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I thought his first love was cyclo cross. Not too dissimilar to mountain biking like this I guess.

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That will help him in the Tour when people crash ahead of him and there’s an off-road escape route, anyway…

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I bet Pidcock has never seen or heard of Norman Wisdom and his ability on a bike 😪

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forestfan wrote:That will help him in the Tour when people crash ahead of him and there’s an off-road escape route, anyway…
Would have loved to have seen him overtake Lance Armstrong going across the field a few years back.

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Time Trial tomorrow - WvA gold or will he finish with another double silver?

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murf wrote: 27 Jul 2021, 17:37
forestfan wrote:That will help him in the Tour when people crash ahead of him and there’s an off-road escape route, anyway…
Would have loved to have seen him overtake Lance Armstrong going across the field a few years back.
Might have needed his stabilisers, given he was born five days after Armstrong’s first Tour “win” (bigger me, that makes me feel old!)

Incidents like that show it’s a useful skill to have on the road, anyway. Particularly given the crashability of a few of the previous generation of British riders (can he run up a mountain like Froome, as well?)

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Sagan started off in MTB as well, which is why he's such a good bike handler

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Or maybe he's an amazing bike handler, which is why he started in MTB.

either way round, he's one of the best at avoiding crashes.

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Yeah, keeping hold of the handlebars when Ewan took him down this year was amazing, even if it turned out he hadn’t avoided injury in the end.

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Interesting though, I’ve heard a couple of pundits talk up Pidcock as a future Tour winner (he’d better get a move on, he’s only a few months younger than Pogacar…) as opposed to an all-rounder like Sagan.

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forestfan wrote:Interesting though, I’ve heard a couple of pundits talk up Pidcock as a future Tour winner (he’d better get a move on, he’s only a few months younger than Pogacar…) as opposed to an all-rounder like Sagan.
Boardman said that this week. Apparently Pidcock is doing the Vuelta this year so we'll get to see him over a 3 weeker.


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murf wrote: 27 Jul 2021, 20:26
forestfan wrote:Interesting though, I’ve heard a couple of pundits talk up Pidcock as a future Tour winner (he’d better get a move on, he’s only a few months younger than Pogacar…) as opposed to an all-rounder like Sagan.
Boardman said that this week. Apparently Pidcock is doing the Vuelta this year so we'll get to see him over a 3 weeker.
It appears Bernal, Carapaz and Adam Yates are on the Ineos start list, so he might be carrying a lot of drinks on this occasion!

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Carapaz rode the other 2?

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blahblah wrote: 28 Jul 2021, 05:35 Carapaz rode the other 2?
And won the brutal Olympic road race after all that!

Maybe it’s a provisional start list, would be some effort to complete them all.

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Roglic just destroyed the field at the Olympic TT
Tom D silver and Rohan Dennis bronze, but both over a minute back from Pog

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That'll be a tasty TTT outfit next season.....

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blahblah wrote: 28 Jul 2021, 09:17 That'll be a tasty TTT outfit next season.....
We haven’t seen one of those for a few years, a bit of gentle persuasion to the Tour organisers in order? Might be the best chance they get of dethroning Pog, if they could grab a few minutes early on…

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On a similar note I saw a Youtube video on the decline of the time trial in Grand Tours over the years.

They referenced the typical ‘90s format for the first week or so of the Tour - prologue, flat, flat, TTT, flat, flat, flat, ITT, Indurain leads by six minutes before they’ve even seen a mountain. Fortunately they’ve moved on from that, as we saw this year when week 1 was perhaps the most dramatic and exciting of the Tour - but it has perhaps gone a bit far the other way in that the best climber nearly always wins now.

They suggested that time trials perhaps aren’t always the most exciting for the casual viewer. Which is fair enough up to a point, but when you think of the dramatic head-to-heads they’ve produced over the years… LeMond/Fignon, Armstrong/Ullrich, Contador/Evans and Schleck/Evans, and of course most recently Pogacar/Roglic, you can’t say that’s dull. When everything’s done and dusted as per this year though, fair enough it’s not that exciting, I think nothing changed in the top 20! I’d like to see them do one of the iconic climbs as a TT again, though it maybe gets a bit chaotic on the road.

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An unspectacular dismount in the Men's 4k Pursuit given the speed by the handlebars snapping off an Aussie bike.

I might start marking dismounts out of 10, and this would be a disappointing 1 due to it just being boring ie no height, slide etc.

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blahblah wrote:An unspectacular dismount in the Men's 4k Pursuit given the speed by the handlebars snapping off an Aussie bike.

I might start marking dismounts out of 10, and this would be a disappointing 1 due to it just being boring ie no height, slide etc.
8 for ingenuity.

2 for the dismount, headbutting his own wheel gets the extra point.

Could have got far more points if he wasn't 4th in the line.

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Yep. If he was 1st and took out the other 3 it would have been at least an 8 automatically, but it was probably as boring a crash as there can be?

One of my faves was a tandem sprint (those were the days 🤣🤣🤣) when the duo higher up the track lost their back end and spun down the banking taking out the other pair 😎😎😎

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What about the guy in the Keirin who crashed, remounted and finished the race with a piece of track impaled through his calf

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I'd suggest that he was a bit stupid 😂

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I don’t think he knew until the end of the race

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I'm not sure that helps him in the stupidity stakes 🤣

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Oh my 2 Pursuit Crashes 🤷‍♂️

1st AFTER the semi, one of the 3 finishers tries to give the one who dropped out a hug or something. School girl error of not realising she couldn't slow down that much that quickly 1 out of 10

2nd: Danish trio crash into dropped 3rd rider. 5 for humour and costing them not only a place in Gold/Silver race, but a medal of any kind 🤣😂🤣😂

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This is the Olympics, not pro cycling ;)

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A crash is a crash 😎

And they're hardly amateurs......

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unc.si. wrote: 02 Aug 2021, 14:40 What about the guy in the Keirin who crashed, remounted and finished the race with a piece of track impaled through his calf
Couldn't remember his name but he's just been on the track racing Jason Kenny - Awang from Malaysia
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Not sure how there is no blood, but it could get minus points as I'm squeamish 🤣

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