Ryan

Shameless Remco Apologist & Felix Gall truther. All takes my own, unless they're good, in which case I probably stole them from someone else. (He/Him)

[Ryan @RyanDuff99]

@gietvangent If you'd like I can paraphrase without referencing w/kg just for you

If we end up with IDT/Lipowitz/Gall, the TTs may be moot, and the summit finishes where whoever the best climber is can simply drop everyone else without tactical considerations will feel repetitive

[Ryan @RyanDuff99]

I like the Giro route on the condition we get someone like a Remco or a good condition Ayuso to take time on a Del Toro in the TTs and defend on Mortirolo and Zoncolan

If we end up with IDT/Lipowitz/Gall, the TTs may be moot and the w/kg tests may feel a little repetitive

[Ryan @RyanDuff99]

Del Toro going clear on Mortirolo before Remco tries to hawk him down on the 12 km drag up to Aprica would be an instant classic stage

[Ryan @RyanDuff99]

@NairoInGreen

[Ryan @RyanDuff99]

@Tratnikstan Sport hasn't been the same since CyclingGraphs got a job

[Ryan @RyanDuff99]

Fireworks? I sure hope it does

Is that anything?

[Ryan @RyanDuff99]

Here are the total Individual Time Trial kms of every Grand Tour since 2000, since apparently I, a man in my twenties, living in a major city, had nothing better to do with my Friday night

[Ryan @RyanDuff99]

@Lecstappilton I don't know if Remco can hold his Grand Tour climbing shape for two 3 week stints in one year

[Ryan @RyanDuff99]

Need someone to convince Remco he can do the Giro/Tour double (even though he definitely can't) so we get a Remco/IDT showdown at the Giro and Stage Hunter Remco at the Tour instead of going all in to finish within 5 minutes of Pogacar

[Ryan @RyanDuff99]

@FulanitoNu9zeq They cut down for a few years, then bumped them up to help Wiggins to compete with Contador & Schleck

Then Contador got suspended, Schleck got hurt, Wiggins walked the Tour, Froome vs Quintana became the new rivalry and they gutted the TTs

[Ryan @RyanDuff99]

This is how every Tour is designed

The only reason there are so few TT kms as default these days is because ASO cut down during the 2010s to stop Froome winning too easily

[Rúben Silva @EchelonsHub]

I don't think it's cool that a Grand Tour is designed in a way to benefit or harm the chances of any particular rider and it's exhausting that this has become the discourse

[Ryan @RyanDuff99]

@NairoInGreen Don't remember Merckx FC complaining this much about a 30 km TT

[Ryan @RyanDuff99]

@BreakAlways 100 km of flat TTs every year or it isn't a Grand Tour

[Ryan @RyanDuff99]

@selmatalksalot Sat in an ASO board meeting and during a lull, someone stands up and asks 'what if we just make everything worse?'

[Ryan @RyanDuff99]

@LeCyclismebelge @EvenepoelRemco @RBH_ProCycling 'Even more the case next year' because he needs to get into Grand Tour shape earlier in the season than usual, perhaps?

[Ryan @RyanDuff99]

@NairoInGreen Andalucia Stage 2

[Ryan @RyanDuff99]

Already happening

[Ryan @RyanDuff99]

Going to spend the next 10 Years rooting for Maxime Decomble every time I see him in a breakaway and I'm never going to remember why

[Ryan @RyanDuff99]

The Tour of Holland calling itself the Eneco Tour is going to make my continuing insistence on calling the Renewi Tour the Eneco Tour particularly confusing

[ammattipyöräily @ammattipyoraily]

📊🏆 Most pro level (≥2.1/1.1) wins by 🇸🇪🚴‍♂️s in WT/PT era (2005-2026)

8 — Gustav Larsson
5 — Jonas Ahlstrand
4 — Fredrik Kessiakoff, Thomas Löfkvist, Jakob Söderqvist

(❌ Nat Champs)
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📺 Söderqvist 🏆#4 | 🇳🇱 #EnecoTour, prologue

[Ryan @RyanDuff99]

@mcampostrini60 @NairoInGreen When Pogacar won the Tour the day before his 22nd birthday, the experts all said it was because he'd been training like a pro since he was a teenager, then after 2024 they retconned it to say he won those first Tours on beer and pizza and no one knew what sugar was

[Ryan @RyanDuff99]

@Tuqi_Duque @NairoInGreen I just needed a 4th race, but we can elevate Rutland-Melton to .Pro instead I guess