Cycle Drivel

Along_the_Wire

My week in the Alps was brilliant, but brutal beyond belief - how pro can do that at race pace is beyond my comprehension.

Watch stage 19 next Friday - I did three of those climbs and the views coming down the Col de Pré were sensational - Pre is 9% average for the last 5km - I nearly cried! I burnt 20,000 calories on the bike this week

Been a great tour so far, good to be back in Blighty and catch up on it properly

303abuser

Along_the_Wire Sounds like a great time, something special about putting out a hard effort with an amazing backdrop. I’d love to do a week of mountain running here, I’m only a 4ish hour drive from the Rockies, but the bears scare the shit out of me.

LT42

Sounds great that, Grant. Healy did an average of 55km/h for the last 40k the other day and that was after attacking with Simmons about 100k before that, lol. The mental and physical aspect of this race is mindblowing. I’d love to try what you did just to see how far I would go before rolling over and letting Jesus take the wheel.

We were on about Philipsen the other day, its a pity we’re not seeing him and Milan go head to head. Both are in peak form.

Along_the_Wire

LT42 can’t deal with Simmons - he’s a MAGA clown and got involved in some racist shit with a journo on Twitter. He actually just looks like a redneck

LT42

Hon Ben Healy! What an animal 🇮🇪 🟡🟡🟡

Along_the_Wire

LT42 Well pleased for him - the wankers not helping with even a single turn for 50km or so need to have a long hard look at themselves. EF are a good team with a great owner

LT42

Along_the_Wire yeah I was waiting for Yates to take a turn at least, I suppose it was the business end of the stage and tactics were in play.
The owner of EF did a great interview at the end, they had to apologise for his language lol

Along_the_Wire

LT42 love the owner - he does not mince his words.

303abuser

Looked like they were all happy with the free ride off the back of Healy’s motivation for the yellow jersey. Great watch all around though.

LT42

Tobias Johannessen getting death threats in his inbox after Pogacar’s crash today. Fucking unbelievable. Its hard to have any faith in humanity these days.

Along_the_Wire

LT42 I thought it was an error from Pogacar, but just seen a review of it - Tobias is definitely at fault - cut across way to early, it wasn’t even a touch of wheel, it was that early

LT42

Along_the_Wire yeah could’ve been alot worse to be fair, I think Pogacar saw it coming

303abuser

Along_the_Wire I thought it was just something that happened and really, Pogacar was as much at fault if it needs to be assigned. He looked like he was on the radio with his right hand off the handlebars and he turned opposite to the rest of the riders. Either way, doesn’t seem like too much harm done as far as impacting his overall race.

LT42

What are your thoughts on Remco and Jonas, G? It all seems a bit passive from them. The other day Remco was in the final group and he kept looking over his shoulder for Pog to go instead of just attacking himself with nothing to lose, by the time Pog went he reacted too late and it was over. If they keep following him around without taking any initiative he’s going to destroy them. In fairmess Jonas attacked today but it just looked worthless in the end.

Along_the_Wire

LT42 Remco will be top 5 maybe 3 and Jonas 2nd - Jonas didn’t look convincing when he attacked and looked like he’d been told too to show a bit of strength - it’s laughable that Jorgensen was attacking too like they were gonna double-team Pog all the way home.

Along_the_Wire

303abuser the guy came from behind and cut across the front of his bike, let alone the wheel!

303abuser

Along_the_Wire I’ll look again, maybe I just missed it. Doesn’t seem like anyone involved have any issues with it though.

Along_the_Wire

303abuser it was stupid, but not intentional - Pogacar is all good

Hursty

Smashed it today, 12k out from the top!

Impressed with the Oscar Onley story, only took cycling seriously when he was 18 and he’s mixing it up with the big boys 4 years later, some talent

Along_the_Wire

Hursty Sadly, the Tour is over - only interest is the likes of Onley and lower orders.

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