Recent content by fbjim

once again, another massive W for the "riders make the race" crew over PWU. can we ever stop winning

Del Toro should go to movistar. Imagining him shitting up a chase group in a movistar jersey while like Brandon McNulty randomly gets 4 minutes in the Vuelta. I'm imagining it

why would they make changes, because posters on the cyclingnews forums don't like the routes?

it's a vuelta route, and it looks like one. not great, but it's better than the Remco route.

i like that but come on, i would have gone nuts if they had made the left stripe red and the right stripe orange

I kinda preferred the all white look for UAE over the fake gillet look, but it's not bad. The 2020 kit with the Emirates stripe going all the way across the chest was my favorite of theirs, though.

The thread should not be opened. It will provide nothing but toxic discussion that nobody will end up agreeing on.

big fan of Pra-Loup if that counts as a "mountain". Also La Rosiere, Mont du Chat, and Sierra Nevada.

also a "mythic climb" is different than being "mythically steep" Puy de Dome is unique (you don't see many climbs that corkscrew around a peak like that), has been home to one of the tour's most iconic moments, wasn't used in decades, and is hard. Portet is probably harder that 95% of the HC...

imagining how mad people would get if these stages were in next year's route

as opposed to what. it ends with like 5KM at 11.5-12%. it's comparable to the end of Fedaia, absolutely nobody watched that climb and went "this is easy"

not really sure how it was "forgotten". i remember about a thousand replays of the anquetil vs poulidor footage and it was a pretty memorable stage with Jorgenson nearly pulling off a long attack to win it

I don't quite get why they can't have people stand on the railroad tracks. Are they that worried about people encroaching on the road, or is it more that the actual mountain is national parkland and they don't want people camping there and trashing it?

Anyway 6.5/10 is a fair score for what is a fairly average route. Main complaints are: I don't like MTTs, the returning MTFs are cool but not super-exciting mythic climbs like Granon or Puy de Dome, and there really should be a descent finish. Replace the MTT with a tough sawtooth Pyrenees...

My completely baseless suspicion is that Pogacar's 2024 form is one of those peaks you get once in your life and that Vingegaard will match him in 2025.