Lesser Known Road Racing for Women Thread

Page 193 - Get up to date with the latest news, scores & standings from the Cycling News Community.
Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
U

Unchained

Sep 5, 2016
5,290
8,319
23,180
theyoungest said:
It is. The UCI want to enforce this plan, but make the teams liable if something goes wrong.
Click to expand...
The team will track the location of their own riders? Imagine that..
From a sales and product angle, race fans would love a real time tracker.. To know where your favorite rider is, how far in front or behind, who is with them. And more technology emerging as fans hear announcements on race radio from multiple teams. Fans want onboard cameras and drones, they long to hear what Wout Van Aert is saying into his microphone..
Massive discussion of on skin sensors for glucose, body temps, perspiration, and breathing, heart rate.. All bio feedback fans would love to have access to..
The main thing that can go wrong with a tracking device is if it doesn't do tracking.. Rider goes off the road and dies as a result. That's not a made up scenario, it's actually happened.
 
U

Unchained

Sep 5, 2016
5,290
8,319
23,180
Devil's Elbow said:
Somehow, I doubt a device that is attached to the bike frame can measure heart rate.
Click to expand...
Unfortunately that is true and untrue at the same time..
Anything that can be sent to a headend like Garmin or Wahoo could be intercepted and relayed possibly..
And with most wireless available for on-bike..Campy, Sram, Shimano all vulnerable to data relay, possibly gear position.. Which one and for how long..and then in the truly sinister scenario.. Ability for someone remotely to shift someone's bike or just make derailuers stop working..
Devices used in Baja, instead of sat phone have emergency beacon, activation can be done using a button or G force technology similar to IPhone accident mode..but if you are using a wearable like common diabetes glucose monitor, fitbit, Apple watch or equivalent all that data can be relayed.. Emergency beacon devices have passive tracking like.. Find my Phone type technology.. Or Apple Airtag type stuff.. Someone can track your location
Do I know if UCI is using that type of technology? I don't know..
But if you are hiking, camping, skiing, riding in remote places people can tell where you are and if you are alive even if you don't know your status.
Big debate in motorcycle community is if new cell phone services like T-Mobile in US that are going to hybrid coverage using Starlink make emergency beacons obsolete. Most have a fee, either one time or monthly.. I would think that with bike packing and gravel popularity, technology that is just there, on your bike, like a bottle cage or flat kit is logical.
Many of my devices work together.. Heartrate monitor and headend talk, and both talk with my phone and riding app like Relive or Strava or other similar..
 
Libertine Seguros

Libertine Seguros

Feb 20, 2010
33,064
15,272
28,180
Supplemental salary, Lorena? Only kidding, nice to see from her, maybe when she's not going at race speeds she can work out what that yellow thing on the floor might be.

Not really sure why it's been "a bad couple of weeks for women's cycling". Not a good day today, sure, but I was told in no uncertain terms that everything was sunshine, lollipops and rainbows before...
 
Samu Cuenca

Samu Cuenca

Sep 26, 2020
25,341
27,850
23,180
It's a shame I didn't win one of Cristina Tonetti's polka dot jerseys in the twitter raffle last year. It would have been worth more after today (but I obviously wouldn't have sold it).
 
Libertine Seguros

Libertine Seguros

Feb 20, 2010
33,064
15,272
28,180
We also have the Vuelta a Guatemala going on at the moment, including one of the hardest climbs of the season (Alto de Cantel, which is a Torre-esque 29km at 5,2% in total, but has been broken down into multiple climbs for categorisation, the hardest of which is 11km at 6,8%) - CQ game superstar (note: may only apply to me and Samu) Karen Villamizar won stage 1 with a punchy double-climb at the end, and is one of the strongest climbers on the startlist. The big climb is not until the final stage on Sunday, two circuit races, one hilly (today) and one flat (tomorrow) stand between the riders and the big monolith - fortunately for them it's essentially a one-climb stage, being around 20km from the start to the climb and then only around 10km from the climb to the finish on the altiplano.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Samu Cuenca
Y

yaco

Jun 20, 2015
15,361
6,025
28,180
Libertine Seguros said:
Supplemental salary, Lorena? Only kidding, nice to see from her, maybe when she's not going at race speeds she can work out what that yellow thing on the floor might be.

Not really sure why it's been "a bad couple of weeks for women's cycling". Not a good day today, sure, but I was told in no uncertain terms that everything was sunshine, lollipops and rainbows before...
Click to expand...

Its been a poor season since the first two races of the season in Australia. The Aussie national Championship was a boat race, then the first stage of the TDU allowed Hengeveld to ride away with 30kms to go a flat stage when AG Insurance had Woolaston as the fastest, while the home team Liv Alula had Baker who was the second fastest. fair dinkum 75% of the peleton could have done what Hengeveld did. Then you had the farce at Het Nieuwsblaad and the racing has not got much better. In terms of fair dinkum racing it's been a disappointing season. Then of course you had the unnecessary fallout from the TDF and todays event at Romandie.
 
M

Mina.S

Aug 31, 2023
260
373
1,730
In case anyone is wondering why AG Soudal started according to their website:

Tour de Romandie | Stage 1​

Today, we at AG Insurance - Soudal would like to congratulate Urska on her result, even though the start of the day in Romandie wasn’t quite what we had hoped for.

For sporting reasons and in order to defend our world tour ranking, the team decided to start the race. However, we regret the disqualification of the five World Tour teams, and we stand in solidarity with them as they stood up for protecting the rights of all teams. Important measures like this should be discussed on an appropriate time in advance, and in a clear and transparant process where all stakeholders are truly represented and where teams can explain and defend their stakes. We believe in a model of collaboration to keep cycling economically viable for all stakeholders, including the teams.

A nice and well-organized race like the Tour of Romandie deserves to have the best teams and riders competing each other.
 
Libertine Seguros

Libertine Seguros

Feb 20, 2010
33,064
15,272
28,180
Please don't tell me it was on that small descent. She's already petrified enough.

In Guatemala, it's Colombian domination (no, no Venezuelans here) with PatoBike putting all 6 of their riders in the top 8 on the day on stage 2's hilly circuit, Natalia Muñoz winning the stage after doing the 1-2 trick on another Colombian, Camila Valbuena riding as a guest for the local Macizo-Banrural team, with Villamizar outsprinting Valbuena for 2nd and keeping the GC lead by a single second over Muñoz; they came to the line a few seconds ahead of Jessica Parra and the first non-Colombian, Mexico's Andrea Ramírez (both also riding for PatoBike) who came in as a pair behind them. Home hope Jasmin Soto was the only rider in the top 11 not to be from either Colombia or Mexico, both countries contributing 5 riders to that top 11.
 
T

Tim Cahill

May 6, 2021
12,802
23,725
22,180
Zigart probably needs to gamble and make her work, doing a lot here and going to get rolled at some point, it's a difficult situation.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Didinho
Libertine Seguros

Libertine Seguros

Feb 20, 2010
33,064
15,272
28,180
Is Urška Žigart about to win a WWT race? She needs to come to the line alone, but she's got rid of everybody bar Kastelijn and Chabbey, and she does have the GC advantage over them, such that even if they beat her in a sprint to the line she takes the race lead. However, she would need to win the GC if she can't drop them because surely she doesn't beat them in a sprint to the line. She's in the process of breaking Yara Kastelijn.

Dani very unhappy with the Fenix-Deceuninck soigneur not giving Steffi Häberlin, who had just dropped off the group that he had Yara Kastelijn in, a bottle.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Brayko, Miss Violet Smith and Didinho
T

Tim Cahill

May 6, 2021
12,802
23,725
22,180
Motorbike 2 metres ahead of the front as Kastelijn is a few seconds back grinding to try and bridge is really unfortunate, they need to sort this out.
 
  • Wow
Reactions: Brayko
Lequack

Lequack

Jul 10, 2014
14,992
25,987
28,180
Libertine Seguros said:
Is Urška Žigart about to win a WWT race? She needs to come to the line alone, but she's got rid of everybody bar Kastelijn and Chabbey, and she does have the GC advantage over them, such that even if they beat her in a sprint to the line she takes the race lead. However, she would need to win the GC if she can't drop them because surely she doesn't beat them in a sprint to the line. She's in the process of breaking Yara Kastelijn.

Dani very unhappy with the Fenix-Deceuninck soigneur not giving Steffi Häberlin, who had just dropped off the group that he had Yara Kastelijn in, a bottle.
Click to expand...

Great ride from Zigart, obviously the favorites being DQ'd helps, but she was also good at the Giro already. This will surely take the pressure from Pogacar :cool:
 
  • Like
  • Haha
Reactions: Didinho, Brayko, Wyndbrook and 1 other person
C

Cycling111

Apr 13, 2025
3,382
3,667
10,680
Tomorrow she'll lose the GC. She has the same problem as Gigante, she doesn´t ride well in the peloton and struggles on descents.
 
B

Brayko

Jul 3, 2023
4
13
1,540
Every anonymous wants a picture with the GC leading cycliist…😇😂

66952295.jpg
 
Last edited:
  • Like
  • Haha
Reactions: Wyndbrook, Didinho, TourOfSardinia and 1 other person
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom