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Wow, I was not expecting this at all. It really is the best time to be a Scottish cycling fan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

While I appreciate TNT’s efforts to keep my brain active with a daily puzzle to find where they’ve hidden the ad-free cycling streams, maybe they could just stop trying to trick us into watching ads on a paid service?

Got to wear both the QOM and sprint jerseys in the Tour de Zwift, thanks to my incredible skill of being so slow that all the women with better times already finished the stage and left 💪

I’ve been to Japan a bunch of times if you have specific questions! Which area are you staying in? Tokyo is enormous so it’s good to pick 1 big thing or area per day and do food/shopping etc. nearby.

Alright, flights booked and I’m going to Liège for my birthday since my Belgian CX trip didn’t work out again. Maybe Puck can win as a little treat for me?

I should start randomly mentioning my spare room in the hope of finally making some cycling friends

I was hoping they’d do a TT in Edinburgh but not complaining about being able to just get on a local train to a TdF start 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

My Dutch must have improved a lot in the last year as I understood most of the chat in Puck’s latest recon video! Also learned a fun new word: fietswissel (bike change)

Very surprised to have become a zwifter but it’s amazing not having to worry about traffic or weather or daylight. Probably ridden my bike more in the last 6 weeks than the last 6 years.

Rode with MvdP earlier* and he said his ‘cross schedule will be about the same as last year.
(*on Zwift, with 7000 other people, way off the back!)

May have written a whole essay in here, sorry to whoever has to go through all these responses. Imagine if TNT cared enough to ask us, instead of finding endless new ways to bury the ad-free streams.

Thanks to my local library 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 for getting us back free access to the pressreader app for magazines. I have a lot of binge reading ahead. You should ask yours!

According to Cycling Weekly, Romain Gregoire’s weirdest food experience was fried bread for breakfast at the Tour of Britain (“inedible”!). If he starts the 2027 TdF, Scotland will blow his mind.

Auto-translated article translating Criterium du Dauphine as Tour of the Dolphinarium

Sad there wasn’t live coverage of Pogi winning Tour of the Dolphinarium. Was the prize a life size dolphin plush and a bag of gift shop souvenirs?

That won’t be a problem at Scottish races! I’ll hope for some photo-friendly weather next weekend 🤞

Thanks! I guess with CX you get plenty laps to try different stuff too.

Amazing detail! You can see how bashed up he got at Strade 😬 I really need to get out my big camera for the local CX races. Any tips for getting good shots?

Discovery + app screenshot showing the ad-free streams of cycling world championships and how to add to your list.

UK pro cycling fans! The ad-free streams for all races are still on TNT/Discovery+ if you use the search. It’s the one that starts 1min later. If you use a TV app like me, search on the mobile app and add to your list so you can find it there.

A Liv bike propped up against a bench on the seafront

I love living by the sea. Somehow headwind in every direction 😑 Still felt good to get out.

Bit stupid of the Vuelta to start on the same weekend as my local vegetable show. Bike racing can’t compete with giant onions and potato animals.

Podium from the Scottish Gravel National Championships

Cam Mason, first official Scottish Gravel Champion 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Wish we had a better jersey though.

Watched the last ~15km of today’s bike races back to back and that was almost too exciting. What a great day of racing.

I’ve been avoiding socials as TdF drama was so extra bad this year but I guess Quickstep know how to drag me back 🦖

This has been my lock screen for ages 💛 Looking forward to this year’s daily overload of incredible photos.

At least we got to watch this unlike his CX NC win!

Yay! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 That was really fun to watch.

With the added drama of a French rider on a French team at the TdF! Someone call Netflix.

This is turning into some weird manga plot. I need to know what happens if Seixas gifts another stage to a different rider!

Absolutely! And smaller crowds is always a bonus for me too as I’m very short.

Ah well it will still be cool to see all the full timers.