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And this came up as they were interviewing Jakobsen 🤣🤣

I may be a little Bias toward the Foil as I have a Foil(albeit not a 2023 model), But this thing is absolutely gorgeous.

https://www.bmc-switzerland.com/intl_en/timemachine-road-01-one.html Take my money...Or give me yours and I'll let them take it from me.

Hahahahaha yeah Unfortunately Cavs never made the cut their either..

🙈LOL yes yes sorry, Was speaking about Jakobsen to my mates in the WhatsApp group 🤣

Lol Not going, Just announced by QuickStep that Senechal will replace Jakobsen

Also just won the French National Road champs.

Listening to his interview post GB road champs, He certainly believed he had a chance of going to LeTour. If he knew he wasn't in the running then surely he would've said so when asked about it and also not made the social media post about not being notified.

Don't think it's that bad. But ya, being 100% honest isn't always great PR for a well renowned athletes employer!! Regardless, he prob sees this as his last year with them anyway as he only has a 1yr contract with them.

2016 - 4 stage wins, Sagan won the Green Jersey 2017 - Crashed out on stage 4, DNF 2018 - Didn't make cut off at stage 11, August same year he was diagnosed with the Epstein-Barr virus which he was arguably already suffering from. 2019 - Didn't ride TdF due to the virus. He won more stages for DD than anyone else and really put the DD name out there and gathered loads of publicity. Could he have done better, probably yes, Could he have done worse, 100% yes..

Not even a call to say he's not made the team...

Yeah when selecting a team you'd definitely want to pick your best available, I agree 100%, I understand that. Just saying if they had selected Cavs it's not like stage wins and green jersey contention would've gone out the window and they're just filling a spot, that man genuinely is a threat. and with only a 1yr contract extension, I don't see Cavs making it to the TdF next year in this same form he's in now. Hopefully I'm wrong. Anyway, I'm done sulking, I'll go back to my corner now.. LOL

No World CHamps jersey at TdF this year is also going to be weird i agree, Also no Alaphillipe going into France aswell, The man is a local hero, his presence alone n\brings out the crowds. Definitely not saying selecting the team was easy, But i mean Jakobsen is still young, I'm sure 1 more year of missing out wouldn't have killed him and it's not like Cavs was just going for the cameras, The man is literally still a green jersey overall threat aswell as any sprint stage, especially with that lead out train of his on their day.

Just for a case like this with Cav being excluded, I feel after x-amount of stage wins or whatever, a rider should have an automatic place in the race, same as the Golf PGA Lifetime card some players received which means they don't have to qualify. And then said riders team should be allowed to add an extra rider.. Oh well...

Vingegaard for me this year will be exciting to watch. In 1 of the previous races recently(slips my mind which 1), He had to sit up and wait on the climbs for Roglic i think it was. He could easily have ridden away, But obviously had team orders. Reminded me of the Froome waiting for Wiggins in the one TdF stage.

On the GC front, Obviously one would be silly to write of Pogacar, seems only a covid positive test could stop him currently, But on team wise, Jumbo-Visma look to have a proper proper well rounded team to challenge for stages aswell as GC

Eddy must've paid his Belgian mate Patrick some decent dough to leave Cavs out. The sponsors must be pretty bleak too, I mean the amount of publicity and media attention Cavs would've received would have only been beneficial to the team and sponsors, In 30 years time when the record for stage wind was spoken about, if Cavs had broken the record, he would've been in the AlphaVinyl colors, He would've thanked the sponsors and Patrick non stop I'm sure. Anyway, Now I'm not THAT excited anymore for Le Tour to begin.

Congrats to @Sid the Slothfor finishing 3rd yesterday.

All they have to do now is make hashtags trend and Instagram will lose business hahaha

100% it's a nice feature, i agree fully. Also aware that many guys have Go-Pro's too which is cool, Was just saying I foresee a few a few incidents on the horizon LOL

Agreed, There are kids here!!

I mean, I'm not sure how new this is as I haven't ridden much lately, But I see Strava now has a video upload option. I foresee a few more crashes in local coffee ride groups approaching.🙈

Is it in "mint" condition or "brand new" but used? 🙊

You're damned if you do, Damned if you don't in this case.

Lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Eish last week I spent more time repairing real punctures than actually riding my bike. But yes actually, had a "puncture" before leaving home too hence you'll see the ride actually started quite late 🤣🤣🤣