Cycling thread

[Bruce Wayne]

Alto de L'Angliru is a steep mountain road in Asturias, near La Vega-Riosa, in northern Spain. It is considered one of the most demanding climbs in professional road bicycle racing and is often used in the Vuelta a España stage race.

Just south of (our very own Bryan) Oviedo. Oviedo is the capital city of the Principality of Asturias in northern Spain.

That was bloody hard. A relentless grind with practically no respite at all. Made it without stopping though, bar the once due to a cow-related traffic jam.

 

[Rita_Poon]

That was bloody hard. A relentless grind with practically no respite at all. Made it without stopping though, bar the once due to a cow-related traffic jam.

What would you say you average weekly in mileage to keep fit enough for that? Nice work btw

 

[Bruce Wayne]

What would you say you average weekly in mileage to keep fit enough for that? Nice work btw

Usually somewhere around 3-400km. I'm built like a jockey, which probably also helps.

 

[Rita_Poon]

8k is 5 miles. so 4k is 2.5 miles. x 100.
200-250 miles per week. The owners of which type of car are the worst?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

8k is 5 miles. so 4k is 2.5 miles. x 100.
200-250 miles per week. The owners of which type of car are the worst?

Tories. It's a toss up between rich Tories in Land Rovers or wannabee rich Tories in white vans.

 

[Rita_Poon]

So you did the 8 miles at ave 10% gradient in one hit, what was the glide down like and did you take any snaps from the top?

 

[Rita_Poon]

How great van Aert, how great van Aert

 

[Bruce Wayne]

So you did the 8 miles at ave 10% gradient in one hit, what was the glide down like and did you take any snaps from the top?

The road surface was a bit bumpy and there were a lot of cows on the road so the steep bit was largely taken carefully. The first third had none of that so you can cut loose.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Tories. It's a toss up between rich Tories in Land Rovers or wannabee rich Tories in white vans.

What about the centrists?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

What about the centrists?

They probably ride bikes tbh

 

[Bruce Wayne]

https://www.cyclingcols.com/col/Gamoniteiro is on the menu tomorrow. 15km at a pretty steady 10%.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

That was hard. Took a tumble on the way down as well so a bit banged up.

 

[spectateur]

That was bloody hard. A relentless grind with practically no respite at all. Made it without stopping though, bar the once due to a cow-related traffic jam.

What gearing are you using?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

What gearing are you using?

32 on the back. The bike was pretty heavy though. Grovelled today, even before the crash.

 

[Black Belt Jones]

Josh Tarling won the European TT this week - great win and lad is on track to dominate this discipline. The event was marred by a terrible crash from Stefan Kung - fortunately he is not severely injured, although still very banged up with a concussion and fractured hand.

It was close to the end so he got back on and finished like a warrior (absolute state of his helmet), but there's no way he should have been allowed to climb back on. Bigger picture is he crashed because he had his head down and wasn't looking where he was riding, because it's faster. Endemic problem at pro and amateur level.