Magdeleine Vallieres hasn't touched her saddle for the last km of the race, constantly dancing on the pedals, bobbing left to right, passing rider after rider to keep in touch with the front group. In a fantastic rainbow outfit (black shorts, everything else is white, cool bike and big glasses). I knew EF would honor the world champ with great kit but you still need a rider to wear it with style. She's doing that. Pogi looks like a lanky teen who's clothes don't fit compared to her. #PedaleurDuCharme

#koers #CouchPeloton #ProCycling #flechewallone

Today is a weird day in #ProCycling. Today is the annual ramp test at the end of spring season. They could do this on the turbo but because of 'reasons' we do it in one of the ugliest regions of Belgium. It's a 200km preamble to a 3-4 min explosion of pain and lactic acid. Who has the best anaerobic watts per kilo? Who can buffer lactate the longest. Who can push past the limit and keep going for a minute more? This is just 1 effort, but it's too long to be a sprint and you have to sprint anyway. It's like the kilo sprint on the velodrome or the 400m in track & field. It's a completely ridiculous race but I love it tremendously.

#CouchPeloton #koers #flecheWallon

Amstel Gold Race.

Or: When your drunk uncle designs a race course.

#CouchPeloton #Cycling

From the "Holy shit, bike racing has gotten fast" department, here's something from the latest Escape Collective newsletter: "Peter Sagan's finishing time in his 2018 Paris-Roubaix win would have been 12 minutes outside the time limit of this year's race."

A performance that won the race 8 years ago would today not even count as having completed it. That's crazy. #procycling #couchpeloton

#CouchPeloton They claim the blue Shimano bike is a Canyon Endurance CF SL 7 from 2021 (because this vintage of bike has a round seat post suitable for a dropper seat post).

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