Recent content by motty89

Exactly. I live in leeds and there are a few good youth teams around here that take their juniors racing in europe. I've known riders in visma, bahrain, picnic and lidl devo teams. Ok, ineos can't pick them all up but there's an awful lot of talent they're missing out on and the link in with...

Would like to see him do the giro next year. (Anyone know how he is in cold weather?) What's really impressed me by him is he seems like the complete package unlike the french gc prospects of the last 20 years. Climbing, tt, punch, endurance he has everything. Anyone know of the plan is for him...

Yorkshire win in juniors and u23 ;) . Wonder if we can make it a clean sweep with pidcock.

Is Hudson the first ever world championship win on a Chinese branded frame?

If vuelta reverts back to unipuerto rampas then I can easily see del toro winning. Apart from that agree with others that lipo/almeida already have the level and seixas has shown the most potential.

A) How do you know jorgensen isn't trying to get in breakaways when lots of the stages aren't broadcast in full? B) Jorgensen launched vingegaard on Veldazcarray, that time could become pretty important the way this vueltas going....

I think that's @pastronef point? O'connor isn't just some chump and is a good racer. However hindley is obviously a better GC rider when in form. Trouble is he's only in form once every 2 years....

If vingegaard is planning to attack on steep section of herville a satellite rider would be very helpful. Not Kuss though, someone like jorgensen or campenaerts for the false flat sections.

Soler/vine/ayuso to rock/paper/scissors for stage win? Looks like good stage for the 70kg breakaway climbers

Looking forward to a good dose of solerismo today

Campenaerts could be useful as a satellite rider if they get a decent gap. How much flat is there before next time up the climb?

True, just seems like an unnecessary risk to me. Gap 1min30 to 2 would still see them comfortably in control and discourage attacks. Although maybe with tomorrow looking like a stage for breakaway people will decide to save their legs now.

Aren't visma overcontrolling this a bit? No need to keep the gap this small. At this rate people will be trying to bridge at the next climb.

Movistar probably makes the most sense. They have money from their new investor (?), he's Spanish and they give freedom to their riders. On the other hand he wouldn't receive much support from the team. If he's looking for more support from domestiques, tt setup, training then ineos would seem a...

In a normal team i would call ayuso's behaviour completely unacceptable but this is really just normal uae behaviour.... Even yesterday ayuso was getting lots of hate but soler was up there and didn't help almeida at all riding for his own gc. I guess the fact that ayuso literally had no reason...