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It won't be close, that's for sure 😂

It probably helps that I did it last year, but marking was perfect, I couldn't even find where it was that I had to stop last year to find my way on the descent after the main climb. Pretty cool route, pitty I never got a chance to look at the views 😂

I personnaly don’t care as long as it’s made clear. I stay for podiums to get the cool photos for the team and out of respect for the organisers and the other dudes on the podium, but I value my time at home with the family more and waiting a long time for podiums is often a bit of a pain, even more so when I wait for nothing. No worries though, I could’ve just asked, we all kind of assumed there would be since this was a race for the age cats series and last year there was age groups podiums

Oh yeah I waited 1.5 hour for SV podium to find out there wasn't one like last year. I could've been back home already by the time I left. But plenty of time to chat war stories and down a couple of beers

please book a windless day next year 😂

yoh ! 💀

yeah.. also I have two sets of pedals for my gravel bike, one full weight weenie mode and one for training... I never change them, I really don't see myself swapping pedals all the time from one bike to the next, also I think powerpedals are much heavier than a spided based or even better (in that specific case) left crank arm. Also things to consider when deciding to go power pedals or spider based (or the cheaper way with a crank arm). All are good options in my opinion

I hope not 😝

ooooh ! I was wondering how anyone could know about the turn I missed in the descent, but now I do remember you missing a turn while chasing me 😂

ouch

Mmmh I still have the 4iiii left arm that I ran on my SL7 before I put the cybrei crank with the xcadey. Message me if you’re interested, it’s a 172.5 12spd ultegra. depending on budget and what’s on the hub, I would tend to go for a crankset with a spider (always loved my quarqs), but single sided left arms have always done a great job for me and once you’ve played around with the settings to find the right +/- to make all your power meters match each other, they’re all pretty much as consistent, unless you have a massive discrepancy in your left vs right leg power. (Just don’t buy stages they’re random number generators, when they actually turn on)

There was also a turn that was missed on the descent, that did not help me getting back to the group 😅

I just had flashbacks from my 2nd half of the race last year after cresting the main climb just a few meters behind the front group, stuck in no man's land in the headwind, desperately trying to not get caught by the guys behind me, but seing the group ahead of me slowly disappearing 😅

Great route, really enjoyed it last year !

I put in about 5 sips

ahah, until last week I was running a garbaruk cage, which brought the GX to the same weight as XX1 if I'm not mistaken (or maybe half a sip). But the shifting got really *** on the 10 and 11 cog, so I ended up ditching it and putting the original cage back on and it's night and day to be honest. Problem is, this GX is undestructible, I've been waiting for it do die but it doesn't want to. It's on its 3rd gravel frame and before that it was on my MTB.

8.05kg with 48 thunderos front&rear, damn, I'm sure if I take the numberboard off I can make it a sub8 kg 😅 or maybe I should leave the garmin in the backpocket ? 22A37F9C-0722-441C-B3B5-5AC761FEBFF8_1_201_a.heic

Geez maybe learn to read first, I'm comparing Tracer 50 and Sworks pathfinder, I've got them both and weighed them myself. Anyways, I managed to source another thundero 48, I'll ride that rather as it's the fastest option and best of both world (although not that light at 520g (AND NOT 470G !!))

The sworks pathfinder is 100g lighter than the tracer 50, so if that’s half a sip then your sip is 200g

you must drink some big sips for them to be 200g

Thanks, yeah I have a tracer 50 front and 48 thundero HD back, was thinking of moving the thundero front and go sworks pathfinder 42 rear to drop some weight for the climb, if it’s not too bumpy or rocky it should survive the distance and hopefully not be too uncomfortable ?

what's in the last 5km ? I'm wondering about tyre choice, there's a lot of tar at the begining, then I know the van der stel pass section but after that it's the unknown ?

I see number 10 earned more at this race than the winner of continental champs this weekend. Mist really be worlds 🙃

I forgot what I came here for, not sure if this was posted here before or not. But it seems if we have something to say, this is an opportunity that shouldn't be missed, hopefully PPA is involved with it (If it's not just about putting circles everywhere) : https://www.facebook.com/CityofCT/posts/pfbid02swXhcTsgnHpN6VwcUSPTtz1pcWW7Z9LQWnBviGGtC5ZQtjVBynjLXzpRzEEjKfVrl?__cft__[0]=AZVhYIQe8-ML7Rdl-FfxUSqlWIEj-1sjRiRP5_2zs0HPVZnTdviCNoQMrFl1HInsVQ0mVP4lJsuYpErnn9y7fLfGxj84twy6Lf4WwILkEvGPNKsF5x0_S9-7App-R6VbmGt-m4t9tOBd_5ilFUIdcNOGwaDpY-ifGOdf54sxOOwBD3JCpOoLqvpfpbRuY5wmByWHs6kOcfQJ6shiZDZ2N98s&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R

Were they supposed to ride on the empty parking bays ? And then sverve onto the lane every time there's a curb ? what's preventing you from overtaking here ? if there is no trafic I don't see a problem, I'm not saying that because these are close friends of mine. If instead of cyclists there was a car going the same speed or a tractor with only the driver in it, noone would have anything to say about it, yet it would be a single person taking all that space instead of 4+ in your photo.