Watching the peloton - Professional Road Racing thread 2026

[Jeremy McCreary]

Dauphine (aka Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) coming up June 7-14, all 8 stages streaming on Peacock in the US. No idea who's racing.

From ProCyclingUK.com...

Looks exciting!

 

[stompandgo]

After reading half a dozen accounts of this disqualification, still feels like there's a big missing piece to this puzzle.

Since it makes no sense that the bike would be intentionally underweight in a stage like this, I think there should be an independent investigation of the weighing equipment and process. The stakes are too high to do anything less.

Especially sad for Wiebes, who's caught in the middle of this mess but arguably pays the biggest price. She neither prepped nor weighed the bike herself. She has to rely on others to get these things right, and someone let her down royally.

This is what I have found so far. The team weighed the bike, and it was teched by the UCI. Then the team decided to change from a double chainring to a single chainring. The bike was weighed by the UCI after the finish, and the penalty was assessed by the book.

If this is truly what went down, this is 100% on the DS of her team. Removing a chainring has to reduce the overall weight. If they taped on weighs to make up for it and they fell off, that's still on them.

This is why TT bikes are impounded after tech.

 

[stompandgo]

Nice win today by Jordi Meeus in Stage 1 of the Tour of Wallonie. Ben Oliver ends up 5th after leading out the sprint and had it until 50m to go. MVDP is supposed to be here but I haven't seen him.

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

This is what I have found so far. The team weighed the bike, and it was teched by the UCI. Then the team decided to change from a double chainring to a single chainring. The bike was weighed by the UCI after the finish, and the penalty was assessed by the book.

If this is truly what went down, this is 100% on the DS of her team. Removing a chainring has to reduce the overall weight. If they taped on weighs to make up for it and they fell off, that's still on them.

This is why TT bikes are impounded after tech.

Correction weights falling off is the most plausible narrative I've heard so far — provided that's physically possible.

Was this chainring change some kind of last-minute rush-rush thing?