Tour de France 2025

[splat]

All that negative talk would get you roasted on the thread dedicated to him.

 

[FootballingCyclist]

For Africa we will have Maincheese and Biniam Girmay (Confirmed). And both on the same team aswell. 

Am I missing anyone else?

De Bod - EF Team not named yet, Not insure he will be in the TdF squad (Doubt it)

Gibbons - UAE Team not named yet, Not insure he will be in the TdF squad (Highly Doubt it)

Impey - Not in the ISN squad.

Edited June 24, 2023 by FootballingCyclist

[splat]

14 hours ago, betaboy said:

Personally… I think he should quit, his body just isn’t the same. Riders generally never comeback to the same form. We have many riders who have tried, the list is endless and I could throw in a whole host of names. Froome was good in his time and I’d prefer to remember him for that, than watch him miss training sessions when his got injures that flair up.(again). We all wish for better days, but sometimes you gotta ego check and look to the future. 

It's not him. its the equipment again...

https://road.cc/content/news/froome-blames-equipment-after-being-left-tour-de-france-302085

[FootballingCyclist]

11 minutes ago, splat said:

It's not him. its the equipment again...

https://road.cc/content/news/froome-blames-equipment-after-being-left-tour-de-france-302085

Being 1 of the directors of Factor Bikes, Why doesn't he just get them to make him his own rim brake bike then.

[babse]

4 hours ago, splat said:

It's not him. its the equipment again...

https://road.cc/content/news/froome-blames-equipment-after-being-left-tour-de-france-302085

Came here to post this. 

 

Remember him whining of disk brakes saying it won't last... #awks 

[babse]

4 hours ago, FootballingCyclist said:

Being 1 of the directors of Factor Bikes, Why doesn't he just get them to make him his own rim brake bike then.

Then what's he going to blame?

[Eddy Gordo]

He is absolutely correct about the overheating, disc rub being a negative. A friend of mine cooked his disc brakes on a decent not too long back. He ended up not being able to slow down efficiently. 

A solution is to use bigger discs, but how is that gonna look on a road bike.

[SwissVan]

A brave man, a real fighter is not measured by how many times he falls, but by how many times he stands up - Rickson Gracie

You go Vroomie, Be Lekker and best of luck for 2024

 

Edited June 24, 2023 by SwissVan

['Dale]

One of those ‘you either like it or you don’t‘ kind of team jerseys. A very creative design. And acknowledging a new sponsor partner on board. I laaik.

Edited June 24, 2023 by 'Dale

[ChrisF]

19 hours ago, Eddy Gordo said:

He is absolutely correct about the overheating, disc rub being a negative. A friend of mine cooked his disc brakes on a decent not too long back. He ended up not being able to slow down efficiently. 

A solution is to use bigger discs, but how is that gonna look on a road bike.

 

@Eddy Gordo let your friend check the disc width.

 

I had a nasty tumble in March due to a disc that overheated and I lost brakes on a steep decent .....

 

Turns out the disc was worn well below the 1,5mm thickness, as applicable to discs on MTB bikes.  With the new discs on I have done some serious downhills, and absolutely no issues.

 

 

 

The danger here is that you cant spot that fraction of a mm with your eye ....

[Eddy Gordo]

41 minutes ago, ChrisF said:

 

@Eddy Gordo let your friend check the disc width.

 

I had a nasty tumble in March due to a disc that overheated and I lost brakes on a steep decent .....

 

Turns out the disc was worn well below the 1,5mm thickness, as applicable to discs on MTB bikes.  With the new discs on I have done some serious downhills, and absolutely no issues.

 

 

 

The danger here is that you cant spot that fraction of a mm with your eye ....

Its a brand new bike.

[babse]

He needs to get off the brakes and send it 😝

[Frosty]

National Champs weekend, some already completed:

https://www.procyclingstats.com/calendar/championships/national-championships-schedule

When are the national championships for each country? Here you can find an overview sorted by date. Use the filter for each category.

• Category
  ME - Men EliteWE - Women EliteMU - Men U23MJ - Men JuniorsWJ - Women JuniorsWU - Women U23
• TT
  RoadTime trial

Date	Country	Winner
2023-01-08	Australia	PLAPP Luke
2023-01-10	India	PATIL Pratik
2023-01-28	Lesotho	MAKATILE Kabelo
2023-01-29	Namibia	DE LANGE Tristan
2023-01-29	Thailand	KLAHAN Noppachai
2023-02-05	Colombia	CHAVES Esteban
2023-02-12	New Zealand	ORAM James
2023-02-12	South Africa	STEDMAN Travis
2023-02-12	Ecuador	CARAPAZ Richard
2023-02-12	Uruguay	RODRIGUEZ Diego Leonel
2023-02-19	Pakistan	MOHSIN Khan
2023-03-04	United Arab Emirates	AL MANSOORI Ahmed
2023-03-26	Chile	LIRA Manuel
2023-04-22	Zimbabwe	SHUMBA Rodrick
2023-05-14	Cyprus	MATSANGOS Alexandros
2023-05-14	El Salvador	JOYA José Dagoberto
2023-05-14	Bolivia	GONZÁLEZ Freddy
2023-05-21	Nigeria	ABAKA Kurotimi
2023-05-28	Panama	LORENZO Randish Abdul
2023-06-04	Trinidad & Tobago	BURNETTE Maurice
2023-06-18	Finland	JUNTUNEN Antti-Jussi
2023-06-18	Ukraine	BILYI Maksym
2023-06-18	Rwanda	BYUKUSENGE Patrick
2023-06-18	Guatemala	VASQUEZ Adolfo
2023-06-18	Mauritius	ROUGIER-LAGANE Christopher
2023-06-18	North Macedonia	MILOSHEVSKI Aleksandar
2023-06-18	Bermuda	HOPKINS Kaden
2023-06-18	Honduras	DIAZ Christopher Jahir
2023-06-18	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	BAILEY Zefal Trevor
2023-06-18	Grenada	WALTERS Red
2023-06-18	Montenegro	RADUNOVIĆ Aleksandar
2023-06-18	Antigua and Barbuda	BRIDGES Jyme
2023-06-18	Albania	KLOPPENBORG Lukas Sulaj
2023-06-18	Nicaragua	VANEGAS Argenis
2023-06-19	China	MA Binyan
2023-06-21	Dominican Republic	GARCIA SANCHEZ Erlin Antonio
2023-06-22	Mongolia	SAINBAYAR Jambaljamts
2023-06-23	Turkey	ABAY Burak
2023-06-24	Croatia	POTOČKI Viktor
2023-06-24	Italy	VELASCO Simone
2023-06-24	Israel	EINHORN Itamar
2023-06-25	United States	SIMMONS Quinn
2023-06-25	Netherlands	VAN BAARLE Dylan
2023-06-25	Estonia	LAUK Karl Patrick
2023-06-25	Brazil	ORMENESE Caio Godoy
2023-06-25	Brazil	FIGUEIREDO LEME Pedro
2023-06-25	Spain	LAZKANO Oier
2023-06-25	France	MADOUAS Valentin
2023-06-25	Great Britain	WRIGHT Fred
2023-06-25	Denmark	SKJELMOSE Mattias
2023-06-25	Slovenia	POGAČAR Tadej
2023-06-25	Slovakia	ŠTOČEK Matúš
2023-06-25	Belgium	EVENEPOEL Remco
2023-06-25	Ireland	HEALY Ben
2023-06-25	Switzerland	HIRSCHI Marc
2023-06-25	Portugal	OLIVEIRA Ivo
2023-06-25	Czech Republic	VACEK Mathias
2023-06-25	Canada	ZUKOWSKY Nickolas
2023-06-25	Kazakhstan	LUTSENKO Alexey
2023-06-25	Latvia	LIEPIŅŠ Emīls
2023-06-25	Eritrea	AMAN Awet
2023-06-25	Japan	YAMAMOTO Masaki
2023-06-25	Romania	ȚVETCOV Serghei
2023-06-25	Romania	HARASIM Mihnea-Alexandru
2023-06-25	Costa Rica	HUERTAS Jason
2023-06-25	Algeria	BENGAYOU Abdelraouf
2023-06-25	Lithuania	ADOMAITIS Rokas
2023-06-25	Sweden	ERIKSSON Lucas
2023-06-25	Morocco
2023-06-25	Azerbaijan	GURBIANOV Ali
2023-06-25	Hungary	VALTER Attila
2023-06-25	Iceland
2023-06-25	Paraguay
2023-06-25	Puerto Rico
2023-06-25	Belize	WILLIAMS Cory
2023-06-25	Poland	BANASZEK Alan
2023-06-25	Norway	DVERSNES Fredrik
2023-06-25	Germany	BUCHMANN Emanuel
2023-06-25	Benin
2023-06-25	Laos	PHOUNSAVATH Ariya
2023-06-25	Austria	MÜHLBERGER Gregor
2023-06-25	Luxembourg	KIRSCH Alex
2023-06-25	Serbia	RAJOVIĆ Dušan
2023-06-25	Ethiopia	REDAE Bizay Tesfu
2023-06-25	Ethiopia	REDAE Bizay Tesfu
2023-06-25	Eswatini	JELE Kwanele
2023-06-25	Burkina Faso	DAUMONT Paul
2023-06-25	Bulgaria	ANDREEV Yordan
2023-06-25	Dominican Republic
2023-06-30	Iran
2023-06-30	Philippines
2023-07-02	Greece
2023-07-02	Singapore
2023-07-07	South Korea
2023-07-16	Venezuela
2023-07-23	Malaysia

Edited June 26, 2023 by Frosty
Updated with latest results

[ChrisF]

2 hours ago, Eddy Gordo said:

Its a brand new bike.

 

OUCH !!!

 

Were the brakes bedded in properly ?  On my Giant I had lots of issues with the brakes during the first two months ... took it back 3 or 4 times .....  Eventually got tired of the useless service in Durbanville, and took it to an independant bike workshop and asked them to properly check out the brakes and get to the bottom of it .... Proper bleed, think they replaced the pads (or just cleaned it, cant remember now), then properly bedded in the brakes.  Next 3 000 km the brakes worked PERFECTLY.

 

 

 

Disc brakes do work nicely, but it needs to be set up properly.  (like most things)

[tinmug]

Any way to watch TdF without Supersport? GCN+ doesn't seem to list it (for SA).

[Jewbacca]

On 6/24/2023 at 5:53 PM, Eddy Gordo said:

He is absolutely correct about the overheating, disc rub being a negative. A friend of mine cooked his disc brakes on a decent not too long back. He ended up not being able to slow down efficiently. 

A solution is to use bigger discs, but how is that gonna look on a road bike.

The thing is, rim brakes failed/had issues too. 

These guys push their bikes to the limits and hundreds of them are/have descended thousands and thousands of big mountain passes successfully. Sometimes unsuccessfully.

Speeds are getting faster, times are getting quicker and pretty much the whole pro peleton is riding disc brakes successfully.

I'll go back to it over and over, if they sucked, people who only care about winning wouldn't use them