Salvo Montalbano Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 Hearing the super merger might be off and the bike manufacturer might be upping their involvement to become named sponsor for Visma. Nobody seems to know what's going on. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddy Posted October 8, 2023 Share Posted October 8, 2023 17 hours ago, Salvo Montalbano said: Hearing the super merger might be off and the bike manufacturer might be upping their involvement to become named sponsor for Visma. Nobody seems to know what's going on. Cervelo, isn’t it? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvo Montalbano Posted October 8, 2023 Share Posted October 8, 2023 41 minutes ago, kiddy said: Cervelo, isn’t it? Think so although I read a name I didn't recognise so I assume it's their patent company rather than the actual brand. Who knows these days? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shuggie_Murray7 Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 (edited) Happy if this merger doesn't go ahead. It means at next summer's Tour we'll have the world's top 4 GC racers all contesting the win on different teams - Vingegaard, Pogacar, Roglic and Remco. That's better for the sport than Jumbo having 2 of either Vingegaard/Roglic or Vingegaard/Remco. I still think Roglic needs another top mountain domestique to really compete. Could Jai Hindley be talked into filling that role? The Tour should be an absolute cracker. Edited October 9, 2023 by Shuggie_Murray7 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvo Montalbano Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Shuggie_Murray7 said: I still think Roglic needs another top mountain domestique to really compete. Could Jai Hindley be talked into filling that role? Assuming that will be the plan - you've got time on your side Jai, plus you can learn from a true master and you're plan B if Roglic falls. Lidl-Trek signed Boomen to presumably help as a domestique for TGH with Molema there to help or go stage hunting, and while I can't seem Geogan-Hart being in the reckoning, all it takes is for someone like that or Rodriguez at Ineos now he's staying to get involved in a breakaway early doors and suddenly they've got someone else to think about on top of the stellar names. Agree it should be a cracker if everyone is fit and well. Edited October 9, 2023 by Salvo Montalbano Made little sense syntactically 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shuggie_Murray7 Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 That is horrific. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
well fan for life Posted October 11, 2023 Share Posted October 11, 2023 9 hours ago, Shuggie_Murray7 said: That is horrific. So brutal the Astana team cars clutch chucked it from the looks of things. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyOIZPAM1Yl/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shuggie_Murray7 Posted October 11, 2023 Share Posted October 11, 2023 I fired up GCN for the final climb and it just went on and on and on. Genuinely one of the most brutal climbs I've seen. It was cobbled all the way to the top and at the very top there was....nothing there. So what the f**k is that road even for? Literally a road to nowhere. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnash Posted October 11, 2023 Share Posted October 11, 2023 Last 900m average 21%. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddy Posted October 11, 2023 Share Posted October 11, 2023 On 10/10/2023 at 23:08, Shuggie_Murray7 said: That is horrific. Babadag, a climb that should join those of mythic status. 1st time it’s been included on the Tour of Turkey too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanton Posted October 21, 2023 Share Posted October 21, 2023 Champions league Track Cycling championship started tonight, some of the numbers these riders are producing are amazing. Fast and furious stuff and some great racing with the added bonus of Kate Mason looking absolutely stunning 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob in Denny Posted November 18, 2023 Share Posted November 18, 2023 GCN+ gone tits up, stops on the 19th Dec.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvo Montalbano Posted November 18, 2023 Share Posted November 18, 2023 12 minutes ago, Bob in Denny said: GCN+ gone tits up, stops on the 19th Dec.... Don't think they're going tits up as much as Discovery want you to subscribe to Discovery + instead. Higher fee for less cycling no doubt. A shame, I'm not a subscriber but have seen bits of their films etc they make and they're always decent. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnash Posted November 18, 2023 Share Posted November 18, 2023 2 hours ago, Salvo Montalbano said: Don't think they're going tits up as much as Discovery want you to subscribe to Discovery + instead. Higher fee for less cycling no doubt. A shame, I'm not a subscriber but have seen bits of their films etc they make and they're always decent. I have a subscription to Eurosport and always hear the commentators telling me I need GCN+ to have no ads... and yet I don't get any ads even though I don't have GCN+. Is this - whatever it is that's happening - going to affect watching cycling on Eurosport? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvo Montalbano Posted November 18, 2023 Share Posted November 18, 2023 4 minutes ago, Gnash said: I have a subscription to Eurosport and always hear the commentators telling me I need GCN+ to have no ads... and yet I don't get any ads even though I don't have GCN+. Is this - whatever it is that's happening - going to affect watching cycling on Eurosport? I don't think so. We're lucky in Europe in that Eurosport show most of the bigger races anyway (although GCN+ shows a lot more including a lot of cyclo-cross, mountain biking, etc that Eurosport don't) but I get the impression that folk in the USA, Asia and Australia are in for a major downgrade on the amount of cycling they can see, unless Discovery + suddenly takes up more races. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo Posted December 2, 2023 Share Posted December 2, 2023 (edited) Watching Lemond: The Last Rider on Sky and it’s still unbelievable the joy that Fignon getting pumped in Paris in 1989 gives me. Beautiful stuff. Beautiful. ETA: By the way. What a fucking arsehole he was. Edited December 2, 2023 by Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shuggie_Murray7 Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 Some carry on with Cian Uijtdebroeks. The rider's agent and Jumbo say he has signed there. Bora say he's still signed to them. Now he's been spotted training in Girona with Froome, but not wearing any team colours other than a Bora helmet. What a mess. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvo Montalbano Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 Tadej Pogacar saying that he plans on doing Strade Bianche, Milan-San Remo, il Giro, le Tour, the Olympics and the Worlds as part of his schedule. Giving the cobbled classics a miss as it buggered his wrist last time out. The organisers of the Giro will be pleased and although a few folk have said that he "clearly thinks Vinegaard will win the Tour", I think it's more that a) he thinks the Giro will be a good warm up for the Tour (which many riders have done before) and b) he's always said that he wants to win as many big races as possible and he's doing a few he's not won before (and of course has already won 2 Tours). At the other end of the young rider going for glory scale, Tom Pidcock is saying that he wants to target GC at the Tour this year. Can't see it myself; for all his excellent descending, he is nowhere near strong enough yet at climbing or time trialing to crack into that top 5 or thereabouts. He's also planning on doing the Mountain Biking at the Olympics I think? So seems a strange aim time wise. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shuggie_Murray7 Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 That is just grim. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddy Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 8 hours ago, Shuggie_Murray7 said: That is just grim. Shocking! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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