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Tired after the giro? Peaking for the Vuelta? UAE are a bit of a shitshow?

They let him go like Terpstra due to budget issues. I think he wanted a certain amount and Lefevre couldn't or wouldn't do it in the timeframe Gaviria wanted so off he went.

He's not had a great year but still has 4 wins and some more podiums but he's only got 30-odd race days.

The thing is you can easily see how a version of a deepfake will be pushed out on FB or Twitter then deleted as the poster "found out" (although they knew before) it was a mistake but purely, in reality, to seed the video into other accounts without the retraction or context. It's terrifying.

For some reason I thought Deceuninck?

If they'd actually disabled everything with the alarms and locks active it'd be more convincing. What we have now is someone who SAYS they did it properly before they recorded the video and a company that says that this isn't possible. Surely DigitalTrends could just record another video.

Why is that shocking? I don’t recall that all the British riders got a photo when Wiggins won the first Tour for a Briton.

What happened to him? I know he had a bad day or two but he’s been anonymous even outside that

I lived in Kingston for years. There’s so much stuff dumped in the river that you’d never want to jump into the Thames there for fear you’d land on top of something or get tangled underwater. The periodic dredges brought up some odd stuff.

Be warned. RCZ don’t hold much stock and order in almost everything. Their about us page says they can take up to 4-5 months for some items. Even though they’re actually quite local to me, I have never ordered from them.

They haven’t had the need to stifle the race so far. Let’s see how the next week plays out; my guess is that Ineos are back to their usual ways. I listened to Lances podcast yesterday and Bruyneel both said that any time Ineos needed numbers, their whole team was there working but other teams didn’t. Both of them reckoned Ineos are keeping their powder dry as they haven’t needed to race full gas so far.

To be honest, stepping off the bike and walking off without speaking to the team is unprofessional in the extreme. I'd say the same if a colleague at our company walked out without a word and didn't come back (obviously there's no indication that he won't ride for BM again).

It may not be a tantrum per se but it's certainly not professional.

The Time Warp bike was launched middle to end of last season and Dennis would have won the world champs on it. As far as I can tell, most if not all of their suppliers have stayed over into 2019 so it doesn't seem like it should be equipment but who can tell, it may not even be about the TdF in 2019 at all. Could be as simple as them hiring a new GC lead for 2020 who takes what Dennis thinks is his spot if, as expected, Nibs leaves.

Edit - That's bollocks. He didn't ride for BM last year so wasn't on the Time Warp until this season.

I found Apple maps worked fine in Shanghai, Google maps worked but everything had a 200-300m drift so it was fine for working out how far something was from something else but not routing (as seen by my shit show mobike navigation)

Google doesn’t work well/at all in China (maps particularly).

Wechat has a strange AR chinese character to english (or vice versa) thing. Came in useful once or twice for me in Shanghai but mostly I got the latin character set telling me something that made no sense. Someone on the flight home told me that it was more useful for writing something in English and translating to chinese but who knows

I'll watch the stage later but I'm always surprised that GC teams don't work a lot harder on windy days to keep their guys in the front of the bunch. Every year some team (frequently Movistar) gets caught out with their leader pissing around at the back when Ineos/Quickstep/whoever smash it at the front and smash the race into pieces. I know some teams scout big open sections ahead of time and target them either to move up or to push the pace and create splits but why don't they all?

Easier in threadreader:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1148259553621864449.html

I'm not really sure what your point is. Is it somehow wrong that a professional sportsman wants to make sure his mug is on TV rather than his helmet. Feels like an odd thing to criticise.

So Ineos have both Lightweight wheels and are using the F12 x-light to boot. Not really lowering the suggestions their bike is a tubby bugger.

You'd think that but...

https://twitter.com/rich_energy/status/1149385021750464512

Yeah that one. Not cheap but it’s done a load of trips with me.

Not sure 75 quid for a rusty imperial socket set is a bargain.

For Britain flags too... isnt that the mob Morrissey supports?

Silva do that torque kit. It’s been pretty good for the couple of years I’ve had mine, particularly for traveling.

Yeah, I gathered. Was supposed to be amusing. Clearly not :)