I strongly suspect a lot of the mountain stages in the Giro will be curtailed due to the weather, so suspect the winner will be a strong time trialist who can go uphill reasonable well.
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I strongly suspect a lot of the mountain stages in the Giro will be curtailed due to the weather, so suspect the winner will be a strong time trialist who can go uphill reasonable well.
Disgruntledgoat
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I suspect also Ineos dont give a toss about the Giro and sacrificing yet another grand tour prospect on the altar of Tour De France wins will not perturb them in the slightest.
Furey1878
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Been one of the good things to come out of lockdown/virus life has cycling for me. Always liked a bike ride, was able to buy a decent Hybrid second hand and have been on it loads. Lots of decent routes up around for me in Edinburgh too, Liverpool is still a much less cycle friendly city, hope they get the cycling infrastructure up more. It's okay in South Liverpool but north ways around Walton, Nogzy, Croxteth, Everton, Anfield it's non-existent.
carlos21
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Good afternoon Bruce how are you doing today what bike have you got.
Might be cycling in and around Edinurgh later this year. What long-ish, car-free routes would you recommend Furey?
I'm hot mate. Not even Bernadette's Holy water could cool me down. Rode a yellow Scott this week and it did the job nicely (except when my legs were kaput)
carlos21
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Nice one mate.
Furey1878
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Can go over the forth road bridge mate, has a cycle path separated from the road, from there head east along the coast from there is a car-free nice route, a few nice beaches is you keep on.
Edinburgh's waterfront is completely cycle friendly and car free, from the west in Crammond all the way to Portobello beach.
If you can live with roads with cycle lanes that aren't too bust then I'd recommend Cycling from Edinburgh to North Berwick along the coast, 50 mile / 80km return trip and North Berwick is a lovely little town. There's also a regional park called Pentland Hills just south of the city which is very picturesque and could get a good 40km+ out of it.
Cheers. Will check those out
Black Belt Jones
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I've done a lot of mountain biking in the Pentlands - amazing landscape to have on the doorstep of a major city and a big area as well. Did used to get a bit bored with it from the MTB point of view as the tracks are very non-technical, but you could put some punishing loops together for fitness, some very hard climbs.
Some of the best mountain biking in the UK is down the road, anyhow, in the Tweed valley. So you're not short of challenging stuff up that way.
I'm a bit of a novice, so might have to build up to the serious stuff!
Furey1878
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I'm not much of mountain biker lad, I'm more of a set off for 2/3 hours with some music on, stop at pub, head back home/ maybe stop at another pub or 7 then collapse on the couch type of cyclist
But will bear in mind all the same, nice one lid
spectateur
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Interesting take on the Ineos GT selections for the rest of the season.
This Guardian piece reckons its the end of 8 years British supremacy of the world-pro peloton.
www.theguardian.com
I think he could well be right.
This Guardian piece reckons its the end of 8 years British supremacy of the world-pro peloton.
Ineos's Tour de France team marks end of road for Britain's cycling empire | Jeremy Whittle
Since the summer of 2012, there have been six overall wins and 27 stage wins achieved by British riders in the Tour de France. That domination is now at an end
I think he could well be right.
Interesting take on the Ineos GT selections for the rest of the season.
This Guardian piece reckons its the end of 8 years British supremacy of the world-pro peloton.
Ineos's Tour de France team marks end of road for Britain's cycling empire | Jeremy Whittle
Since the summer of 2012, there have been six overall wins and 27 stage wins achieved by British riders in the Tour de France. That domination is now at an end
I think he could well be right.
No one really stepping up is there? Adam Yates seems to have lost any GC ambitions he may have had, and Simon seems like he could win if everything goes perfectly, but he's just as likely to have a horror day where he loses it all. TGH hasn't really pushed on, and there is now clear water between him and Sivakov. That's kind of it, with Hugh Carthy more consistent, but seemingly destined to be a potential stage winner and top 20 rider rather than podium contender. Pidcock seems likely to be more of a classics contender than GC.
Given the decade of unprecedented success, certainly for the UK, but also quite possibly for any nation, it doesn't appear to have galvonised participation to the extent that a strong pipeline has emerged. Even in the sprints and classics, no one has really come through since the generation of Cavendish, Stannard and Rowe.
Black Belt Jones
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Pidcock should be a legit GC rider - second in World cyclocross champs and winner of world junior TT at low 50s Kg speaks to massive, Contador levels of W/Kg.
Not short on confidence, either. Only 21 still and seems to be making his own way, which might be a good thing rather than getting subsumed by the Ineos sausage machine.
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