Watching the peloton - Professional Road Racing thread 2026

[stompandgo]

At about 112.5 km and again at 110.2 km to go in today's Vuelta Stage 17, I spotted roadside fire trucks drenching the peloton with thick plumes of water mist. In both cases, on totally straight, wide, flat road with no white paint beyond the usual center and shoulder lines.

Bet that felt good.

I did a race where there were young ladies in bikinis spraying us with a water hose. Miraculously, nobody crashed.

 

[stompandgo]

I agree.

But....how does Brennan compare to the current crop of fast men who aren't there? Not slighting the young man at all, just wondering.

Phillipsen?
Grimay?
Who else?
Let's discuss.

A win is a win is a win. Records broken are records broken. If Mas' lead holds up, would you put an asterisk after his name because Pogi wasn't there? Let's go results for results.

How he compares to the others is open to interpretation. He beat Phillipsen at KBK this year. I don't know about Grimay. I am looking forward to the post season analysis.

 

[stompandgo]

With two brutal climbing stages ahead, including the queen stage, I expect a number of support riders are not going to go all out in today's 32km flat ITT.

Thornley is current;y in the hot seat at 35:25, at an average speed of around 55 km/h.

Kung just hit 62 km/h. On the flat.

Kung now in the hot seat at 35:21. Wout 8 seconds back at 10km to go. Is there now any doubt that Tudor should be a World Tour team?

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

I did a race where there were young ladies in bikinis spraying us with a water hose. Miraculously, nobody crashed.

No worries in the Vuelta case. None of the firemen were in bikinis.

 

[stompandgo]

Mas +25s behind Roglic at 10km to go.

Felix Gall out of second in GC.

Roglic finishes 4th.

Mas!!! Incredible ride. He only lost 33s to Roglic in GC. He will have a 1:37 lead when he starts tomorrow.