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New Division 6 with auction makes little sense for me. It's not like divisions are huge right now. New Division 6 with reset, D6-7 market might be an option. If we keep the current D6 pretty empty, at times promotion to the auction market might come too fast for some teams. See Elmo who felt he came...

Good! Donkeys react immediately to this weakening of the field and kick: Gjeldnes: Good for gruppetto work, good for control (but unlikely to be needed) good for escapes with R. Kagge . Good for nothing? No, no, good for well, nothing I guess. Lower salary! 78 flat. Kotibaruly being almost as expens...

2026-05-05 Marco Lanfredini Sprint -1 2026-05-05 Marco Lanfredini TimeTrial -1 2026-05-05 Marco Lanfredini Downhill -1 2026-05-05 Marco Lanfredini Flat -1 2026-05-05 Marco Lanfredini Climbing -1 2026-05-05 Damien Toulet Sprint -1 2026-05-05 Damien Toulet Flat -1 2026-05-05 Noah Lüthi Sprint -1 2026...

1 G. Lafuente: Leader, 83 mountain, 58 TT, so with a bit of an advantage on other climbers, so might even have a chance. I thought until I finally checked SWPs riders... OH well, 83 and 76 TT, might as well leave Lafuente at home actually :lol: But he stays, keeps number 1, but as often happens late...

If I wanted a 30km minimum, I could have coded that myself. Meaning, if you wanted something, that would be the way it then would be? Sounds slightly dictatorial, which is funny coming from a guy who once (non-)answered a simple question with "I'm not a dictator" (which as answer made zero sense, a...

No, designers need to know why they actually put the mintact where they put it.

Checking now, and already raging. Can somebody explain to me what the point of 10 km mintact is? No, nobody can. Because there is no sense at all in it. It's blind, stupid, idiotic, there is ZERO thinking behind it. But ok, humor me, try to explain why it makes sense. You won't be able to. Also 40 k...

I probably disagree with the mintact on most stages, but didn't bother checking, too often here the brain is not used to make the mintact, so fuck it. I'll happily complain during the race though.

Other topic: - Keep the D6 market refreshed. No real idea how that one works anymore actually and it's probably already done, but a check showed that max climbers seem to be 78 right now. Unnamed ones. Can't do a thorough check since the filters are not the ones as in flash. If I understand the cod...

We love Falcor!

Falcor hates old people. Good that I'm a Donkey. . Last year he left Enno home for something, Vuelta I think, despite the guy still being perfectly fine. Redrocks 35 for the Giro, 85 with flat, that's as good as 84 with less flat really, he could downtrain, most likely will, but still, the guy looks...

No

Look at FL and Tukh: Donkey says, good!
Look at Falcor and you: Donkey says, not good!

SWP too, not worthy!!!

Falcor with an embarrassing lineup. Is something like that even allowed at the Giro? Afternoon Giro. Seems better suited to some lesser time. The real Giro has class. That means..... compare the announced lineups of FL and Tukh to yours, what is different?

Why Harry P. and what is an Evanesco?

Now I'm insulted again, this one gets the full treatment, the Flèche didn't!!!!
Pfffffff

2026-04-27 Wakara Ganambarr Sprint -1 2026-04-27 Wakara Ganambarr TimeTrial -1 2026-04-27 Wakara Ganambarr Downhill -1 2026-04-27 Wakara Ganambarr Flat -1 2026-04-27 Wakara Ganambarr Climbing -1 2026-04-27 Marco Lanfredini TimeTrial -1 2026-04-27 Marco Lanfredini Flat -1 2026-04-27 Damien Toulet Sp...

Last stages from me. Any feedback for stages 1-9 is free to be sent in my direction. Once Tuk finishes stage 17 we should be done with Giro. I just do nasty spot checks :lol: Generally very happy with this crew, using the Giro resources fully it seems. Ultimi chilometri, dettaglio salite etc. Next ...

5th with Iskanderov, first of the second group. Considering my team, not too unhappy about it. And well, I tried, with Lüthi, didn't work out, but was worth a try and managed quite ok overall. Changed leader to him, despite the 2 classics having 100 form, but ok, 96 sounds ok and at least he can spr...

Donkey is a bit happier now, even if of course having to live without a long Flèche preview will make us suffer for a whole year. 1 P. Gallego Rest without any suprises, at least I think will have to go and check myself in a minute. So Gallego leader, but could also be Lüthi, Gallego has more mounta...

Hm, Again not much here, mostly Blockhaus climb important. Not climbed all the way to the top, gpx file pretty much matched the climbfinder profile, so generally didn't have to change much this stage. You have 2x 13 in there. Check "climb details" on the Giro site, no 13%. Cyclingcols very similar t...

Thanks for nothing, too late :twisted: Clearly a conspiracy. First FL sabotages the team by not doing a timely presentation. Also it's still not a proper one, it fails to mention that the Flèche Wallonne at some point in the fifties was regarded as the more important of the 2 Ardennes classics, the ...

No!!! We want more! A proper presentation, history, character and all the cool stuff!

Where is our Flèche introduction? Yes, Amstel shit race sort of depresses everybody that has some semblance of common sense, excitement over classics gone, but still, now we prepare the Flèche Wallonne!!! That deserves the usual intro! Where is it :evil: Donkey can't post his awesome team without th...

Giro: D1-5 or open? Open seems decided, I agree. Giro times 9-14-18-21 last year. 9-14-18-20-22 this year. (Tour 10-15-19-22, Vuelta 8-14-20-22) 9-14-18, what happened to the rotation? If there is none, ok too, just getting confusing if sometimes we have to ride MSR at late times (with more people u...