State of the Peloton 2024

[noob]

If you've had adhd diagnosis and been on stimulants since forever can you get it as a TUI? 🤣🤣🤣

 

[Ripper]

If you've had adhd diagnosis and been on stimulants since forever can you get it as a TUI? 🤣🤣🤣

Yes

 

[Samu Cuenca]

If you've had adhd diagnosis and been on stimulants since forever can you get it as a TUI? 🤣🤣🤣

I believe TUI accepts most kind of travellers

 

[Barnacle Bill]

It was quite funny listening to ex-pros and other commentators talking about saving energy ahead of the big mountains, then UAE put Yates in the break (while losing Ayuso), Visma burn the team securing another 2nd place sprint for Wout, everyone races at a crazy pace all day. Who needs to worry about boring stuff like saving energy, this is NuCycling™!

It's certainly more entertaining than a careful, calculated approach, I'll give it that.

 

[NFTtiddies]

State of the Peloton:

Exclusive: Tour riders are inhaling carbon monoxide in ‘super altitude’ recipe​

"That research, plus other studies dating back years, strongly suggest that CO inhalation can itself provide similar effects to altitude training. By inducing hypoxia – a state of oxygen deprivation – CO inhalation can be used to prolong or even replace the performance-enhancing benefits of altitude training. It can also be used in conjunction with altitude training to maximise gains, as part of an approach called “super altitude.”

 

[Tim Cahill]

You cannot be ****ing serious

 

[QueenStagiaire]

So motopacing has a lasting positive effect? That‘s why they were so good in the 90s

 

[slim charles]

All I can think about after reading that article is - I wonder what weird thing will they do next.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

So motopacing has a lasting positive effect? That‘s why they were so good in the 90s

Now we know why Pogi has started training behind a scooter.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Now we know why Pogi has started training behind a scooter.

And when he's done with that he probably sticks his head into a gas oven for good measure...

 

[QueenStagiaire]

And when he's done with that he probably sticks his head into a gas oven for good measure...

It‘s always full gas with Pogi.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Reminds me of freedivers hyperventilating before going down to lower the carbon dioxite levels in their bloodstream, so that they feel the urge to breath much later.

 

[Red Rick]

State of the Peloton:

Exclusive: Tour riders are inhaling carbon monoxide in ‘super altitude’ recipe​

"That research, plus other studies dating back years, strongly suggest that CO inhalation can itself provide similar effects to altitude training. By inducing hypoxia – a state of oxygen deprivation – CO inhalation can be used to prolong or even replace the performance-enhancing benefits of altitude training. It can also be used in conjunction with altitude training to maximise gains, as part of an approach called “super altitude.”

Babe wake up.

Real Ciclismo just dropped

 

[Mayomaniac]

Babe wake up.

Real Ciclismo just dropped

The age of fuel injected suicide machines is coming back!

 

[Nick2413]

CO, eh?

So you’re telling me if I turn on my car in the garage for an hour, buckle in and blast Free Bird I can win the Tour?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

So you’re telling me if I turn on my car in the garage for an hour, buckle in and blast Free Bird I can win the Tour?

Or die trying.

 

[proffate]

lucky for me my smart trainer is also in the garage

 

[Tim Cahill]

Uno-X riders suffer carbon monoxide poisoning at go-kart track - Escape Collective

Go-karts? More like 'time to take a break outside' karts.

escapecollective.com

Well now.

 

[topcat]

On Wednesday, Pog fired one bullet: bang, bang. Vingo caught the bullet and shoved it up Pog's ass. Now we hear some riders are deliberately poisoning themselves with CO. This has to be the goat (greatest of all tours).

 

[Ripper]

Reminds me of freedivers hyperventilating before going down to lower the carbon dioxite levels in their bloodstream, so that they feel the urge to breath much later.

That's CO2 though?

And wasn't rebreathing a thing a while back? Which is Carbon Dioxide

 

[Tricycle Rider]

That's CO2 though?

And wasn't rebreathing a thing a while back? Which is Carbon Dioxide

I think you're right, what we exhale is actually CO2, and not CO?

But what do the divers add to their tanks - maybe even some/lots of nitrogen? (This is getting very marginal gains, better be careful with what you inhale.)

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

I think you're right, what we exhale is actually CO2, and not CO?

But what do the divers add to their tanks - maybe even some/lots of nitrogen? (This is getting very marginal gains, better be careful with what you inhale.)

Inhaled air is about 0.03% CO2, exhaled about 4%

Contents of a diver's tank vary from 'normal air' (78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen) to up to 36%, sometimes 40%, O2, with the nitrogen sometime replaced, in whole or in part, by helium.

 

[MikeS369]

It was quite funny listening to ex-pros and other commentators talking about saving energy ahead of the big mountains, then UAE put Yates in the break (while losing Ayuso), Visma burn the team securing another 2nd place sprint for Wout, everyone races at a crazy pace all day. Who needs to worry about boring stuff like saving energy, this is NuCycling™!

It's certainly more entertaining than a careful, calculated approach, I'll give it that.

The guy that has pinged my radar is Abrahamsen. Guy is in just about every break and trying to get in every break. Claiming a lot of KoM's and intermediate sprints. Getting spit out the back of the peloton and catching back on. Getting spit out the peloton again and catching back on and then leading the sprinters in for the last 5k of the stage. Heck he even pulled away from the peloton in the last 4 or 5k today.

 

[proffate]

The guy that has pinged my radar is Abrahamsen. Guy is in just about every break and trying to get in every break. Claiming a lot of KoM's and intermediate sprints. Getting spit out the back of the peloton and catching back on. Getting spit out the peloton again and catching back on and then leading the sprinters in for the last 5k of the stage. Heck he even pulled away from the peloton in the last 4 or 5k today.

but he gained 20kg, we're told (again and again)

has anyone actually found a picture of this man when he was 20kg lighter? I have a feeling he's referring to his weight in the u15 division

 

[Rob5091]

but he gained 20kg, we're told (again and again)

has anyone actually found a picture of this man when he was 20kg lighter? I have a feeling he's referring to his weight in the u15 division

A 19 year old Abrahamsen. TV2 Norway had an article where he said he went up 15 kg (from 60 to 75kg) as his career was stagnating. I suppose he went the "Froome skinny" route to beefed up puncheur (the guy did win the Brussels Classic this year in front of Girmay no less).