Cycling thread

[Bruce Wayne]

Neilands is up and riding, which is good to hear.

 

[Black Belt Jones]

Great for Poels to get the stage win - Froome owes a couple of his TdF wins to that man. The Sepp Kuss of his day.

Looked a bit odd Adam Yates going up the road there when Pog looked a bit laboured (imho), but I guess they had it under control.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Wimbledon finished and now these lazy oiks are on a rest day. Ashes days away, I'm going to have to do something productive now. Meh!

 

[davek]

Who's better suited to the time trial on Tuesday, Vingegaard or Pogacar?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Who's better suited to the time trial on Tuesday, Vingegaard or Pogacar?

Pretty evenly matched I think.

 

[davek]

Pretty evenly matched I think.

It's going to be a thriller.

This lot reckon Vingegaard will take the stage.

Tour de France 2023 stage 16 preview - the one and only time trial

For those riders who excel at time trials, this is their only chance to gain some time on their rivals

www.rouleur.cc

 

[Rita_Poon]

TT's are always dictated by the weather.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

It's going to be a thriller.

This lot reckon Vingegaard will take the stage.

Tour de France 2023 stage 16 preview - the one and only time trial

For those riders who excel at time trials, this is their only chance to gain some time on their rivals

www.rouleur.cc

I wouldn't be surprised if Vingegaard doesn't have a bit more left.

 

[spectateur]

TT's are always dictated by the weather.

Météo France prévision for Haute Savoie, Tuesday evening, partly cloudy 28 to 30 deg.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Météo France prévision for Haute Savoie, Tuesday evening, partly cloudy 28 to 30 deg.

Wet road vs Dry roads, and incoming fronts with gales. It is recent memory where le tour had the last 10k binned on a stage because of hail and snow that seemed to blanket a descent in 20 odd minutes.

 

[spectateur]

Wet road vs Dry roads, and incoming fronts with gales. It is recent memory where le tour had the last 10k binned on a stage because of hail and snow that seemed to blanket a descent in 20 odd minutes.

Of course, the weather in the mountains can be capricieuse.

 

[Black Belt Jones]

Wet road vs Dry roads, and incoming fronts with gales. It is recent memory where le tour had the last 10k binned on a stage because of hail and snow that seemed to blanket a descent in 20 odd minutes.

Vin and Pog will start 2 minutes apart. Unless one gets struck by lightning I reckon they'll see the same weather.

Both also have to wear a ropey skinsuit - the official TdF yellow and white ones.

 

[tsubaki]

Wet road vs Dry roads, and incoming fronts with gales. It is recent memory where le tour had the last 10k binned on a stage because of hail and snow that seemed to blanket a descent in 20 odd minutes.

French weather is mad. I was in Avignon once, was enjoying a stroll around the Rocher and looked up to see the clouds boiling. Thirty minutes later it rained so hard that a car under a drainpipe had its roof damaged because of the force of the water hitting it.

 

[davek]

I wouldn't be surprised if Vingegaard doesn't have a bit more left.

I have to admit I thought Pogacar would have broken Vingegaard in the mountain stages - and his team mates set him up to do that. Vingegaard has done just enough to limit damages. It's been an impressively level headed week of riding from the Dane.

 

[FrenchDarrenBent]

I wouldn't be surprised if Vingegaard doesn't have a bit more left.

Jumbo Visma are still having nightmares, and doubts, about Pogiboy's tt ride in 2020.

tt will probaby decide the outcome.