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Because it looks like such a boring stage, I had a look at the wind. If anything were to happen, it'd happen between Imola and Forli that is to say somewhere between 70kms in and 70 to go as the wind swtches from a weak tailwind to a decentish cross-tailwind with reasonably good speeds for it. The bad news? It won't happen. The good news? You probably had your hopes up and got excited for a second, and that's what counts because that won't be happening again for another 7 hours.

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I'm racing a UCI 2.2 stage race this week. You can check the power data for the first two stages if you'd like. I weigh 69 kg and finished in the first peloton both days. https://www.strava.com/activities/313884321 https://www.strava.com/activities/314371061

Stage overlay on Windy

a rather strong headwind at the start, then moderate crosswinds in the middle, then pretty low winds in general for the entire second half of the stage

I cycled up Aprica in the summer without realising it was a mountain pass (or at least not at the start). A few cars slowed down when we were starting it saying how impressed they were with us. I was thinking it was a bit strange as I thought the hill would only be a couple hundred meters.

We cycled the route the opposite way though, from Tirano to Edolo and we got rained on quite a lot.

I'm not sure if my Strava is private?

Us at the top

Edit: the climb took us 1 hour and 47 minutes for only 750m elevation. 199/200 on Strava :D It was probably my favourite climb of the trip.

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TL:DR Last weekend was 4 years since I broke my back. I decided to hand cycle from Tower Bridge in London to the Eiffel tower to celebrate. This was my write up:

What a way to celebrate my 4th leg day (broke my back 4 years ago today cycling) by cycling over 180 miles from London to Paris in just under 24 hours (23:30).

The whole ride was great. We nearly missed the ferry. Had one hour sleep. I bonked 40k in at 7am and didn't know how we could continue. By 65km in I was back to full strength and felt great right up until the end. Not sure how, but am very pleased with my performance. Henry dragging me along probably had something to do with it.

It has been quite an eventful year. CYcling from Belgium where I broke my back to Croatia, finishing the trip I started three years before. I celebrated with an ascent of Mont Ventoux last September followed by coming third in the National Time Trial in October.

It has been my first race season. I started with the goal of coming in the top 3 in any race. I am getting stronger and faster, and even though I had a disappointing National Road Race last week I was still able to come third for my classification - which is a good sign of things to come.

I'm looking forward to seeing what will happen over the next year and what challenges are ahead!

Although I have just discovered blisters on my feet from the Paris ride. Blisters I had last summer that took 6 months to heal, so I am out of action for at least a moth and probably missing the national TT.

My Garmin didn't save day 1 data :(

https://www.strava.com/activities/376105875

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I'm getting faster and faster :) in the past 12 months since my nationals I have knocked off over 5 minutes for my 30k TT and over 2 minutes for my 10km TT. these are times I had set last October after my nationals and have been chasing and failing to reach all winter. Over the past few months I have been putting 30-60 seconds into them a month.

In August my race season starts again, after a 2-3 month break. Ride London on the 2nd of August followed by the National Road Race on the 16th of August. A podium finish in the Nationals is my season target.

After that then I may go to Grenoble and climb some big hills and in October I might try cycling from London to Paris in 24h. I am fairly sure no one has done it on a handcycle before.

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Although I am still a long way behind the British #1 and the #2 is quite a bit better than me, however they have been doing it for a decade or two and I am 10 years younger than them. I think the average age for the top handcyclists is something around 40, so I have another 15 years to get there...

Edit: Just got back from a short ride (1 lap effort) and was on track for a new PB but my flag fell out ugh. Spot where it came out: https://www.strava.com/segments/1382483/compare/ODE0MzEzMjQ4MCw3NzI3Mzg3MDg1

Some of the pros on Strava don't strip power data, heres one from a flat ToC stage:

https://www.strava.com/activities/302191907/overview

It barely goes above average 150W, and at 42kmh average that was a pretty quick flat stage.

The news is surprising: in the middle of the cycling season, the Delko team has recorded an important departure in its technical staff. As of Saturday, May 1, the Basque Gorka Gerrikagoitia (47), former rider at Euskatel Euskadi, will no longer officially be sports director of the Provencal structure that he joined in 2017. "It's a personal decision," he confirmed today. The team is not well at the economic level, Philippe (Lannes, the manager) has gathered all the staff to explain the situation. And without me (he had the biggest salary), he will save a lot of money. I don't have an offer from another team, I'm out of work, period. I'm really the biggest loser in the story."

All three coaches leave, too

As Gerrikagoitia slips, the Delko team is said to be going through great financial difficulties. Also, the three coaches and the nutritionist of the team are also on the way out. Another experienced sports director, the Portuguese José Azevedo, is expected to leave in less than two weeks.

Departures that are supposed to lighten the payroll, while other positions will be reduced. Thus, the sporting calendar will be considerably lightened in the coming weeks. This does not bode well for the future of the Provencal team.

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So it is really steep with a slight right bend leading up to the hairpin so it could definitely sneak up on you. According to strava it is between -10 and -18%.

Here is the strava section: https://www.strava.com/segments/4583516

And the google maps:

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.613251,-111.571,3a,75y,18.86h,58.64t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sv5RR-c3A-sOL5MSLT2LYkg!2e0!7i3328!8i1664

Your best bet is signing up for a VPN, I use IPVanishVPN, and streaming through Eurosport. It’s geo blocked until you set the VPN to the best English server. $80 for the year, including both services.

After London to Paris I went away for a few days with the idea of cycling and just enjoying being on the bike. I did a 5 mile TT in 13:33 before I realised I had big blisters from the Paris ride which meant I had to miss the last few races of the season. I had the same blisters last August on my feet which took 6 months to heal.

I then had to abandon a week of riding the iconic climbs in the Pyranees, and instead just mooched around near Carcasonne for a week.

For my third week I chilled with my family. My dad convinced me to go on a ride with him as he brought my bike along. We did a 1000m climb called Le Bout De Touron (the road ends at the top of the hill) which I loved. I found it harder than Ventoux because I only had my compact racing cassette, so any hills above 5% I was in my granny gear and I had 3 km of 9-10%. It meant I was cranking at 40-50 rpm rather than my usual 90-110. The descent was beautiful though. The climb data is from my dad as I didn't have my Garmin, my HR would have been up at 175-185 for a lot of it.

I am getting measured out for a new bike with a couple British Cycing coaches which I am stoked about. I won the overall points classification for the handcycle season, but only because I entered more races than the top 2 guy, so really it's the participation award :D

National TT on the 4th of October. i will strap my feet up and turn up out of form, but a turbo arrived yesterday so I am getting back to training today.

I missed nearly all the Vuelta too as I was away. I feel I haven't seen much cycling lately so I am looking forward to the Worlds.

Went for a run this morning. Accidentally made a thumbs up. Gotta do something with the spare time.

On topic: This tour has become a pleasant surprise. After the first real test, it looked like it'd become a Sky snoozefest, but with individual riders overperforming, a whole team doing way better work than expected and one team who almost looks like it's falling apart, there's a lot more drama than expected. Also Baukema <3.

I imagine quite a few of us

Here's the strava group

I commute 2x10km per day and also do road biking, but I've only started earlier this year so I'm new to all this stuff.
On vacation I'll bring the MTB and rip through the alps

Not sure if I ever want to race, I didn't even go clipless yet! :D

We've got another r/peloton ride on the calendar! London-Brighton-London on Sunday 12th August. So far, it's me, u/mmitchell30, u/hi-i-am-new-here and u/riising, but if anyone else wants to join in (even for just one leg), let us know. It'll be about 175km, with 1,900m of climbing including no. 22 on the 100 climbs list: Ditchling Beacon. And possibly a Hammer Series style TTT because Mat's train into London isn't very early so team handcycles might need a head start to make it to fish & chips on the sea side in time.

My crit race last week went great! Powered by the Calvé pindakaas that Alex and u/Avila99 got me, I managed to stay in the front group the whole race and sprint to 5th place! (out of 22, for once, we had an actual women's field) And excitingly we caught the men's race in the last lap, which made the whole thing even better as one of the guys had been a bit salty on the start line about having to share the course with women. Those points would have made me a cat 3 rider, but my track points have suddenly disappeared of the BC page :(. Two track races this weekend though, so I'll just have to push a bit harder there.

Also tried a skin suit this week. I thought they were just more aerodynamic, but now I know the truth: you go faster because you just want to get out of the damn thing as quickly as possible.

Windy with gpx overlay of Flandrien loop &amp; Leuven loop.

Actually he has said the opposite, that his ego isn't a problem. In his very first race (TDU) there were some worrying signals, but it was all talked out and afterwards it never was a problem. The same thing was also said by other riders by the way, not just by Lefevere. Serry for example has said something similar this weekend (And I think it was Keisse who did as well, besides Masnada's comments about not liking the yells at him last Giro, but that Almeida is young and that he has to learn from it) about Almeida acting a bit "besides" the group at first, but that this changed and wasn't a problem afterwards.

This is the part that was published in Lefevere's column and he really doesn't make Almeida look bad, I'd even say the opposite:

>"There has to be tactical discipline. Everyone is entitled to a bad day, especially in a big tour, but riders also know that we read wattage, heart rate and everything else afterwards from the bike computer. If a rider says: I had to pass, we'll see if the data confirms it.
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>"You have to accept that the race has its own laws. In the Tour of Burgos last year Almeida was supposed to lead Evenepoel to the final climb, but it didn't work out. He blew himself up in the run-up, when the peloton was going 60 mph. Afterwards he climbed very well, to finish in Evenepoel's wake. You can think that's strange, but sometimes racing just works that way."
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>"When Almeida made his debut for us in the Tour Down Under last year, I got worrying messages about him from team leader Rik Van Slycke. "He only thinks about himself, who does he think he is?" But after a good conversation with development director Ricardo Scheidecker, João has always been a team player afterwards. In the Tour of Algarve - in his own country for him - he put himself entirely at the service of Remco."
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It would be so cool, if Garmin sponsored a pro cycling team...

Then they could upload the data from their riders to some sort of site, and people could download them to their devices...

Oh well, one can dream...

The first stage of the Tour of Denmark this year starts and ends in the city I live in now, a nice short 220 km stage. When the course was presented last fall I told myself I'd do the stage before the race. I cheated a bit and didn't do three laps of the finishing circuit, just one, but I had to ride to and from the start and finishing places, so I ended up doing 222 km all in all anyway. The race starts on Wednesday, so I was running out of time. Luckily Tuesday had advantageous weather, a weak wind from the west, no more than 5 m/s at most, even along the coast, it was cloudy in the morning, so I got about an hour and a half without direct sun, highly unusual this summer. It was still upwards 30 degrees and sunny in the afternoon though, but I don't think I'd be able to find a day this week where that wasn't the case. So I went out that day.

Physically I wasn't really worried about doing the distance, I did a 200 km ride last year and that went fine, and I'm in about the same shape now as I was back then. Only thing I was really scared of was the hill on the finishing circuit, which is a short wall at up to 17%, which could be iffy after 210 km if my legs were completely toast, but they held up, but I was happy I didn't have to do it two more times. Overall the ride went pretty well, I hoped to do it in under 8 hours of riding time, and I managed that a couple of minutes to spare. My legs felt fine, but I was happy my apartment building has an elevator when I got back. The heat got to me a bit in last half of the ride, I'm not made for this kind of heat waves. Up to 25 degrees is fine, but above that it starts getting tough for me.

Even though I'm starting to forget the suffering, I'm not inclined to do a ride that again for quite a while, at least not solo.

Here are some articles from the time of the bee sting:

August 19, 2011 ESPN Article

June 20, 2014 CyclingQuotes Story

Between the pictures and stories at the time, I'd say Spartacus's story completely checks out. We need to be careful to get more evidence with the WADA leaks.

I completed my first marathon last weekend. It was raining in the morning and when our gloves get wet we lose traction on the wheels and they slip every push. Luckily it stopped raining as we arrived to the start and so only had to avoid puddles.

I was waiting at the start talking to an American guy and one of the elite women came flying past not looking where she was going and she took out this guys front wheel. It was 5 minutes before the start and he had to pull out.

So anyway, the marathon was harder than I expected. I thought it would be a walk in the park. Maybe because I hadn't been able to do any wheelchair racing for nearly a month prior and had only maintained my fitness with handcycling.

When we started everyone went flying off, and left me flailing at the back. thought this was all the people I knew, but turns out to be the elite guys and gals. I struggled for 3 miles trying to chase them to get in someone's wheel but totally failed.

I felt knackered after 3 miles and started slowing down. I heard someone go past and jumped on their wheel. Turns out it was the T52's (higher level injury) Colombian national champion.

I sat on this guys wheel for 20+ miles and he towed me along. I tried going to the front but whenever I did my speed dropped right down and he came to the front again. With a mile to go I attacked and then started my sprint 600m out and ended up beating him.

I finished with a time of 2:08:38 and I was aiming for 2:20, so I am very happy. The winners did it in just over 1:30 - next year I aim to do it in 1:50. I have been training a couple of times a week since starting in October. I beat some guys who train 6 times a week, but I have a lot of improving to do. Overall I came 42nd or so.

I failed to overtake anyone that I can remember, maybe 2 who were in my group? There were a shit load of punctures though and I am pretty lucky to even finish.

Strava thingy

I won my first real points! I managed top 10 in all four of my track races (which wasn't that hard with there only being 11 people in my category...) and got a 5th place in the handicap sprint. And I got an invite to race at the cycling revival festival festival next month. That'll go terrible as I'll be up against cat A riders (one of them made it to the Commonwealth Games a few weeks ago), but it'll give me free access to all the other events so I can go see someone try to set a new world hour record on a penny farthing. Ned Boulting will be there as a commentator, so maybe I'll even get my name mispronounced like a real cyclist!

I'm doing another TT tomorrow - I'll take a page out of Aru's book and am aiming to go from 27th in my last TT to a surprise podium finish. Which should be doable since there are only 2 other women signed up in the road bike category. It's part of a TT league though, so there should be prizes. And podium photo's that don't show there were only 3 people.

After that, I'll be done with races for a bit as I have to get ready for this 330km ride If anyone happens to live close to that route and wouldn't mind providing coffee / food / loo access to a group of about 10 women, let me know (we're all used to paying £3 for coffee so you can charge us outrageous prices). I hadn't looked at the route before (apart from noticing that it's long), but about 80km in, I'll almost be riding past my house. And will be less than a quarter of the way into the ride :(.

Check on strava, there will probably be a segment which covers the course, and you should see some results set by normal people today.

EDIT: Here is the segment

Marianne Vos leads women's team Jumbo-Visma in 2021

New team, new headmistress. And what a one. Marianne Vos will lead the women's team of Jumbo-Visma next year. She signs a contract that binds her to the team for two years. Vos still rides in the colours of CCC-Liv.

Thijs Zonneveld 29-07-20, 21:47 Last update: 22:21

By Thijs Zonneveld

Fox (33) is a phenomenon. In the youth categories she won everything there was to win, with the pros she went on with it. In her first World Championship with the elite women she took the rainbow jersey. For years she was a class of her own in the peloton: she won in the sprint, she won uphill, she won solo, she won in the field and on the track. Her trophy case is bursting at the seams; on the road alone she won 228 times.

Her maniacal experience of the sport also had a downside: five years ago her body was gone. She struggled with injuries and collided with the limits of her body and mind. But she reinvented herself. The Marianne Vos of recent years may not be as dominant as she was in the first phase of her career, but she is still one of the best and most explosive riders in the peloton. And, more importantly perhaps: she's having more fun than ever.

At Jumbo-Visma Vos will be the signboard of a new team and a project that should get more boys and girls on the bike.

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Actually, although not a geneticist, I was doing some reading of the publications on this for personal curiosity reasons a few months ago. From what I understand, these altitude adaptations have no genetic basis, they are physiological reactions to the decreased partial pressure of atmosphere at high altitude, and the adaptations recede when the subject returns to sea level for a small length of time.

Interestingly enough, Tibetans do exhibit genetic adaptation to altitude, while Andeans, Ethiopians, Coloradans, etc, do not. This is evidenced by the fact that their adaptations are somewhat different than those of other populations, and they do not go away when Tibetans move to sea level. It's actually the quickest example of evolutionary adaptation known to humans, pretty crazy.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Witherspoon/publication/44596336_Genetic_evidence_for_high-altitude_adaptation_in_Tibet/links/0fcfd50a3c4dfe5bdb000000.pdf

Gets me thinking... I'd really like to see a favorite riders poll. Anyone else interested in that? I can think of a few ways to accomplish it.

EDIT: Okay I've built a survey to achieve this goal. Anyone want to help me test it to make sure it looks good? I'll post it up Friday or Saturday if so.

This is just a trial run so I'm going to delete all the responses before re-posting. Let me know what you think, and if you notice anything wrong with it!

http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1710910/r-peloton-Favorite-Rider-Survey

Here are some details on the story, now that the journalists have been able to hit the phones and keyboards.

edit: And here is the ruling.

I'm currently in my cycling vacation in Slovenia, i'll also spend 2 days in Croatia. I've already visited Ljubljana,Jesenice,Bled and Kranjska Gora, my next stop is in Tolmin.

https://www.bikemap.net/en/r/4620261

/https://www.bikemap.net/en/r/4616459/

I'll also ride between Piran (Slovenia) and Novigrad (Croatia) on Parenzana

Any other recommandations?

• Btw i'm so tired of those descents, now i realised why Mohoric is that good on them.

It's a bit tenuous, a tweet of a rumour from a podcast, but I think it's pretty clear he's leaving now and here they make it clear that a contract has been signed already. Not sure how accurate or trustworthy this necessarily is but BMC would be an interesting choice.

This is the gradient map of the time trial which is useful given that the organizer fucked up with the official profile. It's also useful as it tells you how hard every 500 meters long stretch is.

This is the Strava segment of the climb. Former pros Dario Cioni and Michail Ignatiev have respectively 11:00 and 11:51 but none of them are close to the best time held by a Dutch (i think) amateur. Should be a fast climb though

The Strava data is back

It shows him holding a pretty steady cadence at an average of 98rpm, which is pretty unlikely if he was hanging onto a car.

So I followed through with my local classic, which is 202km with 3870m uphill, and 41% of the ride is uphill. This would be as selective as LBL but shorter and punchier, and is kind of like a local version I guess. Finishes with a trio of snappy climbs and a final ramp into Exeter.

http://www.plotaroute.com/route/116360

Final ramp (Strava)

Some of your stages are a tad inhuman, over 5500m!! Pretty cool though. Love me some mountain time trials. Stage 12 looks like a pretty hard finale.

https://www.strava.com/activities/302191907/analysis/16604/17494

300W average for the last 15 minutes though, with about 20 forays above 600W. And this is for someone who finished 80th on the day, sitting comfortably mid-pack.

I'm off to Somerset today for the Tour of Wessex (530km over a much more reasonable 3 days this time). It's one of those 'this is not a race' sportives, but they also time you and publish it, so that'll be fun. At least I'll finally tick some more climbs off the list!

Less fun is that my Garmin is suddenly dying as it's saying it doesn't have any memory left, when I've deleted half the stuff that was on it. Maybe it's time for a Wahoo?

Off to Barcelona next week for a music festival and I want to try to squeeze in a bike ride there as well. I used this route last year which was very nice, anyone happen to have other suggestions? About the same length as a max as I need some sleep and want to be back before the Giro gets exciting :)

I missed last weekend's group ride as I was too busy hanging over the toilet. On the plus side, throwing up loads turns out to be a great abs workout and I'm back at my race weight with just 3 days of work (just let me believe that's how it works).

I'm not sure where we should plan our next ride, but sometime between now and September next year we should do the World's route. Potentially a slightly shortened route as though I've never been to Harrogate, I'm pretty sure I'll have seen the city centre after a lap or two.

With the Belgian cycling app you can get live race radio (for Belgian races). Not team radio (that would probably be harder with lots of languages used anyway), but getting closer.

For races like the Tour de France you can look up live statistics for each rider in the online race centre (location / speed for everyone, power / cadence / HR for a lot of them). It's iffy as signals are often lost and with ~180 riders to track stuff goes wrong, but even just seeing where exactly everyone is on a mountain stage is fun.

The combativity voting was open to the public in the Vuelta last year. It didn't really work because a) they had to open voting about 1hr-45 minutes before the finish, so efforts in the finale of a stage couldn't even get a rider a nomination, b) mostly Spanish people on Twitter voted so Spanish riders won if they were nominated.

Thanks for the century ride advice last week – on Sunday I rode my first 100 mile sportive and completed it in 6 hours 17 minutes (Strava link) (plus three feed zone stops). I followed your tips here – regular food/drink stops, and it was fine. Found a good group of guys to ride with and chatted away on the flats after the climb in the middle.

I'm riding another one (RideLondon 100) in two weeks' time so this was good training!

I've been in Spain the last 5 days gearing up for some big road races coming this summer.

The form is definitely here and I'm excited to get racing.

Topped my week off with a 135km, 4,900m climbing ride. It was pretty brutal! I did get to see some cool roads painted with Nairo and Chavez, the 2015 vuelta had a few stages around where I'm staying in Andalucia.

Went on a ride a few days ago and booked 3 or 4 times. It was horrible. Hadn't felt that bad on a bike for a couple of years. I underestimated climbing when I saw it on paper. Fun ride for the most part anyway and even overtook a couple of people on an ascent :)

https://www.strava.com/activities/468168042

My error was not taking enough food and only eating two eggs before. Whoops.

I've started learning German. Going to Berlin later in the year and thought it would be a good idea. I'm using this app called Duolingo which treats vocab tests like a game and is pretty addictive

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Have a nice race!

I get what you are saying, however (and please dont take offence) but these types of numbers are quite normal for a world class athlete, vying for the biggest prize in world cycling, hyped on adrenaline, fighting against another world class rider.

Here is an example only from today. The link is a Strava file for Robert Gesink on the TDF fricken rest day. This is a fricken rest day and he is climbing at nearly 400w. He is 4th overall on a climb that has had 807 attempts, on a FRICKEN rest day. I don't think you get just how good these top riders really are.

Considering how many of us are skinny amateur cyclists (https://www.strava.com/clubs/redditpeloton), then I think the discussion would go as follows:

1. Conversation fun but quickly descending in logic

2. Dead within 5 minutes

Not that it was super exciting race or anything (the final kilometers were nice), but it was a first serious road race I've seen in person. There was a big screen so you could watch the race (and finish!) while the racers were at a different part of the lap, so that was nice. I was at a top of a hill, or so I thought, the riders didn't seem to notice there was a hill, it was a short punchy climb for them.

I never realized it before, but Sagan's posture on bicycle is.. different. He's very easy to spot in a pack (even without his special jerseys). Also saw Konig attack few meters from me. Unfortunately couldn't see if it was successful as the TV didn't cover the whole lap (it wasn't, by the way).

The convoy of cars and especially motos was huge even for a small race like this one. Also, the sound and the wind the peloton makes is enormous.

I really think he is. Some context is, I got into trail running after bike racing and Western States is a 100 mile point to point with 15k+ ft of climbing. It's insane. https://www.strava.com/activities/621139926

edit: This is not my Strava, I really wish it was.

He's a classic case of a rider who has a specific skill that he puts all his energies into, but there are others who are better at that specific skill.

He's not a world class sprinter - he's beaten by Kittel, Greipel, Cav. He's better at lumpier sprint finishes, but he's beaten by Degenkolb, Sagan, Kristoff.

Which is fine, there's a bunch of guys like him. JJ Rojas is probably a good example. The big difference is that Rojas doesn't have a team built around him, whereas Goss has (in the past). OGE went to races attempting to get Goss sprint wins and it just didn't work out. I think they've realised that now and are attempting many more things, such as GC at the Tour of California, TTT and early race GC at the Giro.

I still love him though and always will. He won some great races and I'll always be especially pleased when he places 11th in a big bunch sprint. Go Gossy!

edit: Bonus reason for me loving Goss - he signed my son's TdF t-shirt!

> 2.5.018 Riders, even of the same team, may not push one another.

Like most UCI rules it's poorly written and up for interpretation. Check out the word "push" at merriam-webster.com and you get a bunch of definitions, some which favor Movistar and some that don't.

If they don't want riders to touch each other then they should say that.

After seeing the videos, on the one hand I think it's pretty shitty that they were penalized but on the other hand they should've known that multiple instances would get them popped. All of these teams practice enough and should have verbal signals to communicate gaps and speed without touching.

I can't wait to see their times up Gib. There's a guy on strava who holds the KOM right now, and theres a TON of drama about it's legitimacy. He's a no-name dude who made it up around 29 mins flat, didn't have power data and only a couple friends to back him up. And when people analyzed the speed data, he would have held like 7w/kg up the last 10 minutes, which is crazier than the pro who has "second best" time.

EDIT: Here's the link, have a good laugh! https://www.strava.com/activities/85278924#1753784445 (check the comments)

Is that not a picture of Anakin as his thumbnail?

>This episode I think explains some, for example how whoever wins the first check point puts their team at the front of the peloton... 2min 15 sec in the video ( https://www.crunchyroll.com/yowamushi-pedal/episode-26-i-can-see-the-sky-651041 )

That's not how that works, like at all.

Yowamushi Pedal is a fun show to watch if you like anime and cycling, but the writers have no idea how bike races actually work.

From the Tiz footage my best guess is ~ 16:58 for Pinot, which is 1489 VAM & 6.2W/kg (CPL, assuming 7.5km at 5.6%, no wind) mitigating factors that it seems like there was a tailwind (even a light wind brings it under 6W/kg), also that it's the fifth day of a stage race and on the third lap. Managed to utterly destroy the field on the climb although it was April.

Finally a weekend, it’s full stage time kids! Hype level: over 9000.

Strong wind on the Peyresourde seems unlikely so whatever action we get to see today has to come from the riders. Those who lost time in the winds yesterday seem the most likely candidates so is this going to be the day for the Landa / Mollema / Porte / Pogačar breakaway to shred those two trains? Combining the opinions of the Predictions Thread, Roglič is just passively waiting for the TT, Bernal is fried, and Dumoulin is on standby till week three. So this might be the perfect moment for the GC outsiders to shake up the situation a little.

Whatever happens I’m going to celebrate the stage.

Just a reminder for those who missed the predictions thread - detailed map and profile showing it's not as flat as you might have guessed from the official profile.

(This graph is not zero based, so it's not that steep, but there is section at over 6%)

credit to /u/improb

edit: strava segment for the steepest part https://www.strava.com/segments/8758111 (probably not too accurate)

I mapped out the local circuit. They do this once in the beginning, four times in the middle, and 2.5 times at the end. Finish line is around 6km in the loop

No, France, Spain and Italy are all living on a separate internet that doesn't follow the English "memes" so much.

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I used to see it in videogames all the time. Counter Strike is a good example:

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CS:S released in 2004. First few years most players were Germans, English, Scandinavians and US.

Then around 2008 and later the French, Spanish and Italians started playing more and more, after other players moved to TF2. Like they always hop to the "previously" popular game after the majority hopped to the newest game.

Then I saw it again with Rocket League: started playing in 2014, barely any French player. I had to quit in 2019 because half my matches I get yelled at with "fdp" and "conard" whilst you couldn't make any insult in English because you'd get banned.

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If you compare German and French CS:S servers now, you will see they are almost equal but since Germany is hosting a lot of servers ( Frankfurt/Köln ) I'm quite sure most them are also rented by foreign admins. Whilst the French servers still cater more to French.

https://www.gametracker.com/search/css/FR/?sort=3&amp;order=DESC

I think I narrowed it down to this segment:

https://www.strava.com/segments/2675137

First bit looks a little tricky, 3.8km at 9% average for the first bit, then the second bit is much easier. No chance for the sprinters, puncheurs might have severe issues too.

Pardon the new-guy question, only my second year following the TDF and I'm not 100% sure on the rules. I'm just getting caught up today and Laurens Ten Dam looks to have crashed:

https://www.strava.com/activities/339694197/analysis

Did he end up finishing on a different bike? He's one of my favorite riders.

On Strava it's looks according to HR and speed and time matching with the result that the course was 13.2km or 600m short - or 53.1 km/h

https://www.strava.com/activities/338933262/analysis/2562/3492

260 watts average for 6 hours is still a shit load of power.. A normal person (everyday average fitness) would struggle to hold that wattage for anything more than 30 minutes. The surges in the peloton is what makes the racing hard, not the total average watts.

Here is the strava file for 2 of the hardest climbs around my area, look who the leader is / his power output. https://www.strava.com/segments/875905 https://www.strava.com/segments/685268

here it is on Google Play for people with decent devices - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.mobilefans.belgiancycling

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I have no idea if it is available for the inferior OS devices :P

So, initially I planned on taking this route that I already did half of a few days ago, just this time with less wind (20km/h at 13° was freezing my private parts off), but I woke up late and dreamt that I had two dogs which are now gone....so yeah, I'm feeling a bit shitty.
Might still go for a different ride and do the other one on monday with even less wind and better weather.

Annnnnnnyways, I'm pumped for the Worlds, I'm german after all.
Still think it's an utter disgrace to be so negligent and host it there. The next generation of kids in Europe won't associate any bad things with the oil states, because we have Emirates a "great" airline, Dubai a "great" city and airport and so on...it's frustrating that the people in charge don't seem to care about anything but the money. The money WE give them to begin with.

Other than that I need some help from you guys, I wanted to put together a nice little video/animation of the tour I did with my dad, something that shows the route and progress on it (with my gps data) but pictures added along the way.
Do you guys happen to know some good visualization tools? I know there is lots of really creative stuff out there for Strava but it's kinda hard to find something on google

Was in Japan recently and man, I really want to see a GT start there. Week of racing at least. (so a WT week race would do I guess)

Some late evening city prologue in Tokyo (Sun), do two or three flat stages so sprinters are happy, then head out to hills (I was in Kiso valley for example, beautiful nature and roads), and finish with an epic climb to Mt. Fuji on Saturday. I did this one https://www.strava.com/segments/8241365 .. on a bus. Then two days rest (travel) and continue on Tuesday in Italy or wherever.

And I'm sure there are bike races in Japan.. but I'd like to see a WT one.

Looks like it's stage a including a 2000m+ climb not total climbing.

"Juliane Alaphilippe's best result in a world tour race/stage featuring a 2000 meter plus climb is 47th place"

https://player.fm/series/themove Episode 14 8:25

Stage 1 should definitely end in a bunch sprint. The climb shouldn't be cat 1 in my opinion (it's even a cat 2 on Strava), and the sprinters' teams have plenty of time to chase down anyone who does get away.

Not a hard climb but its very fast if with a group. The kid puts in massive miles. I remember when he started racing for Euro-Sports.ca, he was a small guy but had great leg speed. He has grown a ton since then and come a long way.

Edit - forgot to add that he holds the Mount Lemmon records in Arizona by more than 10 minutes. Strava

Because the Road.CC competition is so close, with only 19 points between 1st & 4th, I've made a live tracker for the finale of the Road.CC competition:

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=DBFC151DC19FC686!5688&amp;authkey=!AKyR4ejXEXRJ1bs&amp;ithint=file%2cxlsx

(Tagging: /u/Glasnost, /u/Dux89, /u/Twybaydos as the other competitors)

Currently not a lot, but it's set to pick up from around 2pm - 17km/h with gusts of up to 39km/h, and might be in the right direction for some parts of the first half of the stage?

Headwind for the final though.

I predict a marginal decrease in productivity in home office.

Also no wind except on those two sea bridges, but it’s not me who’s doing the predicting.

As for the stage win, I’m going with Ewan. Given his origin he should handle the pleasant summer weather more than Bennett or Kristoff.

Levi Leipheimer does a lot too, and depending how you feel about it, Lance Armstrong. The weird thing about him is he runs a lot and he's really good at it. I'm going to assume he isn't still doping, so it seems like he would've won TdF's with everyone clean if he can run this fast at this age.

He wouldn’t be wrong. Around 4 kt average wind speed and gusts up to 16 kt. Plus, wind is coming from the west which so in the final third it will hit the bunch from the front. Echelons rather unlikely in this setting.

This is what I use: http://acestream.org/

It's a torrent stream engine that connects to VLC.

Install it, then click one of the Ace Stream links here:

http://www.wiziwig.tv/broadcast.php?matchid=255294&amp;part=sports

Sky Sports 4 one is working well for me.

No need for a VPN on mobile if you use the app, as it takes the easy way and check your location by the GPS.

Just install a fake GPS app and launch it before opening/logging in to the app.

It's useful even if you live in a ES country, like tomorrow when swe ES doesn't cover GP Industria Artoginato I can watch it in Italian

I recently downloaded Private Internet Access VPN and got a Eurosport Player subscription. The streaming is reliable and good quality. It is much more reliable than the chrome plug-in I used to use.

Asking people if they thought an app like this would be useful would have worked a bit better :)

You even messaged a mod, and we all find it useful so no need to worry.

As long as people participate in the forum once in a while, you can promote/link to your stuff in small doses.

I'd still love for them to use the full Fred Whitton route for a big race. They went over Honister once in the Tour of Britain but imagine subjecting everyone to this if they want the rainbow jersey.

There was this climb/segment streetview web page somewhere, anyone would like to find/create the climb there? I have no idea what it's called.

I think this is the strava segment https://www.strava.com/segments/9218651

Same question as someone have asked last time: what do you guess the winning time will be?

I'll go with 19:32.

edit: I believe these are the two featured climbs:

• https://www.strava.com/segments/8494638
• https://www.strava.com/segments/10660587

Didn't expect them to be that steep, but I'll leave my original guess in :)

OK then. Assuming mean "with non asphalt sectors" we'll go for this.

The Fenland Classic.

Start at the same startline as 2014's Tour de France Stage 3, because theatre. Heads out up the Gogs and into a VERY early, very long, non-tarmac section. Might actually a need a little clearence in some places to make it route suitable. The surface is a mix of grass and chalk mud- rain will make it slick. For about 10km. Rolling. Then back onto to tarmac for a while, to head to the fens. Once on the fens the roads are awful, but we take detours onto tracks as well for giggles. At about 2/5s into the race we head into Ely and have an uphill prime through the centre because that will be fun.

More fens, more farm track segements. Then head back to the Newmarket ridge, back into Balsham, take that long sector in the opposite direction- no easier, lets be honest- and finally down into Cambridge, couple of late 90 degree corners, surge up Trumpington Street to a finish outside Kings because, again, theatre.

https://www.strava.com/activities/118913900?hl=en-GB

Holy shit, great job man. That's a huge ride. 230k, over 8000m elevation. It's pretty much, (just 400m) short of the height of Everest!

How are you not i more pain? What did you do post ride? Any celebration, or ice bath, or massage or anything? I'm seriously impressed.

https://ifttt.com? Every time a RFL post is created you get a sms, a notification, an email, homing pigeon, you choose. There could be two ways to do it on IFTTT but even if the website is awesome, there are some limitations.

(http://download.cnet.com/Expat-Shield/3000-2092_4-75211377.html) This piece of software integrates with your browser and uses a proxy address based in the UK fooling the servers into allowing you to view restricted content. I use it all the time to watch programs I missed on the BBC that I can't otherwise watch because I'm in Ireland. If it doesn't work I'll see if I can rip the video and post it on YouTube.

The wind should be picking up to around 35-40km/h right around now!

But they finish on a circuit, so not sure there's long enough straight sections for echelons? The live stream has started, so at least we'll see them if they happen!

I think it is still used as a short cut for drivers and during rush hour it would take a very long time to drive around the outside.

This is the longer ride I usually do if I want to get away from cars:

https://www.strava.com/activities/319657421

I think Boris has been doing quite well for cycling. He went on a visit to Amsterdam I think recently? I think the culture in Belgium is great (I fell in love with it the first time I went through it on my bike) and I could see myself living there.

As for the finish in Odense, I'd like to see it end about 10 west of Odense in Vissenbjerg. Why? Oh, 1.1 km, 5.1% average hill, with a max of 20%. But they'll probably settle for this one, just south of central Odense

Took the day off work and did a 60 mile ride in the chilterns today. Went up a beautiful hill called Bryants Bottom, 5km at 2.3% and consistent all the way up.
For my enjoyment, I was thinking about cycling mole previewing my ride on cycling hub "Atz 5k at 3 pasent, atz Twybaydos territory"

Could be wet and a little windy but probably not enough.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/tour-de-france-stormy-conditions-to-be-unleashed-on-final-stages-this-week/70002223

If the wind does get up a bit, then they go due West on the D232 for about 15km with exposed southern side of the road. Possible cross winds.

> I'm not trying to go suggest going all American and suing everything that moves

I take your point, but actually I think the slander/libel laws in the E.U. put the slanderer in greater jeopardy than he or she would be in the U.S. In the U.S., it's very hard to prosecute. In the U.K.--if you'll forgive me for lumping it in with the E.U. in today's brexit mess--the laws are geared to make it easier for a citizen to protect his or her reputation.

https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/03/21/394273902/on-libel-and-the-law-u-s-and-u-k-go-separate-ways

I don't know if Cancellara's nationality will factor in or whether his lawyers will be able to bring a suit outside the U.S., but if they can Phil might be exposed to some serious financial risk.

CHeck out the Tour riders' Strava for that. Here's Arnaud Demare's You can see where it says "and 10 others" that's all the other strava guys in the tour.

Today Laurens Ten Dam averaged 203w

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;rct=j&amp;url=https://www.strava.com/activities/67057155%3Fhl%3Den-GB&amp;ved=0CCAQFjABahUKEwij3Lyc8NnGAhWRB9sKHTZdAP0&amp;usg=AFQjCNGtYPSrvXuUKGsK72OkibLAvWADMg&amp;sig2=d2ANjR7laLix8xKZutsNPg

Laurens ten Dams heart rate data from the same stage. Sadly no power to compare. I get that he isn't attacking but it's still interesting to see. He actually finished 9th on that stage.

Strava fucked up but I have no idea how and why, even if his device is faulty Strava should normalize it according to the gps

The actual grade is a little less than avg 10% according to GEarth, with a maximum of 33% in the second "hairpin"
And 8% according to the Strava Segment

> About today, is it time for Cavs redemption?

Last 500m are slightly uphill, would be surprised if he makes it first. His strength (imho) is his aero tuck, which doesn't help as much on incline.

(edit: should read the whole comment before replying)

There is one segment I worked out I have the same time as Niki Terpstra (and a second quicker than Michal Kwiatkowski!) did during the Tour of Britain - the difference being I was going flat out with my eyes hanging out on a chaingang ride and I bet he was comfortably riding in the group.

34th place - https://www.strava.com/segments/3229731

Sling TV is $25 a month.

With Sling Blue you get ~50 channels which include NBCsn. You can cancel any time. Get it for the month.

You can watch on desktop, mobile, or like me, on my Roku.

you have mixlr commentary in English from Sarah Connoly now: http://mixlr.com/prowomenscycling/

Lizzie was the first on a climb with 29km left.

Carmen Small is the one on an attack now. It's her birthday.

Has anyone read Graeme Fife's Tour de France: The History. The Legend. The Riders.?

I recently got it cheap and was planning to read it throughout the tour weeks, but didn't realize it was such a massive book. Reviews on Amazon seems very mixed.

I somehow stumbled upon (thanks to another redditor, don't remember who) a lifetime subscription to VPN Unlimited through a 3rd party site. (It's currently marked down from $500 to $150, I think I got it for $30 or 40 somehow).

I also used Smart DNS Proxy once, they have a seven day trial if you want to check that out, and I think their 1 year subscription is reasonable if you want to pay for it.

There are a few free ones you can get with browser extensions but I always found they were too slow and unreliable for streaming.

Is Tour de France 2017 - The official game some kind of joke? It's almost unbelievably bad. It actually looks like early 90s arcade games (eg Street Fighter), which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but not a format suiting some kind of cycling manager game.

here's the profile / strava

cc /u/Mattho.

Valverde always struggles in high altitude mountains so he may not be a friend of this mountain

And now my home climb starts, I actually like it better on the other side (the descent)

The climb https://www.strava.com/segments/1690380

And the descent https://www.strava.com/segments/2405251