Samuel

Giro please 🍿

How does the lucky dip system work? I'm thinking maybe a small French village ceremony where Thibaut Pinot rummages about in an old tea chest full of sawdust

150km total of flat/rolling ITT is the only way

I feel sorry for people like that, missing out on so much joy 🤷🏻

And his team would still be first even without him 😫

Oh ok, like Rutland in the UK 😆

Why do people keep saying this? I'm sitting drinking tea in Limburg right now, it seems real to me 🤔

It *was* great to witness when it was rarely attempted and exceedingly rare that it succeeded, but now it's more or less a fait accompli it's crushingly tedious

Does anyone still make puncture repair kits that actually work? 🥲

I strongly dislike onboard camera segments 🫨😵‍💫😫

Yes 💯😩

"Piloshite"🤣

The Red Flag That Makes Everything Possible Why should bike races be halted because of other traffic? Let’s talk about red flags, signalers, and the right to race.

I wrote something about how, from a Belgian perspective, we are astonished by the current situation in the Netherlands regarding the organization of cycling races

open.substack.com/pub/stijnbas...

Ach first time in years I went to watch a race roadside and it was cancelled - rightly so, rider safety always comes first, still, gutted 😩
(Tour of Holland S3)

A little thread.

We have very few professional bike races left on open roads in NL. There is a population density of about 500 people per km2 which makes it one of the densest populated countries in Europe. To compare, France has 121 but Belgium has almost 400 so this not he only reason.

YouTube video by Geo-Sports - The Geology of Sports Events TDFF 2024 - Stage 4: The spring day on which the dinosaurs died

During the Holland Tour, the peloton will pass the Geulhemerberg! See @melanieduring.com's clip about the treasures hidden along the climb!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkM7...

My partner and I will be in Bemelen tomorrow to watch the Tour of Holland roadside if anyone else is about

NL needs all the races it can get right now

Oh, well spotted! I should have checked that

The offending seatpost

It looks so wrong 😩

Van Schip's handlebar clamp is the highest point in the race

Looks a lot better on the bike than off the bike I think

Yeah they have this at UK airports too

Well yeah, true, yet surely 'twas ever thus

To be fair if they could answer anonymously half the peloton would probably have similar feelings

Makes sense, thanks

I'm splitting hairs but should it say that Pog was 3:31 faster than Feather but crossed the line 1:29 after him due to starting 5 minutes after?

Is there a UK bike-friendly accommodation resource that you would recommend? I'm not a massive fan of camping and budgets are tight

Am I missing something or do timings not compute? 🧐