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For the people like my parents that love a bit of cycling but don't follow all year round: TdF [biiiiiig gap] Vuelta Olympics Tour of Britain Roubaix Giro For me: RvV TdF Giro Roubaix Worlds MSR Strade Bianchi Liege Olympics Lombardia Olympics is on the way up in prestige; it's hard to be...

I also remain very much still to be convinced, but much the same was said of helmets in the late 90s. Innovation became a necessity. (ps, anyone can look up the death statics pre- and post-Kivilev and decide for themselves whether going for an obvious solution actually helps in this type of...

Strictly speaking Remco is probably right when he says he's the one with the best chance to make up the performance gap to Pogacar. His problem in reality is that he's the guy that also needs to be at the highest Pog% because the two tend to win their races in similar ways (do races have to keep...

This is right. And also the other guys are really not so far behind that it's unbridgable in a Monument if the game plan is perfect. Tadej had (effectively) two teammates in front when he went clear at the Worlds - was it seriously impossible for Belgium or Netherlands to have anticipated...

I wonder about this stuff. Maybe my perception is wrong but it seems to me that one of the responses to the more controlled style of climbing trains has been guys trying to use the descents as a better opportunity for open racing - that descending has in part changed from Savoldelli smoothly and...

Presumably the local coroner will now have to investigate and report on causes of death. In the UK they may well give a narrative judgment along the lines of 'contributed to by neglect' - you'd imagine Swiss law has something similar. And if the pathologist finds she died from complications...

Probably I already pondered too much already when I started this other thread :p nonsense I started anothe thread with and back then I wasn't even really thinking that Pogacar would necessarily beat Merckx's records - only that his at-the-same-age results showed that what we might have thought...

It has to be both these things. For any move like to work it needs the attacker to be super strong and for the others to make mistakes. Pog had the ability to ask the others a really big question and Belgium, and Evenepoel in particular, fluffed their response. Remco can say what he likes...

In the English language Shakespeare is the greatest writer of all time; facts, details and opinions become essentially irrelevant. Palmares and being a legend in our collective imagination are not the same things even if Merckx's case they coexist. I deliberately say Pogacar's future is...

A thought experiment. Bear with me. In my 35 years of addiction to watching and competing in this sport of ours, lots has changed but there has been one immutable absolute truth: that Eddy Merckx is the best there is, was, and ever will be. The logic becomes almost circular - could this guy or...

I think it means 'body' more generally, and the body to mean 'the group' or 'the whole thing' like in Esprit de Corps. They need to look at it as how much is there is lose. Vuelta is two weeks after the Olympics and finishes 3 weeks before the Worlds I think. There's some big climbing already...

Thomas. It's clear enough for a while now that everyone considered their only chance is that Pogacar has a problem, crashes or is ill or whatever. Thomas has that pole position as prime beneficiary of a Pog-problem and Ineos will just ride as if they're leading the race now. The problem for...

At the end of a 500km stage from Como via Tremola, Sustenpass, Glaubenhuelpass, loads of Jura lumps and the Grand Balon right? <Annekin & Padme meme>

Theoretically I think you're meant to ride alone in championship events, worlds, Olympics, nationals that sort of thing. Doesn't happen. But gifts and arrangements are a cool part of the sport and form a big part of its dynamic. If a lesser rider from a non GC-contending team is with a GC guy...

There are pictures of guys pulling on the brake levers as they throw the bike in sprint finishes.