Cycling thread


Bruce Wayne said:
These kind of courses do invite trouble to an extent. They're often pretty flat so make it rideable for people without a high level of fitness or bike handling, and the closed roads make them think they're in a pro race. I've done quite a few granfondos on the continent and the toughness of the parcours does make the quality of riding much higher than I've found on various British sportives.

Glad you had a good ride though. Any other events planned for the year?
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Not lots planned this year - Midland Monster next week. On the plus side the start is about 10 miles from me, on the downside it's roads that I rude for free most weekends (but it's charity rather than profit driven so I don't mind too much).

Probably should enter some more. I finished just under 6 hours which was my target, but was averaging 18.5 for the first 70 and blew spectacularly at the end (my excuse being out of action until 5 weeks ago with injury....)

Non UK I'm taking my 10 year old boy the the final 2 mountain stages of the tour and have a week in majorca in September.

Any others got events planned?
 
lichfieldblue said:
Not lots planned this year - Midland Monster next week. On the plus side the start is about 10 miles from me, on the downside it's roads that I rude for free most weekends (but it's charity rather than profit driven so I don't mind too much).

Probably should enter some more. I finished just under 6 hours which was my target, but was averaging 18.5 for the first 70 and blew spectacularly at the end (my excuse being out of action until 5 weeks ago with injury....)

Non UK I'm taking my 10 year old boy the the final 2 mountain stages of the tour and have a week in majorca in September.

Any others got events planned?
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Sounds good. Will you take your bike to France? I've got the Maratona in seven weeks so training for that. Feel super strong at the moment so hopefully it'll hold.
 

Bruce Wayne said:
Sounds good. Will you take your bike to France? I've got the Maratona in seven weeks so training for that. Feel super strong at the moment so hopefully it'll hold.
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My lad is only 10 and it's just me and him at the Tour. He gets some decent miles in for his age, but the Alps would break him I reckon

Looks a good event, the Maratona. Let us know how you get on.
 
lichfieldblue said:
4x4s are worse. Mate of mine ended in hospital last year. Ended up in Court and I gave evidence but there was no hard proof it was deliberate so he got off with driving from the scene.
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Disgusting that really are some ignorant aggressive drivers who couldn't give a toss about someones safety/life all for what getting home or to work etc a few seconds earlier :mad:
 
Real shame for Dumoulin to crash out of contention today. You have to imagine he'll call it a day and focus on the Tour now. Roglic really is looking in prime position, although as always on the Giro, you can't really say anything until the final week.
 
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Tough old sport innit?
 
lichfieldblue said:
Not lots planned this year - Midland Monster next week. On the plus side the start is about 10 miles from me, on the downside it's roads that I rude for free most weekends (but it's charity rather than profit driven so I don't mind too much).

Probably should enter some more. I finished just under 6 hours which was my target, but was averaging 18.5 for the first 70 and blew spectacularly at the end (my excuse being out of action until 5 weeks ago with injury....)

Non UK I'm taking my 10 year old boy the the final 2 mountain stages of the tour and have a week in majorca in September.

Any others got events planned?
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Majorca is great for cycling :)
 

DaChunk said:
Yates seems off the pace
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Heck of a gap to make up in the mountains isn't it? You can see Nibali shipping a bit of time, but gaining 3 minutes on Roglic seems a huge ask. Still, should make for some entertaining racing. It's quite possible that so scarred by last year is he that Yates is striving to come into form for when the mountains arrive at the end of the race. The question is whether Roglic can continue showing the form he has thus far.
 
Watched the MTB XC world cup yesterday - MvdP is racing so all eyes on him, which is good for the sport. He won the short course event, but came second in the main race after getting into a bit of a dick-measuring contest with Nino Schurter (multiple world champ) off the line - both went super hard first lap and pseudo blew up, but vdP recovered and finished strong. Just shows you what a hard discipline MTB is - vdP is two levels above everyone else on the start line, overall, but was still going life and death to get on the podium.

Savage course - two 3,4 min climbs per lap and the descents can be very technical these days (although yesterday's track wasn't that bad). Mountain bike XC race the hardest hour you can do on a bike IMHO.
 


That was great - riders all over the mountain and some big time gaps. Not sure Zakarin is a realistic challenger, especially given his weakness in the time trial, but chapeau to him for a great ride today. The great wads of snow at the top reminded me of the top of Pico Veleta last year. 25degrees at the bottom of the climb, 0 at the top and huge snow drifts by the side of the road.

Really hope the Gavia is open on Tuesday *fingerscrossed
 
Bruce Wayne said:


That was great - riders all over the mountain and some big time gaps. Not sure Zakarin is a realistic challenger, especially given his weakness in the time trial, but chapeau to him for a great ride today. The great wads of snow at the top reminded me of the top of Pico Veleta last year. 25degrees at the bottom of the climb, 0 at the top and huge snow drifts by the side of the road.

Really hope the Gavia is open on Tuesday *fingerscrossed
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almost superhuman like efforts ….

*shifty look
 

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