Recent content by Bolder

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    Paris-Nice 2026, March 8-15

    Given how much the bike industry is pushing expensive tech clothing and gear and gravel bikes, this is a missed opportunity. You could let the teams have the option to change to bikes with knobby gravel tires if the weather turns bad.
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    Paris-Nice 2026, March 8-15

    Ayuso would have had a chance either yesterday or today, pretty sure he was in good form and with a lot of prove. Sadly we'll never know.
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    Paris-Nice 2026, March 8-15

    It is odd, no? Normally he's pack fodder at this point. At least the Giro comes before the Tour.
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    UAE Tour 2026, February 16-22

    Every time Milan wins a sprint with a 2,000 watt effort I always wonder what his margin of victory would be if he learned to be efficient.
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    Teams & Riders Team Visma - Lease a Bike

    That schedule worked out for Lance pretty well...that aside, I'm fine with Jonas only racing selectively. He's got two GTs on his plate this year.
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    Teams & Riders The Remco Evenepoel is the next Eddy Merckx thread

    6 wins in 8 race days (ok, he doubled up with the valencia GC). These "easy" wins are great for his confidence, I think. And RB definitely has a stronger team than QS around him.
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    2026 Dauphine (or whatever its called) route

    This is Derek Gee's race to lose.
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    Race Thread

    Yep, he's lighter than Nys and Vdp, too so he's great on steep stuff. Nys makes way too many mistakes. Del Grosso looked like he was done but nys let him back in.
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    Race Thread

    Tibor is one smooth rider, and love those tailwhips.
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    Quinn Simmons is the new Quinn Simmons

    Skimo isn't that risky. Didn't Bora sign a top guy from the sport recently? I think it's something a cyclist could do in the off-season. It's also gnarly as hell.
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    Teams & Riders Official Wout Van Aert thread

    He was looking really strong, that corner where he crashed was a danger zone though.
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    Race Thread

    Mvdp said afterwards that he didn't have good legs until the end. Nys didn't know that, but in hindsight he should have forced Mathieu to make the first moves. Still the goat, though.
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    Race Thread

    Del Grosso and Vandeputte looked really good today; Del Grosso had an unfortunate late endo in the sand. He's not quite the best technically but he's got that road power. MvdP can win CX races until he's Eddie Merckx's age, as far as I can tell.
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    Jay Vine discussion thread

    Agreed and this is the superteam conundrum. If salaries and resources were better distributed across the peloton Vine would be riding for GC somewhere. There's no incentive for him to do that now.
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    Race Thread

    Nys is going to be a problem for VdP this season.