Recent content by Kaptain Kool

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    Vuelta a España Rate the 2025 Vuelta a España

    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!
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    Canadian Classics 2025

    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.
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    Vuelta a España Vuelta a España 2025, Stage 17: O/El Barco de Valdeorras – Alto de El Morredero (143.2k)

    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!
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    Tour de France Femmes 2025 (July 26th- August 3rd)

    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...
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    Tour de France Rate the 2025 Tour de France

    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...
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    Tour de France Tour de France 2025, 2nd Rest Day Poll: Who’s going to win Stage 21?

    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
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    Tour de France Tour de France 2025 Stage 14: Pau – Luchon Superbagnères (182.6k)

    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...
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    First rest day poll - who will win the 2025 tour de France?

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

    Love that the cyclocross commentator thread it bumped in July! Rather than fast forwarding, why not just mute and put music on?
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    Tour de France 2025 route rumours and announcements

    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.
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    Tour de France 2025 route rumours and announcements

    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.
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    Tour de France 2025 route rumours and announcements

    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...
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    Tour of Guangxi 2024?

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

    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.
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    Teams & Riders The Great Big Cycling Transfers, Extensions, and Rumours Thread

    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...