🧡 Hay días que se viven en equipo.
Recibimos al equipo masculino y notamos esa energía que nos une dentro y fuera de la carretera.
Una temporada más, la Marea Naranja está lista para empujar en cada puerto. ¡Gora Euskaltel-Euskadi! 🧡🚴♂️
🤝 Euskadi Fundazioko txirrindulari taldeek eta Mendiz bizikleta enpresa elkarrekin arituko dira 2025ean, maila gorenean.
Arabako bizikleten marka historikoak Euskadi Fundazioak ordezkatzen duen proiektu bakarrari bere pasioa gehitzen dio.
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Super happy to finally Announce that I’ll be joining @euskaltelteam for the next 2 seasons . Thank you to everyone who supported me along the way and a big thanks to @RaynerFnd for the past 3 years making this possible ! ekarri 2025👀
NEW EPISODE! Co-hosts Timothy John and @roadphil discuss a raft of topics, ranging from @DAS_Hutch_Bro's National Road Series title to @BritishCycling 's progress report on implementation of the Elite Road Racing Task Force's recommendations. Link in bio. 🔗 #AtYourSide
The #RaynerFoundation Dinner will be held on 23 November at the #NewDockHall@Royal_Armouries in #Leeds
Everyone welcome.. see the website for more details and ticket sales. Come along for a great night out !
https://t.co/BItcEBUWWk
The #Zurich2024 World Championships brought amazing winners from Tadej Pogačar to Cat Ferguson.
But for me, the overwhelming feeling is sadness and anger. Muriel Furrer's passing is another reminder that our sport is dangerous, and it's too easy to say that the dangers of our sport can't be handled much better.
Every time a cyclist dies in a race, we enter the same cycle. "The UCI mourns the loss of ..." turns into "we asked the family who wants the race to continue..." turns into "it's too early to discuss what could've prevented this". And at the end of the day, I can count the pro-safety decisions the UCI has made in the last 10 years, on a single hand.
At the Giro d'Italia, Jenthe Biermans crashed into a ravine, and the only reason he was found quickly was because the riders in his group used their radio to tell their team car where he crashed. Meanwhile, the UCI wants to ban race radios.
Why does the UCI not apply their own Parcours Guidelines which state downhill finishes and bends in sprints shouldn't happen? This actively leads to more crashes and sprint deviations.
Why did the creation of the SafeR organisation turn into a political game within the AIGCP, postponing the creation of said organisation, postponing safety improvements in the sport? Who is prioritising politics over safety?
Is there a centralised database of rider crashes which can be analysed, from which the conclusions can be used by race organisers to make their parcours safer?
Why are race organisers often not held accountable for parcours safety issues?
Is there currently research and development being done on rider tracking, crash alerts, concussion detection technology, anti-cut skinsuits? Is it possible for the clothing and helmet safety standards (in the rules) to increase based on this research (like standardising MIPS-like concussion reduction technologies for helmets)?
Strict rider behaviour rules should be enforced consistently. Why does Maciejuk receive a multi-month ban for his RVV 2023 incident when Wiebes did the same in Brugge-De Panne the week before, crashed a group, and wasn't penalised? Why is Reusser getting a DSQ for hindering spectators by going on a footpath when MVDP does not? This is basic rule enforcement.
Why do we not see small rule changes that could improve rider safety, like not allowing team cars to drive next to breakaways, instead having riders drop to the back of groups.
In my opinion, all stakeholders in the sport can play a role in this, but it starts with the UCI. Standardisation, application and enforcement of safety requirements, and simply, making safety the number 1 priority in the sport.
It's impossible that there are no ways to make this sport safer, and I personally feel like the UCI is not even close to doing the best they possibly can to limit the severe and fatal crashes we have seen in recent years.
I am disgusted by @DLappartient's comments, stating that 50% of rider crashes are due to rider behaviour (without any statistics to support that), a mere 2 days after Muriel Furrer crashed in the UCI World Championships. This sums up the UCI's lack of accountability when it comes to safety, to the point that I'm shocked these people can look in the mirror at the end of the day.
It's already too late to be proactive, but we shouldn't wait on the next cyclist to die before making the necessary changes in the sport.
It's impossible to prevent every accident in this sport, but any measures that could reduce or prevent severe/fatal injuries, should be pursued with the utmost priority.
Cycling needs safety reform. It needed it 5 years ago.
🛣️ On the road to Zurich!
Meet our squads heading out to Switzerland 🇨🇭 for the 2024 UCI Road and Para-cycling Road World Championships - including 16 medallists from the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games! 🥇
#Zurich2024
Here’s an Interview I did during and a after the tour of Britain ! Thanks for the write up @dnlbenson really appreciate it . @RaynerFnd#raynerfoundation
🚨Next rider up: Louis Sutton 'buzzing' after Tour of Britain breakthrough
British rider more than held his own against Evenepoel and Alaphilippe before a crash ended his race🇬🇧
https://t.co/VHiVhPOFyV
📸 @swpixtweets
@ks_mikey@AVC_Aix@RaynerFnd Thank you Mike !! Big day today and tactics worked out well , managed to help Joe move up back to first ! All in tomorrow .
Up today is GP Poggiana 170km with a circuit of some short and steep climbs livestream down below , kick off 1:30 🫡Allez @AVC_Aix@RaynerFnd#raynerfoundation
Grand Prix de la Saint-Pierre -Alleins (Aug 3, France, non UCI) - Won by Britain's Louis Sutton
1. Louis Sutton
5. Jack Brough
6. Mark Lightfoot
https://t.co/Pm69YgFPOX