Pro Cycling Discussion 2020

#Chri5# · 17 Mar 2020 at 17:10

Paris-Roubaix, Fleche Wallonne, Liege-Bastogne-Liege and Tour de Yorkshire all postponed.

Berger · 18 Mar 2020 at 12:55

Amstel Gold 2019 highlights on, what a race. Great weather last year too.

GSVBagpuss · 19 Mar 2020 at 16:52

Eurosport need to play all the 2019 races (and best stages of the GTs) instead of the 2020 version. I would still watch the replays

GSVBagpuss · 10 Apr 2020 at 11:22

If it’s not too painful, these look backs at previous Ronde’s are great to watch on the trainer

https://youtu.be/XFqfqO6CQko
https://youtu.be/KNpvsJ3_OJo
https://youtu.be/j8iHLADDMKQ

SoliD · 15 Apr 2020 at 12:12

Well the autumn could be awesome! Although unsure how they're going to fit this all in, could be very dicey on some ofthe mountain stages if the Giro is in October and Vuelta early Nov.

https://road.cc/content/news/uci-confirm-29th-august-new-start-date-tdf-272769

#Chri5# · 15 Apr 2020 at 14:29

Power stat's from the Ineo Zwift race this week

Power data from the Zwift Companion app shows that Dennis averaged 373 watts for the 58-minute effort, and as a 72kg rider that equates to a huge 5.18 watts per kilogram – not bad considering there is no racing and Dennis would be looking to peak for the World Championships late in the year.

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/...r-stats-from-the-team-ineos-zwift-race-454137

SoliD · 6 May 2020 at 09:33

Was watching some old racing yesterday and thought you've got to feel for Mads Pederson, being able to wear the World Champs Jersey in the fewest races until the next world champs with only something like a maximum of 20 days of racing available to him between now and the next world champs.

I wonder how many of the races will go ahead, it's quite a big schedule and reliant on things dying down quite a lot, which I can't see with the varying reactions around the world to dealing with CV19.

xdcx · 6 May 2020 at 13:23

I would fully support a cancellation of Worlds this year.
If they can move the Olympics, they can forget world champs. It's not fair on current raindow stripe holders in any cycling discipline at all and with how crammed the schedule is, there would be no harm in not holding worlds this year.
We all know the only reason they intend to run WC's at all is to satisfy hosts/sponsors. No other reason.

#Chri5# · 9 Jul 2020 at 10:05

https://www.teamineos.com/article/chris-froome-to-leave-team-ineos-at-end-of-season

Team INEOS confirmed today that they will not be renewing Chris Froome’s contract at the end of this season.

Sir Dave Brailsford said: "Chris’s current contract comes to an end in December and we have taken the decision now not to renew it. We are making this announcement earlier than would usually be the case to put an end to recent speculation and allow the Team to focus on the season ahead.

Roll-on 2021!

SoliD · 9 Jul 2020 at 10:49

Hardly surprising, he's taking the money while he can, he could perform awfully at the tour and it won't matter now, understandable for a bloke of his age to guarantee his future. Good place to go with some strong money compared to a lot of the teams after COVID.

booyaka · 9 Jul 2020 at 11:17

SoliD said:
Hardly surprising, he's taking the money while he can, he could perform awfully at the tour and it won't matter now, understandable for a bloke of his age to guarantee his future. Good place to go with some strong money compared to a lot of the teams after COVID.

agree - at best he's maybe got 1 or 2 "potential" opportunities to win a grand tour again due to his age, so a 3 year deal with probably very decent money is a no brainer.

SoliD · 10 Jul 2020 at 09:37

Not sure if anyone has been watching the Tour Recyled on ITV4 in the evenings, it fills the big cycling void in my life currently, funny to watch and hear the praise given to Bernal. Forgot how good Kwiato was on this edition as a support rider too.

SoliD · 16 Jul 2020 at 15:47

https://www.redbull.com/int-en/live/uci-cyclo-cross-world-cup-2019-namur-final-men As the weather is still moderately average I decided to rewatch this today, best CX race I've ever seen and worth a watch if you have an hour spare.

Roady · 23 Jul 2020 at 17:00

SoliD said:
Not sure if anyone has been watching the Tour Recyled on ITV4 in the evenings, it fills the big cycling void in my life currently, funny to watch and hear the praise given to Bernal. Forgot how good Kwiato was on this edition as a support rider too.

Is that still on catch-up? I need something...

Good shout with Redbull too but need some way to stream that to TV/play on smartTV.

SoliD · 23 Jul 2020 at 20:14

Roady said:
Is that still on catch-up? I need something...

Good shout with Redbull too but need some way to stream that to TV/play on smartTV.

Yes.

RBTV is on almsost all smart tvs now, if not cast it from your phone?

#Chri5# · 24 Jul 2020 at 09:43

Tour of Sibiu (where?) started yesterday. Amusing 2.5km (!) prologue which started dry and then utterly hammered it down with the added bonus of strong winds. The course had loads of cobbles, so plenty of crashes and riders just cruising round.

Stage 1 today finishes with a 20km climb

Live coverage available:

https://ciclism.sibiu.ro/

Roady · 27 Jul 2020 at 14:05

SoliD said:
Not sure if anyone has been watching the Tour Recyled on ITV4 in the evenings, it fills the big cycling void in my life currently, funny to watch and hear the praise given to Bernal. Forgot how good Kwiato was on this edition as a support rider too.

Thanks for mentioning this, revisiting the 2018 TDF now with it. Crazy to think how much of it I actually remember watching! Really looking forward to getting later in the race as I think I missed some of the later stages the first time around. There's a little 30s introduction from G before each stage which was obviously done at the time. Just a shame they hadn't got him to add a lot more commentary to it afterwards, would have been fun!

Also a shame there's not older other re-runs of Tours/others on there, or did I miss a bunch? I really only started watching every stage of the Tour in 2015/16, then maybe only some highlights for 13/14. Would be good to see some of the earlier stuff, and I don't mean re-runs of the 70's and 80's or the Armstrong era, there's been a lot of clean good racing since then. Sky early days and even pre-sky is what I'm after. Cav at HTC etc. I've never been able to really hunt much of it down apart from very brief 5 minute highlights or badly done Youtube. 45min/1 hour long TV broadcasts are what I'm after to get more of a feel of the racing and get to know some teams and riders better that I otherwise missed.

SoliD · 27 Jul 2020 at 15:41

Roady said:
Thanks for mentioning this, revisiting the 2018 TDF now with it. Crazy to think how much of it I actually remember watching! Really looking forward to getting later in the race as I think I missed some of the later stages the first time around. There's a little 30s introduction from G before each stage which was obviously done at the time. Just a shame they hadn't got him to add a lot more commentary to it afterwards, would have been fun!

Also a shame there's not older other re-runs of Tours/others on there, or did I miss a bunch? I really only started watching every stage of the Tour in 2015/16, then maybe only some highlights for 13/14. Would be good to see some of the earlier stuff, and I don't mean re-runs of the 70's and 80's or the Armstrong era, there's been a lot of clean good racing since then. Sky early days and even pre-sky is what I'm after. Cav at HTC etc. I've never been able to really hunt much of it down apart from very brief 5 minute highlights or badly done Youtube. 45min/1 hour long TV broadcasts are what I'm after to get more of a feel of the racing and get to know some teams and riders better that I otherwise missed.

Obviously wasn't done at the time, it's all filmed in the same room

ITV have done the hour long thing for as long as I remember from the mid 90s onwards and I think C4 had it before that.

SoliD · 28 Jul 2020 at 11:02

If you're as desperate as me it looks like you can watch Vuelta a Burgos from their website if you're "in spain". https://www.vueltaburgos.com/es/

SoliD · 30 Jul 2020 at 20:06

Quite enjoying burgos these last few days, today was a pretty brutal 8 or 9km final finish averaging 7.5% with up to 16% at points. Broke up early and continued fragmenting from there. Evenepoel showing he's got good form, putting Bennett, Chaves, Landa and Carapaz well behind him at the finish. Not sure on next few stages but suspect there'll be more action to come.

Odd seeing the spectators in masks cheering the riders on. But guess this is the new normal.