General cycling news and discussion

[alfy!]

Richie Porte and Cameron Wurf decided to go for a ride last Thursday in Tasmania. 13 hours later they'd ridden 403km.

Here's the story: http://cyclingtips.com.au/2014/02/cam-and-richies-excellent-adventure/

Time: 13hrs 30min
Distance: 403km
elevation gain: 4500m
Ave Power: 230watts
Ave Heart rate: 115
Kcal Burnt: 11400

 

[phantom13]

Richie Porte and Cameron Wurf decided to go for a ride last Thursday in Tasmania. 13 hours later they'd ridden 403km.

Here's the story: http://cyclingtips.com.au/2014/02/cam-and-richies-excellent-adventure/

Time: 13hrs 30min
Distance: 403km
elevation gain: 4500m
Ave Power: 230watts
Ave Heart rate: 115
Kcal Burnt: 11400

Was all over this on Insta during the day. Awesome

 

[monty1104]

The most unbelievable thing about that for me is their ave heart rate.

 

[phantom13]

Jesus...

http://cyclingtips.com.au/2014/02/riding-the-7-peaks-in-one-go-part-two/

 

[alfy!]

2015 World Champs course has been announced: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/richmond-announces-courses-for-2015-uci-road-world-championships

Cobbled sections every lap and a route that will favour sprinters that can get over hills (Sagan).

 

[alfy!]

Nibali, Froome and Contador will all be racing the Criterium du Dauphine, which anounced a climb heavy route yesterday.

http://velonews.competitor.com/2014...limb-heavy-criterium-du-dauphine-route_318678

 

[monty1104]

Nice. 2 HC climbs and both come at the end of stage 7. Should be a great day of racing.

 

[monty1104]

Bit late I know, but Sammy Sanchez has joined BMC. Will apparently by riding Strade Bianchi

 

[Freakie]

Bit late I know, but Sammy Sanchez has joined BMC. Will apparently by riding Strade Bianchi

There is a bit of bad blood between him and Cadel, should make for interesting viewing...

 

[chargers 09]

There is a bit of bad blood between him and Cadel, should make for interesting viewing...

Elaborate?
Or was this during the Vuelta 2 or 3 years ago when they didn't stop after Cadel had a mechanical failure?

 

[Freakie]

Elaborate?
Or was this during the Vuelta 2 or 3 years ago when they didn't stop after Cadel had a mechanical failure?

Not one specific instance, I won't be surprised to see Sanchez in a BMC jersey dragging Contador up the road leaving Cadel behind...

 

[Skippos]

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/euse...h-with-phinney

Phinney's injury really upsets me . I mean he's probably in my top 5 favourite riders which doesn't help but just to hear how bad it actually was. I mean a compound fracture like that could be up to 6-9 months out, I've even heard of 1-2 years for some who don't fully recover. Then there's the fitness he's going to clearly lose. Awful. Good on Euser though, knew his race was over and decided to be a champion about it.

As much as they're a necessary evil for people like me to enjoy the spectacle I really dislike the extent to which TV bikes go to get the best picture. No real care for the rider so much of the time.

 

[blackcat]

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/euse...h-with-phinney

Phinney's injury really upsets me . I mean he's probably in my top 5 favourite riders which doesn't help but just to hear how bad it actually was. I mean a compound fracture like that could be up to 6-9 months out, I've even heard of 1-2 years for some who don't fully recover. Then there's the fitness he's going to clearly lose. Awful. Good on Euser though, knew his race was over and decided to be a champion about it.

As much as they're a necessary evil for people like me to enjoy the spectacle I really dislike the extent to which TV bikes go to get the best picture. No real care for the rider so much of the time.

if ever there is a sport to have a compound leg fracture, a non-contact leg striking(ground) athletics pursuit, cycling would be it.

barlow, nathan brown, the red head from sydney, they have/had a much more difficult potential career...


if there is a bright side

 

[monty1104]

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/euse...h-with-phinney

Phinney's injury really upsets me . I mean he's probably in my top 5 favourite riders which doesn't help but just to hear how bad it actually was. I mean a compound fracture like that could be up to 6-9 months out, I've even heard of 1-2 years for some who don't fully recover. Then there's the fitness he's going to clearly lose. Awful. Good on Euser though, knew his race was over and decided to be a champion about it.

As much as they're a necessary evil for people like me to enjoy the spectacle I really dislike the extent to which TV bikes go to get the best picture. No real care for the rider so much of the time.

Yep, agree. Good on Euser. Things like that are the real things that kids should look up to.

 

[alfy!]

Wiggins staying at Sky for 2015.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/wiggins-to-stay-at-team-sky-in-2015

Targeting Paris-Roubaix, no more GT's for him.

I'd love to see him make a challenge at the big classics in the latter years of his career. He showed he had the potential at this years Roubaix.

 

[alfy!]

Transfer season about to start and some big names available:

There are some big names whose future will be decided in the coming months: Roche, Boasson Hagen, Sagan, Bouhanni and Wiggins to name but a few. There are also potential team deals, depending on whether Belkin, Giant, Garmin and Cannondale can stay afloat, meaning more riders may be available.

http://www.cyclingquotes.com/news/latest_transfer_rumours/

 

[Skippos]

So it looks like Rohan Dennis has been immediately released from his contract to ride with BMC and he'll ride the Vuelta.

Strange, but sounds good.

 

[alfy!]

Oleg is a funny guy.

 

[alfy!]

Sagan to Tinkoff-Saxo for 3 seasons.

www.tinkoffsaxo.com/news/tinkoff-saxo-signs-peter-sagan/

 

[monty1104]

Sagan to Tinkoff-Saxo for 3 seasons.

www.tinkoffsaxo.com/news/tinkoff-saxo-signs-peter-sagan/

Will be interesting to see what happens at GT's with Sagan and Contador on the same team.

 

[alfy!]

Will be interesting to see what happens at GT's with Sagan and Contador on the same team.

Agreed. I would have thought it wasn't the ideal move for Sagan, considering T-S are predominately a GT general classification team these days.

Sagan won't get much help in sprints, although he doesn't in his current team now anyway.

 

[monty1104]

Also puts Benatti out of a job you'd think.

 

[grouse mate]

Majka also signed for 3 years, what is Contador's contract? Might be on Alonso's shopping list.

Edit: Contracted for one more year and took a pay cut at the end of 2013.... Must make the guy happy with all these signings and Oleg's apparent bottomless bag of cash.

 

[phantom13]

Tinkoff with Majka and Contador has a two pronged attack ready to go after all 3 gt's.

 

[bing181]

Cadel Evans, back to back wins in the Tour of Utah. Nicely done.

A bit of life in the old dog yet.