Matej Mohorič spotted using dropper post during Strade Bianche recon; Dan Walker hits back at Piers Morgan for accusing him of “milking” collision injuries; Fans divided over AG2R Citroën’s denim; Jeremy Vine vs Lamborghini + more on the live blog
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Cycling fans divided over AG2R Citroën's denim bib shorts
A crime against fashion? A crime against cycling? The best thing to come from pro cycling in 2023? An eye-harming denim disaster? The coolest bibs in the peloton? AG2R Citroën, the team fabled for splitting the room with their brown shorts, have done it again…
If you thought the brown bibs were controversial…https://t.co/aira3WivpB
[📷: Pauline Ballet]— road.cc (@roadcc) March 2, 2023
Don’t worry, the brown shorts will be back on Sunday, the team promises. In the meantime the cycling world was left to debate denim…
No the brown bits are awesome but denim, well… denim is in its own class! And don’t worry, the brown bits will be back on Sunday!
— David C B (@tzed250) March 2, 2023
On our story, lesterama suggested the team missed a trick and should have deployed brown denim for maximum piss-boiling effect, or worse, Jem PT added… corduroy… *shudders in French*…
Luke Orr: “I knew it, only taken 30 years for the Carrera ‘denim’ bibs to take off”
Piers Stanbury: “Well they’ve managed to get us all talking… sponsors must be happy…”
The replies section of Katy Madgwick’s tweet about the news was a superb summary of public opinion…
ITS A CRIME. BROWN OR BUST!!!!
— Penguin (@JoshuaRidgeon) March 2, 2023
…are very pleased? 😁
— Katy M (@writebikerepeat) March 2, 2023
Worse than the 💩 shorts
— Katie (@KatieeeSpencer) March 2, 2023
These are horrendous. Where can I buy some??
— Dan (@dfitzgerald90) March 2, 2023
I actually quite like these, a subtle denim version works
— Alex Woolley (@alexwoolley1976) March 2, 2023
Yes! Best thing in cycling 2023
— Tom Collier (@tomcdevon) March 2, 2023
Who wore denim the best?
Good reason to share again one of THE great cycling photos. Anyone asking who wore Denin lycra the best. Here is your answer. Pantani. Alpe d’Huez. pic.twitter.com/cZAf2yniay
— Simon Warren (@100Climbs) March 3, 2023
POLL: Denim bib shorts — hot or not?
Don’t act surprised, you knew this was coming…
Have Bahrain Victorious solved the mystery of Matej Mohorič's stolen Garmin?
In short. No. From the Garmin 830 box in shot and the fact Matej never uploaded his Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne file to Strava, we’re taking an educated guess this is a new device for the 2022 Milan-San Remo winner…
Anyway, well played…
Race used. Taking offers 😋 pic.twitter.com/gvUl4qKyow
— Fran Miholjević (@FranMiholjevic) March 3, 2023
Jeremy Vine "notorious" for cycling around London
Notorious: /nə(ʊ)ˈtɔːrɪəs/ (adjective) famous or well known, typically for some bad quality or deed…
Now imagine a news story that said “Jeremy Vine has been notorious for driving around London.” pic.twitter.com/5QELHYuwXP
— Jeremy Vine (@theJeremyVine) March 2, 2023
It’s been some week for the BBC and Channel 5 presenter…
> “He has to wait, that’s all there is to it”: Jeremy Vine slams bus driver for near miss
> Jeremy Vine collision “caused by a cyclist going through a red light”
Dan Walker hits back at "bitter" Piers Morgan for accusing him of "milking" collision injuries like he had "survived a terror attack"
Piers Morgan attracting criticism with controversial comments? Who’d have thought it? At least he was right about Cristiano Ronaldo, Manchester United and Lionel Messi… oh, wait a second…
This playground spat was, I’m sure Piers would tell the teacher, started by Dan Walker who hosted the Royal Television Society’s awards night on Wednesday and apparently had a dig at the Talk TV ‘personality’ in his speech.
As with any good feud between adult males with a combined age of 102, word got back to Morgan who took to Twitter, saying Walker had been “kicked off Match of the Day and BBC Breakfast”, was “washed up on Channel 5” and had been “milking” his “grazes” from being knocked off his bike by a driver in Sheffield like he had “survived a terror attack” (particularly tasteful when you read the front page of your morning paper today).
🤣🤣If I were Dan Walker, and I’d been kicked off Match of the Day & BBC Breakfast, then washed up on Channel 5 daytime, and only got press these days by falling off a bike, getting a few grazes, and milking it like I’d survived a terror attack, I’d be this bitter too. https://t.co/Be5kPPSOCq
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) March 2, 2023
In reply, Walker said: “What a laugh. Interesting idea of taking a lesson on bitterness from a fella who has written article after article attacking a woman who had one drink with him & thought he was a numptie. We missed you last night. You should have come.”
At least we didn’t get to hear Morgan’s, I’m sure esteemed, contribution to the helmet debate…(“Siri, remind me to pitch ‘Piers Morgan: talking helmets’ to Talk TV”)…
> Why is Dan Walker’s claim that a bike helmet saved his life so controversial?
Fancy winning a £300 POC helmet?
Our friends at off road.cc have a survey up where you can win a POC helmet worth £300 for telling Rider Research Hub your thoughts on all things electric mountain bikes (if you have any)…
Admittedly if you’re a roadie the lid pictured might not be the POC model you have in mind — that’s not going to protect you from the sharp tongue of your group ride companions… anyway, have a go, if you want, you might just win something…
Jeremy Vine vs Lamborghini (with commentary from Jeremy Clarkson
It’s a Lamborghini though
— Jeremy Clarkson (@JeremyClarkson) March 3, 2023
No photo finish required there…
The sad news we've all been waiting for (+ is Matej Mohorič dusting off the dropper post?)
A moment of silence for Matej’s Garmin, gone forever. One 80km breakaway and a third-placed finish at Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne never to see the light of Strava…
Nope, gone forever 🤣 https://t.co/OuhtIlR9UB
— Matej Mohoric (@matmohoric) March 3, 2023
On the plus side, as some eagle-eyed commenters have suggested… is that the dropper post back? The Slovenian is at Strade Bianche tomorrow and then Tirreno-Adriatico next week, but after those small commitments are out the way… it’s San Remo time…
Do I see a dropper post…?
Mohoric about to play downhill-gravel chicken 😬 https://t.co/3YL64WZEjU
— Dan Deakins (@DanDeakins) March 3, 2023
Should AG2R go double denim? (+ Poll results: are the shorts hot or not?)
Well… what’s not to like?@AG2RCITROENTEAM / ‘Double Denim’#StradeBianche #Ag2r #Denim pic.twitter.com/P7ZpgqN2SR
— Dirk van Gaal (@dirkvangaal) March 2, 2023
But what about the shorts? Well, here are the poll results…
Remove conflict between cyclists and pedestrians, urge campaigners in wake of manslaughter case
> Remove conflict between cyclists and pedestrians, urge campaigners in wake of manslaughter case
What is Shimano CUES?
Matej Mohorič spotted using dropper post during Strade Bianche recon
Here’s a bit more on that video doing the rounds of Matej Mohorič ahead of his pre-Strade Bianche ride sporting a dropper post on his Merida…
🤔 @matmohoric’s Garmin is back?#RideAsOne pic.twitter.com/SYn4xvlb6F
— Team Bahrain Victorious (@BHRVictorious) March 3, 2023
It’s hardly top secret info, to be fair, Bahrain Victorious posted it on their social media and then another video around an hour ago of the riders on the gravel, Mohorič appearing to be riding the same bike (front right rider) with the remote on his right drop.
😍 These gravel roads… @StradeBianche#RideAsOne pic.twitter.com/xkWuDlD7Oq
— Team Bahrain Victorious (@BHRVictorious) March 3, 2023
The Slovenian used the post to incredible effect at Milan-San Remo last year, as well as during the Tour de France, but are we about to see it on the Tuscan gravel? It certainly looks that way…
Dropper post back as well? 👀
— Ventagli (@ventolaterale) March 3, 2023
I see dropper post👀
Another heart attack incoming 😅— Janch (@janatvita) March 3, 2023
“It helped me to lower the centre of gravity to handle the bike, but still to remain seated on the saddle. I was looking forward to the race and experiencing the features in the race,” Mohorič told road.cc about the tech after last year’s big San Remo success.
“In training it seems to me that it made a huge impact, and then in the race it really confirmed it.
“Especially on the safety… I felt completely comfortable and in control [with a dropper post] whereas the other years I remember maybe going a little bit slower and I felt like I was on the limit.
“With a dropper post it gives you significantly more control of the bike. You just feel more relaxed and you can actually brake harder because you can get the weight down more effectively.”
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Trust me Callum, if you'd grown up watching the Tour in the 1980s, as I did, you would not be hankering after those long flat stages that weren't even as exciting as watching paint dry, it was more like listening to paint dry. As for the supposed benefits of those long TTs, what did they give us? Indurain winning five Tours in a row without winning a single road stage in any of them. As McT says below, you simply can't Pogacar-proof a course and we just have to accept, and enjoy, the fact that we are watching the greatest GT cyclist of all time. Anyway I think it has been a great Tour so far, yes no enormous drama about the inevitable winner (though of course Vinegaard and now Lipowitz have shown us that anything can happen) but just about every day has had a fascinating plot and multiple subplots. Some time in the future there will be another Indurain-style winner, playing it cautious, following moves, making incremental gains and winning without ever lighting up the race and we'll be saying I wish the old days of Pogacar making those spectacular solo breaks were back.
The main issue is the layout of the stages with the bigger climb first then a shallow finish climb. It means pogacar can get a gap at the top of the big climb and then stretch 10-15 seconds to a minute plus at the finish over smaller riders like Vingegaard. A summit finish on the hardest climb might not lead to the most exciting racing but equally would keep the gaps closer. I totally agree with the TT kms though, they should have 60+km tts in the grand tours.
@MaxiMinimalist I mean, that statement makes it sound like they had reason to think those two are doping. Either they didn't follow procedure and are making shit up to cover themselves up or something is going on.
Quite possibly. But the changeover time loss would be a bit more significant if it was done on the flat just after the downhill when the riders are travelling faster, the deceleration, changeover and acceleration loss could easily be around 30 seconds, which is quite a lot of a 34 minute effort.
So Skoda have taken a leaf out of Dung-Old Karen Taco Trump's book and are re-naming something when they have no authority to do so?
@Mr Blackbird Fair points, though I was wondering if doing the climb and descent on a standard bike and swapping to TT for the flat section would have been worth it? Certainly quite a few riders seemed to be having handling difficulties maintaining the best line on the descent with their TT machines.
No. The climb wasn't severely steep and allowed a reasonable speed to be maintained on a TT bike, his bike handling skills on road or TT bike are outstanding for the descent and on a road bike he would have lost a lot of time on the flat last 9k section. Terrific performance by him though!
Would he have performed better on his normal bike?
the National Bus and Rail Union told the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament) the following month, saying the requirements (making the cyclist scum wear helmets and HiViz) would, “make the roads a safer place, as it would make potential hazards easier to spot.” Nothing to do with driver behaviour then? Stagecoach is even putting intimidating threats against cyclists on the side of the buses now! ttps://upride.cc/incident/px60beo_stagecoach41-closepass/
.......the government was focused on the “enormity of the e-scooter problem” Just wait until they find out how absolutely effing gigantic the car problem is. The whole thing is just motornormativity at government level, and while Ciarán Cannon talks sense, Seán Canney is fecking eejit.
21 thoughts on “Matej Mohorič spotted using dropper post during Strade Bianche recon; Dan Walker hits back at Piers Morgan for accusing him of “milking” collision injuries; Fans divided over AG2R Citroën’s denim; Jeremy Vine vs Lamborghini + more on the live blog”
Ag2R have always had the best
Ag2R have always had the best kit in the peleton. From the waist up.
And the worst from the waist down.
Just the lack of originality
Just the lack of originality that gets me.
It’s a shame they didn’t
It’s a shame they didn’t really lean into it and go for the full double denim look.
I have never liked the brown shorts, I think these are OK, would always wear black myself.
Carrera pulled off double
Carrera pulled off double denim perfectly with panels on the team tops
Im less bothered by the look,
Im less bothered by the look, than the fact theyre made out of denim,and I appreciate cowboys used to wear them in saddles too, but cycling is going to make things alot more bio hazard unfriendly after a few hours racing a bicycle
Awavey wrote:
Talking of bio hazards… used to have what were called Touring shorts about 20 years ago. They had a cycling pad, and they were cotton or some similar material, with a reasonable pocket on each leg. Very practical, very comfy.
Until I got a pilonidal sinus, partly because of the big seam straight up the middle of the back of them. Never wore them again…
https://metro.co.uk/video
https://metro.co.uk/video/driver-caught-using-elbow-to-steer-car-transporter-on-motorway-2889721/
Notorious Police driving around in HGV’s and posting footage online…..
Denim (serge de Nîmes).
Denim (serge de Nîmes). French fabric for a french team.
On the JV thing:
On the JV thing:
There was a thread on Reddit a couple of days ago where someone posted a video from Jeremey. It wasn’t even a car/driving sub. A short summary of the clip:
Now what do we think the thread was called? “Van driver nearly hits cylist and pedestrian”? Of course not, it was: “Cyclist endangers pedestrian by distracting van driver”.
I’m no JV fan, but it’s insane how eager many are to excuse any level of dangerous driving and perform inhuman feats of mental gymnastics to shit on cyclists.
He posted it on twitter, so
He posted it on twitter, so just search his timeline if you want to watch it, I thought it was alot less marginal than the bus setup, driver totally at fault, and JVs brakes clearly work 😉
but still a couple of interesting points it raised I thought.
Like if I’m at a junction and I know I’ve got a less experienced rider directly behind me, do I ride this differently to provide better protection to them,am i responsible as lead out rider not to create problems for them or treat it like theyre adult enough to cope with whatever happens next just deal with it?
I saw that video; JV could
I saw that video; JV could have used the cycle lane to let the van driver get past but no, JV had to move over on the van because he wants content for his tweets and it was JV that started the verbal confrontation with the van driver, who wound down his window to reply.
With so many teams this year
With so many teams this year of all years having kit which looks the same and making them harder to spot in a bunch.. it’s pleasing to know that AG2R are once again doing things their own way.
Denim bibs… probably looks better on Benoît Cosnefroy than it would me.. but I’m down with it.
Ooooh cyclists would bring a
Ooooh cyclists would bring a new level to the ‘super skinny’ jeans (drain pipes gone mad for the readership) – think I’ll be a boot cut!
Jeremy Vine “notorious” for
Jeremy Vine “notorious” for cycling around London
Don’t read the twitter comments. No; don’t.
Really, don’t.
Has anyone noticed that he
Has anyone noticed that he really does seem to be able to spot approaching hazards, having experienced them seemingly often, and have an uncanny ability to slowdown and come to a relatively gentle stop and so avoid being hit by an incompetent and impatient motorist?
Piers Morgan – A difficult
Piers Morgan – A difficult man to ignore, but so worth the effort.*
*Copyright someone far wittier than I.
Mungecrundle wrote:
I believe it was Stephen Fry who said the definition of countryside was the murder of Piers Morgan.
that is phonetically foul
that is phonetically foul abuse of English by Fry but very funny..
road.cc wrote:
EDIT missed the quote marks:
“Journalists” have tiff shocker!
Imagine seeing Dan Walker’s
Imagine seeing Dan Walker’s crash video and choosing to publicly tweet that he only fell off a bike, got a few grazes, and is milking it.
ChrisB200SX wrote:
Imagine Piers Morgan letting facts get in the way of spewing bile, so morons give him clicks. No me neither.