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It was a breakaway day in Spain and surprise of all surprises...Fred Wright was involved.
Unfortunately, yes I'm biased, today was not Wright's day either, nor was it teammate and breakaway companion Gino Mäder's day. Instead, Rigoberto Urán earned EF Education-EasyPost their second Grand Tour win of the year...
He never gave up. What a fighter. What a champ. pic.twitter.com/0dhcSilNFt
— EF Pro Cycling (@EFprocycling) September 7, 2022
Behind, Quentin Pacher and Jesús Herrada rounded out the stage podium. Little change in the GC group other a few seconds so no big loser on today's stage...other than this cameraman who caught his own moment of misfortune on live television...
pic.twitter.com/7SwihT4GE2
— Cycling out of context (@OutOfCycling) September 7, 2022
A warm welcome to @Liztruss to the misidentification club. I'll send your starter pack which includes a weighted blanket, ear plugs, and a complimentary toblerone.
Gonzalo Serrano (Movistar Team) wins stage four of the @AJBell Tour of Britain 🇬🇧 at Duncombe Park, Helmsley 🏆
Tom Pidcock (IGD) takes second, Dylan Teuns (IPT) places third. #TourOfBritain 🔴🔵⚪️ pic.twitter.com/gFcsIUQL4V
— AJ Bell Tour of Britain 🇬🇧 (@TourofBritain) September 7, 2022
After Tom Pidcock's original escape was closed down by Jake Stewart of the GB team, the Ineos all-rounder launched another shot, following Gonzalo Serrano's kick up the final hill of the day, taking teammate Omar Fraile and Dylan Teuns (once again) with him...
In the sprint, the Spaniard's low-key day in the bunch showed as he beat the trio of riders who'd all been off the front at some point in the previous 150km. In true Tour of Britain fashion nobody's quite sure who is in the race lead...
The @INEOSGrenadiers rider has split the race up on Carlton Bank. #TourOfBritain 🔴🔵⚪️ pic.twitter.com/MHVcAaqRwO
— AJ Bell Tour of Britain 🇬🇧 (@TourofBritain) September 7, 2022
We have three leaders over the top of the @SKODAUK King of the Mountains climb at Carlton Bank (KM123.6).
🥇 @dylan_teuns (IPT) 🥈 @tompidcock (IGD) 🥉 @OscarOnley (DSM)#TourOfBritain 🔴🔵⚪️ pic.twitter.com/YHc6SmjOi2
— AJ Bell Tour of Britain 🇬🇧 (@TourofBritain) September 7, 2022
If you want your legs to hurt without riding a bike, go check out Omar Fraile's lead-out and multiple accelerations on the 10 per cent lower slopes.
🎥 Dozens of cyclists have joined the cortège for the funeral of mountain biking star Rab Wardell in Dunfermline.
🚲 He died last month at just 37. pic.twitter.com/gs8cvuEEz4
— Radio Forth News (@RadioForthNews) September 7, 2022
How hard is the Tour of Britain, by the way? When the riders aren't smashing up the grippiest of grippy roads, being battered by headwinds and torrential downpours, they have to keep their wits about them to avoid any unwanted streakers...or should I say sheepers? Nah, that's terrible...I apologise...
How to say you’re in Yorkshire without saying you’re in Yorkshire… 🐑 #TourOfBritain 🔴🔵⚪️ pic.twitter.com/4T0okirgF9
— AJ Bell Tour of Britain 🇬🇧 (@TourofBritain) September 7, 2022
Thankfully, Matt Stephens on commentary left the horrendous puns (not sure that even qualifies as a pun to be honest) to me, saying: "Oh that was a close one, that's one of the hazards of riding in the North Yorkshire Moors".
> "Giving it the absolute beans!": Kid smashes up climb with Tour of Britain breakaway
Another of the hazards is leg-breaking savage climbs, talking of which it's not long until the riders to tackle Carlton Bank (2km at 10 per cent, with a 30 per cent ramp near the top)...get your sneaky ITV player/GCN+ on at work for this one...
.@Chris_Boardman says it was "unfortunate" that the latest DfT data showed a decrease in cycling because it was shown in isolation.
Car usage was down 23% and train use 47%; in fact, active travel was the most robust of all modes in that period. @activetraveleng @TransportCttee pic.twitter.com/oP4wsEKkuI
> Cycling levels dropped in England because "short-sighted councils pulled out protected lanes", Cycling UK says
Chris Boardman appeared at the Transport Committee to talk all things active travel, including addressing last week's announcement of figures from the Department for Transport as part of its National Travel Survey, which showed the average person in England made only two percent of all their trips by bike between November 2020 and November 2021, while the average number of trips made by bike dropped to 15, down from a high of 20 the previous year.
Boardman offered some context, seen in the video above, to the figures which, when viewed alone, offered a different picture to when they were viewed in isolation...
AA President Edmund King welcomed the new transport minister to her position with a ten-point plan of priorities, including at number one, "make UK roads safer — promote vision zero deaths and set targets. Improve rural roads, cycling, pedestrian safety."
AA starter for ten pic.twitter.com/GuVygIkKI8
— Edmund King OBE (@AAPresident) September 6, 2022
As EnjoyTheRide pointed out in the comments there is also this in Trevelyan's back catalogue of tweets...
We aren't getting hotter, global warming isn't actually happening. @danhannanmep http://t.co/M1kDkXRY #wingatesnotwindfarms
"Well, at least the new Transport Secretary has included a cycle in her line of emojis," Steve K added...
I’m thrilled to have been appointed Transport Sec 🚆🚘🛳✈️🚀🚲🚛
Transport is crucial to our lives - bringing people together, creating jobs & connecting the UK with the world.
Looking forward to getting to work on the many challenges & opportunities transport brings. https://t.co/NTf0tvC3v4
Right, yep, that's us...right next to the rocket...it seems bus and rail travel didn't make the cut...that'll show Mick Lynch...
EDIT: Rail did get a mention... on that top row of emojis I must have missed...no sign of the bus... I guess two emojis will turn up at the same time...
While the Vuelta peloton cooked in the sun of a post-rest day jaunt though the south of Spain, the poor Tour of Britain riders got a most British welcome to the north of England...
WELCOME TO BRITAIN IT'S REALLY GREAT HERE 😳🌧️ #TourOfBritain pic.twitter.com/aKwQtQbAmy
— Scribe Katy of Watford (@writebikerepeat) September 6, 2022
I bet Richie Porte can't wait to get back to sunny Tassie with his feet up...
Are you completely sure you want to stop @richie_porte? 🤣🥶 #TourofBritain pic.twitter.com/KypojJzJqH
The worst time for a car to overtake the peloton ☔️ https://t.co/oRcOfxY67G
The @AJBell photo of the day.
[📸 // @swpixtweets]#TourOfBritain 🔴🔵⚪️ pic.twitter.com/wAvusgC7iL
— AJ Bell Tour of Britain 🇬🇧 (@TourofBritain) September 6, 2022
> "Giving it the absolute beans!": Kid smashes up climb with Tour of Britain breakaway
If you missed yesterday's big news in the world of indoor training...
> Zwift launches its own Hub smart trainer for £449
Some of your reaction from Facebook: "Direct drive trainer for £449. Either it's not that great, or it could be great and shows how much the likes of Wahoo etc are over charging as it's the same price as their wheel-on trainer. Fingers crossed it is and makes Zwift more accessible," Anthony Walstow commented.
I’m thrilled to have been appointed Transport Sec 🚆🚘🛳✈️🚀🚲🚛
Transport is crucial to our lives - bringing people together, creating jobs & connecting the UK with the world.
Looking forward to getting to work on the many challenges & opportunities transport brings. https://t.co/NTf0tvC3v4
Unfortunately, @rogla will not be at the start of stage 17 as a consequence of yesterday’s crash.
Get well soon, champion! Thank you for all the beautiful moments in this Vuelta. You had ambitious plans for the final days, but sadly it isn’t meant to be. 😔🍀 pic.twitter.com/C3Vnc8P9EO
— Team Jumbo-Visma cycling (@JumboVismaRoad) September 7, 2022
There it is. Confirmation that Primož Roglič's rotten luck continues. Second on GC, 1:26 behind Remco Evenepoel and the Slovenian abandons. Juan Ayuso jumps up to third place, giving Spain a decent chance of two podium places, unless something quite ridiculous happens and they nab all three. Enric Mas is the race's new second-placed rider, Ayuso third, Ineos Grenadiers' Carlos Rodríguez is fourth.
Clever? Yes. Within the rules? Yes. Riding a puncture into the -3km to go zone. Lots more to talk about here https://t.co/fvwZsfzh36
Puncturegate is the gift that keeps on giving...
Translation of the tweet (the Spanish one, not Carlton's...): "My feeling is that Remco punctured long before the 3km finish line banner. He begins to lose positions 6.9km from the end, 5km from the finish line he already has more than 60 riders ahead and he never reappears in the first positions..."
Funny how when you're literally paid to tell a TV audience your opinion on a professional bike race people will almost certainly still have a go at you for doing so...
Opschudding! Roglic verrast Evenepoel met late uitval, die stilstaat met pech #LaVuelta22 pic.twitter.com/KN6YdRUnZA
Ex-pro and GCN presenter Adam Blythe risked the wrath of Belgium yesterday evening after questioning the mechanical which prompted race leader Remco Evenepoel to pull over, just as Primož Roglič launched a stinging attack and raced off into the distance. The red jersey was within 3km to go so got the same time as the group he was in at the time of the mechanical, leaving Blythe to question — based purely on the less-than-obvious TV pictures — what exactly the problem was?
> Adam Blythe clocks 136km/h
The handy clip from the show, posted on Twitter before everything blew up, has since been deleted... so here's a quick run-down of what Blythe said: "I really want to see that bike of Remco's to see what the problem was. He's not crashed, both wheels to me look like they were pumped up, if his gears [chain] have gone into his spokes or derailleur and he can't pedal, yes it's a mechanical, but that's something you can help... I would like to see that bike to see what the problem was..."
Pushed further by host Orla Chennaoui on whether Remco was out to "limit his losses" by "claiming a mechanical", Blythe clarified "I'm not suggesting that [...] it's just all a little bit too convenient." Seeing the footage back, he continued: "Both wheels are pumped up [which, in fairness, did look to be the case on the TV images] he's pedalling the bike fine, so what is the problem with it?"
Remco's post-race interview followed, with the explanation that he'd punctured, but by now it wasn't just Blythe questioning the claim, and cycling fans globally took to social media to search for evidence of this phantom puncture...
As it turned out it wasn't phantom after all. A short while later, this video appeared, seeming to show a slow rear flat...
Evenepoel rear puncture inside 3km much clearer from this perspective. Slow leak, not flat but not really rideable either. #LaVuelta22 pic.twitter.com/yK0LYLdlNl
Presumably now on his evening commute, Blythe posted a video message clearing up the post-stage events, saying he'd now seen the footage showing the flat (much clearer than on the original TV pictures)..."That back tyre, clear enough for me to say that it was a flat tyre, so anyone trying to tell me that I was insinuating Remco's cheating... I am not [...] I was saying what I could see, and it didn't look like a flat tyre."
… ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/jmcN2dMadn
Phew... more drama after stage 16 than pretty much the entire 189km day out... lesson learnt, eh Adam? Don't go giving opinions when analysing bike races...(sorry, if you heard that it was just the live blog sarcasm alarm going off again, I must work out how to switch that off)...
For a good 15 minutes suspicion reigned, amateur detectives scoured the footage... while everyone else took to the blue bird app...
Conspiracy theory about 🇧🇪 Remco Evenepoel and his flat tire?
Oh c’mon, use your time for something else. Why would he do that? Why would it even come in his mind?
Enjoy cycling. Don’t try to make up things…#LaVuelta22 pic.twitter.com/Yocts6gCPP
Entirely reasonable to wonder what is happening. Accusing the race leader of cheating, and yes he did despite his little walkback video, is absurd. But he's been hating on Remco for quite some time.
Stop listening to Adam Blythe. 😆
There's no way Remco could have known how the finale of the stage would play out. Roglic could have been brought back immediately - or gone on to win solo. It's so silly to think he'd pull that stunt on this type of finish. Or ever really.
— Colin Lynch PLY (@FormerTTchamp) September 6, 2022
Adam Blythe is very entertaining! #Vuelta22
God forbid I ever get the live blog masses on me for saying something I shouldn't. Then again, it's probably more likely to be something totally un-cycling-related that does it for me... like what's the best jam tart (blackcurrant) or questioning why seemingly everyone in the world wants to queue to get on the plane first?
Dan joined road.cc in 2020, and spent most of his first year (hopefully) keeping you entertained on the live blog. At the start of 2022 he took on the role of news editor. Before joining road.cc, Dan wrote about various sports, including football and boxing for the Daily Express, and covered the weird and wonderful world of non-league football for The Non-League Paper. Part of the generation inspired by the 2012 Olympics, Dan has been 'enjoying' life on two wheels ever since and spends his weekends making bonk-induced trips to the petrol stations of the south of England.
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