State of the forum 2025

[fbjim]

Haven’t seen this forum section so active since Froomes spinny boi attack on Ventoux

oh come on you're forgetting combloux, grand-bornand 2021, and pdbf 2020

 

[Scarponi]

oh come on you're forgetting combloux, grand-bornand 2021, and pdbf 2020

nah Englishman get everyone raving for some reason lol

 

[Berniece]

Lol.

What people here do not understand is, that if the PdB record had been broken by 10 minutes instead of 3 or 4, these people's position would be unchanged and they would be saying the same things.

Because climb records would still not mean anything… you think Pantani with current materials, training methods and knowledge on the impact of food would still ride the same time?

 

[meat puppet]

Because climb records would still not mean anything… you think Pantani with current materials, training methods and knowledge on the impact of food would still ride the same time?

Pantani was a known rocket fueller. Remember also that epo couldnt be detected before 2000.

His times, like everyone's times, would ultimately depend on how well he could navigate the current institutional obstacle course called the rules and regulations.

But ok, the introduction of food, which multiple sources confirm happened around the Covid pandemic, is a valid point that I concede.

 

[topcat]

Pog has had 3 weeks of rest at the giro never getting out of gen z2. Now he's having a week's rest from the dope, off to altitude for 2 weeks chasing the dragon, then a week's rest in zone 0, then slow build up to the tour. This is probably the most rested and untested Pog ever.
Forumites should take their inspiration from Pog, get some rest before CdD (that's going to be an ordeal with the whole Remco-Rog thingy) and during the tour I'm optimistic that the forum can be obliterated.

it's been an amazing journey. Forum obliterated. Thanks Pog.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Why couldn't the best riders from 5-10 years ago come near Pantani's climbing performances? Wasn't Sky already meant to be hyperprofessional? Do you think "impact of food" and "training methods" made elite riders ~10% faster in a time span of 5 years? Why is that more plausible than doping?

Already 10+ years ago sky were speaking about how their nutrition and training methods were so advanced that they could make up for not being rocket fueled.


But apparently they keep finding new and better ways to eat carbs each yeat

 

[Alien Performance]

Along with who you've mentioned @Carrick-On-Seine is I'm assuming from the name and I recall laughing at him for having to deal with the Platinum Jubilee celebrations as an Irish living in England (or maybe it was the funeral?), though it might've been someone else. I also think Breezy1985 it was as well with the Sam Bennett avatar a while back?

Not as prolific as any of the above but I am also Irish!

 

[Monte Serra]

Mou making Twitter great again:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1813119692543840405

View: https://x.com/mou55981652/status/1813119692543840405

 

[Tim Cahill]

Why couldn't the best riders from 5-10 years ago come near Pantani's climbing performances? Wasn't Sky already meant to be hyperprofessional? Do you think "impact of food" and "training methods" made elite riders ~10% faster in a time span of 5 years? Why is that more plausible than doping?

Froome carb intake, Giro stage 2018 stage 19

https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/england/pdf/Froome_03.pdf

MIchele Ferarri in 2005/6;

How Many Carbs? | 53x12

www.53x12.com

The Lipid Power | 53x12

www.53x12.com

In the next week or so you'll notice this implication that they were all starving themselves and eating a slice of toast with some jam on final climbs, it has and always will be nonsense. I haven't seen anything known about nutrition now is that much different to what they were doing 10 years ago.

 

[topcat]

I don't think carbs are going to cut it for me. And I'm ruling out CO inhalation. I'm 150 lbs of genuine Irish beef and I wouldn't do it to this glorious body. Has anyone any recommendation of what drugs I can take to make it through this tour? After PdB, I've lost interest and am feeling a bit deflated. I'm not even that excited about what they have in store for us in the last 3 stages cause the topcat is out of the bag.

 

[repoman]

Why couldn't the best riders from 5-10 years ago come near Pantani's climbing performances? Wasn't Sky already meant to be hyperprofessional? Do you think "impact of food" and "training methods" made elite riders ~10% faster in a time span of 5 years? Why is that more plausible than doping?

When adjusted for inflation, team budgets of the top teams of the 10s were the same as today, Sky had infact a larger budget (adjusted) than current UAE (Sky's budget adjusted was around 65-70 million Euro 2016, UAE is estimated at 55 million Euro today).

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I don't think carbs are going to cut it for me. And I'm ruling out CO inhalation. I'm 150 lbs of genuine Irish beef and I wouldn't do it to this glorious body. Has anyone any recommendation of what drugs I can take to make it through this tour? After PdB, I've lost interest and am feeling a bit deflated. I'm not even that excited about what they have in store for us in the last 3 stages cause the topcat is out of the bag.

I'm wearing my aerodynamic tinfoil cycling clothes while high on painkillers and cooking liquor worms on a Bunsen burner.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I'm wearing my aerodynamic tinfoil cycling clothes while high on painkillers and cooking liquor worms on a Bunsen burner.

And if you wonder what I look like in this outfit, it's fairly close to this photo of Chiara Consonni getting her hair done.

 

[Salvarani]

A lot of new accounts all of a sudden or old accounts with few posts posting. Are people creating or posting from their alt accounts now? Cant all be newbies.

 

[snipeheem]

A lot of new accounts all of a sudden. Are people creating alt accounts now? Cant all be newbies.

X explode yesterday because of mou and he was reffering to forum maybe they come because of that

 

[E_F_]

X explode yesterday because of mou and he was reffering to forum maybe they come because of that

I'm here because looked for Mou's comments...

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Mou also brought new people onto the scene when he was on here, so not a huge surprise it's happening again now.

 

[Mr. 64%]

Hmm. Did UAE plant this leak, in order to have someone "in the know" carry the narrative, that Poggie's doing it cleanz? I mean, that's sort of what i've been able to make of the Mou narrative.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Hmm. Did UAE plant this leak, in order to have someone "in the know" carry the narrative, that Poggie's doing it cleanz? I mean, that's sort of what i've been able to make of the Mou narrative.

I don't think mou ever claimed he was clean (neither himself nor Pogačar).

 

[kingjr]

I don't think mou ever claimed he was clean (neither himself nor Pogačar).

He did, in fact. He said on Twitter that the Pope will get married in the Vatican before Pog does PEDs, or words to that effect.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

He did, in fact. He said on Twitter that the Pope will get married in the Vatican before Pog does PEDs, or words to that effect.

Ok, I just only remember him being ambiguous regarding it on here.

 

[fbjim]

between PdB posts, "mou", "balls" discourse, etc, I am beginning to suspect that the entire forum is in fact inhaling carbon monoxide, myself included

 

[topcat]

There are now at least 5 threads about Pog. I remember when mods limited the number of Froome threads.
Pog is dominating cycling. I don't want him to dominate the forum.
Is Pog more or less popular after PdB? On the forum and generally.

 

[Mr. 64%]

Just a quick glance at the non-clinic part of the forum reminds me why it's a place i don't go. I mean... People are actually trying to argue who's the better rider, can you believe it!?

 

[burning]

Just a quick glance at the non-clinic part of the forum reminds me why it's a place i don't go. I mean... People are actually trying to argue who's the better rider, can you believe it!?

Well, you can still argue who's the better rider, even with all the jet fuel involved. Tbh, if Pogacar did not exist, we would still be calling Jonas and Remco's performances batshit insane, it's just Pogacar having an extra gear on top of an already crazy level of those two guys.