General News Thread

[Armchair Cyclist]

It's a great shame that Dauphiné has been crippled by Hollande's territorial reform.

I was wondering for a brief moment what part of Alpine France had been annexed by the Netherlands.

 

[Red Rick]

Itzulia... I think the last climb on stage 5 is this from the looks of things:

(only the green bit)

I don't the y axis tracks with that?

 

[Jungle Cycle]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1626209872126541824

View: https://twitter.com/inrng/status/1626209872126541824

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I haven't watched a whole lot of Zwift racing, but I definitely didn't expect the "cameras" to miss the finish. Anywho, Adegeest was clearly the strongest among the women yet again.

The Danes played it perfectly in the men's race, where Bjørn Borreby Andreassen broke away early in the final, and Jason Osborne wasn't able catch him in the end. Similar to the Danish team in the Euro 1992, Andreassen had not originally qualified for the tournament, but was given the spot when another rider got disqualified.

 

[DNP-Old]

Here are all the Jumbo riders on the provisional startlist for Omloop Het Volk, followed by their amount of race days in 2023:
Tiesj Benoot (0)
Edoardo Affini (0)
Christophe Laporte (0)
Jan Tratnik (0)
Dylan van Baarle (0)
Mick van Dijke (0)
Nathan Van Hooydonck (0)

Being a rider on Jumbo has to be the most boring tihs on the planet.

 

[Sciatic]

Here are all the Jumbo riders on the provisional startlist for Omloop Het Volk, followed by their amount of race days in 2023:
Tiesj Benoot (0)
Edoardo Affini (0)
Christophe Laporte (0)
Jan Tratnik (0)
Dylan van Baarle (0)
Mick van Dijke (0)
Nathan Van Hooydonck (0)

Being a rider on Jumbo has to be the most boring tihs on the planet.

Perhaps they are just being traditionalists and following the old calendar in which Omloop/ Het Volk was the first race of the season

 

[tobydawq]

Here are all the Jumbo riders on the provisional startlist for Omloop Het Volk, followed by their amount of race days in 2023:
Tiesj Benoot (0)
Edoardo Affini (0)
Christophe Laporte (0)
Jan Tratnik (0)
Dylan van Baarle (0)
Mick van Dijke (0)
Nathan Van Hooydonck (0)

Being a rider on Jumbo has to be the most boring tihs on the planet.

Het Volk, lol. I didn't think people were still pushing that name.

But quite an interesting stat. Maybe they won't relegate after all?

 

[RedheadDane]

Het Volk, lol. I didn't think people were still pushing that name.

He does have "old" in his name, so maybe he just prefers things to stay as they used to be.

 

[tobydawq]

He does have "old" in his name, so maybe he just prefers things to stay as they used to be.

Sure, but even guys like Beian Holm begin to admit that it's a bit silly to refuse to use the "new" name.

 

[Netserk]

Just say Omloop.

 

[DNP-Old]

Calling it Het Nieuwsblad would be to acknowledge Wim Vos, and I refuse to do so. Trust me, you'd understand.

 

[RedheadDane]

Sure, but even guys like Beian Holm begin to admit that it's a bit silly to refuse to use the "new" name.

If he starts referring to Movistar as "Reynolds", then we know he has a problem.

Calling it Het Nieuwsblad would be to acknowledge Wim Vos, and I refuse to do so. Trust me, you'd understand.

Who?

 

[tobydawq]

Calling it Het Nieuwsblad would be to acknowledge Wim Vos, and I refuse to do so. Trust me, you'd understand.

It would be calling a race by its name.

 

[Netserk]

It would be calling a race by its name.

Some names are too silly to be respected.

I call it E3, never E3 Saxo Classic.

 

[RedheadDane]

Some names are too silly to be respected.

I call it E3, never E3 Saxo Classic.

Some names are too long to be said in full.
What do you call this race?

La Roue Tourangelle Centre Val de Loire - Trophée Groupama Paris Val de Loire

 

[Samu Cuenca]

What do you call this race?

One of them smaller French races.

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Some names are too long to be said in full.
What do you call this race?

La Roue Tourangelle Centre Val de Loire - Trophée Groupama Paris Val de Loire

Just in case you'd got to Paris and forgotten there is Val de Loire in the title, its repeated again!

 

[christopherrowe]

Some names are too long to be said in full.
What do you call this race?

La Roue Tourangelle Centre Val de Loire - Trophée Groupama Paris Val de Loire

I insist on calling it by its original name, La Roue Tourangelle Région Centre - Classic Loire Touraine Vignobles & Chateaux. Kids these days.

 

[RedheadDane]

I insist on calling it by its original name, La Roue Tourangelle Région Centre - Classic Loire Touraine Vignobles & Chateaux. Kids these days.

Are you sure that's the name, and not a route description?

 

[rallybanana]

I was wondering for a brief moment what part of Alpine France had been annexed by the Netherlands.

I wonder why the Netherlands would want to annex Alpine France?

Dutch national championships could relocate to Austria in search of mountains | Cyclist

(Apologies for putting 4-year-old news in the General News thread)

 

[Red Rick]

I wonder why the Netherlands would want to annex Alpine France?

Dutch national championships could relocate to Austria in search of mountains | Cyclist

(Apologies for putting 4-year-old news in the General News thread)

Sorry now I'm sad about that time we were debating whether to build a huge mountain from scratch which never happened because it was actually ludicrous

 

[DNP-Old]

Sorry now I'm sad about that time we were debating whether to build a huge mountain from scratch which never happened because it was actually ludicrous

Zo komt de zeventig meter hoge fietsberg in Zoetermeer er mogelijk uit te zien

Menigeen noemde het plan voor een fietsberg bij Zoetermeer luchtfietserij, maar de Fietsklim is wel degelijk technisch en financieel haalbaar zeggen de bedenkers. Het plan is nu om een 70 meter hoge houten constructie los naast SnowWorld bouwen.

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Is it?

 

[RedheadDane]

Sorry now I'm sad about that time we were debating whether to build a huge mountain from scratch which never happened because it was actually ludicrous

It's a well-known fact that the Dutch are weird.

 

[Red Rick]

Zo komt de zeventig meter hoge fietsberg in Zoetermeer er mogelijk uit te zien

Menigeen noemde het plan voor een fietsberg bij Zoetermeer luchtfietserij, maar de Fietsklim is wel degelijk technisch en financieel haalbaar zeggen de bedenkers. Het plan is nu om een 70 meter hoge houten constructie los naast SnowWorld bouwen.

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Is it?

Original proposals were pure fantasyland stuff like 2000m high hollow building with skiing slopes and the entire shebang.

70m isn't much more than the 'let's cover this trash heap and put a single lane road on it' stuff we already have with the VAM berg.

 

[DNP-Old]

Original proposals were pure fantasyland stuff like 2000m high hollow building with skiing slopes and the entire shebang.

70m isn't much more than the 'let's cover this trash heap and put a single lane road on it' stuff we already have with the VAM berg.

Small step for a man, giant step for society. If this succeeds, you can set your clock to it that the likes of Thijs Zonneveld and other inbreds will jump out of the woodworks to demand more. Die berg komt er.