diddnt really care but was bored and thought why not. Consider this a test for the next year because its barely takes time to set up
Allright I joined too, I already put my country as South Georgia and South Sandwich Isles though
you can change it
Nobody can defeat TEAM EVILOS.
>not the full Ineos squad
A little disappointed laddy
Unironically putting Hagen as your sprinter is a meme I can get behind though
30 MINUTES LEFT
Im so sad about his current form, I really like him and his talent is undeniable but being in DD really does seem to make you useless.
Started on tiz.
There's only so much Evil you can concentrate in a single team.
Ok I did. No clue who to pick and can't be bothered to read the rules but whatever
fucking hate nbc, show this shit on tv you fags do you want to grow cycling or not
Spammed a bunch of generals on int but it doesnt seem like more people are willing to participate after Evilos joined
[laughs in EPO]
Don't think they do senpai
>mfw i made 6 different teams with different accounts, each centered around different favourites giving me a very likely chance one of my teams will win regardless of how the vuelta plays out
When we going to Almaty lads
*inhales*
So theres 200 less entrants from last year?
that means they scored less uci points/pcs points this year so the field is weaker
No separate tour thread anymore?
Got it sorry I'm a bit slow
All this salt.
I-I'm home guys...
not today, but tomorrow for sure
We are starting off the first cyc velogame with 14 teams
>wins again
Today's a shit stage. Might as well keep it here.
based
how strange
Wtf that starting spot looks kino.
leave it to the Meme GT to have a meme start
yeah. too bad they forgot to softsoap it
literally salt mines GT
Consider the following: A descent TTT
would be true kino (and maybe some deaths)
>a pictureesque view of england
Based Karsten & Jeroen, I loved those two in the giro
godspeed
kijk sporza kut
Ah, the homeplace of Pinot fans
All I see is some Flemings talking about Drumpf, and the other channel is airing the Avengers (the 1960s series). Amai.
>couldn't hold on wheel for 13 km
useless
i'm watching the livestream here sporza.be
commentary and tv is at 7.30pm
what a shit fucking course
gaps will be small
wasn't Evenepoel supposed to be in this ?
Really weird starting choice for advertising the first thing everybody is going to see after the start is this ugly area
kino
EF is gonna set the first benchmark
>he doesn't appreciate salt
>AG2R finishing with 4 riders
Regulations say time of the 5th rider gets taken
>yes i prefer söy how did you know
>kruijswijk mistakes it for snow and crashes immidiately
>tfw no Gaudu
I don't really believe Jeroen and Karsten on that, would make no sense
Hello my norwegian friend, could you please delete this?
Delete this post plz thank you :)
DELET
this was supposed to be bjorg lambrecht's breakout grand tour
Jeroen checked it afterwards though
Never believe the Spanish roadbook, it's always wrong on everything
They just said on sporza that the 4th guy counts
kek
stream anyone?
lmao
based vuelta with the memes already
use tiz my man
ok.ru
Do Wuyts and De Cauwer broadcast the Ronde van Spanje?
bruh moment
vuelta delivers on day 1
Tiz is frozen, alternatives?
Lel, former Shimano car driver?
cyclingstream
haha wtf
kek
Cool
huh
>tfw no Roglic in FDJ
Ineos btfo. Based
It would be really fun if Quintana wins the Vuelta
>uk postal without Sosa
What's even the point.
Shimano car of peace
Who is going to win the Vuelta and why is it Miguel Angel Lopez?
Why is that lazy ass of Adam Yikes not here to help based Chavez?
>team shitneos
you spelled Roglič wrong
Did you know Roglic was a ski jumper?
I thought it was interesting.
You spelled Valverde wrong
roglic not that good in mountains anymore
he gonna break on the hardest climbs
That fan looks very chilly.
First I hear of it... maybe that's why he is such a brave descender.
Did he ever suffer any noteable crashes as a ski jumper?
you should work for Eurosport UK
I want that too. Why is it suddenly 30 degrees again here REEEEEEE
Anybody else excited about Education First's Sergio Higuita?
c-can we stop the tournament now?
*sip*
He looks like he smells nasty
Why did Froomey decide not to defend his 2011 title?
>no fat gf to carry around with your bike
>lopez
Astana new best time at intermediate
La Vuelta stars already... salted
OH NONONO
euskadi ta azkatasuna
>this is the faggot from right said fred now
feeling old yet boomers ?
>Spanish drivers
based boraboys
Superman got this.
Dubs and Jumbo crashes in the corner
>Astana
>JUMBO
Almost!
>Kuss
Do Americans really give up after 30 seconds?
>PISSMA
OLE'S AT THE WHEEL
Birdsong confirming that Superman will win the race
>JUMBO +4
Exposed
/valverde/
Will Quintana attack today?
Wtf lol
OH NO NO NO NO
>drijftenue
>J U M B O VISMA
>U
>S
>T
ITS HAPPENING
Oh no no no
OH NONONONONONO
>Joembo Visma
holy fuck
>Justbo Pissma
NOT LIKE THIS
wtf.
oil spill from the euskati car??
Well, shit.
DUTCH PEOPLE CAN NOT STOP CHOKING
ASTANA JUST WON THE TOUR
VAN AERT DED
Glad I didn't pick Roglic kek
RIP roglic career
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA EXPOSED
OH NO NO NO NO
TACTICAL QUICK STEP OIL INJECTION
i predicted this in a dream
losing the vuelta on day fucking 1
Joembo salted since beginning
>This is how Jumbo can still win
I was just thinking something like this could happen.
what's he thinking right now?
kruijswijk couldnt resist from seeing all that snow(salt)
The state of >Joembo Pissma
i heard this guy never walked again
UAE crashed too? Not Aru nooooo
webm?
i missed it ;_;
Poor man's Pavel Ploc
Ski jumpers are pussies these days
They would've won easily, fuck, fuck.
Pretty good time, the adrenaline helped for shure. They only lost 33 seconds since the intermediate
Aru crashed his jersey was torn
Honestly given the situation of an entire team crashing during a TTT, 40 seconds is really not so bad.
AG2R would murder to come out of a TTT with that gap.
Vuelta always delivers
Quickstep nearly killed by Jumbo's car lol
>+40
Roglic EXPOSED!
Losing the Vuelta day 1 LMAO.
lmao jumbo riders lying all over spain
>Jumbo car trying to murder shitstep
Well, this semen slurpung sport isn't for me, anyway.
REEEEEE it's supposed to be his redemption tour
>I can't be the only one losing the others must fail!
Quickstep lost the win in the last corner
Roglic WILL win a grand tour in his carreer
and that jumbo car
and that wet spot
Tour Down Under or Tour of California?
there's always next year
Yeah, the grand tour of Abu Dhabi
>Roglic WILL NEVER EVER win a grand tour in his career
fyp
Ketones BTFO
thanks man
anti-crash ketones when
The Grand Tour of Yorkshire.
>course it's easy they said
>course it's boring they said
>Van der Fraud WILL NEVER EVER win a grand tour in his career
fucken Jumbo-Pissma ruins the race not only for themselves but also for rivals
pretty poetic that the whole jumbo team slipped on the piss stream
Salt for the salt god
This stage was a lot better than expected
Haha, Quintana trying to snatch it.
I FUCKING TOLD U TO DELETE THIS REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I was about to make a post about who would be the first one the be exposed, wasn't expecting it to happen that early!
>IMAGINE not counting on dutch chokes
lmaoing at you /cyc/
cant believe this fraud got 3rd in the tour while sitting behind the best domestiques and not a single attack
i think he attacked once for a few seconds
>Finally my full Astana fantasy team pays off
I think late-night 1st stages of Vuelta is a pretty cool guy
IT'S THE YEAR OF THE SUPERMAN
I mean, his form of "attacking" is setting a consistent murderpace
A lot of people got dropped because of it (like allahflip), it just isn't as flashy
But sure, keep hating on any rider that isn't le quick acceleration mountain goat
Still attacked more than Buchmann
That was all done by his domestique though.
This will probably be our first Velogame leader, very fitting
yeah, de plus almost dropped him
Ayy that's me
I thought you'd see the usernames too desu, which is Poomoulin
S U P E R M A N
U
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Just tuned in for the last 10 minutes, because I was still on my ride until late, miscalculated....
I am fine with Superman López winning it.
>Jumbo Shartpissslipma
Seriously, bunch of amateurs.
Imo, jumbo should get some time taken off because of wetness on road.
You just know this would happen if uk postal was involved
>Vuelta a Sal
UK Postal would get awarded the winning time for sure because it was unfair from the organizers and other such bullshit reasons
Are the others even trying ??
youtube.com
Congratulations user keep in mind BIG Tom is a german Limburger
how the fuck Bird changed his kit so fast
hmm idk, sounds flemish to me
>The Dutch fears the water
based
So where did that water come from? It wasn't there when Astana went through that corner.
Digits confirm the truthfulness of this post.
frozen water too
Jumbo DS pissed on the road.
DELETE THIS RIGHT NOW
DELETE DELETE DELET DELTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Yep thats a FLEMISH from me
based
>Aru already down 1 min
And Gaviria crashed too, sad!
some cheeky spaniard threw some oil on the road
I checked the scoring system, I think I have more points (MvdP is a fraud) thanks to Knox and Kelderman. Maybe someone else too idk
It still hurts, he was basically 99% certain to win that Giro
GC
Gaviria has something on his shoulder from his crash
Aru and Gaviria look battered
>45 km
>29.5 km/h
>320 m elevation
Damn, still not 30 km/h average, it's really the wall for me on this cross bike I ride.
Just after coming back from an injury...
Cyclocross bike?
Whole team is, they probably went down in the same place where Jumbo pissed on the road.
Oh wait I don't even have Knox. Never mind lel
ok i hope they update the scores shortly after the finish
honestly couldn't have taken it if Dumoulin also bottled it the next year, would've had a breakdown if 2 years in a row a dutchman lost the giro in a ridiculous way
He was called into anti-doping test, could be related.
One UAE rider was 10 seconds from the time limit after the crash
Do they really test them like pic related?
also, I think MAL's socks are against regulations
basically yes
>Bobo
I wonder if anyone aside of Bizhigitov speaks kazakh in this team.
Wtf so penis inspection day is real after all?
Not Gaviria right?
Gaviria Fernando +1:42
Troia Oliviero +3:53
Troia
Porca troia.
Poomoulin took a cheeky piss on the road.
Kuss was even slower so he should be DQ too, other 2 pissma were close too.
No, a shitty cross fitness bike with suspension work....whole bike with everything weighs almost 14 kg ....not counting the water bottle, no drop bars, and 38mm wide tires with profile for gravel.
But it's still hard to believe that I could simply go 3-5 km/h faster avg. just switching to a good road bike.
>daily reminder Roglic will still win this Vuelta
In the giro everything went perfect for him in the beginning, theyre trying to do it the other way around now.
You definitely would, don't have any place that let you try out bikes near you?
fuck this shitter Angel Lopez, he's a FRAUD
Threadly reminder that Roglic is a former ski jumper.
Just in case you guys forgot.
What? No way
he's a NEET without money
Based Vuelta delivering from day one.
points are in boys
+++ First GC +++
>Jumbo, MvdP and Ketones BTFO
OFFICIAL GRAND TOUR POWER RANKING
Trash tier: Le Tour
Pleb tier: Il Giro
Patrician tier: La Vuelta
Lol stfu, I could easily buy a mid ranged 2k€ road bike, but right now I am not sure whether it's worth the investment.
I don't want to buy one and end up not riding more or even dropping it eventually.
The only reason I can see to train for real, is to be able to ride those beautiful mountain passes. But they are quite some hundreds of kilometers away and I don't know whether I will be ever strong enough to be able to ride them at a decent speed.
Where do you play?
And we're off!
Shared first place right off the bat, exciting
damn vino for prison got exposed hard today
>the virgin vino hater vs the Chad Vino Fan
You seem way too obsessed with measuring yourself against others Hans. There's no reason to talk about "decent speed" like you're somehow not allowed if you're not past some imaginary threshold. Not healthy. If you're having fun, and maybe even improving a bit here and there, it's all worth it. If a fat ass like me can go up a few lesser mountains, you can do the real ones just fine with some granny gearing. It's fun. Enjoy it. Do it for you. Forget everyone else - they don't matter.
Hey I was there a couple of weeks ago
Where is this? what is this?
You need to up your IG filter game, evidently.
>they weren't here for the pre-race shitposting
see
>they only turn in for the race
>they dont read the full thread
It's enjoyable to do them even at your own speed, also you only get good at climbing by doing a lot of climbing so just get going.
oh no, anons...
>he doesn't have Valverde
Prepare to be destroyed
>too late to star a team
JUST
It's chad /cyc/ regulars exclusive.
Maybe you're in my pic
what does nekkeri mean ?
nvm im stupid
I think it's finnish for nigger, if my assumptions from /f1/ are right
Apparently some idiot was watering his garden which caused the Jumbo and UAE crash lol
Now that's pod racing.
BASED, call him to water his garden when uk postal is passing next year.
Get this reddit stuff off here
based
or maybe I was spying on you from above
must have been a brit expat
Based Vuelta
sell us greenland and we have a deal mette
t. mad late cuck
t. r/peloton regular
t. Vino4prison
SEETHING
all this esoteric fantasy posting ruins this thread
of course it was a brit
dont see the problem as long as we try to keep for pre and after racing were nothing happens anyway
kek
>it's an 'a brit ruins everything' episode
Tired of this rerun
>btw watch anime
no
Holy fuck this one looks even more devastating.
We heard you were watering your garden during the Vuelta? Care to explain?
Why are the police officers at the Vuelta always ultrachads?
Probably a culture of bullying the weaker guys until they crack and leave/kill themselves, just like in most police forces
In the belgian races it's always fat older guys
The guy is probably 150 cm.
Wow, absolutely KINO, how was the ride?
Many seething cagies, were there many other riders battling their way up?
Did you borrow a bike or was it some sort of cycling holiday tour?
>of course it was a brit
Ah, the retarded Brits, and they all behave like that in Spain, no exception.
The original island cockroaches.
just for the record i did some investigative journalism and this guy wasn't responsible; he's just a cycling fanatic who was at the race and reported on the problem and complained valiantly to the vuelta to do something about it.
So I don't think it's fair to paint this guy, an /ourguy/ as the villain.
/cyc/ is butthurt about brits though so it's inevitable
Pretty sure everybody was just joking guys
inb4 >CONTINENTALS SEETHING
BTIRS DESTROYING THE VUELTA NOW TOO? TOUR WASNT ENUF FOR THAT INBRED LOT
seming slupring sport isnt vor me
our police force is desperate for new blood. they even got rid of the 1.80m height rule giving manlets like me a chance
was just memes lad
Triggered autist coming soon probably though lol
I wish people would just ignore him instead of always replying to his obvious bait. I also wish there wouldn't be ice on the road when my boy Roggles was going to win the Vuelta.
Lmao was there a 1m8O rule?
thats why so few moroccans in police
fair enough lad but the twitter name "anenglishmaninspain" and the fact he tweets a "guys so sorry..." as if he was responsible; i just thought a rectifation was in order
I mean there was a particularly bad post earlier in the thread that everyone successfully ignored, it's not all bite all the time
pretty shure we had some 1.55 woman sue the state because ours is around 1.60. no one with a decent degree (60-70%) would go to the police or bundeswehr so they take about anyone
ye I liked that. So that's 1 out of 2 points on my wishlist for today.
I actually looked it up, it is irrelevant to cycling the min. height used to be 168cm, but is now 160cm or 152cm depending on your source. Either way, Quintana would be tall enough to be a Belgian police officer
well that's good because he needs something to fall back on now that his cycling carreer is over
KINO roads and scenery
Beautiful.
>Breaking news: Robber caught red handed yet managed to escape. According to witnesses, the officer on the scene had him in reach but was 'afraid of attacking'.
Don't you think Quintana will have made enough money to retire in Colombia? Probably eats free everywhere as a national hero and his earnings as a succesful cyclist probably earned him a pretty penny
W E W
A certain Lt. Van den Verde from the same squad would undermine all Cpt. Quintana's investigations.
I don't know if he has a wife and ten kids but otherwise he should probably be fine. I wonder how much Arkea Samsic is able to pay him.
Our boy Nairo will earn something like 2.5m/year for his 3 year contract. So pretty good
Cop kino with Detective Quintana getting underminded by his partner Detective Landa and Captain Boomberde, fund it
>Alright Movistar, that's it! You're off the case and on leave effective immediately! Turn in your badge and leader.
>and your other leader.
>and your OTHER other leader
Pretty good. If I was funny I'd come up with some quip about a crime happening higher than 2000m elevation and mentor Valverde being left behind by Quintana in an emotional scene as he further chases the suspect like the trope of the shot officer staying behind after being shot and the main character calling an ambulance and moving on
I like the idea enough that it made me chuckle even if you didn't write it out user
kek he'll make more than birdcuck, who can't even crack 2 million
Quintana has had a more succesful career and is 5 years younger*, so that makes perfect sense
Anyone seen any interview with Roglic after the stage? Did he seem JUSTed or still confident?
kek
He's on his way out though and going down to a pro cont team. 2.5 mil is a lot of money.