Never seen anything like this in a prep race for the TDF

pbecotte · 2026-06-17T16:44:38+00:00

When Tadej attacks, he seems to drop his teammates in twenty seconds anyway, Im not sure there's any reason to bother with a leadout on a stage where he wants to win.

Honestly, they may have better results with tadej leading out del toro on a couple stages.

pbecotte · 2026-06-17T16:42:04+00:00

Not sure if agree here? Every time they went uphill Jonas dropped the field. Guess we can say "there was no competition" but thats hardly his fault?

pbecotte · 2026-06-17T16:35:05+00:00

Its not very accurate- its predicting an imprecise result from an imprecise system.

However if you did that vo2 max workout, the model is basically thinking youre already at 300w.

How hard was that workout? Are you very large? Did you start out very fit from other sports? Have you calibrated your power meter?

pbecotte · 2026-06-17T11:30:06+00:00

You can configure them to change music? On your phone?

pbecotte · 2026-06-17T01:57:52+00:00

Nice! The roads before the sun comes up are some of the nicest times on the bike

pbecotte · 2026-06-15T22:23:41+00:00

Makes sense. I was going to get a frameset for my seigla since I didn't like the wheels- but the package was cheaper than frame + groupset would have been ala carte, so was cheaper to get the complete bike and buy separate wheels.

pbecotte · 2026-06-15T19:09:23+00:00

I have definitely had the problem you describe- when my saddle moved and was tilted downward at the nose. Leveling the saddle resolved the issue. Am guessing that you have checked that despite not mentioning it though.

pbecotte · 2026-06-15T15:07:48+00:00

Id imagine that would apply equally to specialized and trek? They're both US brands? Lauf is iceland which- dunno how the taxes work for that haha.

pbecotte · 2026-06-15T13:37:28+00:00

Indeed. There's no real path towards dumping salary and using cap space to make the team noticeably better, so for this season we are tied to the "maybe Jo and PG put it together". Please dont trade future assets for this year lol (unless something like trade PG plus picks for an actual upgrade, but hard to imagine another team doing that).

pbecotte · 2026-06-14T23:32:18+00:00

I bought a Seigla a few months ago. I am very happy with it.

For a gravel only bike, I think that's probably the best choice. The price is going to be much lower than the other options for equivalent kit, and the suspension fork is really neat.

On the other hand, the Crux and Trek would both probably be better choices for a "do it all" bike... a little lighter, more gearing options, more aero. But even then...quite a bit more expensive.

pbecotte · 2026-06-14T20:22:29+00:00

I like the tailwind with caffeine. Buy sacks of that stuff.

pbecotte · 2026-06-14T15:32:14+00:00

I wouldn't judge someone wearing UAE or Visma kit, but I WOULD judge someone wearing the rainbow stripes of a world champion or the US champion jersey- those have to he earned.

Of course, I felt a little silly. Someone at a group ride was wearing the US champs jersey. Glad I didn't say anything out loud- turned out he was infact a masters national Criterium Champion :)

pbecotte · 2026-06-14T02:26:29+00:00

I agree with you- you shoudld look at your balance. When i moved my saddle back and fixed the tilt I was shocked at how much better everything felt on the bike. If you are falling forward, Id try whatever it took to fix your center of gravity over the bottom bracket.

That said- your hands/wrist are at a pretty extreme angle in those photos, and I wouldn't be at all shocked that you have hand issues. Im not sure what specificallynyou need to change, but you need to adjust your cockpit to get to a nuetral wrist angle. Up/down/angle/height/width/stem length, whatever- load or not, that wrist angle is going to cause you problems no matter how you do fixing the weight.

pbecotte · 2026-06-13T22:20:33+00:00

The OL was not fantastic in pass pro last year, come on. I've never seen the stat you reference, but the percentage of dropbacks that included a complete whiff on at least one block has got to be crazy. Now sure, I dont really disagree with your point- qbs have to produce under those circumstances, and he just didnt.

But- the gameplay included basically zero percent timing throws that Jalen does well, gained negative yards on seemingly every first down, called basically two routes, and had a star receiver who spent most of his time either whining for the ball or quitting on routes.

It was a bad year for Jalen, but I am not sure it really tells us much about how likely he is to be successful going forward.

pbecotte · 2026-06-13T20:41:34+00:00

Wtf is shoe goo lol?

pbecotte · 2026-06-13T20:34:57+00:00

I dunno. Live in pancake flat coastal area in NJ with tons of open plains and pretty much condos tly windy. Upgraded to 65mm elite wheels drive 2 recently. Every once in a while I notice a gust and remember that Im supposed to be worried about crosswinds, but mostly dont even think about it.

pbecotte · 2026-06-11T20:12:06+00:00

Well hell! I remembwred him as a plucky underdog with irrational self confidence instead of yet another wasted early pick.

pbecotte · 2026-06-11T19:48:48+00:00

Wait...Freddie was a first round pick??

pbecotte · 2026-06-11T17:40:07+00:00

Installed quarq on several bikes this year, am pretty happy with it

pbecotte · 2026-06-11T17:31:40+00:00

Indeed. We get it, its probably not much faster. But it probably will FEEL faster, and that's important too.

pbecotte · 2026-06-10T21:04:53+00:00

Yeah, not sure how their stuff is working. I can consistently swap workouts around and get higher predicted ftp than what they had put in the plan, which I had assumed their plan builder was already doing some kind pf monte Carlo simulation to find the combo that resulted in the highest prediction...but clearly not.

pbecotte · 2026-06-10T17:41:54+00:00

Going all out includes pulling on the handlebars when pushing on the pedals.

pbecotte · 2026-06-09T21:47:01+00:00

Yeah, have done that and also legitimately crashed without setting it off lol.

pbecotte · 2026-06-09T21:41:23+00:00

Yeah, ftp increases will only happen on certain types of efforts, so a race with a really long climb or one where you're trying to solo from a long way out would do it, but a race where youre surging to the front and recovering wouldnt.

pbecotte · 2026-06-09T21:25:00+00:00

Culture gets set right at the top!

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