Exactly🤣

Same here love it mate❤❤❤

great to read that the Lanterne Rouge is doing this ;o)

Yeah I’ve thought that but I’ve now learnt not to mug myself

It’s how we all dream we ride with strength and finesse. Ourselves. Sadly I’m more Thomas Voeckler. Had to google that. ( Ragged-tongue out. Battering oneself to stay with group.)

Yeah, like watching Armstrong in full pomp - like watching him mess with Pantani. Like of all these top 0.1% athletes he and a few others are in the tiny tiny long tail of that distribution and can toy with the the peleton as if they were 50 year old mamil choppers. Enjoy the spectacle but don't be a total rube.

@@OwenMcNamee maybe he is, maybe he isn't. We don't actually know though.

@@OwenMcNamee If he does the same in a team without dr San Millan and that isn't run by Mauro Gianetti, I'll change my mind about him.

@@GuntherL1 my thoughts exactly, any rider pulling off superhuman performances in a Team with those serial dopers at the helm is immediately under severe scrutiny for me, I dont think being at UAE does his case for clean cycling any good whatsoever. That finishing climb is absolutely sublime tho...!

Thats what they actually are called in Dutch (kinderkopjes/childrens heads)

@@nakkie13 Thanks!

Yes I agree

@@LanterneRougeCycling every pure sprinter not making time cut

Yeah, it's a great finish. But there's a little logistical obstacle with that. It's in Andalucia. If you went any further from France, you'd be in Portugal or Morocco. There's a bit higher chance seeing this in the Vuelta than the Tour.

ended last year with 2 wins too and 2nd at emillia first since merckx to win 5 straight starts almost 6. Wellens yates should be great fits gt and one day specialists..

Had to look twice. Ha.

That's why i love him. He is riding with passion and attack like there is no tommorow.

Entertaining to watch but I think he should try to restraint himself and not fight for seconds. Last TDF he won the most battles but Jonas won the war only attacking 3 or 4 times (he got away on two attacks).

and you weren't wrong ...

Natural born selfish racer u mean?

@@charlesflores9605 🤣🤣🤣. Winner you mean

He does but as we know it is a team sport. He needs much more support on those huge mountain stages. All the times he was attacked by Jumbo led to Vingegaard being able to ride away from him on just that one day.

@@cvn6555 true, vingegaard with roglic and wva such a cheat code.

What we hear from our Slovenian friends is that he trained like a "maniac" and that last year's defeat was a good "lesson" to him.

Then again, there weren't any (punchy) classics riders in that group and Mas remained suprisingly close. We'll definitely get nice battles in the classics between MVDP, WVA, Pogacar, hopefully Alaphilippe, ...

The way he's going he will win all of them :O

@@dextermorgan4490 Really? Primoz and Jonas one two punch was mighty powerful at the tour last year

@@dextermorgan4490 Yeah, that's why he attacked Pogacar for Vingegaard on the Galibier, silly man.

@@dextermorgan4490 "Won't ride for someone else" - what, you mean do something like stay an extra week in a race after sustaining multiple fractures, to use yourself as bait for Pogacar attacking him multiple times on stage 11 so that Jonas could ride away? Does that not qualify as caring about the team?

I don't think he could match big Raw power guys. There are no climbs to make the difference. I say that and I'd totally not be shocked if he was with the favorites at the end lol

If he's teamed up with Wellens and their wheels don't fold in half a la Jumbo Visma last year, things could get pretty interesting...

Pog would probably ride Roubaix after his prime, the risk of riding Roubaix is too high that could affect TDF performances while the chances of winning is the lowest of all monuments, maybe if he doesn’t do TDF then he could go for it

If there is any TdF winner from the last ten years I suspect could do it, it would be him. He already proved he can ride cobbles and is technically good. Also a great time trialist, even on the flat. But more importantly his body looks like it has a very powerful core strength and he is capable of getting a lot of watts out seated. When he is done with winning the tour i suspect he could do it, with a bit more muscle weight and specific training.

@@ktakashismith Yeah but both Wellens and Pog are better suited to the hill classics or at least something like RVV. Roubaix, is a different story. They cannot match guys like WVA, MvdP, etc. on powering over the cobbles.

On cobbles its better to remain seated. Standing will cause the rearwheel to slip on cobbleclimbs.

The Enve Aero SES bars they're running have the same outer dimensions as their normal bars, so it's not like he's riding super-wide drops all of a sudden. The difference is the levers are mounted further inwards, and there's only 25mm of flare, so riders that would normally run 40cm "traditional" bars are instead riding with their levers at 35cm width, and the drops at 40cm width. Makes your default position on the hoods more aero, and you don't have to make your bike look cross-eyed by cocking your levers inwards to get that narrow grip. Another advantage of this bar design is that your position in the drops is much more comfortable, because your wrists don't bump against the top of the drops where the levers are mounted.

They are at Algarve, but the last few years their riders have done a much smaller schedule (focussing on WT races) compared to a team such as UAE

@@LanterneRougeCycling what is a WT race?

World tour level

It's the poorest region in Spain. They didn't have to remove tarmac what wasn't there to begin with.

Feels like an eternity since he was at the top. Really sucks that injuries derail so many careers.

Pogacar never was even close to the top number 1 spot, why would he be able to challenge Pogacar for it now vs others who are more suited for that (getting points in both classics and GC's/stages).

@@MDP1702 Bernal was pretty much the most exciting rider in 2019 when he was only 22. He has finished high up in not only mountainious and hilly classics, but also finished on the podium in Strade Bianche when he attacked with van der Poel and Alaphilippe 2 years ago. He was a medallist in MTB junior WC twice. He is as good technically as Pogacar. I don't see many riders who'd be much more suited to both GTs and one-day races than him, if he ever recovers.

There is always one clown 👎👎

@@imranwahid11yeah you if you believe he’s not doping or “cheating” in anyway lol

@@imranwahid11 I mean, they’re all dirty. But something about him (and the whole jumbo team) just stinks. And pious Padun a couple of years ago, obviously.

@@jimrustle270 if they are all dirty, does it really matter? lol

But in the end you can‘t proove it.

Because it wasn't a dangerous one.

@@MDP1702 but he lost because of it :D