Tour de France (2.UWT)Stage 5Lannemezan - Pau158.3kmStartlist:https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-de-france/2026/startlistGC after stage 4:https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-de-france/2026/stage-4-gcRoadbook:https://www.xoo-cycling.ch/download/roadbooks/roadbook_tour-de-france_2026.pdfLive stats:https://racecenter.letour.fr/en/https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-de-france/2026/stage-5/liveStreams:https://cyclingtiz.live/https://dlhd.pk/Eurosport / Discovery+ / HBO / TNT / France TV / ARD1 / RTBF / VRT / DKTV2 / RTVE / Rai / NOS / EITB / RTP / RTV Slo / SRG-SSR13:45 CETPrevious thread:>>156429014
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>>156496872a real slurper this one seperates the men from the boys
Tour of Austria (2.1)Stage 1Graz - Gamlitz188kmStartlist:https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-of-austria/2026/startlistRoadbook:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YWXs9DaiN4-XiynH56nDYXM15sL7ZMOE/view?usp=share_linkLive stats:https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-of-austria/2026/stage-1/liveStreams:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUPsvhq_Y3Ehttps://cyclingtiz.live/https://dlhd.pk/Eurosport / Discovery+ / HBO / TNT / ORF1 / K19 / Proximus14:15 CET
There is no reason why Mads cant win today as well
>>156496945In pure sprint it will be hard other teams have full trains and pistiers, trek has no pistiers
>>156496945the black man fast
>>156497600
Merlel will die up the hill. Jappe will chute. Girmay will bring it home.
>>156497600honestly my favourite frame of the bunch, always been a sucker for the integrated seatpost just a thing of beuty
i hope moho bags this one, if not him then peder x2
new dura ace 1x only ????
>>156498746the second ring is right there
>>156498746grug is running a 1-by with an XTR derailleur at the back.
the exact setup is a 56 ring at the front and a 10-44 cassette at the back. I don't see him do this in the alps, but who knows.
Will we see Vingegaard back in yellow when the mountain stages start?
why have i literally never heard of traeen?
What if Pog solo wins this to dunk on sprinters?
>>156499417Did you not see the vuelta?
>>156499420sources say Pog is absolutely terrified of Jonas in the big mountains and will be saving all his matches
>>156499435no, i usually skip that one.
holy shit! traeen finished 9th in last year's vuelta. what the fuck did pogi do!
>>156499411Rare
>>156499521Should be good for a top 10 this tour as things stand. 10 minutes on Pidcock who is probably going to be 8th-10th. I can see him dropping off early on climbs to hold his own pace whist Visma and PooAE smash each others face in. O'Coomer did it well in the vuelta. I love these break away heists.
>>156499411we will not see jonas in yellow again this tdf
>>156498845>1990s>run XTR in the back to get more range>2020s>run XTR in the back to get more rangethe more things change...
>not even unhinged mental illness posting can keep /cyc/ alive during wc
Page 7 jesus christ
>>156501088even AI cant fix his fucked up brows
Who here taking a nap?
>>156501219>not taking a nap regardlessngmi
Vacek could win this Tour unironically
>>156501479Vacek sounds like a character from The Good Soldier Švejk
WHERE is the SBS coverage
depart fictif
>>156501677starts 10:20
>>156497600I can not tell these frames apart anymoreI thought this was a Aeroad at first
>tiramisu without coffeestraight to jail
the thing i like about jonas the most is he wears black bibs with jerseysfull color jerseys are the most hideous shit and horrible trend of the past 15 years
Veistroffer unchained
>>156502080youngest allahphillipe fan
>>156502098Only in the tour de france do you get these nothingburger days with 1 guy in the breakaway
Every single wildcard team should get DQ if they dont go in breaks
>>156502143Nah we've been getting them in the Giro too lately. Italian conti jobbers have been putting on airs and are suddenly too good to ride in a doomed breakaway.
>hey, do a Jonas
>>156502408hey that's copyrighted
Next week looks insane. Hope it's not happening
>>156502531
>>156502408that's not quite correct i'm afraid
Put a sticker with a picture of a block of myseost on his handle bar
>>156502661looks yum
>>156502780>>156502661what is that?
>>156502796Naturally caramelized cheese. Iconic Norwegian cheese.
>>156502876>Norwegianhuh but you don't like the Norwegians
>>156502780looks like hard soap
>>156502938i guessed a block or caramel so i was close
good morning i have arrived to watch jappe triumph
dead
>>156503251so close
>>156503251that better be a yellow card!
>>156503248Blame ASO. It's a televised rest stage. We can use the thread to talk about caramelized cheese.
>they talking about torsteins balls again
>>156503360>balls*ball
>>156502908Is this an attempt at humor or something?
>>156502876what does that even taste like
>>156502550wonder if this will be the year where people start taking climate change seriously. probably not
>>156503441Caramel
>>156503423Maybe I'm mistaken you for some other Dane who hates Norway.
>>156503441Do you have a proper cheese culture in fatland or is it just the processed stuff? Saw some videos of americans trying european cheese and they were mindblown though that might just be for the heckin content.
>>156503460hmmmmm and the texture
>>156503488we have really good cheddar in the midwest but nothing too crazy. i don't get too adventurous with cheese but my favorite is probably port salut
>>156501677for those wanting some English speaking stream, you can watch the tour on Australian tv via a VPN.now get a load of this Australian rider.
>>156503527I used to smoke these. They are the best.
>>156503494Hard and super smooth
>>156503527me das used to smoke these luckily he quit
>>156503553sounds nice i'll keep an eye out next time at the international grocery
>>156503527kino graphic design almost makes me want to take up smoking
>>156503582It's interesting. I like it maybe once a year, but some just can't get enough.
Lidl want to buy Lipowitz. Seixas is being offered 12 Mio / year by that one team I forget hte name
>tfw I finally get up early enough and finish my morning ride so I can actually watch most of the race
>>156503532Yeah that's a popular cheese, tried a little and it's soft and creamy. Cheddar is a great versatile cheese, doesn't surprise me they make that. Heard Wisconsin is big on their cheese.
Mühlberger wins in Austria.can't believe AG2R left him at home and brough washed Kooij instead to the tour.
Muhlberger wins
>>156503629PooAE still chasing Paul? He's too innocent for them. They're disgusting. He should not tarnish his reputation by going to a soulless arab team with multiple convicted dopers and dope doctors. The first actual french talent in years needs to win at a french team, it's that simple. Just so happens decathlon now have a fat budget and actually look coherent.
>>156503633>finally get up>It's a sprint stage
>>156503677>>156503678it's a draw
>>156503455HAHAHAHAHAHANobody will give up their luxuries, nobody. Not you, not Karen, not Bert.
>>156503678top 10
>>156503649yeah dunno why you'd ever be in wisconsin but if you happen to be the cheese curds are incredible, and of course you can get them deep fried
>finally a pool>sausage party
>>156503739>Xavier Finlay Xavier Pickering
>>156503724China will save us with their green energy research unperturbed by the oil guzzling luddites of the west
>>156503792just say no to drugs parents
>>156503752I was gonna laugh with Americans deep frying cheese, but then I realized I had deep fried cheese with my fries last week
>>156503633Stages are revealed 6 months in advance
>>156501219every tour stage is a 10
hors
>>156503912my sleep schedule however is not
Evenepoel lachee
shameless plug for bloodbag dopage
Miss Mousquetaire <3
>>156503811Deep fried cheese is maybe the best food ever
>>156504004pic of the hot one please bert
>>156503455if anything more energy will be consumed as Europeans and especially new europeans won’t do the no airco bit
cute horse grill
kooij looking smug pre race
>>156503951Tell it to this girl
three musketeers (by netflix)
>>156504135Shes a cute d'Artagnan
>>156504166more like gender swapped Aramis
>>156502550Hey how come the heatwave respects national borders so scrupulously ? It's suspicious.
>>156504201mountain ranges innit
>>156504244There's no mountain above Switzerland, the Rhine is as flat as a river should.
>>156504004>>156504071Honestly my favorite part of the TdF is people being weird and showing us their hobbies.
>>156504201It didn't last time, but this time there's a low pressure system over the Baltic Sea that's keeping the high pressure over France and the British Isles. It's possible for the heat to start moving further east in a few days but models are still unsure about that.
>>156504135Thx, cutie of the day.>>156504166>>156504198Believe me you don't want that...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrTWYf9RL9s
>>156504408>c'est un mec
it's crazy how fast you can see they're going when you see those zoomed out shots from a helicopter
>>156502550imagine the smell
picrel is the definitive Three Musketeers version, just how Dumas definitely envisioned it
>>156502550Tour will be cancelled surely. This is diabolical. Genuinely unsafe for everyone involved from fans, to the team staff and particularly the riders.
Did any of these Euro tours convince you to visit their hosting country or specific region of it?I'm mostly into southern and less inhabitated southern-central and central France countryside enthusiast rather than nafri and ngubu cities from it or Paris. The Atlantic coast seems cozy too.I guess "Des Racines e Des Ailes" is a good promoter.
>>156504799Albania looked good. Would visit
bike change for Jonas
Vingegaard lachee
>>156504799sure but i need these month long vacations they have>just roadtriping>eating saucisson and baguette
jonas will surely get a penalty for that...right?
kek
>>156504902Nobody cares about guys drafting behind cars unless you are a no name jobber.
>get out of my way motorbike shits! >:-<And some people still wonder why everybody prefers Pog
astana power
>>156504567there's very soulful soviet TV production. excellent cast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFISab0-DGI
>>156504799i need to do a roadtrip down the Croatian coast after watching crorace
philipsen washedhoule would have won that
>>156504799Sometimes there’s a pittoresque town that gets added to the list
u wot
>>156504567the only correct opinion
>>156505231put this lad on a watch list
Cycling is so boring the commentators just talk about their hotel rooms and what they are eating for lunch the last two hours
>>156505263At least we have former pro cyclists talking about cycling here.
I thought Tim Merlot was too old to sprint?
>>156505263I like it, chill tv with some chatting and scenic shots
I think Veistroffer will win most combative rider.
>>156502550Why does god hate france? Is it because their world cup team isn't white enough?
>>156505330well, duh
>>156505263TNT make it a bit to discuss their lunch every day, gay as fuck
>>156505263Skill issue. Czech commentators talk about what's happening in the race, some info about cyclists who are active on the screen and/or about the region they're currently in, including fun facts about various towns and villages they go through.
>>156505365I hate the nerd who does the food bits. They only bring him in for the tdf.
>>156505263To be fair it's also what we do
>>156505384That dude is such a dork. Used to do bits in the cycling weekly magazines. Really not an interesting dude and never has anything interesting to say. The coverage is pretty terrible for TNT and they constantly discuss inane shit about the race when they are discussing cycling.
>>156505263Anglo commentary is the worst. Wouldn't watch cycling if I only understood english.
Can i order a train so our French hero will win?
hope they at least smash these climbs
I like the new format with races where the first few stages are difficult and you get some action straight away. Some of the older styles where it's slow burn over fairly flat terrain was kino too. The fights for the polka dots between shitters on 4 category climbs was fun.
>>156505384ha i love that shitcycling is so boringmain point of watching tdf is to see the nice countryside and people on the side of the road enjoying their picnics and hear about good food with a couple minutes of actual racing sprinkled in per tour
He's going to get caught
>>156505492I like the food talk but not from this posh dweeb. He is very lame
90% of the time daddylive shows shit like this instead of what the stream is supposed to be showing
>>156505263>>156505365theyre paid to do it
It's not the same without himhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhDARKBynHY
gwan Fred
>>156505347I volunteer to sacrifice them and appease the gods. Fuck I'd do it even if there's no god.
>>156505263Anglo commentary is always nepotistic and inept
i'm just glad they've stopped talking about testicles
>>156505347because they are mostly sodomites and destroyed the world with promotion of liberalism with the French Revolutioneverything has been hell since
>vpp in break on flat stage
>>156505696>pas normal
>>156505696could stick to your skin. happened me before
>>156505799freezeburn is not a joke
why is renaat always trying to prove josé wrong? it's unbecoming.
>>156505504and he has lol
>>156505696illegel
>>156505826it’s horrible commentary i want to strangle Renaat.It’s still somewhat okay if they’re discussing varia but if Jose makes actual points about koers then Renaat will take the dumbest positions and he always tries to end in agreeing to disagreeing.
kooij better win a stage
>couille
hopefully no chute. it's a slightly downhill finish
Grug spotted
who wins
CHUTE
Mini chute there
brutale
CRASH
>>156506026this is your fault
just before 5K
the whole quickstep leadout is standing around waiting
ouchie
Molenaar COLLECTED
If girmay wins I'm done with this tour
kwab
ok
ded
chute comicale
So are Uno-X ever going to learn to properly pull?
'sover
Kooij wins, wow
based kooij
Not even close.
wtf pas normal
>its western medias never ending glazing of biniam girmay simply because hes black even though he never wins shit
kooij wins! and saves decathlon's touri think pogacar gains about 6 seconds on vingegaard
Waar Brennan
Vingeshart losing time to Pogi on a flat stage...
it was a very convincing sprint. great positioning, great timing. it was a right call to take him into TdF
vingegaard loses time
the tour will be decided by minutes not seconds
>>156506294Losing time so he can go in the breaks
Now I see why kooij was smug before the stage. He smoked those fools
Rest of the peloton are sissies because they just got CAGEDKOOIJ KOOIJ KOOIJ KOOIJ
>>156506328jej
>That comfy chute in the grass
>>156506294it'll be neutralized
Good run by vino boys
>>156506375Worse rigging that the WC, in other words.
Kooij only got one hjaelper, btw
>>156506410Send poogacar a DM to ask if he'll fuck you and get it over with. Shall not entertain this shameless glazing in my /cyc/.
Jasper SEETHING
top 10
Visma was wrong
>>156506434Yes but it's the very /elite/ CHEESE BOWL
>>156506453Huub Artz
Are Van Rysel bikes okay? The are affordable.
any webm of the grass nappuer
>>156506437What are you going to do about it?Have another melty? Post your dick again?
>>156506510they are believed to be quite good
Kooij helping to secure the tasty sponsorships which will mean Paul is far more likely to stay. Decathlon should give Paul 20 million. So much at stake for them here. Cycling blows up because a french rider won the tour at a french team and the bike sales will be quite unbelievable for them.
>>156506453Imagine being a pro sprinter and you get beaten by Huub Shartz
>>156506510I thought they weren't affordable anymoreyears ago I got dura ace and zipp wheels on a decathlon bike for €2500
whats up with that guys giant pants he wears them everyday
>>156506526Probably bitch about it and make passive aggressive remarks I should think
>>156506549Isn't that japanese carpenter pants?
>>156506538>>156506547I'm talking about these here for 7-800€https://www.decathlon.de/alle-sportarten-a-z/fahrrad-welt/van-rysel-rader
Pau is a place you visit in transit butnever stay around
>>156506510theres literally zero difference between 400 dollar aliexpress frames and 10,000 factor framesthey are all made the same way now using latex mandrels
Official website has Pogacar and Vingegaard both with +14s.
>>156506570most likely much better quality than anything else at that price
>time neutralized (provisoire)>only differences above 3 seconds get noted
>>156506543hey now, it's ITT champion Huub Artz now
smug
Philipsen said he just wasn't good enough today to follow but that the tour is still long
>>156506640bring back the glasses
>>156506453GC
>>156506652everyone is filming the wrong guy
>>156506640he looks like van eetvelt
>>156506682seems pretty mellow hope berts didn’t pick Jasper he seems checked out
>>156506688Ramses kangz this tour is ours
>>156506733he was too expensive anyway
>>156504799>Des Racines e Des Ailesthe theme is so famous but i hardly ever watched it fr
total Decathlon domination
>>156506664
>>156506437
>>156506976meme face
alright enough of that sprinting malarkyback to the real stuff
what the hell is this
UAE made the call. They fear Jonas too much. They said no hard climbs in the Pyrenees
>>156507157But the pyrenees with shorter steeper climbs should be better for Pogi
>>156507135Yjk
>>156507222big fat Pogo needs to save all his matches to compete with the 57kg man in week 3. trust the plan
Pogi to attack on Tourmalet, yay or nay
>>156507320hopefully but can't see it. UAE steam train all the way
>>156507126yeah tomorrow its looking good
>>156507320Nah.Too far from the finish and that last climb is a nothing burger.
>DS Marc Reef on the late crash:"Jonas was involved, but quickly got a new bike from Campenaerts. The team worked hard to bring him back, and everyone came in at the same time." [TV 2 Sport]>Molenaar, after the heavy fall with 5.5 km to go, managed to reach the finish line in Pau but remembers nothing of the crash. Doctors checked his condition due to the possibility that the impact was to the head and will continue to monitor his progress
Visma should try to attack on the tourmalet tormmorow and if they don't gain at least 1 minute the whole team should DNS next stage. There is no point being here.
>>156507448Scary
>>156507320depends on the satelites I say yes anyway because someone will try anyway
>>156507320Too much descending until the finish afterwards.
>>156507320Definitely with two flat stages after to rest and an uphill finish after the descend they are going to try 1 and 2 again
>>156507448you have got to be fucking joking
Found a Robert Millar/Pippa York youtube short. This is poogacars future.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/16iRk92XURg
was Troon also involved? this shifter is bend
just watched the replay of the chute and you dont even see Jonas at allMAYBE he is riding away sprinting on the sidewalk
>>156507449Vacek will win by 0:20 seconds over Pog. A 4-minute gap is no joke—he's a strong guy. And not that much elevation to compensate that gap
How come Merckx is not a member of the most common duos? 34 wins, 18 second places, yet the placing not achieved by him, was ever achieved 6 or more times by a songle other rider.>>156507881Just after crossing the finish line he looked distressed.
>>156507935Overall? He beat Jonas by over 4 minutes last year. It is simply not possible. He's a lump anyway, tall and big. If Jonas was 4 minutes up on poogacar I'd still bet on poogacar.
Yup, I meant overall. If you look at this Tour de France's stage profiles, there aren't many stages with massive climbs where Pog could make up the gap. If he doesn't attack tomorrow, I think it's unironically over unless Vacek chutes or something unfortunate happens to him. Just a reminder he finished 3rd in Switzerland and is in incredible form
>>156508206>>156508065
>>156508206sounds reasonable. he has a good TT as well1. Vacek2. Jonas3. Pogacar
>>156508254Vacek TDF winner odds?
>>156508328500/1
>Vacek wining tdfDon't know what hopium you guys are smoking but he's not even going to get a top 10 in gc.
>>156508553that Macedonian (Bulgarian) surely has some serious gyppo magickdont doubt it
>>156508206That is more compelling than I had thought and poogacar will have to have some impetus to bring time back fairly soon as not to let this become an actual threat. But some of the time gaps he put into Jonas last year, where he seemed to barely try after Hautacam, is enough to shut that theory down in my eyes. He's getting time back on the TT's and the mountains, likely he'll have an irradiated climb on alps d'huez because he usually has one of those stages where he just lets loose. That could be 3 minutes on that stage alone if Vacek is having the ride of his life. That's realistically 1:30 to Jonas, maybe 2 minutes. For poogacar, 4 minutes is really nothing. He held back a lot last year and still had a very comfortable margin. If he was 10 minutes behind I'd consider it a freak possibility but 4 minutes, no chance. Look at his liege performances. Even the rolling terrain he can just switch on the motor and take 2 minutes. I want to believe and I will shill this meme if poogacar doesn't take time back tomorrow. This would be the greatest tour I've seen so far if he pulls it off.
>>156508730he didn't hold back last year. he was spanked by Wout he was so tired by the end. lucky Jonas was not 100% from his crash earlier in the year
>>156507320Well Wellens said they had one stage ticked off in the first week and that it wasn't stage 2 or 3
>>156508870They will go just hard enough to not drop Del Toro ot the Tourmalet.
>>156508802Really starting to believe in Jonas after Macedonia's Vacek shilling. Reflecting on last year I know poogacar held back later on in the race and that might have been a mix of tiredness, spiting Visma and placating the french public. He took his 2 minutes on hautacam and basically ended the racing there. Took a big chunk in the TT's too, nearly 2 minutes. Plus the bonus times. He didn't look outrageously superior to Jonas like we've seen before. As long as Jonas doesn't TT like a retard and Visma start getting very creative, we might be lucky enough to see a sub 2 minute advantage to poogacar which in itself is dangerous because a mistimed crash or a chaotic breakaway is all it takes. Of course visma would just sit up because they're gay but I want to believe.
>>156498879They'll just put on a smaller front ring for mountains. Probably a 50.
>>156509126Why the speculation about the cause of his underperfomance in last year's third week? He has said on several occasions he suffered a knee injury, Politt on a German podcast said the same.But last year's Tour is not as relevent as races just before this year's Tour. Axelgaard made reasonable points that Pogacar underperformed at Suisse, while Vingegaard is in as good as form as he ever was.
>>156509126Pog is of course still the big favourite. I'm just saying it's not completely unreasonable to see him beaten. The bookies odd are 1/6 implying he wins 6 out of 7 times. Fair. Jonas is the only one who has even a slimmer of a chance though. Assuming Jonas is in better shape than last year and he claims to be much lighter. Pog skipped his altitude camp and was focussed on monuments for the first few months of the year.
Tomorrow's stage is actually well designed for once. Nowadays it's rare to have a mountain where you're not sure what's going to happen
>>156509338Their first stage victory since Gall '23.
>>156503527I remember these smelling like cigars kekhad the rolling tobacco version of this once too, it really packed a punch
What were they thinking?
No football tonight
>>156510092trying to force attacks on Tourmalet?
>>156510431Nobody is attacking at Tourmalet. It's too far from the finish line.
>>156510470not for Pog, what are you talking about
he better not fade away tomorrow then
S6 /bet/>Pogacar 1.4>Toro 13>Vingegaard 17>Paret 21>Seixas 26>Carapaz Montenegro 29>Martinez 34>Baudin 34...>Evenepoel 41>Lipowitz 67>Holand 81>Ayuso Pesquera 101>Vacek 151>Voklen 201
>>156511062>Pogacar 1.4
What did Johan say about the stage tomorrow?
>>156511202>LONG WAY TO PARIS>TOUR IS STILL YOUNG>ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN>WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS TOMORROW
>>156511343
DESU wins tomorrow
>>156511546wtf is desuTHJ
>>156510092This is ideal for Pogacar if he gets separation on the Tourmalet. With it being quite shallow, pure watts will matter and Jonas will struggle if he finds himself having to TT against Pogi in that kind of terrain.Imo a 30s gap over the Tourmalet easily becomes a 1:30+ gap by the end of the stage unless Seixas, Lipo or preferably Memco manage to reach Jonas. It will be a mix of 2023 stage 6 and 2024 stage 4, probably even more favourable to Pogi than either were.
Can't wait to hear cooked fish say they were expecting to lose by more than they did tomorrow lmaoThe guy is such a terminal choker and fraud
>>156512098They'll have Nils and that Mexican pull and drain fish for an hour before Pogi launches his attack and fish won't even try to counter he'll just defend second if he can.
>>156512138There was a Danish magazine cover in one of the last thread swhere he was called the 'Chokerer' I kid you not.
9:30pm and it's still 30 degrees.
>>156510755Damn he's looking skinny. Really hope he does something noteworthy. Feels like he's been completely ignored all tour.
So this will be the 5th tour for poogacar. When will it stop? I can absolutely see 8 tours. Maybe 10. I think he'll get another buff once the younglings are ready to compete. Suddenly his new trainer was also shit all along. He's 27 now so it's very realistic to expect bare minimum another 3. Go up to age 32 riding the tour would also be something I could see because there no end to the arrogance. Liklihood of that ever getting beaten is basically nil. Tries on attention and you're not getting that watching it from a studio or lounge chair.
Sometimes at races it's almost scary the force riders put through the bikes. The 24' nationals went up a steep hill with a hairpin and I though askey's chain was going to snap because he used a ridiculous gear. The raw power is intimidating. I would imagine seeing mads, grug, wout etc smash up the ardennes or flandrian hills would be a spectacle. Looks so smooth on the screen. They must feel the carbon twist and the bottom bracket creak beneath the.
>>156514039That's what you get for living in a concrete jungle
>>156515035Took doggy to play in the grass and it was definitely cooler and walking back into the urban area felt like opening an open.
>>156515072My parents live in a suburb and its 2-3°C hotter than at my place (countryside). So i cant imagine what a hell it must be in a city
>>156516227Where Jonas?
>>156516498He's sitting in his hotel room seething at not being mentioned. More fuel for the fire.
>>156516227Massive disrespect thrown at Jonas
>>156507881That's criminel shifter angle mister
>>156514636I snapped a chain last weekend and lost on a certain win thanks to it. Still seething.
I wonder if torsten traen could win the tour if he had a 20 minute advantage. Also wondered if mads had a 60 minute lead whether he could somehow win. All assuming poogacar is actually gunning for it.
>>156516227cycling journalists are kind of a joke these dayspogacar should be 5 stars and the rest at 1 or not classifiedthere's a legit sub 2% chance remco beats him tomorrow what do you mean they're both 2 stars
>>156518109thought about this today, but with vingegaard, what would be a viable handicap to make it more competitive. To answer your question I think it would be fairly easy for pogacar still, I mean just look at the gaps of the last two tours and he wasn't even chasing
>>156518100I guess at these powers you actually need to plan the gears so they align as much as possible so there's little lateral tension. A lot to consider if you're in the moment gunning for a win. Trackies snapping their chain is an ultimate flex. Did you shift and it snapped? Wattage after a tyre slip is fun, got 2000w on damp grass before. I'd imagine it's even higher when you snap the chain because there zero resistance assuming the pedal stroke continues to the bottom.
>>156518370I don't know, you see the pros cross chain fully all the time.
>>156503465https://videnskab.dk/kultur-samfund/hvorfor-kan-vi-bedre-lide-nordmaend-end-svenskere/
>>156518370It's the first chain I've ever broken and it was brand new. Wasn't even close to a full sprint either, no cross chaining, no gear changes. Just a freak accident.
>>156518297I think so. But it'd work both ways. Carrot is dangling for traen for example and he has to kill himself to hold that advantage. 3-4 minutes each mountain stage. At least 5 minutes over the course of all the rolling stages. Maybe even 2 minutes on the tt. Traen would probably discover some extra freak performances over that period so the traen we all know would probably be boasted by a few percent.I would think Jonas at 10 minutes would be compelling. poogacar would go all in and go hard which we've not seen in years. He's more reserved because there's no incentive. 10 minutes is 100% doable from what we've seen the past few years. But it'll be close and requires consistent aggression at every opportunity. If love to see that.
>>156518109Well I remember they gave Wout around 20 minutes advantage in 2021 and he didn't even try to hold on.
>>156518498Did it break at the link? Guess it happens with mass produced components.
>>156518702This didn't happen. I would remember that
>>156518841Yeah you are right. I just checked. My mind is playing tricks on me. It was over 10 minutes during stage 7 but uae managed to close it down to something like 5.
>>156518591I'd agree but Traen isn't that guy, in my mind for this 20-30 minute scenario to work you'd need a world class climber who isn't quite generational, but you know won't fatally crack one stage and lose 15 minutes. Like a Lipowitz or Tobias Johannessen for example. Spot Tobias 20 minutes and that's a real carrot, because he could ride the monster climbs at his own pace which is GC worthy and kind of maintain the lead until the very last stages.With a Vingegaard handicap the Tour would probably be the most entertaining of all time, but it's a shame their pride would never allow for something like that to ever happen. They (and we all) still have to pretend that they're equals instead of just admitting the obvious truth and doing handicap races. Was anyone complaining when they put 170 lb on Red Rum or Desert Orchid?
>dude
>>156514039Humidity is a bitch
>Gall and Mühlberger to Lidl TREK https://sport.orf.at/stories/3159755/
Caja Rural is at the Tour to slave for Gaviria
Goooooooood morning :) Tourmalet is calling
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