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re: 2021 Pro Cycling Thread-Julian Alaphilippe is Your World Champ Again!
Posted on 7/12/21 at 7:16 pm to crazyLSUstudent
Posted on 7/12/21 at 7:16 pm to crazyLSUstudent
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Vincenzo abandoned in prep for the Olympics road race.
Brings the list to 37 now. Wow.
Devil's advocate but had Tokyo happened last year how many of these guys would still be in? Even with the same crashes, etc.
MVDP I think for starters as an obvious choice, but how many others are trying to heal up for the games but would've pressed on had this not been an Olympic year
This post was edited on 7/12/21 at 7:18 pm
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Posted on 7/13/21 at 8:30 am to Yukon7
You still have time to complete the #TDF1000 challenge. 
Posted on 7/13/21 at 8:53 am to NEWMANIUM
Weird stage today.
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:46 am to crazyLSUstudent
I second that.
Posted on 7/13/21 at 1:31 pm to Cdawg
Btw Lachlan Morton finished the alt your today. He did 3300 miles in 18 days, beating the peloton by 5 days. Suck it Pog.
Posted on 7/13/21 at 4:54 pm to NEWMANIUM
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#TDF1000 challenge
i wouldnt even do that when i was in shape
I rode around 3000 miles a year, mainly from april-september . Fair weather cyclist i am
Hunting Season is what gets me every time. Although i really want to start MTBing to my stand.
Posted on 7/13/21 at 5:29 pm to Yukon7
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Hunting Season is what gets me every time. Although i really want to start MTBing to my stand.
I do a decent amount of MTBing in the winter I find it is more fun in shitty weather than road biking. There is a trail in upstate SC that I ride a lot and there are deer that will run with me about 10 feet off and parallel to the trail. They almost always pick me up at about the same place and run for about 2 minutes. It is where the trail runs beside a river. Usually does, often with a yearling. I did have one buck about 10 years ago act like he wanted to get aggressive during rut but that was the only time.
Posted on 7/13/21 at 5:41 pm to Yukon7
This is tomorrow’s stage. The rest that have any hope and legs have to throw everything at it these next two stages. Might as well get started tomorrow. Not sure it’s going to matter, but might be entertaining. It is week three and I guess a bad day may bite Pog, but it’s a long shot. Can’t wait for tomorrow morning.
This post was edited on 7/13/21 at 5:44 pm
Posted on 7/13/21 at 5:46 pm to pennypacker3
Poels to consolidate the polka dot before Pog leaves them all in his wake and wins the stage.
The others should be setting up to try and win the stage for the bonus seconds but nobody will get near him
The others should be setting up to try and win the stage for the bonus seconds but nobody will get near him
Posted on 7/13/21 at 5:46 pm to Obtuse1
Two proper mountain stages coming up. Finishing with an hors categorie climb each day. The Col du Tourmalet and Col de Portet are the two highest paved roads in the French Pyrenees. There will be a lot of suffering in the peloton, I can't imagine how much Cav is hoping both days are just a fever dream and there will be two runway flat stages instead.
Posted on 7/13/21 at 6:06 pm to Obtuse1
You and Penny need to stay in yall's motherfrickin lanes!!
Wofford is family so I'm assuming you ride or have ridden near Gaffney/Spartanburg
Lots of decent trails near Fort Mill/Rock Thrill as well.
Post #2 updated with today's results/ tomorrow's preview.
I hate that this is winding down already. I'll keep it going with Tokyo and then Vuelta
Wofford is family so I'm assuming you ride or have ridden near Gaffney/Spartanburg
Lots of decent trails near Fort Mill/Rock Thrill as well.
Post #2 updated with today's results/ tomorrow's preview.
I hate that this is winding down already. I'll keep it going with Tokyo and then Vuelta
Posted on 7/13/21 at 6:18 pm to Drank
I’m sorry…I got excited!
Posted on 7/13/21 at 6:27 pm to Drank
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Wofford is family so I'm assuming you ride or have ridden near Gaffney/Spartanburg
Grew up in Spartanburg still ride there a lot. My LSD training route when I was a teen was out of my neighborhood up 221 almost to Chesnee then over to the Cowpens Battleground State Park and do laps around it then back out on 11 to where it hits I-85 almost in Gaffney then back home, depending on the number of laps I did it was a 60-100 mile ride.
The Assualt on Mount Mitchell started at the main gates to Wofford so the four years I was in college I would just roll out of bed and ride a few hundred feet to the start.
The MTB trail I was referencing is Southside in Croft State park it has some great singletrack and lots of options from easy to really technical. "We" call it the Tour de Dump because in summer you can smell the dump that is about a mile away. Then on one of the lesser-used side loops, you ride behind the berm of the SCDNR rife range. Riding that loop with bullets bouncing through the trees above you is a different experience.
Roadies can say what they like about MTBing but riding in the spring when it is wet and muddy will make a hard man out of you. I gave it up but the best training I ever did was riding a fat bike in the mud on those trails. Get a 4.5" tire caked with mud then have to climb a few short 30% hills and it will send you into the puking breakfast zone.
Posted on 7/13/21 at 7:24 pm to Obtuse1
I understand ALL of that. We may have passed each other back in the day.
I’m also a history nerd so Cowpens and King’s Mountain were regular trips for me.
Cowpens obviously being the more friendly bike ride.
I miss the peach bread from Abbot Farms. Every few years I’ll still drive up to stock up and to also stare at the Peach’s turtle head in Gaffney.
It’s all familial land in most of Cherokee county with family cemeteries dotting the landscape from the 85 line at Lake Hartwell all the way to Gastonia.
On another note I got ballsy and briefly almost hit 44 MPH on a downhill today. I was terrified.
How these guys descend on wet roads in the mountain stages consistently above that is not a thing that logically makes sense to me.
Again, they are the greatest and most skilled athletes in the world.
I’m also a history nerd so Cowpens and King’s Mountain were regular trips for me.
Cowpens obviously being the more friendly bike ride.
I miss the peach bread from Abbot Farms. Every few years I’ll still drive up to stock up and to also stare at the Peach’s turtle head in Gaffney.
It’s all familial land in most of Cherokee county with family cemeteries dotting the landscape from the 85 line at Lake Hartwell all the way to Gastonia.
On another note I got ballsy and briefly almost hit 44 MPH on a downhill today. I was terrified.
How these guys descend on wet roads in the mountain stages consistently above that is not a thing that logically makes sense to me.
Again, they are the greatest and most skilled athletes in the world.
This post was edited on 7/13/21 at 7:25 pm
Posted on 7/13/21 at 8:01 pm to Drank
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I’m also a history nerd so Cowpens and King’s Mountain were regular trips for me.
Cowpens was the first place I could actually visualize a double envelopment. I haven't been in the visitor's center in many years but they used to have a big "military sand table" that had lights to show the troop movements in red and blue and you could watch the battle then go right outside and "see" the battle. The loop around the battlefield was/is a great place to ride. Just over a couple of miles but almost never any cars, I could do laps there all day.
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I miss the peach bread from Abbot Farms.
Fun fact that you probably know, before so many of the peach farms were sold off and turned into industrial parks and residential neighborhoods Spartanburg and Cherokee county together produces more peaches than the entire "Peach State" of Georgia.
Posted on 7/13/21 at 8:42 pm to Obtuse1
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Fun fact that you probably know, before so many of the peach farms were sold off and turned into industrial parks and residential neighborhoods Spartanburg and Cherokee county together produces more peaches than the entire "Peach State" of Georgia.
I’ve lived in Georgia for a lot of my life. I can count the amount of peach trees I’ve seen on both hands.
Peachtree comes from Pitch Tree.. from Standing Pitch Tree (tar as a marker on the tree) that became Standing Peach Tree that eventually evolved into now Bolton road area of Atlanta.
We don’t have peaches.
Should’ve been the Pecan state.
Posted on 7/13/21 at 8:57 pm to Yukon7
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i wouldnt even do that when i was in shape ?
I rode around 3000 miles a year, mainly from april-september . Fair weather cyclist i am ?
Hunting Season is what gets me every time. Although i really want to start MTBing to my stand.
You sound like a few cyclists I know when hunting season comes around.
Posted on 7/13/21 at 9:37 pm to NEWMANIUM
Cofidis has only one type of luck. They are sure fire 2nd but nope caught in a bunch. They didn’t get into main break so no advertising and even Bob and Phil cracked on them.
Posted on 7/13/21 at 9:49 pm to sms151t
Posted on 7/13/21 at 9:54 pm to Obtuse1
I wished they’d do a Team Trial up a hill once. I think that would be amazing. I love team trials
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