Recent content by Shakes

I wasn't piling on. Actually feel bad for the moderator.

Sucks to be a moderator. Another victim in this hypocritical world where eyes are closed but then the moderator can't close his. Luckily Vuelta game is a distraction. Anyway, Vuelta is handling it poorly. At least they are doing better then the previous time as now at least there was a stage...

Ide Schelling, which I have in my team, is retiring already! Says peloton is going to fast for him nowadays and it's not fun anymore.

Widar faster than Pogacar on Tignes (steepest part). Over a minute faster.

I can't find it on HBO Max at least! This was a killer. Odd that there is no broadcast as this defines the whole race.

Doping you can do alone. You don't need your team for it. Motors in a bike... The whole team needs to be complicit. We had Roglic move from Visma to Red Bull. He then convinced them it's ok to have a motor as he was using it at Visma? Specialized thinks... sure. Good idea. That will boost...

Might regret this in 10 years but I think all comments about motors are just ridiculing this whole forum. Makes this the place for tin foil hats. Easy to brush of all 'clinic' as a result as the place of conspiracy moon landing rejecting fools. History, other sports and common sense all...

Really good article, using this to reflect on doping in cycling (and lack of curiosity of press corps). Effectively everyone forced to be part of the show as marketing bumps with journalism. https://defector.com/an-anatomy-of-the-doping-story-that-has-the-tour-de-france-press-room-buzzing

Really good article, https://defector.com/an-anatomy-of-the-doping-story-that-has-the-tour-de-france-press-room-buzzing

Effectively a FTP test and above 7wkg. Nothing to see here, obviously just the natural GOAT. It's all plausible as they eat a lot of carbs (important for a 20 minute effort like this obviously) and he only a year ago got a good coach. That and natural talent makes this completely believable...

In cycling you never know. Sky years were much slower than before and after but something was amiss nonetheless. However, there are scales to the madness. Evenepoel could very well be on the clean side. Great TT, ok in the mountains. Most days at least. Not implausible.

Eurosport has multicam. We need an app that uses those streams, completely ignores Pogacar and with proper commentary covering those images. Then yesterday's stage was amazing and most races would be better. Just add a footnote that Pogacar is there as well but completely ignore him and Gianetti...

On a normal bike faster on the flat part of the TT. Makes complete sense.

I already do indeed. That was logical racing. No watt bombs but eking out max performance at the end. That made sense. Nothing Pogacar, and quite some others, do does.

Time differences between the winner and second place in the General Classification (GC) at the Tour de France from 1990 to 2024: YearWinnerRunner-upTime Difference 1990Greg LeMondClaudio Chiappucci2'16" 1991Miguel IndurainGianni Bugno3'36" 1992Miguel IndurainClaudio Chiappucci4'35" 1993Miguel...