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Lieve Cat,

Just more junk

Why do TT saddles look like that?

Well, I've got the saddle.

Oh man. Colnago used to make works of art in the 90's. Today's bikes may be lighter but they are ugly.

Restricting freedom of what can be done on a bike restricts creativity.

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A good indicator of the difference between world tour riders and the UK's best domestic hill climbers is the Monsal Head hill climb organised each year by Sheffrec CC. The course record of 1 minute 14 seconds was set back in 1981 (!!) by Malcolm Elliot, a British world tour sprinter (or whatever the equivalent was back then for the top tier of continental racing). Being such a short climb, it favours absolute rather than relative power, and Malcolm would certainly not be considered a climber. Same for Chris Boardman, definitely not a 'climber' in the pro peloton, but still as you note a National Hill Climb Champion. Harry Mac, Andrew Feather, Tom Bell, Ed Laverack (all National Hill Climb champions) et al are all phenomenal athletes, but I think they'd be the first to admit that they'd be no match for today's world tour galacticos like Pogacar and Vingegaard on any climb.

SP seem to have had 'issues' & 'disagreements' with several kit & equipment suppliers over the years. I wonder why it was only them & not other teams.

closed roavd racing anyone ? apart from a ever diminishing number of crits, why is there no safe closed road events, no closed rolling road block sportives? opprortunites to watch limited no spectators = no sponsers, BC needs to engage with venues such as race tracks, race courses and others and open up racing.

Tom Pidcock needs to leave Ineos ... Ineos is a sinking ship.

Gone I hope 🤣🤣🤣

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Well we only have to look at what happened to Sir Brad and his passion to put something back into cycling and youth development. Maybe do what the Premier league football teams have done and get the other Emirate regions to sponsor? It’s worked for UAE….

Pros should be helping/paying back these smaller devo teams. If it wasn't for these teams a lot of pro riders would not get to where they are.

They'll likely be a quasi Specialized Factory XC devo team. And have already provided Blevins & Batten to them. Blevins actually won an Elite World title for Trinity in 2021, the XCC title - and then a XCO World Cup in Snowshoe.

Saint Piran now too!😐

British Cycling need a department of organisation efficiency 🙄

Surely it's Charlie Aldridge.......

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I knew a uk pro that was 63kg and could put out 518 for 5 mins; 840 for 1 minute; 425 for 20 minutes. He’d easily have been able to do 600+ watts for 3 minutes, at 63kg. He didn’t get any higher than 6th GC in Langkawi and about 40th in Brabantse Pijl. People like Pogacar are utterly insane. As you implied, NO CHANCE!

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Where is the money from Lloyd’s Bank going from Tour of Britain? Surely, it should be going into these grassroots races.

I would love to see Marc Cavendish in a hilllclimb. He is superstrong but carrys more heavy muscles than those who are climboptimized. He is able to put out extreme power after beeing a lot exhausted.

Very misleading thumbnail. ALBA aren’t a pro team. Unless you’re earning a living you’re not pro and no Conti teams are

You are right that for men the pathway to pro is now via European racing rather than domestic scene. Bravo to Cycling Sheffield - small team but took riders to several stage races in Europe - they showed themselves well & it paid dividends x 4 👍

Gents, I'd have to respectfully disagree with what you are saying - the women's Junior scene just doesn't exist in the UK, so the Junior girls step up from Youth (max 1hr races) to the Women's Elite road series (can you imagine many boys jump up to racing Lincoln GP at 16?). You have some absolute phenoms doing their thing, Cat, Imi, Lucy, Elidh ... but it's very much sink or swim for the GB&I juniors women, can they hack the jump from 1hr races to 3hr races - you are 100% reliant on the Junior teams like Shibden and Toufauti racing nations cup races (abroad) for the girls to get them the incremental developments that they need - If they are lucky they will get a second bite of the cherry with someone like Alba in the UK if haven't made a European U23 Devo team.

Was a super short course though! Feather or Ed need longer course. Harry still brilliant though well deserved win

Are you guys serious ?? LOOOL !!!!!!

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Pog can do this at the end of a 250km race 😅

Pogacar did 7w/kg for 40 minutes on Plateau de Beille in the third week of the tour. I think you would be stunned how easy he would beat the other guy.

Is this a joke😂. Harry Mas.😂

World tour guys would cook them. MvDP did 560w for almost 6 min. Safe to say he could hit 100w more for 2 min

Great content guys 😊....u've earned a new supporter😊.... cheers from Piran(Slovenia)👏🙏🐐🌈👍✌️👽🔥💪🇸🇮🇬🇧

I dunno lads, I'd say at world tour level there'd be 70kg guys that'd annihilate that guy!?

Harry Mac the goat 🎉

A good comparison maybe with Ed Laverack who does more longer climbs. On Sa Colabra 10.27km Tom Pidcock has KOM 25:32 with Ed at 26:45 (very similar power). But Illi Gardner is the QOM at 31:09 - on published Strava so there could be a number that are not public. Ed has said that he is not doing the Hill Climb Champs in 2025, but he did win it in 2019? - maybe he is the only other person to have beaten Andrew Feather in recent years?

Good memory… CB “As a senior he won four consecutive hill climb championships (from 1988 to 1991)”

Comparisons aside (pros vrs amateurs), the day out on Hill Climbing Champioships watching and cheering on the competitors and heck even giving it a go is one of the best experiences if you love cycling.

The subject is wasted conversation......and to ask it means these guys just don't realize how good Pogocar is, its another level lads....

Harry Mac to World Tour, Here We Go??

Don't get me wrong, the top hill climb riders are super strong, but there are many world tour riders who would beat them easily. For example, Victor Campenaerts does 2 min intervals at 670w (almost 10 w/kg) in training. Everything that is longer than 1 or maybe 2 minutes is extremely strongly correlated with FTP.

Nice podcast I didn't know about. However, let's not compare hill climbers to those dopers at the world tour lol

My money is on Harry Mac 💰💸

I really hope she'll fit well into the Movistar team👍

I personally don't blame SP at all if they choose to buy bikes from else where, cycling is expensive. The UCI are just as bad and set no example to follow by unfortunately. As long as the bikes are above 6.8KG in weight which is the UCI race limit, then No Problems here im all for cheaper cycling, and getting younger talent into the sport. Not everyone can afford a 15k uci legal race bike.

Come on. Are we really going to get upset over fake UCI stickers? Many pro cycling governing boards allow women with penises to compete against women without penises. Seems like we need to step back and fix more than the stickers.

You are telling me those chicken legs can push a 62T, are you a terminator?

The UCI are investigating, not because they were used on the British "Elite" scene, they were also used at UCI races on the continent. This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to this team.... I'm hoping the journalist follows up other lines of enquiry. I think you need to realise, it is NOT on teams to get bikes UCI certified, it's down to manufacturers to have the bikes they want used in UCI races certified. It does not cost the teams any money for this.