And now G!

[mikecassie]

Ineos are having no luck 🙈

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racing/geraint-...

[outnumbered]

He moans a bit in one of his books about being viewed as a crasher.... But honestly, he IS a crasher !

[Pericoloso]

I just saw this too.

Has twitter exploded yet with more conspiracy theories ?

[askew]

Today's date: 18th June. June = 6. Six goes into 18 three times. Three sixes = 666. Number of the beast: Oooh, MASON!

lulz

[GOATever]

It doesn’t sound like he’s broken anything too important, they’re just being careful.

[anonymous-user]

Swifty, Froome and now G. I'm wondering about the Pinarello bikes - are they any good?

[Mr Ted]

JPJPJP said:

Swifty, Froome and now G. I'm wondering about the Pinarello bikes - are they any good?

Having come back to road cycling after many years I was shocked at the bad handling of current racing bikes

IMHO the current obsession with compact geometry bikes to gain a few inches of extra drafting , steep steering angles and short rake forks makes for short wheelbase bikes with front wheels that behave like shopping trolley wheels and look like they've had a front end shunt!

My State Thunderbird was sold as a CX bike but I found the steering twitchy, I swapped the original fork with 45mm offset for a spare Genesis fork I had with 50mm offset and the difference was remarkable, completely stable, ride it all day with both hands off the handlebars!!

[anonymous-user]

G does always seem to have a big crash in him

[Jimbo.]

He’s as hard as nails. You’ve got to wonder about the state of whatever he crashed into (Switzerland?).

[mcelliott]

JPJPJP said:

Swifty, Froome and now G. I'm wondering about the Pinarello bikes - are they any good?

Froome took one hand off the handlebars to clear snot on a descent and Thomas just crashes a lot.

[gazza285]

Mr Ted said:

Having come back to road cycling after many years I was shocked at the bad handling of current racing bikes

You're kidding right? I've got a few late '70's and early '80's racing bikes, all share massive toe overlaps and steep head angles with very little fork trail.

[Mr Ted]

gazza285 said:

You're kidding right? I've got a few late '70's and early '80's racing bikes, all share massive toe overlaps and steep head angles with very little fork trail.

I am sure you can find bad examples from pretty much every decade back to the dawn of the safety bicycle but my point was that current racing bikes are bad handling!

[ArnageWRC]

outnumbered said:

He moans a bit in one of his books about being viewed as a crasher.... But honestly, he IS a crasher !

Is it his Track background? I wonder if the trackies are less capable bike handlers than those that come from an off road background; he's never going to be a Schurter, Van der Poel or Sagan, is he?