Tour de France Stage 9 Troyes Preview: The GC riders will be in for a BRUTAL ride on the gravel 😬
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2024
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The TDF of old had huge percentage of gravel!
! rode a gravel section in a road race once, with 23mm tires, 140 psi, and a cheap all steel road bike. Apart from an uncomfortable, and rather slow pace, it was sufferable. I'm not surprised they included it, but I'm sure the competitors will breathe a sigh of relief when this homage to the past, and the cool new trend, is over with.
Can't wait hope 🌧🌧🌧
Thank you for the terrific preview! It looks like an exciting stage, though I feel like they put the riders through too much already.
Your team car might not be able to get to you, but as team leader, your team will give you their bike until they can get to you for a proper switch
Not enough climbing for the gravel to make much of a difference, I bet.
Agree w the gravel stage, it's a test of versatility of the rider, the team and the bikes.
Wonder why very little live coverage of TDF? Wimbledon and Euro Cupa are both live and viewed in North America…but not any Live TDF??
Back to the Roots
I got like 30% of my total mileage on gravel (living in rural area "forces" one to use gravel often even just to get to tarmac) but these small patches seems... either too little (for real gravel "experience" - first hour is fiiiiiine, 2nd or 3rd hour on gravel is where "fun begins") or too much (big chance for "luck" (puncture or mass strike) to do damage). IF nothing big happens, one just would consider it as "alternative" cobble section (on "rough" gravel feel is same)
Gravel or cobbles is fine as long as it is safe enough for the cyclists. Yesterday another tour rider died on a steep descent. Cycling has become too fast and dangerous asa sport. Vingegaard could have died a few months ago in his big crash.
Stage 9 should go full retro; no team cars, and riders carry their own spares. Today it will be MVDP, WVA, maybe Tom Pidcock; Remco will be solid as well, but won’t be able to drop Pogi.
Hypppedddd!!!
A stage made for Van Del Poel or Van Art
Dumb question maybe, but do the riders use special gravel bikes for these sections? Seems like they have real skinny treads in that last race vid. like they are just using regular road bikes
Bad decision
Will the riders swap out bikes? FWIW, even though I ride gravel, this shouldn’t be allowed in the TDF if it can wreck a racer’s tour.
Nibali 2014 cobbles stage
To win the greatest bike race on earth you should have to ride on all surfaces
Where is Dan Lloyd??? - the team this year is looking very, very weak without him. Please get some strong ex world tour riders to reinforce the commentary and the analysis. Robbie McEwen gets more and more dull, Adam Blythe really isn’t insightful enough and Danni Rowe is just plain dull and sadly lacks the necessary experience. You really want to force us to pay £15 per month for the Discovery+ and Eurosport combo??? - a huge increase from the past situation where we only had to pay for the Eurosport app - this cost increase demands a huge improvement in the quality of commentary.