#887

And this. “Richie Porte is going to be challenging in the TdF. He won the stage on Old Willunga Hill/Corkscrew Road for the 15th time at the Tour Down Unda”. Fuck off.

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#888

It’s Australia, so can prob file under ‘desert races’ anyway.

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#889

Really hoping we’ve seen the end of this now. Especially after this summer. He finished the race and was nowhere against a weakened field.

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#890

Those season opening races are a crock of shit anyway. Gimme Etiole de Besseges and Omloop any day

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#891

Anyway, doping pricks, the lot of them

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#892

nice to have you back

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#893

Gonna get a burgos KoM kit I reckon, it’s lovely. Purple shorts!

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#894

The season starts for real with Omloop, but I did watch the Australian races this year. Hate Oman / Dubai / whatever it’s called now - sports-washing shite.

This year I have watched a lot though. Some of it is just fast forwarding to the last 20km, but in other cases I watch the entire Eurosport coverage on catch-up.

  • Most of Tour Down Under (weird production values)
  • Great Ocean Race
  • Most of Vuelta a San Juan
  • Vuelta a Andalucia
  • Bits of Algarve
  • All the classics / semis (lol)
  • Paris-Nice
  • Bits of Tirreno-Adriatico
  • Yorkshire
  • Catalunya
  • Basque
  • A few bits of Turkey
  • Romandie
  • Tro Bro
  • Eschborn-Frankfurt
  • Giro
  • Bits of California but can never get into it because of the clash with the Giro
  • Bits of Norway
  • Route d’Occitanie
  • Dauphiné
  • Suisse
  • TdF
  • San Sebastian
  • Bits of BinckBank
  • Bits of Utah
  • Vuelta

and I plan to watch

  • Britain
  • World Champs (in person from Friday to Monday :grinning:)
  • Lombardy

Yeah, on reflection this is a bit mental. I need to cut it down.

#895

Dovetails perfectly for me. Watch the Giro live ideally, or highlights/last hour or so in the early evening.

Then stay up late watching the peleton grind up really wide smooth mountain roads in stunning sunny californian scenery.

Prob my non-classics relatedfavourite week in the cycling calendar

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#896

Yeah it is good-looking isn’t it? And I understand lots of pros love it because of the atmosphere.

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#897

oh shit, big big crash at the vuelta, some abandons :frowning:

#898

Uran and Carthy out, amongst others.

#899

terrible for EF

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#900

Surprise

Roche abandons

#901

:slightly_frowning_face:

#902

tell you what’s shit:

“eurosport’s coverage of the la vuelta, sponsored by voltorol”

'the la vuelta?? stupid brexit pricks

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#903

Could be worse, ITV4 are still using “Wait, is that G?” Fucking idiots

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#904

don’t worry, they have that too

#905

4 times every ad break?

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#906

the “g” is short for “gettin’ dropped”

LOL U BUSTA

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