General News Thread

[Samamba]

LOTS of wind again on Wednesday here in Belgium. But a lot of headwind in the first part of the race so peloton will probably just get together after every section of crosswinds.

 

[SHAD0W93]

Saw a sale on retro jerseys for those looking to expand their collection.

TOP 20 JERSEYS

These items are the best selling items, but stock is running out.

www.hillsandmountains.com

 

[Tim Cahill]

Kicking off a little bit

Wout Poels files complaint after being hit by García Cortina at Volta a Catalunya, details spat with Nairo Quintana: "I jokingly added whether he was on Tramadol again"

Wout Poels rode to 11th at the Volta a Catalunya and finished fourth at the Port Ainé summit finish, but perhaps the most striking highlights of his race were clashes with Movistar riders, more specif...

cyclinguptodate.com

Don't think Geriant Thomas sounds too happy about it either, pretty funny stuff

https://twitter.com/x/status/1772598923091153028

 

[Netserk]

Kicking off a little bit

Wout Poels files complaint after being hit by García Cortina at Volta a Catalunya, details spat with Nairo Quintana: "I jokingly added whether he was on Tramadol again"

Wout Poels rode to 11th at the Volta a Catalunya and finished fourth at the Port Ainé summit finish, but perhaps the most striking highlights of his race were clashes with Movistar riders, more specif...

cyclinguptodate.com

Don't think Geriant Thomas sounds too happy about it either, pretty funny stuff

https://twitter.com/x/status/1772598923091153028

The sad figure in that story was Poels. Of course will Quintana defend his position behind his teammate.

 

[Red Rick]

The sad figure in that story was Poels. Of course will Quintana defend his position behind his teammate.

Classic Netserk moment

 

[Netserk]

Classic Netserk moment

Staying on brand since 2011. I'm like Quintana: if Poels wants to throw comments, he'll get some in return.

 

[tobydawq]

The sad figure in that story was Poels. Of course will Quintana defend his position behind his teammate.

Quintana is an aggressive ****, so I'm going to say no.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Kicking off a little bit

Wout Poels files complaint after being hit by García Cortina at Volta a Catalunya, details spat with Nairo Quintana: "I jokingly added whether he was on Tramadol again"

Wout Poels rode to 11th at the Volta a Catalunya and finished fourth at the Port Ainé summit finish, but perhaps the most striking highlights of his race were clashes with Movistar riders, more specif...

cyclinguptodate.com

Don't think Geriant Thomas sounds too happy about it either, pretty funny stuff

https://twitter.com/x/status/1772598923091153028

This is very interesting to me

 

[DNP-Old]

Oi. The first wet Ronde since 1852?

Please...

 

[RedheadDane]

Oi. The first wet Ronde since 1852?

I think you might mean 1952.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

I think you might mean 1952.

well, at the earliest 1985…

 

[Tim Cahill]

I'm hoping we get to see some footage of the incident at some point, we never got to see the fabled punch of Purito on Philip Deignan in the Veulta, which sounds good also.

 

[awavey]

I think you might mean 1952.

well the clocks do go forward an hour this weekend

 

[RedheadDane]

well, at the earliest 1985…

Huh?
Earliest what? Not edition of the race; that was 1913.

 

[tobydawq]

Huh?
Earliest what? Not edition of the race; that was 1913.

Earliest possible time of latest rainy edition...

I'm quite sure it has rained since 1985, though.

 

[RedheadDane]

Earliest possible time of latest rainy edition...

I'm quite sure it has rained since 1985, though.

That's what I couldn't quite wrap my head around. How was 1985 - supposedly - the earliest possible year for the most recent rainy Ronde?
Did she mean that 1985 was the earliest possible edition for a rainy Ronde because it was definitely rainy in 1985?
Who goes around remembering if it rained on a specific Sunday almost 40 years ago?

 

[QueenStagiaire]

1985 Tour of Flanders - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Rob5091]

1985 was rainy -

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3iVoE64HOw

 

[Max Rockatansky]

Talking about rain. It looks like it is raining almost every day until the Sunday in Hell.

 

[tobydawq]

Talking about rain. It looks like it is raining almost every day until the Sunday in Hell.

Please don't forward this message to Adam Hansen.

 

[repre]

Please don't forward this message to Adam Hansen.

Roubaix will be rescheduled for June?

 

[tobydawq]

Roubaix will be rescheduled for June?

Or probably be canceled altogether. Studies will show that cobbles are more dangerous than asphalt.

 

[DNP-Old]

With the chances of a wet Ronde disappearing at the horizons, let us start the road of copium and hopium once more.

 

[rallybanana]

Do we have any news on the Paris-Roubaix course? A few years ago there were articles and fb posts by Amis de Roubaix, that the new to be build sector Willems à Château d'Hem would be ready this year. On the map you can see the sector 2 of the race, which has ***. They want to put asphalt on it. And for that there would be a new one.

Still no sign of the mythical new sector. Has the plan been abandoned?

 

[Mayomaniac]

The route of the Österreich Rundfahrt (still refusing to use the English name as the official one) has been revealed

2. Juli	Prolog	St. Pölten (3 km)
3. Juli	1. Etappe	Bad Tatzmannsdorf - Bad Tatzmannsdorf (174,9 km)
4. Juli	2. Etappe	Maria Taferl - Steyr (179 km)
5. Juli	3. Etappe	Schladming - St. Johann/Alpendorf (153,1 km)
6. Juli	4. Etappe	St. Johann/Alpendorf - Kals (151,5 km)
7. Juli	5. Etappe	Kufstein - Kühtai (143,8 km)

The official stage profiles:

Once again the Steyr stage features the Porscheberg near the final.

The Alpendorf upill finish. The biggest climb of the day is the Dietner Sattel

The Penultimate stage features the Glockner from North.

Imo a finish in Lienz after the Islsbergpass would have been better, but whatever. The final climb is the one where MAL won ahead of Pinot in the TotA 2 years ago.

The penultimate climb goes up to Igls, but the big climb of the day is the Kühtai Sattel

That one km is actually 12.9% on average. I've done this climb multiple times when I still lived in Innsbruck.

Overall clearly an improvement from last year, Konrad Senior made an acceptable route.