Thread 149254545

Unconditional surrender edition

>Current and upcoming races
15.06 - 22.06 Tour de Suisse 2.UWT
18.06 - 21.06 La Route d'Occitanie - CIC 2.1
18.06 - 22.06 Baloise Belgium Tour 2.Pro
21.06 Copenhagen Sprint 1.WWT
22.06 Copenhagen Sprint 1.UWT
22.06 Andorra MoraBanc Clàssica 1.1
24.06 Giro dell'Appennino 1.1
03.07 - 06.07 Sibiu Cycling Tour 2.1
05.07 - 27.07 Tour de France 2.UWT
06.07 - 13.07 Giro d'Italia Women 2.WWT
06.07 - 13.07 Tour of Magnificent Qinghai 2.Pro
06.07 Argenta Classic - Deurne 1.1 WE
09.07 - 13.07 Tour of Austria 2.1
16.07 - 20.07 Baloise Ladies Tour 2.1 WE
19.07 La Périgord Ladies 1.1 WE
20.07 La Picto - Charentaise 1.1 WE
21.07 Clàssica Terres de l'Ebre 1.1
25.07 Prueba Villafranca - Ordiziako Klasika 1.1
26.07 - 03.08 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2.WWT
6.07 - 30.07 Ethias-Tour de Wallonie 2.Pro
27.07 Vuelta a Castilla y Leon 1.1
02.08 Donostia San Sebastian Klasikoa 1.UWT
04.08 - 10.08 Tour de Pologne 2.UWT
05.08 - 09.08 Vuelta a Burgos 2.Pro


>Mecha-Rusbert's webm folders:
https://pastebin.com/kCgLX5Pn

>Bert van Koers' ciclismo quizzes:
https://www.sporcle.com/user/Bert_van_Koers/quizzes/

>Races info:
https://www.procyclingstats.com/
https://firstcycling.com/

>Free streams:
https://tiz-cycling-live.io/
https://cycling.today/live-streaming/

>Velodrama league code:
51196855

Previous thread:
>>149189547

Is America the next cycling super power?

Thank G-d Tour of Iran (Azarbaijan) already took place this year

Take place in this bussy

Two pints and a sandwich after work should NOT cost $49. We need to kill the president

>>149255401
Avec tax and tip? Hideous. And I say that as someone who lives in Manhattan

>>149255704
With tax and tip, and they didn't tell me they skip happy hour on game days

shit sucks

>>149255401
wait till you see bike brices

>>149254602
Maybe the day you go back to doping your cyclists like you do with basketball and football "athletes" (rip lance)

>>149257338
Norcalbert literally can not suffer

>>149257867
our doped hockey donkeys are better than your doped hockey donkeys so cry abt it

>>149257338
massberts....not like this.....

Baby giro and swiss have identical profiles tomorrow, I actually thought it was the exact same parcours, which would be kinda cool and even could make sense since they're crossing the border to Italy on Switzerland

>>149257338
Good for my wine collection.

>>149258422
While the shape is similar, the Baby Giro is only 1040 meters climbing and biggest climb is like 5% average while the Suisse stage is 2800 meters with 9km at 7.3% as the big climb

would anyone happen to have any experience with chinese brand integrated handlebars? I know finnbert recently had that chinese aero build but what's the meta chinese brand/store to order stuff like that from?

>>149259900
Are you unfamiliar with the concept of Babies, they tend to be smaller than us

What chinese carbon (aero) bike should I buy while visiting China? I wanted to go for the van Rysel RCR-F but may as well get them at the source.

Why can i keep up with my fastest cycling mates when its going<40km/h uphill, in the wind etc, but as soon as there is a tailwind and we go 40km/h + for 10 mins i start having a real difficult time. They push fewer watts during those 10 mins in tailwind than before but i have to push much more watts it seems than uphill, in the wind etc.

>>149266935
Are your mates taller and heavier than you?
It can also come down to the gearing

>>149266935
are you tiny man?

>>149267014
They are a bit taller, heavier and their bikes are considerably more aero. Is that all it is?

THOMAS Geraint DNS

some man for a crash. he'll fall out of the casket at his own funeral.

watts2win .eu page not working

huh, didn't know there was a Malaysia-born WT rider

Will /elite/ attack (i.e. diesel he's way on the saddle faster than the others) on the big climb?

Big day for French cycling today, if Gregoire and Vauquelin survive the Splugenpass they could be in serious business for the GC

>>149268721
this is the main mountain stage. and the dauphine was easy as well. races are so soft and lame these days

>>149266297
Why in the world would you visit China

The average speed of this suisse stage is 53.7km/h after 90 minutes lol; they are bombing it

>>149268676
They have to set a murderous pace up there

Excited to see Widar develop. I think he'll be a great rider for the peloton. A lot of drama and tomfoolery.

>>149269180
he will bring that midget rage energy for all to enjoy he’s also full of himself it’s perfect

>>149269194
Im afraid he's going to be too fraudulent.

>>149269194
Yes I think he'll mirror Remco but a little more feisty. He'll come in with enormous promise, flop the first 2 years and then turn on a dime and his career will truly begin. It will be glorious.

>Tadej Pogacar
Engaged to fellow Slovene cyclist Urska Zigart (two years his senior) since the summer of 2021. They met at some cycling training camp in their home country. No children.

>Jonas Vingegaard
Married fellow Danish publicist Trine Hansen (nine years his senior). They met when Jonas rode for Coloquick whilst she worked for the team marketing's department. They have two children.

>Remco Evenepoel
Married his neughbour-turned-girlfriend Oumaima Rayane (born in Belgium to Moroccan parents, works as a model & influencer) in 2022. No children so far.

>Primoz Roglic
Married fellow Slovene Lora Klinc, a Social Sciences graduate, in 2021. They have two children.

>Mathieu van der Poel
Has been living with his girlfriend, Roxanne Bertels, since 2020. She is two years his senior. No ring or kids so far. They met in a work trip for a known sports car brand for whose marketing department she worked.

>Wout van Aert
Married to fellow Belgian Sarah De Bie since 2018, whom she knows from infancy. She owns a small clothing business. They have two sons.

Baby Wiggins far too chunky, got a lot of his mums genetics. She's like a butch lesbo.

>>149269232
Vingegaard and Remco are cringe for race mixing

Typical italian broadcast, nice

isabella wiggins hot

>>149269312
we're back

4 Burgers in the break today, exciting stuff

>>149269232
didn't know rogla would date such a hag. I imagined him with a very slim blonde arian woman for some reason

>>149269232
Once again tadej comes up on top.

I made my own Giro route, goal is to have a balanced race with many different types of stages and with the difficulties not condensed in the third week like sometimes happens, the weekends always have juicy stuff
Few mountain stages but hard ones, one hilly stage per week "Liege style" for classic riders, rampas, a lot of them

Please rate it

Grug will win the green jersey

>>149269423
>>149269435
>>149269448
>>149269455
A block of 3-4 hard stages with the queen stage in that block would be nice. Really test the recovery. As we see either they just arse around and take it easy or it'll be chaos. Looks like hard stages always got a nice easy rest after but it looks cool. Stage 2 is brutal.

>>149269423
>>149269435
>>149269448
>>149269455
Very nice. We would need Zomegnan back to have something like this

Jarnobros?

UAE are pulling and the favourites group starting is starting to thin out

2km in Baby giro should be fun

Seth DUNWOODY wins

>>149269232
>works as a model & influencer)
> works

Romain Gregoire dropped, but Vaquelin still hanging on

Almeida weak

This guy can not say Frydkjær to save his life

Subatomic attaque by Joao

They didn't even drop Bart Lemmen lol

Gall looking good, LeTour stage wins incoming

Kévin dood

Poole strong as fuck, this might be his breakthrough race.

kwab

Attacking is for pussies, real men grind

C'est parti

João is elite

Allah surprisingly decent

>>149269735
and decent on the descend, he will catch almeidings

This is good racing, chaotic and all over the place. Anything can happen. They might catch him still who knows. Brilliant.

>>149269735
He's going to put on a show at the tour I think, almost certain he's pinching a stage in similar fashion to his giro grind.

This is where Caruso and Bardet attacked the descent and tried to win the Giro over Bernal

>>149268676
yay! luv /elite/ simple as

Joao made a big gap

>>149269757
45 seconds in 1200 meters

48s at the top

french winner vs joao almeida winner, that's like a sophie's choice situation of likeable options

french stage racing is BACK

>>149269788
I want Joao to win so the french narrative can continue, this would be a bit of a cringe way to break the dry spell.

>>149269803
better than guangxi

dgaf about Gregoire. clearly Vaq is the dangerman

>>149269854
they are in Italy right now, please understand

lads I've got a great idea for a stage. we do 100km flat. then we do a mountain. but we put the top of the mountain 50km from the finish. good idea eh?

Still some hard stages to come, if he takes 30 seconds that is quite significant. That final TT should be a big gainer too. It'll be a close race regardless.

>>149269876
Great idea

>>149269876
welcome to the worldtour

Brian Smith glazing the retarded swiss operators, love that guy

Grégoire is a descent demon

good work from Gregoire tbqh

key domestique burning a lot of matches. I'm feeling good Jonasbros

Ultimo kilometro! (in swiss language)

Bravo Joao

A great stage

Almeida wins again! But he's going to rue giving up 3 minutes on the first stage, I think

I think Almeida will win. 2 MTFs + 1 mountain TT is enough to come back if he drops them consistently

With Suisse and Occitanie there are mountain stages every day this week

Bro this post-race interviewer just suggested Almeida was the favourite now for GC :skullemoji:

I think he can still win it but I wouldn't exactly call him the favourite

>>149270271
he will win

time for the Baloise belgium tour, finally a race on belgian roads

time for gouden kilometer kino

test

ok berts, I'm happy to inform you that I resolved my 4chin internet problem thing (had to paypig for a pass though). hopefully service will resume as normal

eagle has landed

>>149270514
very based lad

Big chute abrahamsen

Abrahamsen back on the bike

>>149270490
Great Russian Filter blocking you?

Merlier wins in dominant fashion
Philipsen almost chuted but saved it

>>149270651
they're doing something with cloudflare and aws. not sure what 4chan is using but it was giving me 429 error during posting.

Merlel wins

>>149270694
He's gonna finish the year with more wins than Pogi

me in the yellow bodywarmer trying to get a closer look at my favourite rider

>>149270674
4chin is on cloudflare. hope you stay online

top 10

chute brutale

>>149268747
Free food and free travel (they invite me).

/CYC/ CHAMPIONSHIP 2025
TOUR DE SUISSE
stage 4

>>149254545 (OP)
>22.06 Andorra MoraBanc Clàssica 1.1
very cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpCblEFORPQ

kinda dumb

>>149271324
He's got balls no doubt about that.
But I'd still take Nibali over him .

>>149271040
please watch our sport

/elite/

>>149271840
You really can't suffer in Switzerland

>>149270706
that's Jan Speegosh

up 6 spots. heading for the top 120. not insignificant

>>149271962
>free shekels and relaxing scenic ride
dawg is living a life

>>149271962
Heh Masnada really pulled one over Vino. The biggest beneficiary of the covid non testing era alongside Mohoric.
Remember this man would have won a monument if it wasn't for Pog.

>>149271997
> The biggest beneficiary of the covid non testing era alongside Mohoric
This has to be Wout

>>149270755
2hr and they still only published top 10

>>149272659
(and by them I mean PCS of course)

>>149272670
huh, firstcycling doesn't have it as well. looks like race orgs are to blame

hydrated fish

absolutely no respect for my man Vauqo. the stages are not that difficult and he can TT

>>149273084
I
Ehh I'd wear it.

>>149273056
I think him losing 2 minutes to Almeida in the mountain TT last year is holding his odds back.

Also, tomorrow is hard. That finish isn't just the 4.5km climb they do before. There are 2.5km after that that are almost equally steep. In total it's 7km at 9+%, that's kinda brutal.

I saw a guy in a full jayco-allula kit today in Pennsylvania

>>149271209
I'm going to China for free too this year

>>149273410
Ehh I see full UEA kit wankers almost daily...
Used to be full jumbo visma wankers.

>>149273056
Grégoire can also TT. He must win

>>149273352
I didn't know he lost that much time last year. but he was not going for GC so expect him to be much better this year.
he just needs to limit losses tomorrow

>>149273450
me too (for business) but I really don't want to. they put a spy virus on me electronics for sure, like the amis

>>149274258
>t.

Ehhh some will aways spy on you.
Who cares if it's Trump or Xi.

>>149273450
wtf I keep getting sent to Dublin (boring shithole)

>>149274552
Jesus, he almost died.
Matje level of save right there

>>149274343
Not a fan of trump or US, but holy fuck I'd rather have 1000x the muricans than the chinks (or russians or jews).

>>149275697
"muricans" actually means jews tho

>>149276088
sadly kind of yes, bibi played brandon like a marionette and seems to be outmaneuvering the new geriatric in chief. At least there is still some separation of intel between them. But at this rate they'll be occupying the white house like they do with half the arabs

Thinking about making a fantasy Tour route, I want to see if I can make a good one while addressing the main problem I find with the Tour routes, the fact that it's always the same climbs

So, let's do a list of 20 climbs I cannot use:
-Tourmalet
-Aspin
-Peyresourde
-PDBF
-Galibier
-Hautacam
-Mur de Bretagne
-Alpe d'Huez
-Col de la Loze
-Mt.Ventoux
-Croix de Fer
-Aubisque
-Télégraphe
-Colmiane
-Colombière
-Cormet de Roselend
-Portet-d'Aspet
-Ballon d'Alsace
-Grand Colombier
-Couillole

Makes sense? Anything you will remove? Anything you will add?

how funny will it be when /elite/ pulling full gas drops the whole visma squad and memco?

>>149277048
Seems pretty ambitious I dont think you missed anything other than maybe Chateaufort?

>>149277048
-Madeleine
-d'Izoard
-de Menté
-Aravis

depends on how selective you want to be I suppose, and recency would play a large part. Mur de Bretagne has only been used 9 times but earliest 1993, Puy De Dome of course wasn't used for 40 yrs but has 15 total ascents in the tdf.

I'd be really interested in seeing what high mountain stages you can make without the iconic climbs, could be fun and challenging.

>>149277246
>>149277374
Or I just use this list for the top 20
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-de-france/route/climbs

We return to /WORLD TOUR WINE/ with our last stage race before the Tour de France!! This race will be a tune-up before the big race, for both the riders as well as the staff at /WTW/ offices.

It is with apprehension that we return to Switzerland in the Tour de Suisse. The Tour of Romandie narrowly edged out the Tour Down Under for the worst wines I have had this year so I am bracing myself for some very mediocre overpriced wine. I have not made much of an effort to find wines from directly on the route, to be honest.

Schenck "L'Alpage" Chasselas 2021 ($25)

This is our second Chasselas of the year, after an extremely flabby effort from Maison Gilliard. This is from Vaud, on the north shore of Lac Leman. This has to be one of the most picturesque appellations on earth, with steep, south-facing vines perched over a gorgeous alpine lake. To the north is the Jura Mountains and the French Alps south across the lake. The vast majority of the wine grown in this region is Chasselas, a common alpine white grape.

This pours a pale straw with tinge of gold. The nose has melon, lemon zest, light butter, some mint. The palate opens with melon and then lifts with a little crunchy acidity and has a buttery finish, but body is only medium, it is not oily.

This is a great improvement from the horror from Romandie but is a simple, pleasant wine. Seems like the sort of thing you would pay $15 for while eating raclette.

(posted somewhat delayed for reasons that I cannot mention)

>>149277048
jesus, I initially misread your post and thought you said "this is the list of the 20 climbs I will use" and I was like "total peloton death" (aside from VPP and Pogi)

>>149277048
>it's always the same climbs
that's a good thing
same reason Lombardia is the worst monument.

>>149277048
would you do a grande partenza or

>>149278872
Yeah, classic 3 stages, probably somewhere in the atlantic coast because I plan to go pyrenees first week
The Giro was all planned in Italy so the Tour will be 100% in France

>>149278058
what an aesthetic wine

>>149280110
Yes the art on the label is fine but the wine is just ok.

My next bottle has hilariously flat "art" on the label, but I'm hoping it's much better

>>149277664
yeah, I think it's a good one, just double check if none of them havent been used recently like the other Bert said, say 20 years. If they haven't then I'd say it's fair game and move one lower in the lis6

Giro d'Italia Next Gen (2.2U)
Stage 5
Fiorenzuola d'Arda - Gavi
153km

Startlist:
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/giro-ciclistico-d-italia/2025/startlist

GC after stage 4:
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/giro-ciclistico-d-italia/2025/stage-4-gc

Roadbook:
https://www.gironextgen.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/XFBJpsOYzrBTS6OjBa4J_110625-042303.pdf

Streams:
https://www.gironextgen.it/live-streaming/
https://tiz-cycling-live.io/
Eurosport / Discovery+ / HBO / TNT / Rai
12:20 CET

La Route d'Occitanie - CIC (2.1)
Stage 2
Gignac Vallée de L'Herault - Carmaux Ségala
195.8km

Startlist:
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/la-route-d-occitanie/2025/startlist

GC after stage 1:
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/la-route-d-occitanie/2025/stage-1-gc

Roadbook:
https://www.laroutedoccitanie.fr/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/RDO25_Roadbook_numerique.pdf

Live stats:
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/la-route-d-occitanie/2025/stage-2/live

Streams:
https://tiz-cycling-live.io/
https://cycling.today/live-streaming/
Eurosport / Discovery+ / HBO / TNT / France TV
13:05 CET

Tour de Suisse (2.UWT)
Stage 5
La Punt - Santa Maria in Calanca
183.8km

Startlist:
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-de-suisse/2025/startlist

GC after stage 4:
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-de-suisse/2025/stage-4-gc

Live stats:
https://tds.livxp.com/whitelabel/tds/tracking-men
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-de-suisse/2025/stage-5/live

Streams:
https://tiz-cycling-live.io/
https://cycling.today/live-streaming/
Eurosport / Discovery+ / HBO / TNT / RTS / SRF / L’Equipe
13:50 CET

>>149282019
I mixed pictures, but you got the idea

Baloise Belgium Tour (2.Pro)
Stage 2
Beringen - Putte
194.4km

Startlist:
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-of-belgium/2025/startlist

GC after stage 1:
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-of-belgium/2025/stage-1-gc

Roadbook:
https://issuu.com/flanders2021/docs/baloise_belgium_tour_2025_-_programmaboek

Live stats:
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-of-belgium/2025/stage-2/live

Streams:
https://tiz-cycling-live.io/
https://cycling.today/live-streaming/
Eurosport / Discovery+ / HBO / TNT / Sporza
14:30 CET

He's even dumber than remco, is he?

>>149283369
after second ink tattoos become an addiction. noticed that among some of my acquaintances. 2bh, if you're gonna brand yourself with tattoo for whatever reason, at least get a pretty one. these all look like crap

>>149283446
I mean Sagan is another double digit IQ rider

>>149283446
This is extremely based though

>>149282011
Col du vent, home. A shame I can't go say hi today, it's going to be my only shot this year since I'll be gone when the tour comes

>>149283501
Kino view on top

The Astana buff is wearing off

>>149283874
puntos secured, time for some decency

>>149284006
Love switchbacks.
They make for some kino shots.

>>149282039
wow Beringen looks like that?

The only class in my gym that is ever fully booked. At least people are training hard. But it's all intervals. Isn't heat training mean to be easy?
Would be better off doing the intervals without the heat.

>>149283874
Have to rest now before going hard on the italian autumn classics.

Also, plenty of BIG stage races in the 2nd half of the season. Tour of Magnificent Qinghai, Le Tour de Langkawi, Tour of Taihu Lake, and finally the very prestigious Tour Guangxi.

No need to go hard on these mickey mouse tour preparation races when serious points farming comes later.

>>149284445
They are safe already. Motivation gone. Probably burned out from being flogged to death all year as well.

Huge day for French cycling today

>After today's appetizer, it's time for the race's king stage, which sends the riders up over two gigantic passes and ends with two trips up a steep wall.
hardly gigantic now

>>149284445
Malucelligod is MADE for that shit

Is PCS shitting the bed again ?

BISIAUX wins today

>Correction, it is Bettiol Alberto (XDS Astana Team) in break instead of Edmondson Alex (Team Picnic PostNL).
Well well well

>>149284740
>so you're paying for a 4chan pass, but you wouldn't pay for PCS PRO to enhance your ciclismo experience? shame on you.

Big names in the breakaway

>>149283369
what a cringefest

>>149285050
Didn't read

>>149285050
mental illness

reminds me of the norwegian track doupeur

french cycling bros...

>>149284740
I use rain water for my toilets. Your turn PCS

If >we don't Suisse there will be 0 chance until Guangxi again

>>149285526
*don't win Suisse

>>149283506
>>149283501
gorgeous

>>149285050
>I come from Baal
didn't know Nys is a satanist

we live in France with breakaway of the day

Baby Giro is quite exciting to watch me thinks. Lots of eager kids full of hopes and dreams

>>149285050
>my favorite basketball player is a dude that stop playing 2 years before I was born
Topest kek

>>149285629
We live in occitanie even.

>>149285664
Yeah, and they're all going to leave with their hopes dashed, dreames shattered and look for another career instead

>>149285736
>occitanie
Cringe name

Ffs no San Bernardino on tv.
Extremely lame.

>>149285751
Lol yeah for most of them that will be the case. Whatever happens to all those juniors who stop cycling? Do they live their lives with regret about what couldve been?

>>149285050
>moon and star
>arabic writing
Another one? Belgian cucks lmao. Bet his gf is from pakistan or afghanistan instead though.

F

>>149285816
I mean it's kinda cool, some people I occasionally ride with are former riders who all have UCI results on pcs, which means they're closer to Pogacar than I am to them

we live in Suisse

>>149285826
Seems like the low iq retards born in a 50km radius of brussels are assimilating into being hotheat woroccans

absolutely comicale chute in France

>>149285907
Do they comment on current World Tour riding a lot?

>>149285933
>>149285944

>>149285826
In the lower class the paradigm has shifted and now arabs/islam is the dominant culture. So you get reverse assimilation like this

>>149285944
Haha that Cofidis guy is like "squeeeak"

>>149285949
And on the reason why they arent in there?

thanks, was just about to clip it.
artistic sympathetic chute by the guy in front after they started bowling behind

What's the point of putting the GPM halfway through the climb?

>CHRISTEN Jan is dropped from peloton
I miss VINE. Now that was a loyal gregario.

>>149285050
>ceci n'est pas un tatouage
what the fuck does he think it is?

>A UCI memo, first reported by Daniel Benson, suggests that, come August, the UCI will begin trials of gear limits on competition bicycles for road races. Time trials, for now, are exempt, as it appears the UCI is focusing on mass start rider safety.
>The trial rules appear to base the restrictions around a specific maximum number of ‘meters of development’, a numerical figure for how hard a gear is, rather than on a specific gear ratio of chainring X sprocket. The trouble is that the UCI has based its new rule around an increasingly outdated tyre size - 28mm - meaning that modern setups with tyres of 30mm in width or more could technically fall foul of the new regulations.
>Furthermore, the new rules will impact SRAM-sponsored riders disproportionately, and will mean the 10t sprocket on their cassettes may have to be mechanically nullified by the mechanics, and the proliferation of wide range 1x setups such as we saw so often at the Spring Classics would also come to an abrupt end.

>>149285949
I mean they were never any good that they could get a cycling career, it was more like club riders that occasionally got to ride a race in their 20s that was a low level UCI race

But it's kind of fun when you go through the results and you see that one rode against an early Boonen and Frank Schleck and some guys like that, ... kind of fun to have that on the record somewhere. I played football in my younger years and I played with some guys that made it big later or were on the downward trail but there's no evidence of that anywhere :(

Rafferty wins

Widar will be seeeething

Morgado has a nice painface

Huge 4 days for Belgian-Irish cycling, basically the Sean Kelly classic

top 10

Those paddies are entering a golden age

>>149286088
GC

>>149286067
This is something ASO wanted. ASO basically controls the UCI

>>149286067
Hahah good fuck sram

>>149286118
2bh it's better to be controlled by ASO that onecycling

>>149286118
but why?

>>149285944
more feeding shenanigans

>>149286141
To reduce the speed and chutes or something

>>149286147
?

Something about french people like Gregoire's lips that makes me instantly think they'd give great blowjobs then I imagine them giving blowjobs. Those lips are a life sentence. Maybe he comes from a long line of professional dick suckers.

>What a great philosophy: He's just gonna give it his best and if his best isn't good enough, he has to accept that.
2deep4me

we live in Belgium with the breakaway of a day

Stop filming your spedometer and focus on the road you madman!

>>149286210
bert, operator and driver are two different people

>>149286223
He is being le funny Rusbert

DNF

water update for rusbert

>>149286234
h-haha

Cute little rampa

Gregoire lachee!

>>149286385
damn

It looks fini for Gregoire; they have to go over this climb a 2nd time for the finish. But will Vauquelin hold?

Alaphilippe will win the Tour de France

>>149286422

That's great.

How many days has it been since France won a WT stage race?

I'm trying to think how they will (inevitably) screw this up...

>>149286471
Knight was a choppy character at the local races too, always screaming at others and riding agressive. He was always pretty weak but he was a year younger, I was shocked when I found out he was in france racing. And then at UAE as a stagier. He's doing really well for himself, nice to see. Hope he fufils the Millar role cofidis seem so intent on him becoming. Seems like a late bloomer because he's getting a lot better every year. That would make sense he seemed to physically develop a bit later than the rest. Good lad.

Van Den Berg wins

Milanesque bobbing from FDJ lad.

>>149286088
>>149286109
gwan Jakob

>>149286557
Milanesque power, not so much

Here we go folks, time for the big showdown between Almeida, Vauquelin and Alaphilippe who I kind of forgot was only 4 seconds behind Vauquelin

Joao "third best climber in the world" Almeida dropped by the infernal pace of Léo Bisiaux

What is Joao up to...?

Attaque Alaphlippe!

>>149286657
ALLAH!
ALLAH!
ALLAH!
ALLAH!
ALLAH!

Dieselman going

Onley absolutely killing, he'll blow

Almeida diesels on

Here comes Almeida!

vamos Joao

Almeida and Alaphilippe have the exact opposite pacing on a climb

>>149286706
Old racing is futile, the 'attack and hope they follow and blow' died in 2013.

Onley the next mutant?

He's coming

Onley wins?

there can be onl(e)y one winner

Onley wins

Onley wins! 6 bonis for Almeida, not there yet but a good day for him

Vauquelin
Alaphlippe +29"
Almeida +39"

>>149270514
trump voter vibe

They should do this in the Tour too. Pogi starts with a 10min deficit on the rest

Not since The Glory Days of Christophe Moreau

Are there rumours for Onley's move next season? He's way too good for that shitshow of a team.

>Maciejuk's maneuver
that's a yellow card mister

top 10

>>149286815
GC

>>149286779
On zwift you have these hare-and-hounds kind of races where the D,C,B,A riders all leave at different times and usually they all have a chance to arrive at the finish at the same time. Very fun

>>149286822
HOLD THE LINE

can /elite/ take this in the TT is the question now

>>149286810
Very asocial and dangerous

>>149286829
how many GCs now since the last squeakeur won?

>>149286810
It's always Alpecin

O'Connor disappeared
>>149286847
254 after this one

>>149286847
0 after this one

Ganna lachee

>>149286833
>9.2km at 9%
>Vauquelin lost 2 minutes in the mountain TT last year
You tell me

>>149286853
>>149286857
dangerously close to an 8-bit overflow, I got faith berts

Philipsen wins! Merlier could never

Jappe wins

Cheaters rewarded, a tale as old as cycling

at least UAE lads understand that they're very bad at sprint trains

top 10

>>149286975
tim torn top 10 berg. why can't he win?

>>149286975
GC

>>149287003
the rarely seen flagman. cousin of tankman

>>149286964
I know cheering isnt allowed because it endangers riders, but is woe-is-meing also banned?

>>149285050
>2002 - my birth year

>>149286876
idk, in the le tour he wasn't too too bad, won the first tt and didn't lose that much in the climb in the second vs almeida

>>149285050
>Rufus
good to know. from now on I call him Rufus

>>149287050
more like Dufus

I like this one. best of a bad lot

>>149287043
Joao has taken nearly 2 minutes off him already, it'ss over. Prior performances are irrelevant. Joao wins.

>>149287078
but what if he's saving the bags for the end?

Jaques Almeideaux

>>149287096
*Jean

Molano leads the GC but Ganna is only 10 seconds behind and it's a 9.7km ITT tomorrow

He's just like me fr fr

Will Allah ever understand that he doesn't have his 2019 legs anymore? He attacked like a retard before dropping for the 100th time again today

>>149287196
whoa BASED

>>149287196
alcohol industry is dying a slow death, between weed, vapes, ozempic, healthy, raw egg nationalism etc. Pretty much all lifestyle trends are just getting away from it

>>149287450
and thats a good thing

>>149287488
good for my lvmh puts that's for sure. But I'm conflicted, there's good stuff to be had in wines, whisky, beers etc. But also a lot of overpriced literal shit products and pretentiousness, not to mention that it will affect your performance and nutrition way more than other recreation alternatives.

>>149287450
All market analysts expect revenue from alcohol sales to increase by 50-100% in the next 10 years, but ok.

>>149287676
pffft 90%+ of analysts are salesmen I only trust a handful (and only if they say exactly what I'm thinking)

>>149287676
Isn't that because big alcohol is expanding to Africa and other shithole countries?

/CYC/ CHAMPIONSHIP 2025
TOUR DE SUISSE
stage 5

>>149287031
you have to be 30 to post here kid

very based
they should also tackle long bibs and ridiculous helmets

Knowers lay their eggs into the big egg basket.
Also found this guy in the Saarland trofeo startlist. Dude keeps sageing threads.
https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/dylan-sage

>>149287889
They are baning aero helmets in road races. Not sure about the TT.

riding uphill when it's hot and humid sucks

>>149288021
solid ride! how many eggs?

>>149287946
>Ron ROONI
>Seb SUPPI
>Gal STARE
>Harry SPEAK
>Lovro RANT
>Heimo FUGGER
>Rowan CHILD
>Thibaut WARRANT
>Simon DEFRANCE
junior startlist are rather fun sometimes

>>149288345
>Simon DEFRANCE

Is actually French. Wild stuff.
The dutch could never with their van nonsense.

>>149288345
>Gal STARE
>Niclas LOOK

>>149288927
>Hi dead gone, I'm /elite/

>>149287946
Not aero helmets, TT helmets. I believe things like the Abus game changer and s works evade are still allowed.

How much money are like the top tier cyclist in the sport making per year compared to other sports? Are they making millions or much less?

>>149289191
A person close to João Almeida told me he's making like 4M per year.
But it's probably more than that in sponsors deals probably.

>>149289191
Cycling is a poverty sport.
The top guy get 8milion per year.
Other top tier riders get between 2 and 5 mil.
Everyone else is dirt poor.

>>149289230
Yeah, I wouldn't think most of these teams could afford to pay their riders millions, sponsorships are probably how most of the top guys make bank.

>>149289191
even Pog is probably barely making it to double digits mil with all sponsor deals added.

>>149289263
I don't think so. Maybe the top like 10 guys make decent money from sponsors. But it would still dwarf their normal salary

>>149289263
You know what sucks? I recently found out that João Almeida went to school with me.
He was just a poor autistic for bike guy that rode his bike to school everyday.
Wish I'd made friendship with him back then, but alas, now it's too late.

Meanwhile, some faggots kicking a ball once a week get billion dollar contracts for sitting on a bench blessé for a few years

>>149289394
blame the retards that pay to watch it

>>149289394
good for them. the money is there. better the players get it than it goes on the owners pockets

Cat dead

no need for that Antonio

>>149289479
Even better, cap it. Nobody should be making so much money

>>149289850
Then where does the money go? They are earning the market rate. Ticket prices should be cheaper but apart from that give it all to the players.

>>149287889
God bless the UCI

Heat must have got her but she did have cancer

>>149289876
Less vendor locking, less ads, less fucking bullshit in general that poisons people. Simply less money circulation

>>149289930
why are you posting dead animals on an sfw board?

>>149290582
It's my cat, she died.

>>149290924
relevant to the cycling thread how

>>149290950
I just thought cyc would have a bit of sympathy, my cat died. She was kind and had kittens.

>>149287889
People are having a go at the UCI for these measures, but it sounds like they're mostly just executing initiatives from SafeR which I thought was a rider/team-led board

Anyone tried barefoot running shoes? Normal running shoes squish my toes, running barefoot hurts my soles.

Eurosport portuguese João shills were saying is top 5 best cyclists in the world, how accurate is that?

Fuck pogamerda btw.

>>149291471
If you're just talking stage racers it's not that far fetched. you definitely have pogacar, roglic and vingegaard above him. evenepoel. maybe the yates brothers. so like 5th-8th i'd say. we all want joao to win the giro or vuelta so he can cement his status

>>149291471
arguable he's a top 5 GC rider, if you ignore his tactical sense and inconsistency which is half of being a GC rider. definitely not top 5 cyclist in general However.

>>149291471
He's top 5 on his own team for sure

>>149291471
DOPACAR
VINGEGAARD RASMUSSEN
ROGLIC (forma stays on bike)
EVENEPOEL
ALMEIDA

>>149292001
waar mathieu

>>149291645
>we all want joao to win the giro or vuelta
The absolute state of this general, not only loves pogamerda it also loves the rest of the doped uae roster.
Fuck, I'm happy I left this shithole 3 years ago and stopped following cycling regularly.

It's a shame that my boy Rogla has to ride in the same era of these retarded zoomer frauds.

>>149292347
lol
lmao even

>>149291471
Honestly I want to see /elite/ vs Remco in a stage race. I'm sure there is bad blood that needs to be resolved.

>>149292347
primoz roglic, the paragon of fun and aggressive riding.

>>149292443
>Comparing a classics, olympic gold medal and world championship winner to a doped fag that managed to lose the giro to tao because the epo fix didn't arrive

>>149292552
Quiet, mutt.

>>149292066
>stage races / grand tours

>>149292647
Yea Remco is the most talented TT rider of this generation and it's not even close.
But he regularly loses stage races not only to the mutants but also to the likes of Roglic and Jorgenson.
It's no big stretch that Joao could match him in up and down terrain.

>>149292912
He gets scorched this giro of he rode. He wouldn't get top 3 with what we seen this year from him. Could be a kino breakaway king if he gave up on le 3rd place. 3 stages of the tour easily plus polka. And probably still a top 10.

Wtf is up with the autogenerated names for the riders in bby giro? EEMAN, TUCKWELL, ZOMERMAAND; couldn't they at least make them believable.

>>149293087
My favourite is sethwoody

>>149292678
the third worlder is getting uppity again

>>149292731
was not specified in that post mister, just 'top 5 best cyclists in the world'

>>149293640
>top five cyclists here on the butterfly effect

>>149291471
>>149292347
based portubert
It’s very sad that most berts love slurping up the Pogimerda semen, the have alle been spellbound by the UAE PR machine
Amerifags and frenchschizos would suck his cock for free

>>149292347
>washed rider has washed fans
kek I couldn't make this shit up

we've got this Jonasbros. my confidence is growing

>If his mood was already a bit lacking, one must hope that he did not watch TV yesterday afternoon. He probably knew it already, but if he had forgotten it, Joao Almeida reminded us all that it is the Slovenian and not the Dane who has the best lieutenant when it gets underway in France in a few weeks. The Portuguese may have been completely unruly this season, but with a 50 km long solo ride, he made it clear that he has moved all the way up to the elite where we find the phenomena that can deliver this kind of solo ride.
Axelgaard literally calling him elite

>Almost TdF
>Haven't done any of my wine prep
LOTS of work to be done. This weekend Bertina has a 72-hour shift at the /cyc/ office so I'll have plenty of time to research.

>>149296372
What about your Velogame prep

>>149296824
What is there to prep? Pick the right sprinter, pick a cheap sprinter who will get a half dozen top tens, pick a few mutants, pick some non-frauds for stage wins.

Easy.

>>149296881
If it's so easy why do you always lose then

>>149297157
I'll have you know I have gotten a lot better this year and have even won a couple races (not including today's stage win, which is not an insignificant result)

>>149296824
Pogi, Jonas, Milan + shitters
Done

>>149297636
>Milan

/bh/
featuring Il Pirata

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOyvswnEBTo

>>149291394
I wear barefoot shoes (wide toe box, flexible, minimal sole) much of the time, I cannot recommend them enough for comfort. Although, as a warning, it's possible your feet will stretch enough so that none of your current shoes fit. In my younger days I did XC and TnF, and after some difficulties with patellar tendonitis I switched to only barefoot shoes except for spikes in competition. You will eventually toughen your soles and calves enough to support running. I've actually recently gotten back into running, albeit in regular running shoes, and am just recovering from a severe sprain complicated by a small fracture. In part, I blame the higher stack found in modern shoes (my Pegasus have a higher stack in the forefoot then older editions had in the heel). I had been trying to run in regular shoes for aesthetic reasons (it is nice to lace up a sport specific shoe, and if you already are a fore/midfoot runner you look pro in something like the Nike Pegasus) as well as practical reasons (barefoot chuds don't want to hear this but the heel-toe drop is advantageous to a degree and does alter your stride in a way that is neither good or bad). I wish I could still find lower stack but not barefoot trainers but everything is blown up now.

You might like trying something like Altras. Although I've found that these alternate shoe brands and alternate-mainstream brands like Brooks are truly just and inferior product in the hand compared to something like Nike.

>>149292347
>>149292552
If the UAE roster is doped then Roglic is part of the mold. He was on the good program before anyone at UAE or Visma. Why anyone loves Roglic I will never understand, he's certainly not winning fans with his racing style.

>>149291471
You can't be in the conversation for "best in the world" if you get spanked by someone like Buitrago and also don't win on the biggest stage of competition (monuments, WC, GT). Buitrago is good (great even and I love him) but so is Joao, maybe even very good. But not "top 5" worthy even if it is true based on one result sheet here or there. Unfortunately this says more about the state of competition than Joao, there's such a huge gulf in abilitiy between the top 2 or 3 and the next that it's hard to make a tight "top 5" or whatever.

Giro d'Italia Next Gen (2.2U)
Stage 6
Ovada - Acqui Terme
154km

Startlist:
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/giro-ciclistico-d-italia/2025/startlist

GC after stage 5:
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/giro-ciclistico-d-italia/2025/stage-5-gc

Roadbook:
https://www.gironextgen.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/XFBJpsOYzrBTS6OjBa4J_110625-042303.pdf

Streams:
https://www.gironextgen.it/live-streaming/
https://tiz-cycling-live.io/
https://cycling.today/live-streaming/
Eurosport / Discovery+ / HBO / TNT / Rai
13:20 CET

Tour de Suisse (2.UWT)
Stage 6
Chur - Neuhausen am Rheinfall
186.7km

Startlist:
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-de-suisse/2025/startlist

GC after stage 5:
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-de-suisse/2025/stage-5-gc

Live stats:
https://tds.livxp.com/whitelabel/tds/tracking-men
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-de-suisse/2025/stage-62/live

Streams:
https://tiz-cycling-live.io/
https://cycling.today/live-streaming/
Eurosport / Discovery+ / HBO / TNT / RTS / SRF / L’Equipe
13:50 CET

La Route d'Occitanie - CIC (2.1)
Stage 3
Pujaudran - Luz-Ardiden
173.9km

Startlist:
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/la-route-d-occitanie/2025/startlist

GC after stage 2:
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/la-route-d-occitanie/2025/stage-2-gc

Roadbook:
https://www.laroutedoccitanie.fr/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/RDO25_Roadbook_numerique.pdf

Live stats:
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/la-route-d-occitanie/2025/stage-3/live

Streams:
https://tiz-cycling-live.io/
https://cycling.today/live-streaming/
Eurosport / Discovery+ / HBO / TNT / France TV
14:05 CET

Baloise Belgium Tour (2.Pro)
Stage 3 (ITT)
Tessenderlo - Ham
9.7km

Startlist:
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-of-belgium/2025/startlist

Start order:
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-of-belgium/2025/stage-3/live/startorder

GC after stage 2:
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-of-belgium/2025/stage-2-gc

Roadbook:
https://issuu.com/flanders2021/docs/baloise_belgium_tour_2025_-_programmaboek

Live stats:
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-of-belgium/2025/stage-3/live

Streams:
https://tiz-cycling-live.io/
https://cycling.today/live-streaming/
Eurosport / Discovery+ / HBO / TNT / Sporza
14:30 CET

>>149292347
>Fuck, I'm happy I left this shithole 3 years ago and stopped following cycling regularly.
Why are you here?

>>149287889
The UCI needs to be stopped

Did SaFer banned hookless already?

>manlets seething
>roasties seething
>brands seething
>GCN seething
It's been a good week, bros.

New UCI point valuations, in effect since 2026:
https://assets.ctfassets.net/761l7gh5x5an/NAeT9EN3grfH1b8uTXoYv/8b18929d380cb33fbb62d3efd3a71f27/2-ROA-20251020-E-amendments_on_20.10.25.pdf
Changes, interms of how much UCI points the winner gets:
UAE Tour 300->500
Strade Bianche 400->500
Fleche Wallonne 400->500
Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race 300->400
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Elite 300->400
Classic Brugge - De Panne 300->400
Dwars door Vlaanderen - A travers la Flandres 300->400
Eschborn-Frankfurt 300->400
Copenhagen Sprint 300->400
Gree – Tour of Guangxi 300->400
The 300 class is thus eliminated, winner of WT race gets at least 400 points. Personally I do not like these changes. UAE Tour jumping so high is absurd, and the reduction of the number of imputed prestige classes while beneficial from the perspective of promoting races in non-legacy countries, is at odds with the premium cycling places on tradition. Pogacar is mostly racing the same races as Merckx did, thus their Palmares can be more easily compared, than if Copehagen Sprint and Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race become monuments become equally prestigous as the monuments.

>>149306934
so dayraces get elevated even more top tens in dayraces are even more important GT cucks losing agains

>>149306934
looks like they changed .Pro point totals as well, 200->250 for a overall GC win. UCI points inflation. UAE tour giving more UCI points then Itzulia is criminal

>>149306934
>UCI points inflation

oh it's a lame sprint stage. aight see ya tomorrow. actually won't be around tomorrow. cya sunday for Joaowinslol

>>149306934
Strade Bisnche promotion is well deseved, through. If such a young race was won thrice by Cancellera and Pogacar it is clearly attended by top runners and considered prestigious enough to be worthy of their effort.

>>149308043
>not watching tourmalet + ardiden in Occitanie

>>149308074
starde will never be a monument. it shouldn't be above the 6th monument which obviously is omloop.

>>149308111
>Stan de Wulf vs Hugh Carthy
nah I'll skip that. nice route doe

>>149306934
>UAE Tour jumping so high is absurd
Quit4 blatant corruption to attract stronger riders. Truly pathetic and I doubt it will work for the top teams.

>>149306934
500 points for fucking UAE shitter tour
tip top fucking kek
UAE has UCI by the balls

Remember when a monument gave 500 points and WC RR 600?
good times

we live in France

>UCI investigating De Bondt for his Giro comments
kek, what a dumbass

ynr Haimar Zubeldia (pic unrelated?)

>>149310084
Do they really have nothing better to do..
Like banning aero helmets as example

>>149310032
>Sander DE PESTEL

we live in Suisse

Agostinacchio wins

top 10. grande

>>149310477
>Agostinacchio
bless you

>>149310494
GC

dios mio

>>149310535
What is this 45-year old doing in the Baby Giro

Grand depart of my fantasy tour is done

dog category

GC (grande classification)

we live in Belgium

heh

wild ad

>>149310897
>indian kid

>>149310897
Seen that too, it would be a bit in some burger show or a funi yt video 10-20 years ago.
A fucking pajeet being il protagonista is also very on the nose.

>>149310897
508 kids are not enough to be statistically valid.

>>149310897
the other 25% shit on the floor of the bathroom

Piganzoli very dead

Prodhomme pas normal

>>149311137
Dopage

wew

>>149311165
glitch in matrix

>>149311165
Dumb ways to die
So many dumb ways to die

I believe in De Lie

Ganna time

sulfurous ride from Proud homme

Prodhomme wins

gib big titty soigneuse gf

Most abnormal performance of the year

almost 2 minutes

What boring weeks are these for pro cycling and Tour fever isnt hitting very hard this year since im not confident the Slovenian dopeur will be challenged. Hope im wrong.

>>149311245
Perfect spot to watch in real life though, multiple passes

he looks very fresh. decathlon dopage is back on menu (hopefully)

Ganna washed

EF become my new favorite team

5km in swiss

embarrassing chute by Benoot

Meeus wins

>>149311409
What do you think of the performance of De Lie (15th)

>>149311482
terrible. what is his deal anyway?

top 10

picturesque

>>149311514
GC. the great French hope

top 10 ITT

>>149311571
GC

>>149311571
Huge day for British cycling

what is this job description?

>>149311228
top 10

>>149311697
GC

>>149311687
warden of the anglo

velogoombling legend

very judgemental Molano

/CYC/ CHAMPIONSHIP 2025
TOUR DE SUISSE
stage 6

>>149287196
boomers are trolling him at this point

Remco position vibes

>>149311925
I like Super8 their IPA, a good ipa for a reasonable price, they used to make a great saison too, but that's been disctoninued, I've never tried their flandrien

>>149312287
>>149312312
Such a bait for contrived techbros.

>>149312287
buy American they said. buy local. its worth the price increase they said.

>>149312287
>>149312312
festkaesque

36:46 for Prodhomme with no leadout

>>149310084
Total overreach by UCI. We see riders of different teams help each other out all the time, whether it's making tempo, sharing bidons or even give technical assistance. Alliances have been part of the peloton since forever. No matter the motive, why should this be dissallowed?

>>149312932
A minute faster than Pantani, sure whatever. Where is the decency?

>>149313829
A minute slower than Armstrong, there's your decency.

>>149313541
You are not allowed to negotiate contracts before September, Bert

>>149313846
Yeah if it was Landa or Buitrago or something. But who the fuck is this guy. It is PADUN all over again

>>149312490
except I would actually ride a Festka

>>149314315
Based rim brake enjoyer

>>149313882
when he's dropping POGACAR as SEIXAS' superdomestique in 2027 you will know who he is

If you are over 30 and haven't transitioned to primarily MTBing over road/gravel you have mental illness.

>>149314790
I am sure you have transitioned hehehe

>>149314790
Gravel is just 90s MTBs, the best era of MTB.

new thread >>149315439
new thread >>149315439
new thread >>149315439