#bikeracing — Public Fediverse posts

if you enjoy #bikeracing on TV this may well be one of the busiest weeks of the year

https://www.wielerflits.nl/nieuws/wielrennen-op-tv/

Interesting to see how #TourdeSuisse 🇨🇭 for both male and female athletes develops riding the same roads on the same day in mostly local circuits around a city/town

https://www.tourdesuisse.ch/

Reusser, Longo-borghini and Niewadoma; Tadej & guest stars

#procycling #cycling

Türkiye’nin dört motosikletçisi İtalya ve İspanya’nda mücadele edecek! Deniz Öncü, Bahattin Sofuoğlu, Can Öncü ve Kadir Erbay, hız ve stratejiyi birleştirerek ulusal güç elde etme hedefinde büyük adımlar atıyor.

🚩 #Motorsport #BikeRacing #Italy #Spain #Championship

The Giro

It’s very hard for the casual cycling fan to follow the sport. There are so many teams. There are so many players (joke). Each of the top teams is capable of sending a different squad to each event. Multiple events can be happening at the same time. All the riders look the same in their kit and sunglasses and helmets. Only the commentators, who watch many many hours, can tell them apart.

And then there’s the unfortunate fact that cycling is now behind a paywall, lumped in with a bunch of other sports. I made the decision years ago not to bother following sport (it saves a lot of time/heartache), so even with my mild interest in cycling, we come up against the paying-for-a-load-of-stuff-you-don’t-watch, which is how the streamers really make their money, I suppose. But is my mild interest in cycling worth £30, even for one month. No, it is not.

The Giro d’Italia, always early in the season, is the first of the Grand Tour events. It’s never the warmest. You’d think Italy would be warm, but not in the mountains in May it’s not. There’s snow on the caps, there is hail, there is rain, wind.

If the Tour de France is the peloton gliding past fields of sunflowers, the Giro is the peloton shivering over snow-capped mountain passes wearing inadequate clothing.

This year’s Giro has looked brutal over its first week. It started with three days in Bulgaria, which looked unreal. If the sun had shone, it might have been the perfect advert for the Bulgarian Tourist Board. But the sun did not shine. There were slippery roads, there were crashes, there was darkness at the break of noon.

Into Italy they came, and the weather has not improved. I grow ever more dismayed at the risks the riders are expected to take. In Naples, the finish (in the rain, natch) was over slate cobbles that were as slippery as ice. Even on a dry day, I question the use of cobbled surfaces. But in the wet? It’s murderous. Add to the cobbles and the rain the street furniture, badly designed barriers with feet that stick out into the road, and it really seems as if the organisers are trying to kill someone.

It has been carnage on the road over the first week, with several big crashes, and a number of riders put in hospital.

This is ridiculous.

How am I following the Giro, you ask? Well, Ned Boulting, the former ITV commentator, has his podcast. He’s apparently employed as the “global feed” commentator by the organisation, but you can’t get hold of that really in the UK. The Giro is on TNT Sports, which you access via HBO Max. Confusingly, you can get HBO Max through a Now subscription, but that does not include TNT, which you get via the HBO proper.

TNT put up a short (7-8 minute) highlight reel on YouTube, and there’s an official one, too, I think. So you can watch an eight minute version of a 200+ kilometre stage, and then listen to Ned’s podcast, and maybe read one the reports (e.g. the Guardian’s). By the way, Ned does his podcast after spending five hours commentating with no breaks, since the “global feed” people don’t have the budget to have more than Ned and his co-commentator Jacopo Guarnieri on the payroll. You realise how looked-after the ITV team was, since they rarely did more than an hour or two at a time before getting a break.

Anyway, that’s it. YouTube videos, podcast, written reports. It’s the first time I’ve really watched much of the Giro and I have to say, it does not look like a pleasant experience. It does not make me want to visit Italy. The whole thing looks a bit low-rent in comparison to the Tour de France.

Come the TdF, my plan is to pay for a VPN and watch on French telly on my laptop. This may or may not work. And I’ll hopefully be in France for the final four days, anyway. It’s the only time our telly ever gets used over there!

The Giro

It’s very hard for the casual cycling fan to follow the sport. There are so many teams. There are so many players (joke). Each of the top teams is capable of sending a different squad to each event. Multiple events can be happening at the same time. All the riders look the same in their kit and sunglasses and helmets. Only the commentators, who watch many many hours, can tell them apart.

And then there’s the unfortunate fact that cycling is now behind a paywall, lumped in with a bunch of other sports. I made the decision years ago not to bother following sport (it saves a lot of time/heartache), so even with my mild interest in cycling, we come up against the paying-for-a-load-of-stuff-you-don’t-watch, which is how the streamers really make their money, I suppose. But is my mild interest in cycling worth £30, even for one month. No, it is not.

The Giro d’Italia, always early in the season, is the first of the Grand Tour events. It’s never the warmest. You’d think Italy would be warm, but not in the mountains in May it’s not. There’s snow on the caps, there is hail, there is rain, wind.

If the Tour de France is the peloton gliding past fields of sunflowers, the Giro is the peloton shivering over snow-capped mountain passes wearing inadequate clothing.

This year’s Giro has looked brutal over its first week. It started with three days in Bulgaria, which looked unreal. If the sun had shone, it might have been the perfect advert for the Bulgarian Tourist Board. But the sun did not shine. There were slippery roads, there were crashes, there was darkness at the break of noon.

Into Italy they came, and the weather has not improved. I grow ever more dismayed at the risks the riders are expected to take. In Naples, the finish (in the rain, natch) was over slate cobbles that were as slippery as ice. Even on a dry day, I question the use of cobbled surfaces. But in the wet? It’s murderous. Add to the cobbles and the rain the street furniture, badly designed barriers with feet that stick out into the road, and it really seems as if the organisers are trying to kill someone.

It has been carnage on the road over the first week, with several big crashes, and a number of riders put in hospital.

This is ridiculous.

How am I following the Giro, you ask? Well, Ned Boulting, the former ITV commentator, has his podcast. He’s apparently employed as the “global feed” commentator by the organisation, but you can’t get hold of that really in the UK. The Giro is on TNT Sports, which you access via HBO Max. Confusingly, you can get HBO Max through a Now subscription, but that does not include TNT, which you get via the HBO proper.

TNT put up a short (7-8 minute) highlight reel on YouTube, and there’s an official one, too, I think. So you can watch an eight minute version of a 200+ kilometre stage, and then listen to Ned’s podcast, and maybe read one the reports (e.g. the Guardian’s). By the way, Ned does his podcast after spending five hours commentating with no breaks, since the “global feed” people don’t have the budget to have more than Ned and his co-commentator Jacopo Guarnieri on the payroll. You realise how looked-after the ITV team was, since they rarely did more than an hour or two at a time before getting a break.

Anyway, that’s it. YouTube videos, podcast, written reports. It’s the first time I’ve really watched much of the Giro and I have to say, it does not look like a pleasant experience. It does not make me want to visit Italy. The whole thing looks a bit low-rent in comparison to the Tour de France.

Come the TdF, my plan is to pay for a VPN and watch on French telly on my laptop. This may or may not work. And I’ll hopefully be in France for the final four days, anyway. It’s the only time our telly ever gets used over there!

If I ever organized an long distance bicycle event I'll have the mandatory kit list include a toothbrush with 15cm of handle. JUST to annoy them weight weenies!

#ultracycling #bikeracing

If I ever organized an long distance bicycle event I'll have the mandatory kit list include a toothbrush with 15cm of handle. JUST to annoy them weight weenies!

#ultracycling #bikeracing

Seeing as the Time Trial #cyclingworldchampionships are currently on, here's a handy foolproof guide for competitors to get that medal:

https://pioswibble.wordpress.com/2018/08/25/how-to-win-a-time-trial-or-not-lose-by-much/

I also have a handy guide for hill climbs and road races too, for when the time comes

https://pioswibble.wordpress.com/2018/08/11/how-to-win-a-hill-climb-or-not-lose-by-much/

https://pioswibble.wordpress.com/2018/08/19/how-to-win-a-road-race-or-not-lose-by-much/

#biketooter #bikeracing

I want to collect ideas to spice up the #TourDeFrance #LeTour. Every year the same things, flat stage, hilly stage, mountain stage, time-trial. Same same. 🚴🏽 🚴🏽‍♂️ 🚴🏽‍♀️

First ideas:

-Mountain stage, fully offroad
-Elimination stage with 10 sprints, each time last 2 riders have to leave the tour
-Team time-trial, but Madison-style
-Skiing does it: what about a night race?

and finally

-Mountain team time-trial, but only downhill

#bikeracing #sports

I want to collect ideas to spice up the #TourDeFrance #LeTour. Every year the same things, flat stage, hilly stage, mountain stage, time-trial. Same same. 🚴🏽 🚴🏽‍♂️ 🚴🏽‍♀️

First ideas:

-Mountain stage, fully offroad
-Elimination stage with 10 sprints, each time last 2 riders have to leave the tour
-Team time-trial, but Madison-style
-Skiing does it: what about a night race?

and finally

-Mountain team time-trial, but only downhill

#bikeracing #sports

@martinus Hilarious! 😂
Is that the same guy, who also ran on clickshoes past other cyclists in a race? 🏃‍♂️ 🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴

(Found that video at https://brotka.st/objects/ba64f477-c41c-49f5-ade1-c0d8008cea71 and never got an answer there who/where/when it was) @mariusor @CiclistaRubio

#roadbike #rennrad #bikerace #bikeracing #cyclerace #cycleracing #velosport

Amstel Gold.
Bloody hell, what a race.
If you've any interest in road cycling, watch it.
A x

#BikeRacing #RoadBiking #SpringClassics

Steppencross 2025 <3

We shot a movie about Amy’s experience at her first cross race-dropping in two months! :))

camera by Antonius Glufke, Jonna Edzards
drone by Robert Lehmann

Supported by Steppenwolf, FlaR Racing Team, Techniker Krankenkasse, MTS Spezialmontagen, XL2, W. Ulrich

#Bikeracing #Steppencross #Cyclinglife #CrossIsBoss #RideWithFriends #FujiFilm #FilmMaking #FLINTA

Profile of Neilson Powless in Men's Health https://www.menshealth.com/fitness/a62763366/indigenous-in-fitness-2024/. Oneida Tribe, first tribally recognized Native North American to compete in the Tour de France.

#cycling #BikeTooter #Indigenous #TdF #TourdeFrance #NeilsonPowless #BikeRacing

Profile of Neilson Powless in Men's Health https://www.menshealth.com/fitness/a62763366/indigenous-in-fitness-2024/. Oneida Tribe, first tribally recognized Native North American to compete in the Tour de France.

#cycling #BikeTooter #Indigenous #TdF #TourdeFrance #NeilsonPowless #BikeRacing

My first course marshal experience at the Burlington Criterium today. I wasn't at a corner, no hairy stuff, no crashes, just a lot of pedestrians wanting to cross the course, a couple cars we had to manage. Three hours of careful watching of the gaps. A few people using canes and rollators crossing the road. No pics because I was constantly on alert, a.k.a. the way I live my life. The races that ended up spread across the course are the hardest to manage. #Vermont #Cycling #BikeRacing

My first course marshal experience at the Burlington Criterium today. I wasn't at a corner, no hairy stuff, no crashes, just a lot of pedestrians wanting to cross the course, a couple cars we had to manage. Three hours of careful watching of the gaps. A few people using canes and rollators crossing the road. No pics because I was constantly on alert, a.k.a. the way I live my life. The races that ended up spread across the course are the hardest to manage. #Vermont #Cycling #BikeRacing

The Midwest Challenge bicycle races are being held this weekend at the Major Taylor velodrome in Indianapolis. #bicycling #bikeracing #majortaylorvelodrome #indianapolis #midwestchallenge #photography #sportsphotography

@TicklishHoneyBee @billyjoebowers @bici I asked over on the English stackexchange and got a great tracing of the evolution of usage that led to "get back on terms with": https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/610204/origin-of-get-back-on-terms #cycling #BikeTooter #linguistics #words #LeTour #TdF #BikeWords #BikeToot #WordOrigins #etymology #BikeRacing #sports

@TicklishHoneyBee @billyjoebowers @bici I asked over on the English stackexchange and got a great tracing of the evolution of usage that led to "get back on terms with": https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/610204/origin-of-get-back-on-terms #cycling #BikeTooter #linguistics #words #LeTour #TdF #BikeWords #BikeToot #WordOrigins #etymology #BikeRacing #sports

If you like bikes, I took some photos at a bike race last night.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs8sTpjOgpj/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MmJiY2I4NDBkZg==

#bikes #bikeracing #cycling #crits #crtierums #critracing

If you like bikes, I took some photos at a bike race last night.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs8sTpjOgpj/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MmJiY2I4NDBkZg==

#bikes #bikeracing #cycling #crits #crtierums #critracing

Is CyclingTips officially dead now? This is a screenshot of their current latest articles in the racing section a week into the Giro and after Tour of Hungary and Women's Itzulia #cycling #bikeRacing

Is CyclingTips officially dead now? This is a screenshot of their current latest articles in the racing section a week into the Giro and after Tour of Hungary and Women's Itzulia #cycling #bikeRacing

Currently watching Tour of Flanders bike race on TV, and for years off and on I have watched the Tour de France. As always, I am puzzled: why do so many spectators, especially on the uphill slower bits, lean forward and down while applauding as the riders pass by? It's very annoying (yes I'm a GOM). Is it just a weird traditional/customary European thing, about which I know nothing?
#bicycling #bikeracing

So, today was the last chance for a long bike ride before the racing season starts for me. But, I needed to stay home on family duty. So I did the longest course on #Zwift. 4.5hrs on the Uber Pretzel. Thankfully I don't actually need my legs today or tomorrow, or this week #cycling #training #bikeRacing

Bicycle review websites regularly review bikes worth over €10k these days. And they do it without any swearing , wondering who's the mark or asking themselves just what in the name of god have we done to reach this point?
And every time I see one I want to give up #bikeRacing a little bit. I didn't get into it to throw away money. It was always an outlay, but you expected things to last beyond a 1 - 3 year product cycle twinned with rising costs.

Hey its the one day a year this website is very helpful! https://www.ismilansanremoexcitingyet.com/ #cycling #bikeracing #MSR #milansanremo #uci #uciwt

Watch as I #create one of my #ParisNice #cycling #art #watercolors & talk about the #bikeracing and my #artwork https://youtu.be/SNL97NOmb64 #cyclisme #ciclismo #wielrennen