Recent content by Bruce Wayne

As a point of reference, Pantani's Alp d'Huez record had a VAM of 1829. Pogacar's ride yesterday was 1854. When he (and others) blitzed Pantani's record on Plateau de Beille last year, I think he had a VAM of 1875. Since Covid, it's noticeable how much quicker everyone has got, and since the...

I suppose just try and do a good TT today and see the lay of the land after that. If they're another 90 seconds behind then there's not really much hope.

My time for Hautacam - 1 hour Pogacar's time for Hautacam - 33.27 https://www.strava.com/segments/7731042 :lol: The saddest thing is, that was probably my fittest ever year, and I was thinking a VAM of over 1,000 for an hour is good going. These guys are on another planet.

That's the cool thing about the sport, isn't it? I went to a Giro stage start in Gardena last year and it's all so accessible. Plus, of course, you can ride all of these amazing climbs and literally follow in the pedal strokes of the greatest races and riders in the world. Here's a Disgruntled...

Also interesting to note that they were 6kmh quicker for the stage today than when Vingegaard won in 2022.

Sure he'll go for 5 in a row at Lombardia as well.

Vingegaard at least looks like this is a hard mountain to ride up.

34 minutes is Riis' time. That's going to be destroyed I think.

2 minute gap. Blimey.

Your boy's taking a pasting here Dave. I'm not sure the mountain will recover from this!

Erm :hayee:

Other than the Dauphine, the last race they rode together?

The road will ultimately decide. Today should give us an indicator of how things are. I'd imagine Pogacar will want to lay down a marker, both to show that he's not impacted by the crash and to put to bed the nonsense that Visma are crushing him mentally.

The rider who crashed into him has apologised, saying it was his fault.