The Pro Road Cycling Thread

chesterbells said:
Maybe, but it’s needless though, and in its own way a bit small time from him.

He knows, JV knows, the rest of Visma know, the whole world knows, that he’s already shown he’s way, way stronger. Sprinting for 5th not 6th when you have a 4 min lead and only 2 mountain stages left is laughable. He was already riding a record time for the climb.

I’m a Pogi fan and would much rather he win than Jonas, but today was just, ugh. Now if it had been to win the stage, or even top 3, then fair enough.
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Well at least Pogacar didn't celebrate ;)
 
give it to gordon said:
Just watching the 'highlights' show. The segment by Phil Liggett was delightful, talling about Paul Sherwood. Can remember Paul Sherwood flying past my milk float near Great Budworth lol

I'm really going to miss the Tour next year
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Paul Sherwood’s mum had no real idea how hard life was for her son. He sent her a pic of himself after he’d finished Paris Roubaix. He said she cried for days at the shelled-out, disheveled image she saw.
 
chesterbells said:
Maybe, but it’s needless though, and in its own way a bit small time from him.

He knows, JV knows, the rest of Visma know, the whole world knows, that he’s already shown he’s way, way stronger. Sprinting for 5th not 6th when you have a 4 min lead and only 2 mountain stages left is laughable. He was already riding a record time for the climb.

I’m a Pogi fan and would much rather he win than Jonas, but today was just, ugh. Now if it had been to win the stage, or even top 3, then fair enough.
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Sign of a winner.
 
Tour of Britain - East Midlands looks the nearest place to catch it. Was hoping something local or within an hours drive.
 
eric pode of croydon said:
Not checked the route recently but I'm sure there was a stage in or near Sheffield.
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I think that was last year. Looks like nothing in the north.

The men’s Tour of Britain will start in Suffolk for the first time since 2012. The riders will then cut across England, with visits to Bedfordshire and Warwickshire along the way. The race soon crosses into Wales on Stage 5, opening up a decisive weekend of racing in southern Wales which will feature a double ascent of The Tumble (5km at 8.4%). In honour of the retiring Geraint Thomas, the Tour concludes in his home city of Cardiff on Sunday 7th September.
 
eric pode of croydon said:
Yes I noticed that. The real interest for me is to see if Onley can get onto the podium.
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And for Pog to win 3 jerseys (I’ve not checked but I assume he’s ahead in Polka but trails Milan in green. Also not sure if he’s still eligible for white jersey so maybe all 4!).
Still love watching it though- he’s such a fantastic rider and goes for absolutely everything.
Did he have a world champion arm warmer on yesterday? I watched the stage on rerun late last night through the haze of several Morettis!
 
The route has been shortened today from 130k to 95k, taking out two of the proposed climbs due to diseased cattle. The start being 1hr later than originally planned.
 
simmo said:
I think that was last year. Looks like nothing in the north.

The men’s Tour of Britain will start in Suffolk for the first time since 2012. The riders will then cut across England, with visits to Bedfordshire and Warwickshire along the way. The race soon crosses into Wales on Stage 5, opening up a decisive weekend of racing in southern Wales which will feature a double ascent of The Tumble (5km at 8.4%). In honour of the retiring Geraint Thomas, the Tour concludes in his home city of Cardiff on Sunday 7th September.
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Bit of a stretch to describe this as a a tour of "Britain".....
 
Really_here said:
Bit of a stretch to describe this as a a tour of "Britain".....
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Bit of a joke; nothing north of Birmingham I don’t think, and a route announcement at really short notice. How can a 3 week tour of 21 stages in July get announced before Christmas the year before and we have to wait till now?

Out watching the Tour in the Alps this week, outstanding stuff. Shame it wasn’t closer race wise, but a great experience regardless.
 
chesterbells said:
Bit of a joke; nothing north of Birmingham I don’t think, and a route announcement at really short notice. How can a 3 week tour of 21 stages in July get announced before Christmas the year before and we have to wait till now?

Out watching the Tour in the Alps this week, outstanding stuff. Shame it wasn’t closer race wise, but a great experience regardless.
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Because the Tour de France generates HUGE amounts of money for a huge amount of people. The tour of Britain not so much ...
 
Really_here said:
Because the Tour de France generates HUGE amounts of money for a huge amount of people. The tour of Britain not so much ...
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Yep, agreed it does. But there’s still no excuse (imho) to leaving route announcements quite so late, even if it is a much smaller undertaking. In fact in some ways it should be easier.

Or even which parts of the country they are going to would help. Let’s put it like this, they certainly aren’t helping it get bigger by leaving things so late, for spectators who want to plan to go and watch, and for regions who want to publicise it etc.

Other routes for other races in cycling get announced sooner than late July for first week in September.
 
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