Recent content by Kaptain Kool

I'm pretty sure Remco fans want hundreds of more kms because it provides more road for Pogacar and Vingegaard to potentially crash out.

Yeah, there's only one current rider who doesn't fit in the specialist era. How are Skjelmose, Roglic or even Evenepoel less "specialists" than Cunego, Dan Martin, Valverde or Nibali? Andy Schleck and Tyler Hamilton have double the combined monuments vs Skjelmose-Roglic.

Voted a 3. The only thing that made the race interesting were the variable race finish points. Would like to see some of the currently worthless WWT stage races experiment with this. Romandie, Poland, I'm talking to you!

Would love to see 3 additional 250 km+ races in Canada, maybe with a couple in the spring. Then we'd have a full set of Canadian monuments to challenge the increasingly unimpressive group of European ones. "It was a good race back in 1897" just isn't a motto that entices excitement anymore.

I guess that's a wrap. Nothing more to watch in this Vuelta other than maybe the last couple of kms on Bola del Mundo. Not the best addition but I still appreciate everyone's comments. Long live the King of Grand Tours! See y'all next year!

Just finished watching, I guess development in women's road racing is just as worst as the mens. Can't develop winners from youth levels so steal from fish twirling or ski dancing. Here a mountain biker waltzes in and wins Paris-Roubaix and the Tour just like that. It's as if some futsal team...

Gave it an an 8 in honor of Pogacar's record breaking 8th TdF victory. I know some people for "reasons" don't view Armstrong's 7 as legit but IMHO that just makes Pogacar more impressive. Even without the record, it was definitely up there with 2009 and 2012 as one the top 25 or 30 Tours of...

We actually have a Stage 21 in which the yellow jersey can change hands and people actually care what rider from Uno-X or TotalEngergies wins from the breakaway? smh

Trying to think of riders that were young lower-tier GC riders and gradually transitioned to top tier and can't. They've either been top tier elite talents right away (like Pogacar, Evenepoel) or began cycling at a late age, came over from other sports (like ski jumping or fish chucking) and...

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.