New season, new thread, new kits.
Really looked like Boards wouldn't even make it to a 2026 thread for a while there.
WT
And a seriously nice guy as well. Showing us all how to grow old disgracefully!
PCS has his top results by quantity as well as significance. He'll need to win a second MSR for that to appear in the list.
I drove the whole of route 66, I couldn't even imagine cycling it. Insane is all I have to say about the legendary Joe.
I'd rank 1 MSR above 2 Montreals personally but hey ho.
I think the list is based on the total number of UCI points yielded by wins in the specific events. MSR got him 800 points but 2 x Montreals is worth 1000.
That is an absolutely fantastic Colnago Concept Joe Barr is riding 🤩
Yeah, had a couple of minutes chat with him, we have some common acquaintances from Carrick on Suir area. He was interviewed by the local media just before that and he said he was feeling better but didnt go in to much detail about his recent performances and plans for the season. I suppose my prediction of a good performance was correct he did finish the race on Saturday but was a DNF in the Brussels cycle classic on Sunday.
To echo your comments he does come across as a decent lad and was happy to give me a few minutes of his time and earlier was signing a fair few autographs and posing for photos with kids etc. So his general demenouanour was good, looked happy to be on the bike and be racing.
After a cracking stage in yesterday's Dauphine / TARA / whateverwhateveryouwanttocallit looks like chaos this morning- Crash in the neutralised section leading to one DNS, a neutralised descent because it was covered in gravel and Seixas has fallen off, got back on his bike but is now 3:330 down.
YouTube algorithm threw up Remco's latest video from his altitude camp in Tenerife and I watched the whole thing.
I have no specific gripe with him but I can't warm to him in the slightest. These videos are all meant to be about pushing him as his own brand as much as RB and I just don't find him likeable.
Seixas abandons today's stage early. Coming back yesterday must have wrecked him and probably reckoned no chance of putting a minute into Del Toro.
Hopefully Tuckwell will hold on for a podium place. Doesn't have the engine of Del Toro or Ayuso but rode well the past three days I thought.
IDT is going to be some asset for Pogacar next month. All too easy for him in Seixas' absence.
Am I alone in thinking that Lara Gillespie's teammate Paula Blasi on Team UAE has a very similar face/head (especially compared to earlier photos) and when I open the results on Procyclingstats I am left scratching my head how Lara was after winning the Vuelta and Tour de Pyrenees.
Liam Slock won GP Gippenen in an unorthadox way...
Maybe not as dramatic as the 'bike throw' from Cavendish a few years ago.
And while we are on the subject, what is the rule for a cyclist crashing at the finish line? How is the result calculated. I have a memory of a guy on here crash diving head first at the finish up in Meath a few years back-- I think he made the podium in the end
Think its the first part of the bike to cross the line, which is normally the front wheel. So a crash like Slocks where the bike and himself slid across the finish line is fine. Id imagine if vlasov was closer to him it would be a photo of whose bike crossed the line first
Seth Dunwoody in 11th overall after two stages of the Giro d'Italia Next Gen / Baby Giro
Liam O'Brien, Adam Rafferty and David Gaffney also taking part
No TDFF for Lara Gillespie. She’s doing Tour of Britain instead. Her team won’t have a sprinter there
Darren Rafferty is a busy man. Starting Tour de Suisse today with Carapaz presumably team leader.
WvA out of the tour, big blow for Visma
Terrible for him, TVL and JV. Turns out the injury was from a training accident and the infection in the elbow flared up during last week's race. Real shame given he'd just won the stage in dominant fashion.
Him dropping, Seixas badly hurt and Del Toro looking god-like. Even with JV's form, hard to see anything other than Pogi coasting to victory.
Jeez, I just had a quick look at the results from Swiss tour stage 1 today and Podge has already wrapped it up.
Huge gaps already after 1 stage in both mens and women's editions.
4mins on nearly everyone after a nothing hilly stage, attacking from 70k out on a 1k climb. The peloton have such a mental block, they know they cant beat him, so let gim go, we'll fight for the scraps
Was mad looking and I don't think it was planned at all. He went for an intermediate sprint and seemed to realise that the rest of the pack had nothing whatsoever to offer so just rode away.
People can complain about his dominance being boring all they want, but that's on the other teams and riders. Obviously having the best team around him is a huge help that can't be ignored but there's absolutely nothing boring whatsoever about him as a cyclist.
Loved him fixing his radio while on an 8% incline with no hands
He had a video on whatever social platform a month or two ago of him and Del Toro out for a ride. Hard to tell from the angle/camera but Del Toro pulls a wheelie uphill on what must be about 8 or 9% while going around a hairpin. These lads are insane.
Too many be burnt trying to follow him, so I get it to a degree tbh. And personally, someone riding away at will is boring AF. One of the good things about cycling that it isn't just about the strongest always winning, but in some races he is so far ahead that is totally gone.
It is what it is in a way. I mean, yes, its a bit boring. But what's the point of him coasting along until everyone agrees "yeah, you can beat them all now with 10km to go Pog". If he was just sitting in and covering moves I'd be just as inclined to switch off.
Not great as a spectacle, but you do have to appreciate his generational greatness tbh. I think the other teams really should and could be doing more to counter his dominance… there's very little evidence of it other than Jumbo/ Visma/ whatevertheyarenow with Jonas.
I can appreciate his greatness* and still find it boring AF!
*well as much as I can with Matxin and Gianetti in the background his entire pro career.
Yeah, not disagreeing with you. I'm in the same boat. A perfect storm of factors has led me to not watching any cycling for the past 18 months, and Pog crushing the field in most races is one of them if I'm honest. My point was more to the implication that it would be better if he didn't go so early - I don't think that would change things if after a few races of "oh, maybe Pog's not got great legs today" it became clear that he was just toying with them before crushing them closer to the line.
Its the uncertainty as to outcome that we all crave - will Bertie outfox Froomedog etc - and whatever way he choses to race, we're just not going to get that with Pog. The sooner a new kid on the block arrives the better. It's just not happened for the likes of Evenepoel. Although I suspect Pog will probably hang up his bike as soon as there's a new world-beater, if not before. The time for him to go toe-to-toe with another real contender was the last few years/ is now… can't see him still having the motivation in another three years.
