Well La Course was a cracking race and now the men are rolling out through the streets of Nice waiting for the flag to drop. Will the music continue playing all the way to Paris? And who will be in yellow when the music stops?
Well La Course was a cracking race and now the men are rolling out through the streets
We must have been watching a different race, it was dull as ditchwater. The same 6 riders that always win/place in Women's racing got a break, sat there looking at each other then had a sprint. Meanwhile we saw bugger all of the bunch behind.
La Course seems to produce a boring race every year, and every year it just shows the gulf in ASO's understanding and care of Women's racing compared to the Tour. It's almost like they treat the whole thing as an embuggerance to get out the way before the "proper" racing and as a result it feels and looks like a token gesture that produces predictable and dull racing.
Wish they'd just accept that it's a shit idea and take it off to do it properly. Like
Sweetspot do with Women's Tour / Tour of Britain. They're standalone races, each with their own story, not one as a token coathook on the other.
Why do the live aerial shots look like they’re a slightly slowed down replay?
Skinwalls, too.
Lol, road.cc and Cycling Weekly are both still scratching their heads over how Jumbo could possibly still be riding RIM brakes of all things! And they didn't die on Stage 1 even though we all know rim brakes don't work in the wet! Plus eeeeeew... they still have their cables showing!
What about the rider (avoiding spoilers as it was in today's stage and some may not have seen it yet!) who went OTB when he grabbed a handful of the front brake?
Notice he was on rim brakes? They're unsafe! Ban them!
the rider next to him looked down as if to sat WTF you doing! Hardly a spoiler he was doodling about at the back
Lol, road.cc and Cycling Weekly are both still scratching their heads over how Jumbo could possibly still be riding RIM brakes of all things!
While their adjacent article is fwapping all over the Team Ineos Pinarello with its rim brakes for light weight and ease of wheel changes... 🙄
La Course seems to produce a boring race every year
Genuine question: what are you hoping for in a race that La Course doesn't deliver?
"Lol, road.cc and Cycling Weekly are both still scratching their heads over how Jumbo could possibly still be riding RIM brakes of all things!"
I've seen it reported( I will try and find the source later) the Bianchi frame is a bit of a porker. So they have been doing anything to reduce the overall weight of the bike package. You will notice that in addition to the rim brakes most of this years TDF bikes are black not the classic Bianchi colour. This is another weight saving measure as the green pigment itself is heavier than black paint. It also requires more layers of the colour to get the required finish.
Here you go;
https://road.cc/content/tech-news/tour-de-france-tech-2020-jumbo-vismas-bianchi-bikes-276459
Soooo... has anyone else given in to temptation and entered the prize giveaway on ITV4?
I couldn't tell if everyone was restricted to one entry (fair enough, worth a £2 punt) or you could enter multiple times (yeah, forget it).
Anyway, I entered and immediately got a text offering me another entry for £2 and a FREE third entry. Yes, I gave in again, and got ANOTHER text offering another £2 entry with a FREE (what would be) fifth entry. I put the phone down at this point.
Felt a bit online-gambly, far too easy to just keep punting another £2, and another £2, and another £2 (and ariston...).
Have been entering a lot of online competitions recently, mostly just at the cost of my burner/spam email address. Wonder if anyone ever actually wins them or if it's just favoured journalists/spouses of sponsors etc...
@crazy-legs I agree that ASO don't take la course seriously enough. But it doesn't follow that it's boring - it works despite that. I think the 2018 version was one of the best bike races (men or women, road or otherwise) I've ever watched.
Soooo… has anyone else given in to temptation and entered the prize giveaway on ITV4?
I do it every year, 2 paid entries and one free one. It looks as though there is only one this year for the whole race rather than one per week.
Wonder if anyone ever actually wins them
Well, looking in my garage... Erm, I don't.
Ive been entering the ITV4 comp every year for years and years and every year I convince myself this is the one. In a way it's better than a lottery win as I'm guaranteed to get some bikes out of it. Not been able to do it this year as my 'control content bar' is in place* and I can't be arsed to remove it. Shame as I'm sure this year 'is the one' although not too excited by Boardman bikes
*Weird as I can access porn to my heart's content
Shame as I’m sure this year ‘is the one’ although not too excited by Boardman bikes
As if I needed to justify a £2 competition that I'm never going to win, but I figured the full suss would round out my collection nicely. Not fussed on the road bike although I guess I could use it to test if my prejudices about disc brakes are still valid 😀
It was the tubro trainer that caught my eye, could never justify spending money on a smart trainer but winning one would be handy!
Oh yeah, and the £20,000...
New competition today, courtesy of Le Col.
Oh yeah, and the £20,000…
It’s just £20k worth of bikes and kit no?
It’s not all the shiny stuff PLUS £20k is it?
I'm pretty sure it's £20k on top.
New competition today, courtesy of Le Col.
Oh well so much for my guess that there's only one this year. Where's my phone?
Don't think this counts as a spoiler...
Prudhomme tests positive for C19.
Prudhomme has tested positive for Covid-19.
All riders negative. Some team staff positive.
Edit. Does that count as a spoiler? And beaten by captain flashheart
According to inrng there is a rule that states 2 separate positive tests in the team and the team go home... Also that the UCI don't class anyone as winner of the GC if all 21 stages aren't complete. The winner of the tour may be someone random if there is a mass infection event in the riders. Not something that anyone wants.
With each team operating as a bubble, allowing close contact, I can't see how a single positive test wouldn't lead to others. Staff members sitting together in the team cars for hours at a time...
Prime Ministers sitting in a car with race directors, too!
Just watching the ITV4 highlights show from yesterday. The Chris Boardman segments about cycle equipment are very entertaining. His takedown of the awful Campag Delta brakes was very funny.
That was ace, I agree!
He was still a little bit cagey about discs though. They might slice off a baby robin's face!!1!1!
With each team operating as a bubble, allowing close contact, I can’t see how a single positive test wouldn’t lead to others.
I suspect the 2 strikes thing helps reduce the risk that false positives send the team home. Chance of 2 false positives in a team is very low, and 2 actual positives means it’s likely in the bubble and spreading.
Confirmed that the strike count is reset for the next set of rest day tests, so a second case for any of te four affected teams will not see them expelled
https://twitter.com/Cyclingnewsfeed/status/1304020382471671811
Aderlass news...
https://twitter.com/roadcc/status/1304361516255371270?s=19
Aderlass had a bit of a focus on Slovenian cycling...
le tour 2020 general chat with Julian Alaphilippe, João Almeida and Sam Bennett no spoilers
