The Official UCI 2019 Yorkshire road World Championships ***Spoilers***

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  • Carnage mass crash.
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    2020 Voodoo Marasa
    2017 Cube Attain GTC Pro Disc 2016
    2016 Voodoo Wazoo
  • Biig crash at the back. Swedish rider practically naked upper body.

    Riders in ditches both sides the road.
  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,565
    Someone riding 80mm rims. Sensible idea.
    Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.
  • Pidcock held up not too far to go, but less than ideal.
  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,100
    Biig crash at the back. Swedish rider practically naked upper body.

    Riders in ditches both sides the road.
    Pidcock affected.
    Team My Man 2022:

    Antwan Tolhoek, Sam Oomen, Tom Dumoulin, Thymen Arensman, Remco Evenepoel, Benoît Cosnefroy, Tom Pidcock, Mark Cavendish, Romain Bardet
  • Sorry - at the back of the chasing group, not the peloton which, in itself is split.
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    edited September 2019
    Fred Wright sorts gears and still in lead group with still 56s
  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,100
    edited September 2019
    Pidcock held up not too far to go, but less than ideal.
    None of the other guys can hold his wheel. :lol:

    Couple of Belgians involved in the crash.
    Team My Man 2022:

    Antwan Tolhoek, Sam Oomen, Tom Dumoulin, Thymen Arensman, Remco Evenepoel, Benoît Cosnefroy, Tom Pidcock, Mark Cavendish, Romain Bardet
  • Slow mo of 2 riders going into a ditch/river.
  • Pidcock now gingerly re-attached to the back of the split peloton
  • TP safely back in the back and warm kit ditched.

    Climb shortly upon us (0.5k or so?). Gale force at the top of the climb.
  • Berg well positioned in the peloton.
  • Update: 5k from bottom of climb. apologies
  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,100
    The gap to the break has been slowly but steadily dropping. 44 seconds now.
    Team My Man 2022:

    Antwan Tolhoek, Sam Oomen, Tom Dumoulin, Thymen Arensman, Remco Evenepoel, Benoît Cosnefroy, Tom Pidcock, Mark Cavendish, Romain Bardet
  • Fighting for position at the bottom of the climb
  • x-wind R->L apparently
  • Italian rider goes off. USA rider follows after a pause. (mcnulty)
  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,100
    Covi attacks from the break.
    Team My Man 2022:

    Antwan Tolhoek, Sam Oomen, Tom Dumoulin, Thymen Arensman, Remco Evenepoel, Benoît Cosnefroy, Tom Pidcock, Mark Cavendish, Romain Bardet
  • endless mechanicals
  • DeadCalm wrote:
    Covi attacks from the break.
    that makes more sense.

    Usa rider attacked from main peloton but short lived and swallowed up. Still sitting comfortably though.
  • that's more than 9%!
  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,100
    Covi, Dewulf, Balfour and one other at the head of the race.
    Team My Man 2022:

    Antwan Tolhoek, Sam Oomen, Tom Dumoulin, Thymen Arensman, Remco Evenepoel, Benoît Cosnefroy, Tom Pidcock, Mark Cavendish, Romain Bardet
  • max 17% vs roadbook says 9%
  • USA attacking again.

    Wind to build
  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,100
    DeadCalm wrote:
    Covi, Dewulf, Balfour and one other at the head of the race.
    With apologies to No Ta Doctor, Kron of Denmark is the other rider.
    Team My Man 2022:

    Antwan Tolhoek, Sam Oomen, Tom Dumoulin, Thymen Arensman, Remco Evenepoel, Benoît Cosnefroy, Tom Pidcock, Mark Cavendish, Romain Bardet
  • us rider Kevin Vermaerke - LBL U23 winner turning it up
  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,100
    Matt Walls grimly trying to hang on to the back of the peloton.
    Team My Man 2022:

    Antwan Tolhoek, Sam Oomen, Tom Dumoulin, Thymen Arensman, Remco Evenepoel, Benoît Cosnefroy, Tom Pidcock, Mark Cavendish, Romain Bardet
  • pidcock 4th wheel while some attacks are made.
  • leaders have 30s. 800m to the top of the climb
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,157
    us rider Kevin Vermaerke - LBL U23 winner turning it up
    His fan club are in the same pub as me on the finishing straight
    Twitter: @RichN95