Missus bought me a Trek ASR Gravel bike back in 2019.
Used it 3 times.
Honestly didn’t feel safe on the road.
Just sold it, £800 less than she paid for it 
Nah I’m gutted Cav didn’t break the record. I see they’re gonna offer him a place next year 
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Fair enough.
Can’t help but think that Astana are so desperate for relevancy they’ll offer the contract to cash in if it does happen, so to me, it feels a bit gimmicky from their side of things.
Saying that, if he does break the record next year, he will 100% have earned it. You don’t win those sprints as a gimmick. If you’re even 1% behind the fastest guys you have no fucking chance.
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Philipsen way ahead, but looked like Cav was best of the rest. I reckon he would have done it
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Stayed up to watch a slightly disappointing stage last night but was amazing to see acceleration by Pog (and defence by Jonas) - they both blew away any so called competitors. I expect Pog will have wanted to gain more time there given the rest of the course probably favours Jonas but it likely makes for a few intriguing stages of sneaky attacks/nervous shadow boxing before the Alps. Hadn’t realised Sagan was riding this tour - gosh he was brilliant entertainment when he was younger.
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Think that’s mostly explained by:
Love the place, hate the roads.
3 Brits in the 1st 10 of general Classment, that’s quite something!
N.B 2 of them are brothers I believe!
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Nah, same mum and dad but cousins, I heard.
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Get your hearing tested, there’s a problem with it! 
So they’re from Kiddiminster I take it?
Pretty much a defensive stage today from Vingegaard. Pogacar with an explosive finish to carve out a few seconds. What is Vingegaard’s strategy? Is he as good at the time trial as Pogacar or does he need to pick a mountain stage and try to ride away from Pogacar farther from the finish? I don’t know much about him and didn’t watch any of last year’s tour. How did Vingegaard beat him last year?
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Vingegaard was fastest in the time trial last year but slowed up to let Wout win. Was a lovely moment. I think it’ll be decided before then though. Probably in next couple of stages
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Well then…
That was fucking exciting.
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There seems hardly a sliver between them.
That crowd was bonkers.
You usually only see hijinks like that on Alpe d’Huez etc.
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I was very impressed with how Wout Van Aert saved the day for Jumbo. I reckon the whole team were screaming at him to make that effort to break UAE and even things up on that last climb.
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Was wild. He came back from the dead on that last climb.
Did lol at Majka when WVA muscled past him after rising from the dead.
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I agree those lunatics will cause something bad they cost potentially Pog the Yellow Jersey with the motorbikes incident imo
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I was amazed too he emptied the tank for the second time but I was more impressed with Yates who killed 2 birds with one stone he looked after his leader at the same time as polishing his GC position
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