AIUla Tour - 29th of january to 3rd of february

[Netserk]

Where on Earth was Lecerf going?!

 

[Tim Cahill]

Jayco's trip to the Turkish embassy has been cancelled

 

[tobydawq]

Impressive sprint by Yates!

And what a camera shot at 500 metres to go!

 

[DNP-Old]

Heads will be spared, Brent Copeland and Matt White live to fight another day.

 

[KZD]

Yates beating the kids Fisher Black and Lecerf. Didn't know the latter but got impressed by his high cadence.

Good to see Anders Johanessen with a decent performance.

 

[Netserk]

Lecerf 2nd.

 

[pelotonIQ]

Not a bad sprint for a skeleton, didn't expect him to take it.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

After 10 minutes "We have confirmation"... maths can be hard.

 

[Netserk]

Final GC:

 

[Tim Cahill]

Yates #1 on GC, obviously a sign of things to come for the Le Tour, 'Watch yourself Jonas' I think he said in the interview there. Get the nerds on twitter to plot that on one of their little graphs, Simon Yates 10 watts per kilo for like 8 minutes or something.

Merhawi Kudus top 10 on GC for whoever the *** Terengganu Cycling Team is, Vaughters should be tried for crimes against cycling.

 

[yaco]

I wonder how Yates will go later in the season because he's hardly had a perfect preparation - He was riding the Taiwan KOM on 27/10/2023 and then Australia and Saudi in January.

It's been a mixed month for Jayco - They have 6 wins but their leading riders have suffered injuries/illnesses and crashes - Think of Ewan, Groenewegen, Plapp, Dunbar and today Matthews is out of Valenciana.

 

[scribers]

Jayco were able to keep their heads about them. They can hold their heads up high

 

[scribers]

Oka makes remco look like a giant

 

[Bolder]

Yates beating the kids Fisher Black and Lecerf. Didn't know the latter but got impressed by his high cadence.

Good to see Anders Johanessen with a decent performance.

I honestly had never heard LeCerf before today. Great name, too!

 

[ingsve]

Where does it come from that people are writing LeCerf? Everywhere else I see it's simply written Lecerf.

 

[tobydawq]

How is his name pronounced? The internet suggests a French way with a soft c, and a silent f. But he seems to be Flandrian? It could of course just be a Dumoulin like incidence.

Brian Holm says Løklæf.

 

[Samamba]

How is his name pronounced? The internet suggests a French way with a soft c, and a silent f. But he seems to be Flandrian? It could of course just be a Dumoulin like incidence.

Brian Holm says Løklæf.

He lives on the border somewhere, he has moved a lot. Has lived in Flanders and Wallonie, but his names is pronounced the flemish way, so no a silent f.

 

[DNP-Old]

How is his name pronounced? The internet suggests a French way with a soft c, and a silent f. But he seems to be Flandrian? It could of course just be a Dumoulin like incidence.

Brian Holm says Løklæf.

Leserf.

 

[Unchained]

Many Latinos have mother's family name

After 10 minutes "We have confirmation"... maths can be hard.

GC may have needed a calculator but the sprint was a no brainer. Yates had another gear..

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

I honestly had never heard LeCerf before today. Great name, too!

He's the guy who was at Lotto devo, signed for SQS devo for the next season, and Lotto wouldn't give him a bike anymore for the remainder of the season that he was still with them, lol. Perhaps you heard that story. Was an outsider for Baby Giro (4th in '22) and Avenir (5th in '23). He won Lombardia U23 last year.

Many Latinos have mother's family name

GC may have needed a calculator but the sprint was a no brainer. Yates had another gear..

They said that while interviewing Yates, to confirm he won GC. It really wasn't hard to know he also won GC, since there were only 7 riders with a better time than him before the stage, and half of them were sprinters.

 

[Samamba]

and Lotto wouldn't give him a bike anymore for the remainder of the season that he was still with them, lol

Actually incredibly that this story stuck when it simply wasn't true. He had a bike, just didn't get the racewheels (and he wasn't the only one in the devo team cause they had a shortage). Still petty to just stop support him cause he is leaving and I wouldn't have done it but it's not like they were trying to make him miss Avenir. His dad called up the press and made it a bigger thing than it shouldve been. These kind of things happen more than you think as teams don't want to put money and riders into riders who are going to someone else anyways, and it's legally possible as they didn't really have a normal contract back then (was a CLUB team). It happens a lot in junior racing too. AG2R for example just gets rid of their riders once they choose to leave their feeder pyramid.

But it's a good thing that with his results now people won't know him from that story anymore and actually because he has some talent.

 

[tobydawq]

Many* Latinos have mother's family name

*All

But it's never used.

 

[pastronef]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1753783793763209290

View: https://twitter.com/SophieSmith86/status/1753783793763209290

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Actually incredibly that this story stuck when it simply wasn't true. He had a bike, just didn't get the racewheels (and he wasn't the only one in the devo team cause they had a shortage).

So he had a frame, just no wheels. Yeah, much better. And he wasn't the only one in the devo team that didn't get equipment, but he was (together with Van Eetvelt) the only one who could finish a high profile GC in the top 5.

It was a *** move, regardless.

 

[CyclistAbi]

Watched the final kilometres of the stage and it was good racing.