2021 PRO thread

[maquisard]

Roglic didn'r ride the TT either, probably becaue of the flat course. He is a specialist on rolling/hilly TT courses and knew against Ganna, Kung etc there is less chance of victory.

[jever98]

Disagree. Roglic just finished Vuelta. Dennis is bigger than Remco, so shouldn't do that badly

[BenSiskri]

First US men's XCO race winner in over 25 years, since Tinker Juarez - well done Chris Blevins; rode smart, saved energy, and attacked decisively!! Saying that, there were plenty of punctures which took a few out of contention.....

[stoney]

First US men's XCO race winner in over 25 years, since Tinker Juarez - well done Chris Blevins; rode smart, saved energy, and attacked decisively!! Saying that, there were plenty of punctures which took a few out of contention.....

That was a thrilling race! Chris is the real deal...just graduated from college in June and has taken it up another level.

[Kjetil]

Thanks micky. I had a good laugh.

[HammerTime2]

They are preparing a submarine attack for sunday.

Rohan is going to pedal Ted's sub?

[edu2]

https://www.bikeradar.com/news/team-ine ... sc-brakes/


Team Ineos Grenadiers is set to switch to disc brakes for tomorrow’s Grand Prix de Denain, in a move that could signal the end of rim brakes in the professional peloton.

[ms6073]

“Our relationship with Pinarello has always been grounded in a love of racing and innovation, and their work on the Dogma F Disc should enable our riders to race to their maximum,” said Carsten Jeppesen, the team’s head of technical partners.

This has me wondering if the descission was because of a combination of Shimano not being able to immediately supply Ineos with R9200 Di2 rim brakes and/or Pinarello facing some financial woes due to the Pandemic and wanting to streamline manufacturing by eliminating the need for caliper specific frame and fork molds?

[TobinHatesYou]

This has me wondering if the descission was because of a combination of Shimano not being able to immediately supply Ineos with R9200 Di2 rim brakes and/or Pinarello facing some financial woes due to the Pandemic and wanting to streamline manufacturing by eliminating the need for caliper specific frame and fork molds?

The Dogma F is already available in a rim-brake version. It's development and the molds are a sunk cost. The only thing they need to do is figure out how many rim-brake Dogma F frames will be required to meet customer demand. We know for most other brands the number of high-end rim-brake bikes sold vs disc-brake has fallen precipitously since 2017 (1:10 for Factor,) but Italian brands play to a slightly different crowd.

[martocom]

Troubles with the already announced move of mountainbiker Victor Koretzky to B&B Hotels.
His current team stated that he's still on contract with them in 2022. As he stepped up to one of the top-riders this year there's some serious money involved i guess.

[BenSiskri]

Sounds like somebody has been a bit hasty making the announcement; and certain social media posts have been deleted. Also, the rumoured Milan Vader to Jumbo-Visma, from the same team hasn't been officially announced either; even though Bart mentioned it yesterday on RedBullTV....

[maquisard]

Sir Brailsford rumoured to have left Ineos for wider role at Ineos Sports (aka Ineos Greenwashing)

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/report ... os-sports/

[Karvalo]

“Our relationship with Pinarello has always been grounded in a love of racing and innovation, and their work on the Dogma F Disc should enable our riders to race to their maximum,” said Carsten Jeppesen, the team’s head of technical partners.

This has me wondering if the descission was because of a combination of Shimano not being able to immediately supply Ineos with R9200 Di2 rim brakes and/or Pinarello facing some financial woes due to the Pandemic and wanting to streamline manufacturing by eliminating the need for caliper specific frame and fork molds?

Pinarello have already supplied Ineos with a metric *f##k* ton of rim brake F frames - both in team colour AND Olympic bikes. If they are now supplying them all over again with disc frames that is a significant extra strain on their manufacturing capacity - especially when customer order leadtimes are already at about the 1 year mark for complete bikes.

[ms6073]

If they are now supplying them all over again with disc frames that is a significant extra strain on their manufacturing capacity - especially when customer order leadtimes are already at about the 1 year mark for complete bikes.

Would seem to me that the long lead times are a consequnce of Pinarello's sponsorship of Ineos.

[Stendhal]

Tony Martin retires with a World Championship! Way to go Panzerwagen!