wishes for the season

[Netserk]

glad to see the art of not pulling still exists somewhere in the peloton

may we see it plenty more

 

[hayneplane]

glad to see the art of not pulling still exists somewhere in the peloton

may we see it plenty more

Rui Costa will be pleased to see someone was taking his tutorial seriously.

 

[memyselfandI]

Simmons winning Strade Bianche, also winning a proper Tour stage dropping Wout from his back wheel while ripping small escape group and soloing ftw
Piddock winning MSR 1 cm from Pogi and VDP in a three men escape group sprint
Roglic winning Liege
Pedersen winning RBX
Skujins winning Flandres, also winning casually Unbound Gravel with 15 min gap to the next finisher
Vingo winning Giro and podiums in the Tour
Pogi dnf's the Tour before the first rest day
Ayuso takes the Tour from Del Toro in epic last couple stages battle between them and Vingegaard
Remco and Florian still learning and having handbags at the dawn accusing each other about everything
Matt Brennan wins the Worlds from Pogi in a two men sprint

That's all, nothing more, nothing less.

 

[AmRacer]

Vingo winning Giro and podiums in the Tour

This will happens.

 

[RedheadDane]

Pedersen winning RBX

Unfortunately, that probably went from hard to harder.




(I don't Casper has much of a chance either.)

 

[memyselfandI]

Unfortunately, that probably went from hard to harder.




(I don't Casper has much of a chance either.)

Damn, forgot that already..

 

[Netserk]

vino will have the best team in the world during february

vamos

 

[RedheadDane]

Decathlon keeping going strong angering the "they lost their soul" French fans (mainly FDJ fans)

All their wins so far this year coming from foreigners.
Those French fans must love that.

A break consisting of Hoole, Poole, Meehan, and Sheehan.

 

[pastronef]

All their wins so far this year coming from foreigners.
Those French fans must love that.

A break consisting of Hoole, Poole, Meehan, and Sheehan.

some funny and bitterweet posts in the Gruppetto French forum after yesterday's Riccitello win. I never thought I'd see some Frenchies cheer for an Ineos
some French fans hate success. but we already knew it

 

[RedheadDane]

some funny and bitterweet posts in the Gruppetto French forum after yesterday's Riccitello win. I never thought I'd see some Frenchies cheer for an Ineos
some French fans hate success. but we already knew it

So, a foreigner on a foreign team, is better than a foreigner on a French team?

 

[pastronef]

So, a foreigner on a foreign team, is better than a foreigner on a French team?

for some it seems so. the sin of Decathlon is becoming more international, getting foreign riders, Van Rysel, winning more than FDJ

 

[RedheadDane]

1. The vast majority of WT races get full-race coverage.
2. For the races that doesn't get full-race coverage, the actual coverage starts the moment it's advertised on the schedule, not after minutes of nonsense.

 

[rallybanana]

A rider from a country like Uruguay or Mongolia to win a big race

Fingers crossed for tomorrow

 

[fenns]

lots of angry gesturing from riders in the big races

 

[RedheadDane]

Fingers crossed for tomorrow

Hey, there might have been time during which a rider from country like Slovenia winning a big race would have been considered an odditity.

 

[pastronef]

a big win for Simmons

 

[tobydawq]

UAE to win fewer than 70 races
Van Aert to win a big one-day race
Red Bull to step up generally
Pogacar to show signs of plateauing

These don't look all that unrealistic (apart maybe from the last one) so far.

UAE have not won a race since MSR which by tomorrow will be 15 days ago, and that may not sound like a long time, but in fact this is the longest drought for them since the summer of 2024, where it took 18 days for them to win a race after Pogi had won the Giro. And they have actually had some very poor outings recently, especially in Catalunya, but today's Induráin race definitely didn't look good, either.

They have had a lot of injuries, and Pogi and Del Toro of course still look stellar, but they will definitely not come anywhere close to the 97 wins of 2025.