Pro Cycling 2022
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DJWrongspeed
radio eros
This is a good point and goes across all sports. I wonder whether young Fred has thought about this? did he have a choice?I would be ashamed to wear clothes that promote the dictatorial sectarian statelet of Bahrain. Is Fred Wright aware of what a bunch of murderous shits the ruling family are? If he isn't, would you mind telling him when you see him?
Human rights in Bahrain
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And the Urban75 thread on Bahraini Royal shittery.
Bahrain protests
Do pro cyclists make ethical decisions about team sponsors?
There are certainly many vexed Newcastle United fans that touches the same issue.
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
Beautiful interview from Van Vleuten. She really is a 5* ambassador for the sport. So articulate even when she's just won the first Tour de Femmes.
Van Vleuten interview
Normally it's the interviewee who cries
Van Vleuten interview
Normally it's the interviewee who cries
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Yeah, he got the timing spot on, as Démarre looked like he had the same top speed.
Did the UK have a team in it? I watched the last hour and heard no mention at all.
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
There was no GB team; the potential riders might have prioritised the Commonwealth games and not been able to get any more time off from their teams.
Also, Viviani cocked up his sprint in the road race but after riding 200km he went to the track and easily won the Elimination race gold!!!!
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Reaching out
I know it's not pro stuff...I've been watching the European track racing with Carlton Kirby and Joanna Rowsell-Shand and have to say I am loving her input. She is clearly very knowledgeable and is communicating that knowledge well, but like Boardman. She is also coming across with a quietly dry Sense of humour which she occasionally takes out on Kirby. 
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
I know it's not pro stuff...I've been watching the European track racing with Carlton Kirby and Joanna Rowsell-Shand and have to say I am loving her input. She is clearly very knowledgeable and is communicating that knowledge well, but like Boardman. She is also coming across with a quietly dry Sense of humour which she occasionally takes out on Kirby.
I watched last night's session and as time went on she really was teasing old Carlton who took it in good stead. they made a good team.
She's a bit pro-British though and didn't seem pleased with Kirby when he said he was going with the French guy to win.
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
They seemed to be getting on alright last night but I skipped everything apart from the elimination races. I guess it's the in between races banter that does her head in.
Must admit I do like Kirby as he brings a nice balance; Boulting tries to all technical and expert (that's why they have an ex-pro on there!) and Hatch has just become an excitable child.
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
Vuelta predictions anyone ?
Remco is a great racer but this doesn't equate to a GC contender. If you look at the Giro & Tour this year it was simply about who was the better climber.
I'd go for Carapaz or Hindley but I'm unsure about their recent form.
Remco is a great racer but this doesn't equate to a GC contender. If you look at the Giro & Tour this year it was simply about who was the better climber.
I'd go for Carapaz or Hindley but I'm unsure about their recent form.
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Doh
Vuelta - Utrecht to Madrid 2022
Again, another grand tour kicks off on a Friday, 17,45 on Eurosport. My least favourite of the GT's starting off with my favourite event, if a little short, a 23K TT. I gather Bernal will not be racing it but Carapaz, Evenepoel Lopez, Roglic & Yates will amongst the contenders...
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I tried.
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
derrrr, didn't see that 
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Nairo Quintana disqualified from 2022 Tour de France after tramadol positive | Tour de France | The Guardian
The Colombian rider has been disqualified from the 2022 Tour after infringing an in-competition ban on using the drug tramadol
Slightly odd this, as it’s not a doping rules violation, but a safety one. Having taken tramadol I can see why - I certainly wouldn’t want to ride my bike whilst on it, I’d be all over the place
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
He's going to appeal at the CAS but in the meantime he's taken the huff and withdrawn from the Vuelta.Nairo Quintana disqualified from 2022 Tour de France after tramadol positive | Tour de France | The Guardian
The Colombian rider has been disqualified from the 2022 Tour after infringing an in-competition ban on using the drug tramadolamp.theguardian.com
Slightly odd this, as it’s not a doping rules violation, but a safety one. Having taken tramadol I can see why - I certainly wouldn’t want to ride my bike whilst on it, I’d be all over the place
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Bit of a day in your of Denmark today. 9 gravel sections and lots of dodgy street furniture everywhere, even in the last 2k riders were on the pavement or riding over speed humps. Gee really laid into someone coming of of the final right hander and Jumbo's took 1 & 2.
Thinking of twistedAM 's comments, what makes a great GT. TT's, Tatt's, mountains, sprints, cobbles, gravel. I'm not to keen on cobbles in a GT, they are best left for Roubaix. Even less keen on gravel as it really opens it up to luck and chance. In a given GT, should the emphasis be on climbing one year and sprints the next?
Thinking of twistedAM 's comments, what makes a great GT. TT's, Tatt's, mountains, sprints, cobbles, gravel. I'm not to keen on cobbles in a GT, they are best left for Roubaix. Even less keen on gravel as it really opens it up to luck and chance. In a given GT, should the emphasis be on climbing one year and sprints the next?
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
Gravel and also cobbles bring a luck element into it but then again the mountains are unlucky if you're much over 60kg. And the climbing aficionados also moan about wind echelons as if that is a game of chance - no you bring along some classics riders instead of mountain goats in your team; Sky always did that. I'd love to see the Tour hug the coast searching for winds, some northern French murs plus a few days in the Massif Central
I'm just grumpy because marketing forces say GTs are the biggest thing in cycling.
My three most memorable moments of the year so far:
- Mohoric descent at Milan-San-Remo
- Remco 30km attack at LBL
- Remco 50km attack and subsequent time trial at Classic San Sebastián
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DJWrongspeed
radio eros
Dan Bingham's hour record being streamed live in 10mins. 
sleaterkinney
Well-Known Member
If you want the best all-round rider then you should mix it up with cobbles etc. The tdf used to be so boring.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Looks like he's on target to do it.Dan Bingham's hour record being streamed live in 10mins.
Also, 64x14 gearing, fucking hell
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Reaching out
Imagine if you had to push that from a standing startLooks like he's on target to do it.
Also, 64x14 gearing, fucking hell
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
He's done it. Next up to challenge it will be Ganna presumably.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Over 2 kilos of weight lost in a single hour
1927
Funnier than he thinks he is.
A clock and distance covered would have been good, as it was that was not exactly viewer friendly.Dan Bingham's hour record being streamed live in 10mins.
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
Wasn't great viewing tbh I agree. Still he did, seems like he was on a good day.
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
I just watched the final few clicks of that and the Hamburg Cyclassics which was dull apart from Van Aert snatching defeat in a five man break (it would have been a mass sprint apart from a mass crash that I missed but apparently created the breakaway). He got proper mugged.
