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Great pics, love the finished bike - don't hate the colour combos and those are great grips & great story all told. Well done! Also good to see another eBay hound hard at work! Currently waiting for Goretex Five Ten Trailcross GTX shoes - 50 quid, £160 new!

So time to forget about oil rich desert races with no spectators, kangaroos and winter sun on the Iberian peninsula- real gritty racing starts this weekend - Omloop Niewsblad on Saturday, then Kuurne Brussels Kuurne next weds and with the arrival of March- Classics Season is here! 08/03/26...

I don't believe they are that small, just crouching.

Great final stages in Spain and Portugal. Tom Pidcock with another descending heart-in-mouth masterclass grabs the stage win and in Portugal a ferocious 5 way climb- battling it out were Almeida, Onley, Thomas Gloa, the 19yo French wonderkid Paul Seixas and the winner by a hair from Onley on...

With the GCN budgets looking non existent these days I hope they at least paid the students for return train tickets Edinburgh to Bath, a couple of nights in a Premiere Inn and a Tesco meal deal...

Time for a pinion! There were some good deals on that Haibike one recently. (Diving straight into the slit trenches before incoming....)

As Conor says, the UCI has been X Raying bikes at races since 2018 with over 600 checks at races in 2025. With a 6 year or life ban for any cheaters, they'd have to really make an undetectable system, which involves a number of people and a lot of money. ( But then so did EPO and that didn't...

I won't spill the winner, but Remco... really not liking the climbing, it's a mystery. He gave one early attack 5km from the top, sort of half hearted, and when he was passed shortly later, he couldn't stay with the group, pulled out of the chain and went clean out the back. Another...

Last stage of the UAE Tour and a second bash at the wall-like Jebel Hafeet final climb. Can Tiberi hold off Del Toro (21 seconds on GC)? Can Remco climb better without cramp?! Top 12 are within 2 mins, a lot around 1:30 so still room for surprises over the 6km climb. Race currently underway...

Haven't ye all got phones that tell the time? Haven't needed a watch for yonks.

There are some hair raising stories out there of dastardly deeds alright. Sprinters and Classic winners are the hard men of racing I think. I love hearing the stories. When the Greg Lemond and Sean Kelly generation raced in the 80s, it was still almost totally a European affair and local riders...

They are not backroom deals as such, it's just bike racing. There have been ad hoc agreements from non sprinter teams to help a sprinter team who desperately wants the breakaway caught (chasing green jersey or tally of sprint stages) in return for favours later on. Back in the 80s before radios...

What Stomp said. But I'd add that on the big three week Tours, on the flat stages, the gamble of the peloton is how far ahead can they let a breakaway go before having to work (expend precious energy)to reel them back. If the breakaway offers no danger to GC it's up to the sprinter teams and...

Finally got to see the last 6km of the climb. Van Elves finishing third- I never expect to see Lotto riders on big climbs! Luke Plapp did well, faded a bit when Del Toro caught him but still making the top ten. Remco as you said, banging his thigh. But the commentators even mentioned his lack of...

Interesting. Chalk it down to a one off perhaps, early season first long climb. But not what Boro or public wanted to see. Tiberi (5th in Giro last year, wasn't on my radar) Italian, age 24, looking good. Great win for him. Del Toro looking good for GC.

18th, over 2 mins back. Not the look he was aiming for.

I haven't seen the highlights yet, just the top 15 finishers - Del Toro 2nd, NO REMCO in top 15, Yates all the way back in 12th minute and a half back! What happened, was it a breakaway? But with Del Toro second what happened Remco, did he blow up, or mechanical? And where is his much vaunted...

It just shows the infrastructure and budget needed to run a top pro team these days, early in the season yet, but today there are 3 stage races in three different countries, UAE, Portugal and Spain and some teams have riders competing in all three: That's a lot of air fares and hotels and...

You're going to love the higher slopes during races like the Giro when dangerous idiots set off pink flares, the entire road filling with noxious, carcinogenic pink smoke the gasping riders have to race through.