National Championships 2015 Thread

[MisterStan]

I see four Sky riders are lining up for the road race, though, which may (or may not) indicate that they've missed a Tour slot. Fenn, Kennaugh, Rowe and Stannard. Only other WT team riders are Orica's Yates twins and Adam Blythe plus Cav.

According to the BC website Kennaugh, Fenn, Rowe, Stannard and Thomas will ride....

 

[Hont]

According to the BC website Kennaugh, Fenn, Rowe, Stannard and Thomas will ride....

Conflicts with Cyclingnews...

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/geraint-thomas-opts-out-of-british-championships

One of them is definitely wrong.

 

[MisterStan]

Also confirmed on Sky's website.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Go on, guess who won the German TT championship...

 

[Poacher]

I rode out and watched it, in my opinion it should be illegal to go up hills as fast as they did today.

If anyone thinks Lincolnshire is flat pop over and have a poodle around the Wolds, not huge hills but plenty steep enough to hurt the legs.

That climb out of Ruckland is quite brutal. I was going to ride the back roads (Hemingby/Goulceby/Red Hill) before realising that the closure of the A153 meant that there'd be very little traffic on it from Horncastle onwards, and none after the actual closure at Scamblesby; the nice marshals confirmed that I was OK to ride on past the roadblock, and had the pleasure of a completely empty road. The hill at Cawkwell had me gasping, but I'm not built for ascents (see sig); I hit 67.5kph on the return journey.

Disappointing number of non-starters; I would have felt short-changed if I'd actually paid for entrance, when the Team Wiggins / Sky vehicles all departed en masse before the start of the men's TT. There were so many gaps that the big screen was showing live coverage of a rabbit for several minutes!

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Nelson Oliveira takes the Portuguese TT title

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Jan Barta, Czech TT.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

They're coming thick and fast tonight*
Jonathan Castroviejo is the new Spanish TT Champion

* apologies to Miss Goodbody and @Fnaar

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Go on, guess who won the German TT championship...

Rosberg?

Vettel?

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

A British win in the Belarussian TT championship for Vasil Kiryienka

 

[User169]

Go on, guess who won the German TT championship...

Well I thought it was a surprise. I expected Brennauer to defend her title.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Well I thought it was a surprise. I expected Brennauer to defend her title.

Yes, no mention of the women until now. Mind, I have to confess I'd never heard of Hayley Simmonds until yesterday.

 

[User169]

Yes, no mention of the women until now. Mind, I have to confess I'd never heard of Hayley Simmonds until yesterday.

See post #2 in the thread!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

See post #2 in the thread!

Ah yes, I missed that post.

 

[Berk on a Bike]

A British win in the Belarussian TT championship for Vasil Kiryienka