General News Thread

[awavey]

Small point, national lottery funding is means tested based on your professional salary.

yes, for sure im not saying it would be a huge amount, it's an amount though, she hasn't necessarily just been dumped out of the cycling system, and that's it everything stopped one day in April, is all I'm saying.

Which has happened to plenty of riders in the past.

my point was really youd like to think everyone who needs to pays up, pays up for her, because that's the right thing to do and doesn't try to wriggle out of it via some legalese

 

[Squire]

Pretty bland as expected, only stage 7 looks somewhat interesting, but it's before the MTT

Etappenplan

Insgesamt sind 1’300 Kilometer und über 20’000 Höhenmeter zwischen dem Startschuss in Küssnacht und dem finalen Zielstrich bei der Stockhütte zurückzulegen.

www.tourdesuisse.ch

Spoiler: Profiles

Incredibly dull route. Four basically identical mountain stages where nothing will happen before the final climb. And then an MTT at the end just to make absolutely sure nobody tries anything aggressive in the preceding stages.

 

[zlev11]

lol that route is a travesty. imagine having all of the insanely cool terrain in Switzerland to choose from and coming up with that crap?

 

[Sciatic]

lol that route is a travesty. imagine having all of the insanely cool terrain in Switzerland to choose from and coming up with that crap?

I wonder if Suisse waters down its routes recently to still attract top Tour contenders. Because both the Dauphine and Tour de Suisse are ridden by the top riders as final prep for the Tour de Suisse suffers in comparison because it finishes a few days closer to the Tour and typically has worse weather than the Dauphine, the latter of which has also recently offered virtual copies of upcoming Tour stages for riders to use at prep. I wonder if their premise is if they make the route too difficult they won’t get any of top riders?

 

[zlev11]

I wonder if Suisse waters down its routes recently to still attract top Tour contenders. Because both the Dauphine and Tour de Suisse are ridden by the top riders as final prep for the Tour de Suisse suffers in comparison because it finishes a few days closer to the Tour and typically has worse weather than the Dauphine, the latter of which has also recently offered virtual copies of upcoming Tour stages for riders to use at prep. I wonder if their premise is if they make the route too difficult they won’t get any of top riders?

yeah, could be. but the Dauphine is known as "the premier Tour prep race" and even they have a much more interesting route this year

 

[Red Rick]

The main reason Tour favorites go Dauphine is periodization, you can fit a 2nd altitude camp after Dauphine, but not Switserland

 

[RedheadDane]

The main reason Tour favorites go Dauphine is periodization, you can fit a 2nd altitude camp after Dauphine, but not Switserland

What about the fact that Dauphine often use climbs that will also be used in the Tour?

 

[pastronef]

The main reason Tour favorites go Dauphine is periodization, you can fit a 2nd altitude camp after Dauphine, but not Switserland

and while they are at it the stay in the French Alps to scout the Tour stages.

 

[Red Rick]

What about the fact that Dauphine often use climbs that will also be used in the Tour?

They dont always do that. But the proximity makes it easier to scout shortly before after, especially of you go to Tignes

 

[RedheadDane]

They dont always do that. But the proximity makes it easier to scout shortly before after, especially of you go to Tignes

I never said they always do.
Just that they often do.

 

[MartinGT]

Lizzie Deignan 'unlikely' to start Vuelta Femenina as she recovers from broken arm

Lidl-Trek rider given greenlight to train indoor

www.cyclingnews.com

Green light to indoor cycling? She was outside riding yesterday LOL.

 

[RedheadDane]

Lizzie Deignan 'unlikely' to start Vuelta Femenina as she recovers from broken arm

Lidl-Trek rider given greenlight to train indoor

www.cyclingnews.com

Green light to indoor cycling? She was outside riding yesterday LOL.

Of course! She hadn't been given green light to indoor cycling

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Lizzie Deignan 'unlikely' to start Vuelta Femenina as she recovers from broken arm

Lidl-Trek rider given greenlight to train indoor

www.cyclingnews.com

Green light to indoor cycling? She was outside riding yesterday LOL.

To be fair, the quote was from two days ago.

 

[MartinGT]

To be fair, the quote was from two days ago.

So within two days shes gone from 'I'll try Zwift' to 100km in the Yorkshire Dales with a bunch?

She even posted on her Insta last week her on Zwift.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

So within two days shes gone from 'I'll try Zwift' to 100km in the Yorkshire Dales with a bunch?

She even posted on her Insta last week her on Zwift.

I assume she knows more about her own situation than the team.

 

[awavey]

So within two days shes gone from 'I'll try Zwift' to 100km in the Yorkshire Dales with a bunch?

She even posted on her Insta last week her on Zwift.

She posted on her insta riding outside one handed whilst her arm was in a cast still the other week, tbf she did say it wasn't recommended

 

[awavey]

according to Sporza, Kopecky is skipping Tour de France Femmes to concentrate on the Olympics, as the Omnium track cycling finishes the day before the race starts. So shes doing the Giro instead.

Lotte Kopecky slaat Tour de France Femmes deze zomer over: "Volledige focus op de Spelen" | sporza

Het hing al een beetje in de lucht, maar nu is het ook officieel. Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-ProTime) zal deze zomer niet te bewonderen zijn in de Tour de France Femmes. De wereldkampioene wil zich volledig focussen op de Olympische Spelen in Parijs.

sporza.be

 

[Nick2413]

Not sure where this is supposed to go but seems a bit shocking that Stages is seizing all operations and laying off all staff per the home page. Even with the bike industry being in a rough spot it seems they’ve been a household name, more affordable than competitors, and are oriented in products that are growing in popularity.

 

[awavey]

Demi Vollering has just signed with Nike

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[pastronef]

so after Cav and Wurf in the current peloton, we'll see her with Nike shoes?

 

[awavey]

so after Cav and Wurf in the current peloton, we'll see her with Nike shoes?

It sounds more than a shoe deal imo, it's whichever team she joins, or maybe even creates from scratch, will be Nike sponsored.

 

[Sciatic]

Demi Vollering has just signed with Nike

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Hopefully it doesn’t mean she’ll have to wear a Nike-designed kit. It’s bad enough they dominate the team apparel market in so many sports but they’ve done a sh*t job on some of their team uniforms this year—their design of US Olympic team unis got more press but it is the MLB (baseball) uniforms that really suck!

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Too early to put up a Tour 2026 rumours thread, but still very much worth posting.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1786270339179151852

Perfect opportunity for an early Pyrenees MTF (please no La Molina).

 

[Red Rick]

Too early to put up a Tour 2026 rumours thread, but still very much worth posting.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1786270339179151852

Perfect opportunity for an early Pyrenees MTF (please no La Molina).

Best I can do is Peyragudes.

Wonder if that means they'll do Pyrenees last in 2025.

 

[tobydawq]

Too early to put up a Tour 2026 rumours thread, but still very much worth posting.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1786270339179151852

Perfect opportunity for an early Pyrenees MTF (please no La Molina).

Hopefully, they'll just do a carbon copy of the Pyrenean stages from the last time the race visited Barcelona in 2009 @Libertine Seguros