World Championship 2025: Men’s ITT, September 21

[Peyroteo94]

None said that Pidcock will finish the race with Pogacar only that he will be the biggest competitor (i.e. silver medal). After the Vuelta I think it's possible. Still, there are guys named Carapaz and Evenepoel so we will see.

Saying Pidcock can be more dangerous than Remco is a lack of respect for Remco.

 

[Cycling111]

The climbs aren't that tough. A specialist should still have an advantage here. The toughest section is the cobbles section. The road world championships will be tough because they'll be doing it 15 times.

 

[Peyroteo94]

The climbs aren't that tough. A specialist should still have an advantage here. The toughest section is the cobbles section. The road world championships will be tough because they'll be doing it 15 times.

Yeah, they will race it at 50 kph because descents are very fast.

 

[Cycling111]

Yeah, they will race it at 50 kph because descents are very fast.

I mentioned you in the Pogacar thread. Do you still think this is the same as the Monaco time trial, which had an 8-kilometer climb and a long and technical descent? This time trial is more for specialists. It's no comparison.

The route isn't for climbers either. Apart from Mont Kigali, it's a route that Pedersen should be more competitive with than Vingegaard. Vingegaard, with his poor results in one-day races, wouldn't have been on the podium on this route.

 

[Red Rick]

Women went marginally faster on average than Tokyo, but for them Tokyo was only around 2/3rds the distance.

The men have relatively more climbing than the women, but they won't have the extra distance to cover compared to Tokyo.

50kph average seems very unlikely to me as the fastest guys typically don't go 7 kph faster than the fastest women, even on the same duration.

The best proxy for this is probably TdS 2023, when they did the same ITT on I believe the same day or 1 day apart, and Reusser went 42 kph average and Ayuso went 47.5 kph average

 

[Tim Cahill]

1 hour 30 until one of the favourites for today, the big cosmonaut climber, hailing from the glorious nation of Individual Neutral Athletes 'Artem Nych' starts on a course that is surely good for him.

Hayter is a fool not riding this, I was getting progressively more irritated watching the women's race seeing how fast a course it was.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

The big battle is finally here today. The duel everybody has been waiting for. There's only two names that matter obviously.

Here are their starting times:

15h05:00: Ilan Van Wilder
15h52:30: Bruno Armirail

My god I forgot about this..normally not too interested in TTs but today I will drop everything I have planned, my money is on Armriail , he's flying this year!!

 

[Peyroteo94]

Women went marginally faster on average than Tokyo, but for them Tokyo was only around 2/3rds the distance.

The men have relatively more climbing than the women, but they won't have the extra distance to cover compared to Tokyo.

50kph average seems very unlikely to me as the fastest guys typically don't go 7 kph faster than the fastest women, even on the same duration.

The best proxy for this is probably TdS 2023, when they did the same ITT on I believe the same day or 1 day apart, and Reusser went 42 kph average and Ayuso went 47.5 kph average

Yeah. Probably around 49.

 

[AmRacer]

Yeah. Probably around 49.

Which is to Pogi's advantage.

 

[Red Rick]

Guys, I don't know about you, but I'm here on Edward watch.

 

[Berniece]

The drums when leaving is a nice touch

 

[Red Rick]

T1 is the same as for the women, and Nsengiyumva is way faster than the fastest women, which isn't always a given on these sorts of TTs for the slowest men.

 

[AlpRaid]

Tiz cutting out regularly.

Any more stable feeds snyone?

 

[RedheadDane]

Is there a prize for best kit? Because Mali should win it.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

We won't get to see Red Walters vs. Red Rick, but Nych vs. Munton should be an interesting match up.

 

[red_flanders]

Invisible rider just went. Drums and all!

 

[Brullnux]

T1 is the same as for the women, and Nsengiyumva is way faster than the fastest women, which isn't always a given on these sorts of TTs for the slowest men.

Tbf Nsengiyumva is a decent CT rider, the other men so far are way slower.

 

[Tommy Gun]

Crazy to see a few riders with that old Scott bike, with outside cables and rim brakes

 

[fenns]

looks like really high quality video from the motorbikes - much better than we usually see

 

[red_flanders]

Those cobbles look pretty nasty on a TT rig...

 

[RedheadDane]

I'm sorry, but 'Shemu' looks like a mix between 'Shein' and 'Temu'.

 

[dazaau]

Those cobbles look pretty nasty on a TT rig...

That climb looks pretty tough.

 

[dazaau]

Tiz cutting out regularly.

Any more stable feeds snyone?

480p version seems fairly stable

 

[DJO]

Tiz cutting out regularly.

Any more stable feeds snyone?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUA2lWx02GY

 

[AlpRaid]

Thank you both!

Yes, the 480p is stable for me too now, tx.

thought the YouTube would be geo-restricted in my area, but...it isn't. Tx.