2025 bike racing thread *SPOILERS*

Stage 6 of Catalunya is neutralized, so Ant had some time to fil

“You can reach us at the ‘usual’ social media. You can use the ‘picture one’ or the ‘new one everybody’s jumping on’”

I’m guessing he meant IG and Bluesky?

Interesting to watch the decision making process between riders and organizers play out on live tv

And Anthony McCrossin is doing about as good of a job as he can carrying the broadcast by himself

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And now it’s just a 24k race, no bonuses, GC times taken at 5k. Crazy.

Simmons!

When mighty Quinn was sitting down immediately afterwards, did I see some Jordan’s in Lidl-Trek yellow/blue/red color-way?

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Knowing what Lawrence said he’d do with a million dollars, I wonder if QS has similar plans celebrating this win. Though he does have a girlfriend… so probably not.

Lawrence is the perfect nickname for him.

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Though Ricky Bobby works pretty good too.

I’m now picturing the Lil’ T team DS over the radio today: “Quinn you wanna go for the stage?”

QS (sounding exactly like Diedrich Bader): " Fuckin’ A"

G-W:
Milan, Philipsen, Merlier
Tarling, Girmay

Mads, MattyJo, Wellens
Merlier, Teunissen (quietly strong past few weeks)

I am hoping you are right about Wout just adjusting from coming down from altitude. Watching E3 this AM, he said as much in his pre-race interview. I suspect he lines up for Dwars. I keep hoping there is a team showing that helps set him up for next weekend. But just can’t see how it isn’t just Mathieu and Pog in a two up ride from the gun regardless of what anyone else tries to do.

OK
Philipsen
Matthews

Wellens
Soren W

Mads, Merlier, Matthews
Laurence It’s A Pithy, Milan

Gent Wevelgam picks
Pederson, Philipson, Magnier
Grimey Pithie.

Gent - Wevelgem picks:
it sure feels like the start list says - Milan’s race to lose, but that is a banger lil trek squad - so they could do a lot of paring down. I think Ineos w/o top G, might get feisty too.
Milan / disaster philipsen / magnier (is merlier too banged up?)
matteo jorgenson / ben turner

Mads Pedersen, Philipsen, Kooij
Jorgensen Meeus

Tim Merlier, Jasper Philipsen, Jonathan Milan
Wildcards: Mads Pederson, Biniam Girmay

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Gent-Wevelgem
Pedersen (Mads), Philipsen, Merlier
Kooij, Meeus

Just saw this on the PCS website - my first reaction is, frankly, WTF kind of a shakedown is this?

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I think PCS is the shakedownee, not the shakedownor.