Recent content by Kaptain Kool

Voted for Onley because I thought he would need some votes. Guess I was wrong.

Love that the cyclocross commentator thread it bumped in July! Rather than fast forwarding, why not just mute and put music on?

You can't have long ITTs in an era of paid subscription streaming platforms. Maybe someone can create a breakaway Time Trial League. I'm sure it will do well.

This is great. Before there was nothing to watch in the last week except the 3 MTFs. Now we have the last 10km of Stage 21. I calculate a 7.5% viewing increase.

After a day to think about, decided that route isn't too bad. But not good, either. A solid 3 out of 10 with breakdown on watchability. 10 stages that I won't watch at all (stages 1, 3, 5, 8, 9, 13, 15, 17, 20, 21) 7 stages to watch last 10km to 20km (2, 6, 7, 10, 12, 16, 19) 4 stages to watch...

Glad that the vote results prompted a separate race thread. IMHO Guangxi is the Unofficial World Championships for General Classification Riders.

My guess is the first broadcasted race will be Saturday, Round 1 of the HSF System/old TOI TOI Cup. But haven't checked if it will be full race or highlights.

What's even worse is that only 2 of the 5 have their X handles listed and the other 3 have real names. Make up your mind for once! And even worse than that, I see the number 6 mentioned in multiple posts on the previous page and then Decathlon gives us only 5 riders. Why do they need to resort...

NBC/Peacock always had it because its an ASO race. But IMHO it hasn't been boring since they added the gravel sectors and more undulating finale.

Even more amazing when one remembers that, of the top 10 riders in the peloton, 2 just waltzed into cycling after careers in the "lower sports" of ski stomping and fishball packing, another was a footballer until late teens and 2 others were primarily cyclocross riders who dominated road races...

Yeah, INEOS isn't/wasn't a UCI Cyclocross Team.

Yup, if he crashed out there he probably doesn't podium.

Well, sure. a team like Movistar losing Matteo Jorgenson to Visma matters because he produces results now. But the original post was about big teams gobbling up teenage prospects, who don't matter.

Not voting for any of these people.

I don't think the point of post about Blablablabla and the other rider I don't remember wasn't that they're bad riders or that there's shame in being a 2nd or 3rd tier GC rider. IMHO the point is... who cares if big money teams buy up all of these young prospects? Even if they do produce at a...