Sep 28, 2023 at 08:15 PM

GregHoge said:

https://fb.watch/nlAcMwf1if/

Soon to be trashed and replaced with specialized

"Fifty kilometres to the east in Breda, however, a meeting did take place between Jumbo-Visma and Specialized, Soudal Quick-Step’s bike sponsor. Het Laatste Nieuws also reports"

GregHoge

Sep 29, 2023 at 10:13 AM

Or an Amazon warehouse. I could see Wout delivering packages to get some training in. With how fast Prime is it would make for some good VO2 max work.

https://velo.outsideonline.com/road/amazon-linked-as-new-jumbo-visma-partner/

Mark Taylor

Sep 29, 2023 at 12:30 PM

Kind of funny how the sponsor could do more for the team , than the team can do for the sponsor

eloy

Sep 29, 2023 at 12:58 PM

I would love to see big brands (ala Coca Cola, Amazon, Google, Toyota, etc) make their way back to cycling.

eloy

Sep 29, 2023 at 12:58 PM

but also will Wout be racing a Crux?
When it comes to sponsorship money, I would be surprised if Cervelo can match Specialized's muscle.

mugwump

Sep 29, 2023 at 01:39 PM

eloy said:

but also will Wout be racing a Crux?
When it comes to sponsorship money, I would be surprised if Cervelo can match Specialized's muscle.

I don't think you should be. Pon, a conglomerate, owns Cervelo. And they're huge. They own something like 15 bike brands, including Cannondale. With their takeover of Dorel (owner of Cannondale, GT, Scwhinn, Mongoos and others) in 2021, they became the biggest bike maker in the world.

https://pon.com/en/about-pon/

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2021/10/pon-becomes-worlds-biggest-bicycle-maker-through-us-takeover/

What Specialized has is the desire to equip the worlds most noticeable road racers. If they did win the battle to equip this not-yet-team, they'd probably have to drop their sponsorship of TotalEnergies and Bora-Hansgrohe. When Sagan moved to TotalEnergies, I assumed he was taking the Specialized sponsorship with him. But as his career tanked, I started to be surprised Specialized wasn't cutting TE loose. With Sagan moving to Specialized MTB, they might be cutting TE loose anyway.

Matt Budofsky

Sep 29, 2023 at 02:40 PM

I thought I saw somewhere that both TE and Specialized both acknowledged that they were parting ways at the end of the season

eloy

Sep 29, 2023 at 03:07 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHiJutxoZTA

mugwump

Sep 29, 2023 at 04:42 PM

Wouldn't it be funny if none of this speculation panned out?

That's what I'm leaning toward right now.

LennartZandbergen

Sep 29, 2023 at 08:25 PM

Primoz leaving has a lot of logic to me, because he wants to try to win the Tour. The merger though…

Mark Taylor

Oct 02, 2023 at 05:30 PM

mugwump

Oct 02, 2023 at 06:30 PM

THis must be a 'before L'Eroica' shot.

Mark Taylor

Oct 02, 2023 at 08:21 PM

mugwump said:

THis must be a 'before L'Eroica' shot.

I think you'll find it a post L'erocia " shot

Mark Taylor

Oct 26, 2023 at 07:13 PM

Kristoff looks very creepy in this shot

httpscdnmoscmsfuturecdnnetygeyeErvu4s5m4keKGnJTa-320-80jpgwebp

eloy

Nov 16, 2023 at 04:23 PM

This video is full of awesome, I find myself at times identifying with Rob and sometimes even w MVdP

Becoming a Mountain Bike Champion ft. Mathieu van der Poel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inrQs1-0hmA

(btw, Mathieu commits to doing something (no spoilers) if the video reaches 41k likes, it already reached 65k in one day)

here's the cx one, which I'm sure I posted a year ago...

Mark Taylor

Nov 16, 2023 at 05:38 PM

So much fun !!!

Jules

Nov 20, 2023 at 08:27 PM

So sweet!

PatrickGrehan

Nov 21, 2023 at 02:32 PM

Pretty funny

mugwump

Dec 06, 2023 at 11:06 PM

The rainbow jersey means easy street....

https://twitter.com/classicretro/status/1732117802826211547

eloy

Dec 14, 2023 at 02:31 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ltlDorRXWI

Jules

Dec 14, 2023 at 03:20 PM

https://youtu.be/oX4V0F4e6Ss?si=cMhY40LkQ24d0OL6

eloy

Dec 15, 2023 at 12:53 AM

https://youtu.be/NyNvUzzI4kc?si=qFtUCmmK7lkZwnRG

JohnMalcolmson

Dec 15, 2023 at 09:28 PM

BP CEO, after announcing net-zero targets, called the decision to exit petrochemicals “another deliberate step in building a BP that can compete and succeed through the energy transition”. INEOS’ CEO, by contrast, called the deal “a logical development of our existing petrochemicals business”.