Even after those injuries and recovery, Ineos held him there for a year with a contract to ISN signed for the year after, they obviously seen his future potential as a leader or mentor and made him still the highest paid cyclist in the peloton.
He's not even their GC rider at the TDF either, thats Woods - although the chaos in the first few stages put paid to that too.
He actually said in an interview, I will not be winning or trying to win this year, expect to see me doing lots of bottle runs
I think he realises his race is run as far as any GC efforts go - he's no Valverde, but his experience will be pretty invaluable to them as they don't have anyone else who's even challenged for a GC before. I'd like to see him mentor Woods, one of the more underrated riders in the pelotonHe actually said in an interview, I will not be winning or trying to win this year, expect to see me doing lots of bottle runs
FIFY. I have to agree. "Marginal Gains" boy is a frikken expensive bottle-knob.
They might like to call him the road captain, to cover their embarrassment for his ridiculous price tag, but he is not a road captain's left testicle.
Just not Woods haha
You can have a drinking game picking what corners will Woods overshoot.
Sorry. Back on topic.....Woot. TDF talk. We should make a thread for that….
Sorry to hear, I had a friends expensive carbon bike on a vertical hitch mounted rack a few years back that was destroyed in a reversing incident. Vehicle was comprehensive insured with Allianz and they covered full replacement no questions... I've since had other unrelated issues with them but full credit in this case.
Did his sandshoe blow out or did he just fuck up? (Old reference)
Said everyone who ever owned a roof mounted bike rack, myself included
To be honest I'm a little disappointed, that could have been so much worse.Said everyone who ever owned a roof mounted bike rack, myself included
Had a bit of a low bite point on the front lever on my mates Banshee, decided to give the brakes a quick bubble bleed, bubbles came out, but lever was still not great. Decided to change the pads from front to rear, also to compare the pads, and yes the front were quite worn down, the rear pads were giving a very high bite point now on the front.
While putting the bike back together, I was struggling big time with the rear wheel alignment and getting the axle through. Got it there in the end, after twice getting it there but the chain wasn't over the cluster. But the worn pads on the back were way worse than they were on the front. Decided to bleed the back, lots of bubbles. On that bleed I managed to remove the bleed cup without putting the stopper pin in. Doh!
Then realised it was much easier to re fit the back wheel when you take the chain off the chainring and have no tension. Duh!
Then rode it and the lever was terrible. Thought to myself those pads are really fucked. Then went to put the bleed cup away and it had two o-rings on it, so repeat bleed process reinstalling the o-ring. This time I realised the 4 pot brakes can fit two of the brake blocks, so I re-do both ends to make sure everything is even after having only used a single brake block before, and forget the stopper pin again, but only once, and only dripped it on the floor and one drop on the fork leg.
Talked to my mate, he has spare pads, luckily I shouldn't need to use the bleed cup to fit them.
Picutres look a lot more tame than it suggests. Bike rack is slightly damaged but largely intact. The roof racks managed to pinch the car pillars considerably - good to know the rack is solid as though. The bike I am too scared to look at. It got ripped off the top and I didn't realise it was off the back and yeah I reversed over it back....
