Recent content by Ripper

I think that be the plan. He does tend to be able to start well and push it (thus natural at XCC). But when his form goes he just has this massive fade from the front, which I am pretty sure the altitude of this past weekend did not help with. He did have a long and early peak, so let's hope...

Luca is so on fire right now. Fun racer to watch!

It's been an interesting year for those former U23's! Carter Woods has had some real challenges in the XCO events, generally finishing way down. Better in the XCCs.

Not to mention all the prep that would have occurred prior to Aderlass slamming the door on certain approaches. pretty dang damning. And yet now, they would get their rears handed to them.

You know, I have been thinking of the past quarter friggin' century of pro bike racing. It is like, every now and again where we get to a point of - this is silly, it needs to get better, it cannot get worse. Then a pause. Then like some group says the proverbial "hold my beer" ...

Indeed, and that was kind of funny. I was referring to the poster you were responding to though, and what they seemed to find delight in.

I couldn't quite make out why he looks like he stopped pedaling and looked around before the finish line

Anybody wonder if he threw the race on Stage 4?

What's really interesting is how nationalistic it all ends up being. Honestly, from somebody who's not European at all, it almost seems a bit racist of a reason to take such joy in others simply stating their concerns! I mean, I don't think most people are actually getting agitated about TP...

Guys, guys, guys ... Tongue and cheek here It is pretty obvious that if Pog is the heaviest but he can also out climb the other two, that he has so much more power he's going to be able to pummel them in a head-to-head contest. Only Rem the Ram with his aerodynamic edge is able to edge ahead...

Chris has a gift to being able to break down what occurred in a race and talk about it with a level of skilled analysis that few other ex-racers/pundits seem to demonstrate. However, the more he has leaned into stating what racers should have done (based on his post race analyzes) and how that...

It's pundit crystal ball time!!!! Honestly, his approach tends to be: take a pretty specific post race angle which requires actions and knock on effects/reactions to occur according to plan. Sometimes, it might have worked. But he usually has some huge assumptions based on some huge biases...

Indeed. I see a fair number of other racers with more prominent issues. The dude seems like he won't have as much of a challenge adjusting back to a non-elite-athlete level life.

Tour time is drama time! Not sure if the Danes are as blunt as the Dutch? ;) Honestly, though, she put herself out there as a bit tone deaf. "The team should focus on Jonas ... are you listening Wouty???" I mean, the year van Aert went for the green jersey, he was still an amazing team mate...

+100%!!!!!