2016 build up *contains spoilers*

[Pro Tour Punditry]

So it looks like the new kits are appearing, the teams are getting together with sponsors and starting their training camps.

Thankfully.

It's been an empty few months...

Here's Lotto Soudal being all "together"

And Sky just before they start beating each other with pool cues due to Viviani pulling the "Italian pool laws" card

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I'm friends on Facebook with a cycling training group from Spain and they have been posting photos of a some teams on the Costa Blanca North....

I'm glad you didnae share them

 

[ColinJ]

all the above images are from the last week or so on the North Costa Blanca between Calpe and Denia......

I recognised some of the roads, and that sunshine reminds me why I want to go back out there in Jan and/or Feb!

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I recognised some of the roads, and that sunshine was reminding me why I want to go back out there in Jan and/or Feb!

It does look rather pleasant, compared with the cold frosty view from my kitchen window.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

FDJ obviously not sure if they should go for a wee ride or for a wee bit of scuba diving in the sea

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

The new Katusha kit should keep the anti-black-kit fans happy

 

[400bhp]

I'm friends on Facebook with a cycling training group from Spain..

It's not Nozad is it?

 

[Dayvo]

Those cyclists on the right don't look very serious, do they!

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Those cyclists on the right don't look very serious, do they!

There was a tweet on their twitter feed a few days ago saying that they had whizzed past Astana and then looped around to ride gently past them in the opposite direction

 

[ColinJ]

Why do we live in the UK!

 

[ColinJ]

Jean Christophe Peraud at Tarbena today...... http://www.traininspain.net/

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I was up there with a mate a few years back and we stopped to have a bite to eat. He jumped back on his bike and began his descent while I took a couple of photos. I turned round and saw that the daft bugger had forgotten which side of the road he was supposed to be on and was going downhill fast on the LHS of the road! I chased after him but didn't catch him until the road flattened out. He remembered that he should be on the RHS just before a bend and swerved across the road just before a car came up the hill round the bend towards the spot that he would have been in ...

 

[HF2300]

some more from traininspain http://www.traininspain.net/

Can't help noticing the URL could read 'Train In Spain' or 'Trainin's Pain'...

 

[ColinJ]

Traininspain's average ride speeds are 28-32 km/h, and for that reason - I'm out!

 

[Berk on a Bike]

Too early for a 2017 thread but Dusseldorf's been awarded the Grand Depart for that edition...

 

[Dayvo]

Nice photos IotCB but are you some kind of stalker?

I'd love to base myself in southern Spain (Andalucia - Albox area) 2-3months one winter. I was there 11 years ago for four months and loved it. Except when it got cold. And it was fakn cold in my mate's stone house.

Great to ride when the almond trees are in blossom and the sun is shining.