Pro Cycling Discussion 3: 2024 The Year of Crashes?

[Videer]

I think they did that because now he’s right outside the top 10 and could be used to go after the podium guys like Martinez and OConnor.

Not really shocked that Tadej has a 2:30 lead. It’s all about if he can avoid collapsing now.

I did view this as a back heavy tour so there’s plenty that can happen.

Impressed by Ben OConnor, plapp and Martinez today. The podium battle has been a lot of fun

Pogger needs 4-5 minute lead for his unavoidable implosion on stage 15! You heard it here first!

Very impressed by Martinez, O'Connor and Plappy did real good too. Also the Ganna ❤ Plappy bromance at the waiting area

Keep in mind that Pogacar performance today was nothing compared to Vingegaard ITT last TDF.

 

[Yorick]

TT bikes just things of beauty.

LOL, some of those helmets look like the came from the movie SpaceBalls.

Pog unstoppable.

It's over already, barring disaster.

 

[Zebra Cheeks]

Pogger needs 4-5 minute lead for his unavoidable implosion on stage 15! You heard it here first!

Very impressed by Martinez, O'Connor and Plappy did real good too. Also the Ganna ❤ Plappy bromance at the waiting area

Keep in mind that Pogacar performance today was nothing compared to Vingegaard ITT last TDF.

Well yeah that’s why Jonas beat pogacar

 

[Flower2dPeople]

Well yeah that’s why Jonas beat pogacar

Do they release to the public their pwr? I wanna compare Jonas TT last year and Pog's yesterday.

 

[Flower2dPeople]

That 66 tooth 1x(goddamn) wasn't kind to old man Geraint.

 

[Yorick]

Wait wut, a 66 1X?
He had to switch bikes before the final climb right?

 

[Flower2dPeople]

Wait wut, a 66 1X?
He had to switch bikes before the final climb right?

That I don't know. I mean he had to. Right? 11% gradient for the 1st 2 km on a 66 1x is just insane.

Foss had a 68 tooth in UAE tour but I don't know if it was a 1x.

 

[Yorick]

No doubt. Just watched highlights today tbh.
A 40k TT with a serious climb of any kind is legit for sure.

 

[Yorick]

Sick bikes.
From that pic it looks like it.
Badass carbon fiber cog.

 

[Flower2dPeople]

Sick bikes.
From that pic it looks like it.
Badass carbon fiber cog.

I read that the rear hub had virtual gears. Idk how it works in an engineering perspective but that could've given them the confidence to go 66 1x.

 

[Zebra Cheeks]

Do they release to the public their pwr? I wanna compare Jonas TT last year and Pog's yesterday.

Not sure but there’s a lot of websites and twitter accounts where people calculate the numbers. And then some riders publish it in strata

 

[Videer]

Do they release to the public their pwr? I wanna compare Jonas TT last year and Pog's yesterday.

Neither Pog or Jonas releases their power data, though lots of even very high level pros do nowdays.

I believe Jonas was calculated doing about 7,2-7,4 watts per kg for 13 or so minutes it took him to climb Cote de Domancy in that TT. Almost 27km/h on 6,8% average graduent

 

[Flower2dPeople]

Neither Pog or Jonas releases their power data, though lots of even very high level pros do nowdays.

I believe Jonas was calculated doing about 7,2-7,4 watts per kg for 13 or so minutes it took him to climb Cote de Domancy in that TT. Almost 27km/h on 6,8% average graduent

Yeah. I only saw Jonas' number. I snooped Pog's numbers yesterday on Strava but it doesn't show. I saw this number for stage 1 though:

Pogačar on San Vito averaged 8.74 ᵉW/Kg for 3:34 min

 

[therealdope]

That I don't know. I mean he had to. Right? 11% gradient for the 1st 2 km on a 66 1x is just insane.

Is anyone using the Classified rear hub gear?

66t is just imaginable to me. This is the kind of thing that reminds me that this is a very different sport from what I participated in. I can remember LeMond using a 56t in the finall TT in 1989 and thinking, where do you even get that chainring?

The eastern Bloc guys used to show up with 54-44 chainrings (remember, the largest cog Campy had at the times was 25) just to show their strong like bull, smart like bull style of racing.

 

[therealdope]

Almost 27km/h on 6,8% average graduent

That's the kind of speed the guys were doing in the wildwest era of Hein Verbruggen no testing for EPO.

 

[Flower2dPeople]

Is anyone using the Classified rear hub gear?

Idk about everyone. The only one I read using it for that TT stage was Ganna

 

[Videer]

Yeah. I only saw Jonas' number. I snooped Pog's numbers yesterday on Strava but it doesn't show. I saw this number for stage 1 though:

Yeah one of the greatest short duration performances, easy stage leading up to the climb.

Narvaez made his data public, 562w for 3:34

 

[Zebra Cheeks]

That's the kind of speed the guys were doing in the wildwest era of Hein Verbruggen no testing for EPO.

Yeah pogacar is just shy on pantanis old records for the most part, where as Jonas seems to be well ahead of them

 

[Videer]

UAE again working harder than I'd like. Slave driver Pogacar has no mercy!

 

[Zebra Cheeks]

Fuck yeah I have geschke on my velogames for the mountains