Minor Races 2023 / 2024 Spoilers !

[rich p]

Joshua Tarling took victory in the Chrono des Nation after being the fastest in the 45.4 kilometer test in Les Herbiers.
Beat Remco by 13 seconds

 

[Adam4868]

It was inevitable wasn't it 😂

View: https://twitter.com/faustocoppi60/status/1728878785192497454?t=saN1hOzJXdVeRntogHUhOQ&s=19

 

[tarric]

It was inevitable wasn't it 😂

View: https://twitter.com/faustocoppi60/status/1728878785192497454?t=saN1hOzJXdVeRntogHUhOQ&s=19

I can find no evidence that Jumbo Visma competed in the Vuelta a Guatemala this year.

 

[Adam4868]

I can find no evidence that Jumbo Visma competed in the Vuelta a Guatemala this year.

The tweet was a bit of a a pee take,Vingo has form for no hands riding 😁....Decorabanos team.

 

[tarric]

The tweet was a bit of a a pee take,Vingo has form for no hands riding 😁....Decorabanos team.

OK thanks, When I saw it I did think well Roglič has gone that should cutdown their crash count, I have to agree though when he does the no hands group ride across the line he doesn't look the most confident.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Just watched the video of that tweet

I thought it was some kind of joke before but I wasn't sure what. Now I get it. I need things to be explained.

 

[Adam4868]

Targeting GC at the Tour this year 😁

View: https://twitter.com/INEOSGrenadiers/status/1736403390362501183?t=ULJhfzd9it8q2iGdZPJzIg&s=19

 

[Adam4868]

Slow news day....can anyone make the season come faster 😁

View: https://twitter.com/SchaekenZeger/status/1736414462133834123?t=P-nyxt4envx-AjcDNe139w&s=19

 

[rich p]

I can't remember who it is that has the hots for the mercurial, Guillaume Martin (@Dogtrousers ?)...but he's won a proper serious literary prize!

Chapeau!

https://www.academie-francaise.fr/prix-jacques-de-fouchier

 

[Dogtrousers]

I can't remember who it is that has the hots for the mercurial, Guillaume Martin (@Dogtrousers ?)...but he's won a proper serious literary prize!

Chapeau!

https://www.academie-francaise.fr/prix-jacques-de-fouchier

Le Grimpeur Philosophe!

I kind of went off him a bit when he left Wanty Gobert. But I still carry a small flickering torch for him, even if I don't quite have the hots any more.

 

[rich p]

Le Grimpeur Philosophe!

I kind of went off him a bit when he left Wanty Gobert. But I still carry a small flickering torch for him, even if I don't quite have the hots any more.

You never really get over your first love...

 

[Dogtrousers]

So what's it all about, Guillaume?

An individual sport practiced in teams, cycling takes us back to our deepest contradictions. Like any human organization, the peloton is made up of different "social classes" where each person's place is assigned according to their role to play: the first in line (the leaders), the executives (the road captains), the proletarians ( water carriers). This hierarchical universe, with its power games and its exchanged services, where all impulses are exacerbated and where it is nevertheless necessary to get along, the author knows it well since he practices it on a daily basis. So what can this cycling microcosm teach us about what is at stake within this great peloton that we call society? At a time when global crises are multiplying – ecological, health, ideological – are we not similar to this ambiguous and recalcitrant rider who favors his own interest, without seeing that this harms the entire community?

Ah, I see. Strokes chin, nods head. Very wise.

 

[matticus]

So what's it all about, Guillaume?

An individual sport practiced in teams, cycling takes us back to our deepest contradictions. Like any human organization, the peloton is made up of different "social classes" where each person's place is assigned according to their role to play: the first in line (the leaders), the executives (the road captains), the proletarians ( water carriers). This hierarchical universe, with its power games and its exchanged services, where all impulses are exacerbated and where it is nevertheless necessary to get along, the author knows it well since he practices it on a daily basis. So what can this cycling microcosm teach us about what is at stake within this great peloton that we call society? At a time when global crises are multiplying – ecological, health, ideological – are we not similar to this ambiguous and recalcitrant rider who favors his own interest, without seeing that this harms the entire community?

Ah, I see. Strokes chin, nods head. Very wise.

But the seagulls still follow the trawler, non?

 

[Chislenko]

So what's it all about, Guillaume?

An individual sport practiced in teams, cycling takes us back to our deepest contradictions. Like any human organization, the peloton is made up of different "social classes" where each person's place is assigned according to their role to play: the first in line (the leaders), the executives (the road captains), the proletarians ( water carriers). This hierarchical universe, with its power games and its exchanged services, where all impulses are exacerbated and where it is nevertheless necessary to get along, the author knows it well since he practices it on a daily basis. So what can this cycling microcosm teach us about what is at stake within this great peloton that we call society? At a time when global crises are multiplying – ecological, health, ideological – are we not similar to this ambiguous and recalcitrant rider who favors his own interest, without seeing that this harms the entire community?

I wonder which "recalcitrant" riders are playing on his mind at Cofidis!

 

[bitsandbobs]

First showdown of the season between WvA, MvdP and Pidcock today in Antwerp.

Field duly crushed by MvdP. WvA a distant second (just back from a training camp) and Pidock 7th (although sick apparently).