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retweet from Gilbert "Betancur a pris 19 minutes sur cette étape après s'être arrêté dans un bar à tapas "qui avait l'air sympa cool cool", nous explique-t-il."

I prefer my racing to last longer than a MTF can. ;)

I've often wondered what is the best way to get young talents into GT GC riding. Quintana was a domestique for Valverde at the Vuelta at 22. Ullrich did the same for Riis at 22 riding to 2nd. Schleck rode to 2nd at the Giro at 21. The 3 of these riders had never ridden a GT before. Ullrich was...

It is painful watching riders like tony martin leading out instead of attacking and riders on pure domestique duties riding into the top 10 of GTs, multiple riders at times. The big teams can kill attacks if they work together, though i think we have moved past USPS, HTC where a team could...

If I was being a argumentative I'd say "noone dropped Evans, who had no helpers, not even 3 time roubaix champion Cancellara. Boom dropped Nibali, despite Nibali having two helpers." But in fact comparing the two's only cobbled performance, Nibali's was better, and I respect the view that...

We are talking about hypothetical best form versus best form. Evans best form wasn't 2010 TDF, he'd just come off a tough Giro. He was a world cup champion mountain biker, managed wet gravel roads well enough to Montalcino and keeps to the front and out of trouble. The one time he hit cobbles he...

Lol "After 2014 obviously Nibali" I guess the extra words made it tough to spot. ;)

Up until giro 2013 obviously Evans, after 50/50, after Tour 2014 obviously Nibali. I'd say about even on cobbles, Slight nod to Evans in the TT and a huge advantage to Nibali in the mountains. On the 2014 course, I'd say Nibali by 4-5 minutes over Evans.

On form right now the order I'd expect to see would be Froome, Contador, Nibali, Quintana. I'd expect over the 3 weeks of most GTs there would be enough flat TT kms for Nibali to make up the small amount he is behind Quintana on MTFs, and enough opportunities for Nibali to isolate Quintana...

Honestly I see cycling and doping like f1. It's very difficult to separate the record of some drivers with making reference to the car they were driving. Likewise it's really hard to discuss who was the best cyclist without reference to the program they and their team were on, but as we see the...

One study showed a 25% drag reduction in a wind tunnel at 56kph, the difference over a 5km 10% descent was calculated to be 30 seconds, position being the only consideration. Given that corners exist, cornering technique would either add or subtract from this number comparing one cyclist to...

No more doomed breaks over the top of cat 4s 5km from the finish? How dull. For all the talk I think Sagan will go to BMC. They've just freed up 6 million, Evans and Hushovd. Coupled with a strong cobbles team and the scope to recruit, they can't be looking bad. Tinkoff, Astana, Sky...

I think it's a new era, " The marginal gains approach that led to success upon success has been replicated, tweaked and improved." Kerrison.

I suspected that, when Lefevre was talking about riders with the team he wanted to sign but hadn't yet, Terpstra didn't come up. However I didn't find the news on him actually re-signing. Thank you.

As will I, but it is another option ;)