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Awesome to have Caroline Mani on comms for Heerderstrand. Also enjoying her decidedly French pronunciation of "Vandeputte".

at some point I casually liked a blown NBA travel call, and now my entire feed is uncs going off about the Euro step.

Replies/likes on this make me feel like spearphishing the sports segment would be *extemely* effective. “Hey Peacock TdF Team: to celebrate 40 Years of TdF coverage, we’re getting everyone genuine yellow jerseys signed by Tadej Pogacar! Just log in here with your NBCUniversal SSO credentials to st…

Every pro cyclist talking about how great the team is in interviews before August 1. https://www.threads.com/share/BAuqt8fuJf/

Santa Cervelondale™

this was kind of a theme back in the twenty-teens—Velonews did a couple tests, but for reasons known only to Outside (and maybe not even then), the videos have been removed, leaving only the CMS article stubs https://www.threads.com/@howtheracewaswon/post/DewijkKjEJ3

also fun to remember when disc brakes were considered flesh-rending menace.

Another thought on 32in tires: in 2010, the UCI finally legalized disc brakes in CX, and it still took *years* for all of the top pros to finally make the change. This despite no real argument that discs were… https://howtheracewaswon.com/notes/2026-10-20-another-thought-on-32in-tires-in-2010-the/

@brqnotes reasonable, pulled mine as well. also misread the quote post as from the creative, not the manager. fwiw, my thesis wasn't so much that this is hypocritical, but that *a lot* of the corpor… https://howtheracewaswon.com/notes/2026-10-17-brqnotes-reasonable-pulled-mine-as-well-also-misread/

Not sure who's grabbing sandpit b-roll at Muelebeke, but chapeau 🫡 https://howtheracewaswon.com/notes/2026-10-17-not-sure-who-s-grabbing-sandpit-b-roll-at/

these are hub dimensions @canyon, not thru-axle dimensions.

By the last lap of the men's elite race that year, Zaltbommel was 57% riding/ 43% running (by time). And yes—we counted: https://www.instagram.com/reels/Cnrnmp3ACnt/

Commentary: "Now that Dendermonde CX is wrapping up, you can watch Paris-Tours, currently in progress here on HBO Max, the streaming home of TNT Sports" Me, in the US:

"Unlike Justin Timberlake, they're not bringing Seixas back" -@robbiemcewen 🤌🤌🤌

I cannot tell you how much I fucking hate trying to watch cycling in the US.

We didn't get a lot of footage of the front of the peloton, not sure I saw anyone but Red Bull working to pull back that move.

Nothing like having @hbomax tell me "it's ad free after this" for the third time in a single race.

Famous Norwegian Magnus Sheffield appearing at the front for Netcompany Ineos

apropos of nothing

There really shouldn't be top-level road cycling in October. The season is too much of a sprawling shit-show as-is. End it with the World Championships like a normal fucking sport.

One more merger will fix it. Trust me bro.

As we wait between races, just want to highlight that 32s seem a lot more like a work in progress in person. If you’re not carrying speed in, uphill chonk and rock steps are visually more work on the big hoops.

Epic 9 mentioned! Drink!

Gorgeous fall weather for the MTB World Cup in Placid today.

Placid XCC is drizzle and foliage, ultra-competitive U23’s are struggling to avoid bad decisions in unfamiliar, high-risk conditions, and there’s a dude in a Barstool Sports sweatshirt booting in the bathroom at 9:53am. It’s like I never left college!

Every comment and every reply to every cycling post is a testament to how little the people actually watching the sport know about its organization.

My favorite non-McNulty US plotline of the current cycling news cycle has been all the European MTB riders discovering Moab exists.

Maybe my favorite part of the McNulty win is US riders posting podium photos of losing to him when he was moving up the ranks.

Van der Poel is aware that there are 51km left in this race, right?

Van der Poel realizes there’s still 74km to go, right?

Vanderpoel knows there’s 91km left, right?

This why howtheracewaswon.com exists and continues to get built out. It is at least worth a browser bookmark.

Heard a major sponsor of the US (men’s) TdF coverage passes on ad buys at the TdFF because “no one watches the women.” Skill issue, tbh.

The collective groan on Mount Royal when Kasia pulled through 😩

Kasia near the front, looking unusually dialed in. Demi at the back, might straight chit-chatting. Group seems tense but not pressured. ~60km to go. #uciworlds #roadcycling #procycling https://howtheracewaswon.com/notes/2026-09-26-kasia-near-the-front-looking-unusually-dialed-in/

Montreal is cool. The only thing I’d have done differently is stock the AirBnb with more coffee, and pack fewer tubes with removable valve cores.

Geraint Thomas for new CEO of Rapha OFFICIAL PETITION

🤷‍♂️ 🤷‍♂️ 🤷‍♂️

the AI cannot decide whether or not I ever need to fully flush (vs just periodically bleed) my MTB brakes. I think it's stuck between a service manual and many, many actual Shimano owners wondering if that's even a thing.

Beep boop

Blevins looking happy to set pace early on this track. Things are lined out behind him, but not enough pressure yet to really break things up.

Azzaro realizing that yeah, maybe he should go after Aldridge when 2 of the 3 riders immediately behind him are his teammates.

I think Sina Frei is gonna have to hold on to that cowboy hat.

Hey @flobikes — you're gonna have to walk me through how missing audio commentary for the Women's TT Worlds has anything to do with "the team on-site". CBC (the host broadcaster AFAICT) has had audio with Ant McCrossan and Hannah Walker throughout the stage.

Well at least we got audio in time to hear Seb Piquet start into an English rendition of "Happy Birthday" for Reusser—a song that is no longer under copyright in the US (and really never should have been in the first place) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34332853

One week removed from Pogacar crashing out of the Vuelta, the tactical savvy and cohesive riding of (checks notes) Team Movistar has filled the leadership void: howtheracewaswon.com/reels/2026-0...