State of the Peloton 2024

[pastronef]

I wonder if when Soudal leaves at the end of this season if Mapei just doesn't come back to sponsor the team

There is absolutely no shame in the 3 alien teams any longer

THIS season is 2024? Soudal is not leaving for at least 2 more years I think

 

[houtdffan]

THIS season is 2024? Soudal is not leaving for at least 2 more years I think

For some reason, my brain is in 2025

 

[pastronef]

For some reason, my brain is in 2025

I'm not updated about Soudal leaving Lefevere and Remco after 2025

 

[E_F_]

Does the cycling season not start in november, technically?

 

[Ripper]

I don't know what one of them is the best joke.

Better nutrition.
New coach.
Better tech.
Better training methods.

My personal favorite is the way Bardet casually stated "apparently, he didn't know how to train".

 

[Rob5091]

Does the cycling season not start in november, technically?

The UCI says 2025 started on October 21st 2024 ...

https://inrng.com/2024/10/happy-new-year-2025-season/

Officially the 2025 professional road cycling season starts today.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

The UCI says 2025 started on October 21st 2024 ...

https://inrng.com/2024/10/happy-new-year-2025-season/

So is Cory Williams the 2024 or 2025 Caribbean Champion?

3/11/2024​

1.2​

1​

Caribbean Championships (Georgetown) R.R.

15​

 

[Froome]

My personal favorite is the way Bardet casually stated "apparently, he didn't know how to train".

"Apparently."

 

[AmRacer]

Hibernating

 

[Sciatic]

Hibernating

I think I think for me it’s winter torpor — I occasionally pop my head up from the cycling hole in the ground to see what’s coming next year.

 

[Ripper]

"Apparently."

Apparently not! Allegedly

 

[Rob5091]

So is Cory Williams the 2024 or 2025 Caribbean Champion?

3/11/2024​

1.2​

1​

Caribbean Championships (Georgetown) R.R.

15​

According to the UCI's rules, he's a 2025 champ.

 

[YellowSocks]

I can't wait to read the State of the peloton 2025 thread!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1861430268248100884

View: https://x.com/RichardPlugge/status/1861430268248100884

 

[houtdffan]

2025

Remco does a 50 minute Ventoux only to lose 1:30 to Pog

UCI says: "The whole peloton is clean!"

Nobody is bringing the nukes next year. Question is, do we see monopoles or even Q-ball weaponry, or do the three alien teams decide to tone it down and stick with antimatter for next year?

 

[Rob5091]

2025

Remco does a 50 minute Ventoux only to lose 1:30 to Pog

UCI says: "The whole peloton is clean!"

Nobody is bringing the nukes next year. Question is, do we see monopoles or even Q-ball weaponry, or do the three alien teams decide to tone it down and stick with antimatter for next year?

It'll be full gas for all teams as nobody wants to be left behind. Get your hazmat suit and geiger counter ready in the bunker for next year.

 

[houtdffan]

It'll be full gas for all teams as nobody wants to be left behind. Get your hazmat suit and geiger counter ready in the bunker for next year.

anti matter produces no radiation, nor do monopoles. q balls simply obliterate the planet entirely

anyone bringing nukes is going to be 10 minutes behind the aliens on ventoux

 

[Krzysztof_O]

2025

Remco does a 50 minute Ventoux only to lose 1:30 to Pog

UCI says: "The whole peloton is clean!"

And both finish over 5 minutes behind Skeletor, who says he's just discovered advantages of porridge and Z2 rides.

 

[houtdffan]

And both finish over 5 minutes behind Skeletor, who says he's just discovered advantages of porridge and Z2 rides.

and the whole peloton is still clean

 

[Rob5091]

and the whole peloton is still clean

Damn right! "Never tested positive"!

 

[Rob5091]

As a fitting way to round off this year, a quote from pro Simon Pellaud (PCS stats) about life in the pro peloton - (and confirms in a way, the notion of needing to be on the autistic spectrum to make it to the top)
https://cyclinguptodate.com/cycling...nt-pro-riders-in-pursuit-of-performance-gains

"The World Tour no longer makes me dream, I draw a line under it. I honestly wonder if cycling as it has become is viable in the long term," he adds. "The level, the pace, the risks we take... It's madness. The daily life you have to live to exist in the elite doesn't suit me. So much is demanded that there is no room for anything other than cycling. The new generations have no life."

 

[Rob5091]

anti matter produces no radiation, nor do monopoles. q balls simply obliterate the planet entirely

anyone bringing nukes is going to be 10 minutes behind the aliens on ventoux

If Pogi oblitierates the planet, there could be a lot of upset people. It could also be a fitting end to humanity, in a way. "They all perished because some guy wanted to win a cycle race."

 

[Rob5091]

Bob Jungels reflects also on the state of the peloton -
https://www.rouleur.cc/blogs/the-ro...ainable-i-m-sceptical-if-we-can-still-push-it

“I think we will reach a limit at some point of mental strength and mental capacities of riders,” he says. Are we asking a lot of riders? “I think so. There is a lot less downtime, more time at altitude camps, and all year round you’re required to take care of nutrition and this or that. It’s becoming a tough year every year. I believe there is a time for everything – time to have beers with mates, time to weigh your rice. To have a long-lasting career, you have to find your own balance.”

“I don’t think it’s going to be a thing where people say we don’t want to ride like this anymore, but you see it already with younger riders saying it’s not for me anymore,” Jungels continues. “You didn’t really have this in the past. I believe, and I hope I’m wrong, that careers will be shorter because the intensity is not sustainable. If at some point you want to have a family, it’s tough, very tough, and it’s something we will see in the next five to 10 years.”

 

[Pannenkooky]

So what's the inside scoop from these Training Camp's? Mateo Jorgensen posted a great carousel on Instagram of the VismA Lisa bike one with Campy doing karaoke. It looked like they were competing during rides because in the background screen it showed that Mateo got number one during what was seemingly a practice ride at the camp.

 

[pastronef]

there's this UncleCycling @cyclinghighlights on twitter going on rants and tweets about everybody with Neil and others chiming in.

I would like the twitter antidopers who do NOTHING ELSE than mocking and bashing the sport, to tell us how would they like the sport. really tell us what you would like to watch and in which way. let us know. is there anyone/anything that you could save? because by what I see, these people would just like to see the sport BURN.
it's oh so easy to spit on it 24/7, like if anything was owed to them. the sport doesn't fekking owe the twitter antidopers anything. the sport is there to entertain people.
I'm still waiting for a manifesto written by the bunch of twitter antidopers, something more factual than finger poitning and mocking and accusing.
the last trend is guilty by association. every Piccolo's team mate is accused, because of Piccolo, and so on and on

 

[Rob5091]

Just to end 2024, with a link to 2023's interesting article at https://www.wielerflits.nl/nieuws/w...lierhormoon-thyrax-wordt-in-peloton-gebruikt/

The cycling peloton also points to the use of the 'cocktail' Thyrax and cortisone in preparation for races, where both products would have a reinforcing effect on each other. "Thyrax together with cortisone is a winning combination. This certainly ensures better sports performance,"

Heard no more on this in 2024, so what happened? Found something else that's better maybe?