Not making exciting racing this season, Strade, Flanders, Roubaix and LBL all over so far out
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āUnbelievableā
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Giro? Day Four.
TdF? Day Six.
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Giro has been pretty average in recent years, can imagine itāll be dire this year
I was just looking at his Strava file. No power data, but comparing the climb segments to some other riders he was slower before Redoute then just one big effort on the steep bit to get a gap. Pidcock tried it earlier on but it didnāt work. MVDP wasted energy early chasing back after a crash. https://strava.app.link/bM2L6yxMZIb
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Shut up with your bro science and science facts.
Theyre not welcome round here
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Serious lack of questions around these unbelievable performances.
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The initial attack to get the gap is fair enough. Itās then being able to ride away from the following bunch for over an hour that is remarkable.
I guess in the classics the attack is coming 200km in and the bunch is much reduced, so not many of the contenders have riders to burn in a chase. Holding off a full grand tour peloton would be more unbelievable.
Luke Rowe was talking on Eurosport about win bonuses for the monuments. He reckoned riders would typically get around 200k for winning a monument and maybe as much as 50k for 3rd.
If Pog or MVdP is up the road then thereās probably an element of settling for a podium finish and preparing for that rather than risking everything to try to chase them down 
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On paper a good working group should be able to go faster than a solo rider. In practice there are so many motivations in the riders who will make a chasing group that there are very valid reasons why a group wonāt catch a solo rider. EG teammates of the solo rider in the chasing group sitting in, a group of team leaders none of whom want to blow their doors off only for someone else to get a result etc etc
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Donāt forget the motorbike effects too 
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DEFEATED 
Noice 
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Wet sprint stage in the Giro, with a hairpin 1.3km rim the finishā¦what could go wrong?
80kph at 7 km outā¦
Good finish
Sprint stage?
Obviously meant for a Pog attack
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Heās a maniac. Seriously needs to pace himself if he wants the Double this year.
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Nah. Ving is injured.
Who else is there???
About as fun as F1 at the moment is cycling
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Iām not sure why G followed Pogās attack at the end there.
OK, so he let him know that he could follow him, but once he was there he clearly had nothing to give
G is looking pretty good so far in the chasing pack. He did well to finish high on the first two stages.
Maybe weāll have a repeat of last year and Pog will do a Remco and get sick or crash so that G can take the lead. I canāt see anyone else challenging Pog if he doesnāt self destruct. Heāll beat them all on the climbs and the TTs and the sprint stages
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Itās his bike, right?
A UFO waxed chain, saving 8W.
Big jockey wheels, saving 3W.
165mm cranks to open up the hips
Enve SES AR cockpit, saving 4W.
More carbon fibre than an F1 car.
Narrow 37cm bars.
Looked to be on 30mm tyres yesterday, too.
Although could be 28mm measuring wide.
Weird 55-40 front chain ring set up.
Taking on INEOS on marginal gainzzzzz
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Apparently Ineos have moved on from Marginal Gains to Maximal Gains
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love this from Geraint
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