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Pre TT musings…
Roglič looks like a spent force.
3rd place looks like a showdown between Evenepoel, Almeida, Skjelmose, Onley 🏴, Lipowitz, Gall & Rodríguez, but Oscar Onley looks fantastic now, the run was so hard it destroyed VDP’s sprint, but Onley was right up there.
Roglič looks like a spent force.
3rd place looks like a showdown between Evenepoel, Almeida, Skjelmose, Onley 🏴, Lipowitz, Gall & Rodríguez, but Oscar Onley looks fantastic now, the run was so hard it destroyed VDP’s sprint, but Onley was right up there.
July 9, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Pre TT musings…
Roglič looks like a spent force.
3rd place looks like a showdown between Evenepoel, Almeida, Skjelmose, Onley 🏴, Lipowitz, Gall & Rodríguez, but Oscar Onley looks fantastic now, the run was so hard it destroyed VDP’s sprint, but Onley was right up there.
Roglič looks like a spent force.
3rd place looks like a showdown between Evenepoel, Almeida, Skjelmose, Onley 🏴, Lipowitz, Gall & Rodríguez, but Oscar Onley looks fantastic now, the run was so hard it destroyed VDP’s sprint, but Onley was right up there.
I’m going to make an assumption that there are going to be more withdrawals before the Tour, this latest illness has all the hallmarks of the latest COVID strain that’s sweeping Europe, gastro problems mixed with breathing issues. #letour
June 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I’m going to make an assumption that there are going to be more withdrawals before the Tour, this latest illness has all the hallmarks of the latest COVID strain that’s sweeping Europe, gastro problems mixed with breathing issues. #letour
Get Mads Paterson on your Tour fantasy teams, he’s flying, has just won the Danish TT champs for the first time. That first week & bit is going to be his domain.
June 28, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Get Mads Paterson on your Tour fantasy teams, he’s flying, has just won the Danish TT champs for the first time. That first week & bit is going to be his domain.
Rewatching yesterdays #Dauphine stage. Vingegaar is losing barely anything on the steady state parts of the climb, it’s the acceleration he can’t handle. But Pogacar doesn’t appear to have as strong a team & Visma still has a resurgent WVA to add for July. This isn’t as clear cut as we think.
June 15, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Rewatching yesterdays #Dauphine stage. Vingegaar is losing barely anything on the steady state parts of the climb, it’s the acceleration he can’t handle. But Pogacar doesn’t appear to have as strong a team & Visma still has a resurgent WVA to add for July. This isn’t as clear cut as we think.
New UCI rules are becoming less relevant. Manufacturers are soon going to offer ‘better than pro’ bikes to amateurs, lighter than 6.8kg, more aero, as less & less riders take part in sanctioned races & they ‘compete’ in mass events & KOM’s. www.cyclingnews.com/news/has-the...
Has the UCI just banned Factor's new aero bike before it was even released?
Hoard of new rules include handlebar width, wheel depth and fork leg limits as Hope x Lotus track bike set to be banned
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June 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
New UCI rules are becoming less relevant. Manufacturers are soon going to offer ‘better than pro’ bikes to amateurs, lighter than 6.8kg, more aero, as less & less riders take part in sanctioned races & they ‘compete’ in mass events & KOM’s. www.cyclingnews.com/news/has-the...
This re-emerging Wout Van Aert could help to level up the Tour GC, maybe not completely, but he could make it a closer fight & open up opportunities that may not exist without him. The Giro looks it may elevate WVA to the 2022 version, green jersey, 3 stages & helping team win GC.
May 24, 2025 at 8:48 AM
This re-emerging Wout Van Aert could help to level up the Tour GC, maybe not completely, but he could make it a closer fight & open up opportunities that may not exist without him. The Giro looks it may elevate WVA to the 2022 version, green jersey, 3 stages & helping team win GC.
That Paris stage in the Tour de France could change team selections significantly. More high profile puncheurs, possibly less high profile sprinters willing to drag their carcass to Paris, will smaller teams bring their sprinters to take advantage in week 1?
#TourDeFrance
#TourDeFrance
May 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
That Paris stage in the Tour de France could change team selections significantly. More high profile puncheurs, possibly less high profile sprinters willing to drag their carcass to Paris, will smaller teams bring their sprinters to take advantage in week 1?
#TourDeFrance
#TourDeFrance
Key points from today’s #Giro stage:
UAE very good
⚫️Roglic not at peak
⚫️Best we’ve seen Bernal for years, one to watch on high mountains
⚫️Ciccone may open the race up, willing to attack
UAE very good
⚫️Roglic not at peak
⚫️Best we’ve seen Bernal for years, one to watch on high mountains
⚫️Ciccone may open the race up, willing to attack
May 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Key points from today’s #Giro stage:
UAE very good
⚫️Roglic not at peak
⚫️Best we’ve seen Bernal for years, one to watch on high mountains
⚫️Ciccone may open the race up, willing to attack
UAE very good
⚫️Roglic not at peak
⚫️Best we’ve seen Bernal for years, one to watch on high mountains
⚫️Ciccone may open the race up, willing to attack
That’s career changing for Mattias Skjelmose, beating Pogacar & Evenepoel at the top of their game in a three-up sprint, this kind of result changes riders, alters their self belief, I’m expecting much more from Skjelmose in 2025 now. #AmstelGoldRace
April 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
That’s career changing for Mattias Skjelmose, beating Pogacar & Evenepoel at the top of their game in a three-up sprint, this kind of result changes riders, alters their self belief, I’m expecting much more from Skjelmose in 2025 now. #AmstelGoldRace
Great to see 🏴 Sean Flynn @picnicpostnl & a rider who makes me feel old, because I knew his dad, Joshua Giddings @lottocycling_
#ParisRoubaix
#ParisRoubaix
April 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Great to see 🏴 Sean Flynn @picnicpostnl & a rider who makes me feel old, because I knew his dad, Joshua Giddings @lottocycling_
#ParisRoubaix
#ParisRoubaix
Still thinking Pogacar & Van der Poel may destroy each other out front, but the chasing Visma (WVA, DVB, Brennan), Ineos (Ganna, Tarling, Swifts, Turner), Trek (Pedersen, Styven, Milan), Asgreen, Küng group will keep them in check without the w/kg hill advantage. #ParisRoubaix
April 13, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Still thinking Pogacar & Van der Poel may destroy each other out front, but the chasing Visma (WVA, DVB, Brennan), Ineos (Ganna, Tarling, Swifts, Turner), Trek (Pedersen, Styven, Milan), Asgreen, Küng group will keep them in check without the w/kg hill advantage. #ParisRoubaix
The women’s Paris Roubaix tech showed what road bike tech we should all be riding to survive our badly surfaced & potholes roads, without riding at 40-50kmh to ‘float’ over the bumps, the men’s will reinforce that. Always interested in the tech. #Geek #ParisRoubaix
April 13, 2025 at 6:24 AM
The women’s Paris Roubaix tech showed what road bike tech we should all be riding to survive our badly surfaced & potholes roads, without riding at 40-50kmh to ‘float’ over the bumps, the men’s will reinforce that. Always interested in the tech. #Geek #ParisRoubaix
ParisRoubaix predictions:
The two 5⭐️ riders are going to ride away from everybody & collaborate until they repeatedly attack, or they’ll blow each other to pieces & the 4⭐️ riders will come through. Ganna, Pedersen, Wout van Aert. I’m going Ganna.
#parisroubaix2025
The two 5⭐️ riders are going to ride away from everybody & collaborate until they repeatedly attack, or they’ll blow each other to pieces & the 4⭐️ riders will come through. Ganna, Pedersen, Wout van Aert. I’m going Ganna.
#parisroubaix2025
April 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM
ParisRoubaix predictions:
The two 5⭐️ riders are going to ride away from everybody & collaborate until they repeatedly attack, or they’ll blow each other to pieces & the 4⭐️ riders will come through. Ganna, Pedersen, Wout van Aert. I’m going Ganna.
#parisroubaix2025
The two 5⭐️ riders are going to ride away from everybody & collaborate until they repeatedly attack, or they’ll blow each other to pieces & the 4⭐️ riders will come through. Ganna, Pedersen, Wout van Aert. I’m going Ganna.
#parisroubaix2025
I don’t think Pogacar is going to win this, headwind to the finish with a group like that chasing. #Ronde_van_Vlaanderen
April 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I don’t think Pogacar is going to win this, headwind to the finish with a group like that chasing. #Ronde_van_Vlaanderen
Wout’s still got that massive engine, from what I can see he’s just not yet got back that ability to ride at 800 to 1000 watts during a Pog/VDP assault. I don’t think he’s far away. Come July, I think we’ll see something. #Ronde_van_Vlaanderen
April 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Wout’s still got that massive engine, from what I can see he’s just not yet got back that ability to ride at 800 to 1000 watts during a Pog/VDP assault. I don’t think he’s far away. Come July, I think we’ll see something. #Ronde_van_Vlaanderen
Sean Flynn in the break at Flanders 🏴🇧🇪 #TourOfFlanders
April 6, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Sean Flynn in the break at Flanders 🏴🇧🇪 #TourOfFlanders
Make a plan, ride your bike this weekend. If you’ve been put off by months of bad weather, start again now. You won’t regret it. 🚴♂️
April 4, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Make a plan, ride your bike this weekend. If you’ve been put off by months of bad weather, start again now. You won’t regret it. 🚴♂️
What Dwars door Vlaanderen showed us, is that however much we think a result is predictable, in cycling anything can (and will) happen. Pogacar isn’t guaranteed a win in every race he starts, although it seems like it, Vinegaard won’t fall off one year, etc.
April 3, 2025 at 9:41 AM
What Dwars door Vlaanderen showed us, is that however much we think a result is predictable, in cycling anything can (and will) happen. Pogacar isn’t guaranteed a win in every race he starts, although it seems like it, Vinegaard won’t fall off one year, etc.
My thoughts on the 2027 Tour de France stage in Scotland.
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March 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
My thoughts on the 2027 Tour de France stage in Scotland.
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Not confident Pogacar can get a gap on Poggio after his team makes it brutal on the Cipressa, but if he does the only rider who can follow his attacks recently will be on his wheel, Pidcock, who’ll beat him in the sprint. So I’m going for Matthews, who’ll be on a favourites wheel until 200m to go.
March 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Not confident Pogacar can get a gap on Poggio after his team makes it brutal on the Cipressa, but if he does the only rider who can follow his attacks recently will be on his wheel, Pidcock, who’ll beat him in the sprint. So I’m going for Matthews, who’ll be on a favourites wheel until 200m to go.
Looks like Komoot is dead now. @dcrainmaker.com www.dcrainmaker.com/2025/03/komo...
Komoot Acquired: History Says This Won't End Well
And now things start to make a bit more sense. Earlier this week I posted on the news that Komoot was changing to require a Premium subscription for users to sync routes to 3rd party devices like Garm...
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March 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Looks like Komoot is dead now. @dcrainmaker.com www.dcrainmaker.com/2025/03/komo...
Tirreno Adriatico now live on RAI Sport, last 22km. If in UK, Windscribe VPN gives you 3 countries for $3 a month. So if you have Belgium, France & Italy, then taking links from CyclingFans website for RAI etc, you’re pretty much covered.
March 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Tirreno Adriatico now live on RAI Sport, last 22km. If in UK, Windscribe VPN gives you 3 countries for $3 a month. So if you have Belgium, France & Italy, then taking links from CyclingFans website for RAI etc, you’re pretty much covered.
Paris Nice now live on Sporza. If in UK, Windscribe VPN gives you 3 countries for $3 a month. So if you have Belgium, France & Italy, then taking links from CyclingFans website for RAI etc, you’re pretty much covered.
March 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Paris Nice now live on Sporza. If in UK, Windscribe VPN gives you 3 countries for $3 a month. So if you have Belgium, France & Italy, then taking links from CyclingFans website for RAI etc, you’re pretty much covered.
Ganna is absolute beast this year & he’s going to win Milan SanRemo or Paris Roubaix.
March 15, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Ganna is absolute beast this year & he’s going to win Milan SanRemo or Paris Roubaix.
Full marks to Pidcock, he attacked then was able to follow Pogacar, now giving him a turn. #StradeBianche
March 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Full marks to Pidcock, he attacked then was able to follow Pogacar, now giving him a turn. #StradeBianche