Tour de Suisse 2024, June 9 - 16

[Netserk]

Cavendish with the fastest T1 split so far in an MTT.

What a time to be alive

It's Sir Frodo Cavendish now!

 

[shadowrider]

How much of a difference TT bike brings over 5km flat? 3-4 sec/km?
If so, I wonder if it's really faster to change bikes

I think 5 km on a TT bike over 5 km flat will give an advantage of 15-20 seconds, as you wrote. If the bikechange has to be done already in the climb (after a few hundreds of meter), at low speed, a bicycle change is beneficial. Especially for TT-specialists (gaining more time during those 5 flat km) and GC-riders. pocketclimbers could choose to ride a (climbing)bike from start to finish.

 

[hfgon1]

Cavendish with the fastest T1 split so far in an MTT.

What a time to be alive

And finally ended up being slower than Vollering earlier this day.

 

[Salvarani]

Honestly, Bernal is looking good for a Tour podium.

I got laughed at for saying this a few months ago..

 

[noob]

The power in that river omg

Everything this race is too pretty. I can't even write cause I don't want t to miss a second of the views

 

[Potomac]

Is anyone else having problems viewing?

 

[Netserk]

Did Mäder do this full ITT on TT bike 2 years ago?

No.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Firing up my VPN and Swiss stream one last time so I can hear the sweet, sweet sounds of Swiss German, and on the course in the background you can see some lovely mountains - feel like I should be breaking out one of those Swiss horns or make an attempt to yodel.

Hope Bernal, Pidcock, and Yates do well, the latter two because they have cute dogs.

 

[awavey]

Firing up my VPN and Swiss stream one last time so I can hear the sweet, sweet sounds of Swiss German, and on the course in the background you can see some lovely mountains - feel like I should be breaking out one of those Swiss horns or make an attempt to yodel.

Hope Bernal, Pidcock, and Yates do well, the latter two because they have cute dogs.

there is no cuter dog than Flo

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7286134851323825440

View: https://www.tiktok.com/@propercycling/video/7286134851323825440

 

[Peyroteo94]

Cav was beaten by Vollering. Shame on you Mark!

 

[Tricycle Rider]

there is no cuter dog than Flo

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7286134851323825440

View: https://www.tiktok.com/@propercycling/video/7286134851323825440

What a beauty! Well, both ladies are, but especially the pup.

 

[search]

Küng is still on his time trial bike, but pretty slow. Apart from the prologue, it's the first time he is using it, so it's probably more about getting a feeling for it in race conditions.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Blobloblo on the course, or at least I think that is Uijtdebroeks' nickname on this forum.

 

[search]

According to Swiss TV, during the recon today one of the Fenix riders crashed into VPP when coming down the climb after her race. She was more affeced than Paret-Peintre, but apparently not too bad.

 

[search]

Looks like Hayter went all-in for the watch. 1st at the first split, unlikely to be Top 100 in the end.

 

[awavey]

must have had an issue, most of the women were quicker than him from T1 to T2

 

[search]

must have had an issue, most of the women were quicker than him from T1 to T2

not necessarily. Most of the guys who tried to win the watch dropped back massively afterwards.

 

[Rob5091]

Little Lenny M showing he can TT well for a little 'un.

 

[Monte Serra]

Madiot should be fired if he doesn't bring Lenny Martinez to the Tour. While they still have him on the payroll, better to get some proper exposure out of him.

 

[awavey]

not necessarily. Most of the guys who tried to win the watch dropped back massively afterwards.

but he's an ITT specialist, surely Ineos would have wanted him to ride the whole course to get a decent result ? his T2 to finish time was comparable to Caruso, its just his T1-T2 time was so slow, which meant he ends up with a time overall slower than Vollering did.

 

[noob]

It's heating up

 

[postmanhat]

Come on Ricky.

 

[postmanhat]

Blobloblo on the course, or at least I think that is Uijtdebroeks' nickname on this forum.

How did that nickname come about??

 

[noob]

Almeida is such a cave man 🤣🤣🤣🤣

 

[Netserk]

How did that nickname come about??

Mas tried to pronounce his name.