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- Froome needs an ebike to make it up Ventoux these days
- So, watching today's TT at Gran Camino at the moment on my new TNT sub. ( I took the £15 p/m deal for 7 months)
But... there's also now ads every 15 minutes or so during the live coverage!!
This is outrageous and I shall be cancelling for real now. What a shame... I would have easily continued for the next season, but the ads during the live stream are unforgiveable.
- Thanks for the compliment. My real life friend told me that my jokes are lame. I appreciate it when someone finds mine funny. You're the best!
- And a good one! Unless you have been around cycling fror a while, a lot of folk won't get it.
- Correct, back in his Sky days. You have to excuse some people are a bit slow on this site.
- UAE got 56 wins last year if you subtract all of Pogi’s. I’d call that more than “contending for the podium”
- in UAE only Pogi is the winner of Monuments and GTs, the rest contend for the podium only. UAE have gone the Ineos way to sign up every promising rider but not every promising rider becomes a legend of the sport. Contrast that with Visma, QST or Alpecin. Ayuso's main problem is he want to fly from the nest but he is bound to UAE for a long time
- 1. Not gravel racing specifically, the gravel model.
2. The UCI isn't responsible for the success of pro road racing (mainly in Europe), but is detrimental to it being better. That's why almost no-one does UCI races in the US anymore.
3. Demand is mainly a natural phenomenon. People say you can build it, and you can a bit by supplying what people want (then they demand it), but that's an argument against the UCI, as they purposely stop innovation, which is a spectacle that people want to see.
4. The backup plan is the gravel model. That's why it grew while UCI cycling failed.
5. There will always be professional cycling as long as there are bike manufacturers (above a rock bottom level). The highest paid might be paid less, but just try to imagine the Tour not existing! Also, if people like me will pay to race (not be paid), there will always be bike races to watch. With video coverage of races getting less expensive (drones, go-pros), we will always have race coverage of some sort as well.
I guess what I'm realizing is that the entire economic model of cycling is 40+ years out of date, and it wouldn't cost much at all to compete with it, if Unbound and the Lifetime Grand Prix actually cared to.
-An Economist
- It was on a podcast… interviewers ask questions, and then the guest responds. That’s a weird thing for you to have a gripe with.
- it's just a trivia
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