Make UCI points actually matter by instituting a “color draft” where teams pick from a pre-selected collection of easily-differentiated, on-trend color schemes, based on the previous season’s results. p/b Pantone.

I’ve been slammed lately, but here’s a few seconds on how it’d be great if Peacock's Olympic XC skiing coverage could stop repeatedly saying things that are objectively untrue (and would be illegal if they were not).

At some point I will get around to posting more things here

As a guy who makes stuff in a lot of different formats, I've tended to be mostly OK with using the term "content" to describe it. But more recent developments have been causing me to rethink that evaluation. www.threads.net/@codytownsen...

I should also point out that Dane and I do #HTRWW Podcast Live shows after big races on the @escapecollective.bsky.social YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/live/sumK2pd...

I do get replies from this app. At one point I had a functional cross-posting script but then accidentally broke it, and haven’t been able to fix it because I’m too busy making memes (& dealing w/other technical issues)

a little disappointing they didn't post the source to that—they pull the data from pre-made routes on Google Maps, seems like it'd be trivial to create a new route that covers the GW ↩️ via Threads

honestly expected a least *a little* pushback on the notion that Australians aren't normal, but nope—not a word against it. ↩️ via Threads

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I have again created some memes. CyclingThreads

I have actually wondered about this more often than I’d like to admit. I really want there to be some glib historical joke answer but it seems multifactorial, and well-established (at least since women started reliably having pro races to attend) ↩️ via Threads

Wait, there’s a return deposit? Is this why I see way fewer plastic cups strewn across the course now than back in the aughts/early teens. ↩️ via Threads

ah, I have exchanged more than a few emails with him! Good dude. ↩️ via Threads

as the replies have suggested, there is not. 🎠 via Threads

I don't care what the producer says, I am 100% wiping my face off ASAP after a race like this.

Big cheers for a visible tired Wout who takes the win, then threatens to hug various officials and VIPs as he rolls to the podium—AND some lunatic takes him up on the offer! I *think* we'll get 25 lead-lap finishers, unless the graphics are out of sync.

28 on the lead lap still as Wout gets the bell.

is there some sort of race-determined cut-off for CX beer sales? Like baseball concessions closing up after the 7th inning?

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You can have any flag you want, as long as it's Belgian 📸 via Threads

"Do you like the course, or is it just ok?" "Its ok, I like it" 🤷‍♂️ ↩️ via Threads

4 laps to go 30+ minutes in. the way Wout is going there's gonna be 20 dudes on the lead lap today.

If you do flat today, it is somewhat less bad—slop and lower speeds make it less of a disadvantage, and a flat mud tire is still pretty grippy (until you try to change direction, shift your weight, ride a steep sidehill, hit a bump, etc)

it looked like one of Kamp's guys might have shouted something at Nys when they came back around the other side. ↩️ via Threads

gingerbread man Verstrynge climbing onto the back of fox Wout Van Aert, who has assured him of safe passage across this river.

Kamp on the deck in the pit, reflexively looking around for Iserbyt

Pim Run-Hard

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"…this was the first time I thought 'Another lap?! Really?'" - @lucinda_brand 🔁 via Threads

…not that the women weren't impacted, as Van Empel rolls across in third, sporting her second dead-flat tire in as many laps. ↩️ via Threads

you can see the bikes jackhammering off the hard/rough bottom under the mud on many sections of the course. Gonna be a lot of flats in the men's race.

must be intense sponsor pressure from the Dendermonde McDonalds that keeps them from changing the name ↩️ via Threads

Brand, 30s up, gets the bell more than 45 minutes into the race, with lap times running longer than 9 minutes. 📸 via Threads

Fem making the pass on Pieterse after a lap or two of stalking, but Puck seems to be sticking around. Could still be a good battle here in the wake of Brand's destruction.

this was my interpretation as well, but apparently his kid just likes funny faces 🤷‍♂️ ↩️ via Threads

I got extremely confused about this in a crit one time when I first started racing. ↩️ via Threads

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Compare what's live at Velo to what's preserved Internet Archive link above—that should address most of your questions. Though I will say, their premises are confusing, and (at least as currently phrased) any answers will ultimately be up to the asker's… ↩️ via Threads

I only have one acquaintance who got it done, with a use-case of back-country skiing. last we spoke, they found it pretty game-changing, though I'm unclear on whether the intent was to prevent future dislocation or address discomfort/range of motion from past… ↩️ via Threads

I get the sense you've summed up his feelings on the day as well. ↩️ via Threads

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anyway, consider this your periodic reminder to donate to @internetarchive ↩️ via Threads

Have we forgotten NextHash already? https://web.archive.org/web/20220205020832/https://cyclingtips.com/2022/01/sex-toys-cybercrime-and-cycling-sponsorship-the-bizarre-tale-of-nexthash/ Certainly doesn't help that @velovelovelo_'s migration of that… 📸 via Threads

certainly an interesting complement to Van Aert's last win here (2023), where outstanding form overcame a seemingly endless series of mistakes: https://www.instagram.com/howtheracewaswon/reel/CnRyvA4AvvZ/ ↩️ via Threads

Wasn't a stylistic masterpiece, but Van Aert did take the win, avoiding major errors and making the final gap off steady pressure and an Iserbyt bobble.

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2 to go, and Wout is distancing everyone but Iserbyt. Despite his less-than-stellar riding, the crowd is loving every second of seeing him out there.

Five of eight laps in and Wout still doing Cat 2 Roadie Mad Watts/Bad Corner shuffle. Vanthourenout just now starting to take advantage.

Van der Haar casually re-setting his shoulder on the course. Wonder if he knows they do have a surgery that can help with that.

Wout is so rusty in CX he tried to hold himself up using the plastic course tape.