road.cc live blog: Giant inhaler chases Froome up a mountain
Plus Ford’s ‘Share the Road’ campaign leaves cyclists unimpressed, lots of Giro updates and more
Fri, May 25, 2018 13:13
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Rendel Harris 8 minutes ago
@nick_stokie Pretty impossible to hide that in the last km of the Tour with maybe 100 cameras on them not to mention everyone's phones.
nick_stokie 21 minutes ago
The "same time in the last kilometre" rule feels exploitable if a team was cunning. Given the last section is uphill then full team effort to the 1km red kite before the most powerful rider does the last 1km solo. If the others were to sit up and coast in they would get a slower individual time. If they had a 'soft' crash into each other or a mechanical (who verifies this?) then then get the better finish time of the more powerful rider. Not very sporting but...
mdavidford 40 minutes ago
Well you wouldn't want your tyres to be unstable, would you?
darnac 3 hours ago
I get thé feeling that thé over-riding motivation for changing thé format is to mâke it more 'exciting' on TV
eburtthebike 3 hours ago
“Instead of moving us closer to reopening, it locks in years more of congestion across south-west London. This will do further harm to residents and businesses and put even more strain on local transport networks." Wandsworth council demonstrating the delusion and fallacy that transport = motor vehicles and only motor vehicles. But there is a cure! The Dutch did it fifty years ago at their DfT equivalent HQ, by cutting the car parking by half and prioritising alternatives. The chances of Wandsworth doing anything to affect the petrolhead councillors would appear to be less than England winning the world cup.
mikewood 6 hours ago
@StevenCrook Horses for courses...
ajft 7 hours ago
@Backladder you think you're joking, but sadly I _have_ met bikes locked to these! Tends to make an almost impassable obstacle even more ridiculous Definitely lawyers at work, they're obsessed about not having cyclists ride out in front of cars on the cross streets
gadsby06 15 hours ago
Are you sure they weren't overshoes?
GravelIsNothingNew 17 hours ago
Winning GC is irrelevant, what a relief. The best thing about knowing Pogacar will most likely win GC, is that it frees us to focus on all the more interesting aspects the mountainous chess game that is the TDF. The real challenge for all (riders, teams and spectators) will be the hot weather. This might be the last TDF to be ridden in the heat of the afternoon. There will also likely be major climate protests against the rampant sports washing by fossil fuel corporate sponsors that defiantly continue as the core funding strategy of pro cycling, despite all evidence that their products are endangering the health of the greatest grandstand in all sport. Corporate surveillance and AI will not be far behind for protestors in coming years (if not this year), as a world on fire impacted by corporate greed and wilful ignorance towards the human rights of all earths citizens begins to bite; all whist cycling through some of the planets most glorious and endangered lands. The irony is palpable and the suspension of public disbelief seems about to crack. The onus is on the UCI to shift policy. Protests and epic TDF crowds could yet be the deciding factor in 2026.
9 thoughts on “road.cc live blog: Giant inhaler chases Froome up a mountain”
WHAT?
specialise in “sketch comedy”
Yet this video contradicts that.
dreamy wrote:
Was it the Pear Dream again?
Nothing new about that Enve
Nothing new about that Enve stem, Specialized have been selling the same system for almost a deccade.
No spoilers here, but tonight
No spoilers here, but tonight’s Giro highlights should not be missed
That guy must be curing his
That guy must be curing his aching posterior with that huge inhaler now that Froome has won the stage so dramatically
JF69 wrote:
That’s saved me from wasting an hour and a half this evening….. Dildo!
No offence but if you’re
No offence but if you’re really wanting to avoid any spoilers about a cycling race, then best to avoid a cycling website until later that evening!
I avoid most websites when the F1 is on, but then I normally watch about 3 minutes after the lights go out and then get bored.
NorthEastJimmy wrote:
Probably better not to put spoilers up there so blatantly, it’s normally possible to avoid the headline spoilers that webs put up, strange as it sounds, but one is prepared to divert ones eyes without registering the final details. Putting up a spoiler like that is a is just that, to spoil it for others. And, in my opinion, people who put up spoilers like that are dildos.
I also feel that dildo is an under used word that was apt for this thread and that person.
No offence taken…
It’s beyond silly to even
It’s beyond silly to even peep at the interwebs if one wants to watch a replay of a sporting event, especially a potentially phenomenally dramatic one at that.
Not just beyond silly, it’s plain idiotic, especially expecting a forum to abide by your whims, lest you kick up a tantrum of entitlement issues, labelling what is just a comment in a thread as a “spoiler”.
So idiotic that even a dildo the size of the giant inhaler portrayed in the pic is not enough to soothe the butthurt & fill in the mental void one has to even consider the possibility of entertaining the very thought of looking at the internet other than to watch the replay, if one has such entitlement issues.