Adam Hansen

Thanks for the story. I will say this very nicely. My job is to represent the riders, not convince them, change their options, and definitely not side with the organisers, UCI, or fans. I'm not here to make friends with organisers, UCI, teams, or even fans. It is not my voice. It's the riders voice. But I allow them to hide behind me, and I say what they want to be said. I was a rider. You, as a fan, might read that a rider goes home cause of crash a few days before or a flu. But I know if a rider goes home because of a flu, and being at the great race of the Giro, he would have raced with that flu for days and been struggling and suffering which you can not see on TV for those days before deciding to stop. There is so much more happening than fans see. Stopping is the end point of the rider, a complete meltdown, and before that point, they have been well over their limit for sometimes as long as weeks. I know the illnesses going through the teams, and the riders' health is my priority. Rain, not a problem. Add 4 degrees, add a decent where you can not pedal, and body temp gets colder over time. And a stage where it's all uphill from the start, which creates peleton stretched long and many different groups where cars can not service their own riders, giving riders proper clothing is the difference. What is this difference? More than 10 riders went home due to illness. The next day, 10 more riders go home with illness and today?? Let's see. Now, these riders with it, have had it for days. Fans don't know that. Fans dont know if in the last 24 hours, 20 guys go home, which means another 40 are still racing while being ill. I do. Is it healthy to race such a demanding stage while being sick, pressure from teams, fans, contracts and like you said, every party/stakeholder against the riders opinion they ask for a stage to be shorter for their own health? No doctor worth his salt would agree someone ill should spend 5 hours wet in the cold with heart rates going above 170 multiple times while the body is already fatigued. You are right. They can be replaced if they dont want to do it, and truth be told, some teams and organisers see that they are just race horses, Push them! We can replace them. so who cares!!! I care. If you, organisers, sponsors, UCI, or fans rather risk a humans health for your own entertainment, then it proves the point that they need someone on their side, like me

Let's talk about the Moto's influencing the race for a bit. For the fans bashing riders for riding behind the Motos, that's unfair. The riders are free to ride anywhere on the roads. For races that have Motos too close or just everywhere, that's not the riders fault. It's the organization of the vehicles in front of the race that is handled badly, again not the riders fault. It's first a race, not a movie production set. Do the riders want the Motos not influencing the race? Of course they do, we hear comments all the time and we always bring it up at each meeting. Even the organizers has expressed to improve safety, is to decrease the speed of the riders, where the CPA has always replied, the fastest way to slow down the bunch is not to have the Motos so close to the bunch. Which is a lot easier than trying to enforce correct hand position. Again, all riders want more distance between Motos and the front bunch, riders should not have to navigate to make sure they are not directly in the draft of a moto. Please fans, it's the motorbikes fault, not the riders. Respect the riders, their job is hard enough and then to read on social media that they get disrespected because they have a motorbike in front of them is not fair. Maybe the CPA might create a fund raiser for the production crew to buy a zoom for their cameras on these motorbikes. As it's unfair how much they influence the race speed, the results and on the other riders.

It's not about the law doing it's job. It should. However, Belgium law, that you must brake directly on red. There is no warning before red. It just goes red. If a bunch stops directly, this itself will cause a crash in the worst possible place when a train is approaching. The organizers should foresee and warn the riders in advance to be able to slow down in a safe manner.

@HansenAdam The procedure is that the train should’ve been rescheduled to avoid such situations and, if it happens regardless, riders have to be dsq’d. Neither rule was applied causing a lot of danger (and a serious crime) and now you complain that the law is doing its job?

@HughEdw54983916 Give me a brake, I'll update it 🤫

@HansenAdam Can no one spell brake?

This will have to be handled very well. It's serious to cross a red light at a train crossing. But bike races are different to normal car traffic. Cars drive a safe braking distance from each other. In a bunch if a rider wants to stop on a dime as the Belgium Law states, then you would have a massive crash on the crossing or around. We have to make sure this case is handled correctly, not to have riders freak out in future races and slam their brakes on causing crashes on a railway seconds before a train crosses.

@jonas_creteur @BenjiNaesen @DLappartient domestiquecycling.com/en/news/what-e…

@BenjiNaesen @HansenAdam??? Why does CPA support this: using 300.000 euro for a useless legal battle? That a megalomanaic like @DLappartient does this, I´m not surprised. But supported by CPA?

Absolutely unbelievable to see the CPA vote FOR the usage of €300,000 of SafeR funds to be used by the UCI in the legal battle with SRAM.

@Admir22821098 @RichieMadano5 @UniverseIce You are completely correct @Admir22821098, if the rumored specs are correct then the Fold 7 when rotated is 1.9mm wider than the Fold Wide. Which makes zero sense getting one unless you want a smaller form factor device. Videos are larger on the Fold 7 still.

@RichieMadano5 @UniverseIce Yes, you have to rotate it. And that's not a drawback to me at least, and also not hard to do. And also, you lose a lot more screen real eastate on the frontscreen. 6.5" vs 5.4", which is another topic

I spent a long time creating this image. This July, Samsung will release the Galaxy Wide Fold. The inner screen will still be 7.6 inches, but it will be completely different from the 7.6-inch screen of the Galaxy Z Fold6. The Wide Fold's inner screen ratio is 3:4, so it will look more like a tablet, which is very advantageous for watching videos. I'm more excited for the Wide Fold than for the Galaxy Z Fold8.

@TheatreGoer3 @cpacycling @INEOSGrenadiers @soudalquickstep @EFprocycling @RBH_ProCycling @ACCPI1946 @ContactUncp @women_cpa @AigcpOfficial @ACPspain Some topics are not.......

@cpacycling @INEOSGrenadiers @soudalquickstep @EFprocycling @RBH_ProCycling @ACCPI1946 @ContactUncp @women_cpa @AigcpOfficial @ACPspain @HansenAdam No one looks very cheerful ☹️

We are delighted to meet the riders during their training camps in Spain in these days. Thank you to @INEOSGrenadiers and @soudalquickstep for yesterday's meeting, and thank you to @EFprocycling and @RBH_ProCycling for the online meetings. Meeting the riders in person and finding out how we can best support them is the most important aspect of our work. Thank you to the guys and girls who are willing to give us their feedback, and thank you to the teams who are hosting us during their #TrainingCamps #WeAreTheRiders #StrongerTogether #Procycling #WeLoveTheRiders

@laflammerouge16 @wordsgetaround The Giro wants to start a bit later. To benefit from some public holidays.

@wordsgetaround @HansenAdam Giro was offered that spot, they refused it. Yes.

I've said this over the past years during the PCC and various other meetings. I was laughed at, but obviously they've never ridden the Giro in freezing rain and snow, or the Vuelta in scorching heat. That is the biggest problem in cycling, the tradition is holding the sport back.

You had zero complaints? I was not aware you're the go to man to hear the riders complaints. Remember some years are good, some bad. But generally speaking the Vuelta is very hot. And generally speaking the Giro has snow. Here keyboard warriors love to fire back. Where is the problem? I voice the riders opinions and I can say first hand experience that generally the Giro has had a lot of snow and the Vuelta also have some heat issues. Then I get complaints from organisers by the amount of stages being cancelled. So if we are looking for a solution to address these, that's an option. I'm trying to find solutions to avoid cancelled stages for the organisers. One time I was asked during a meeting from the organisers my feeling if the Giro was shifted back one week, as RCS has been requesting this. My personal opinion is that the whole European calendar would benefit if the calendar would be shifted 2 weeks back. ChatGPT: Winter is now starting later and lasting further into the year. Likewise, summer begins later than it used to, but it also stretches longer into autumn. The whole seasonal cycle has shifted forward, with both warm and cold periods drifting later in the calendar. So.... If the weather is shifting, it isn’t stupid to think the race calendar should shift with it, it’s logical. When winters start later and last longer, and summers begin and end later, the traditional race dates no longer match the real conditions riders face. Ignoring that reality makes less sense than adjusting the calendar to the new climate. Also the earlier races at the start of the season in Spain would dramatically benefit with less rain. Riders could also have a better off season period instead of being in full training mode over family time during Christmas....

We have recently reunited with @MajaMTB, President of the @UCI_cycling Athletes’ Commission, and road riders rep elected in #Kigali2025 @JulietteLabous and @Tomashuuns to share ideas and programmes 🤝 We look forward to work together for the next 4 years in the riders interest 🚴‍♀️

Today, the #CPA and #CpaWomen began meetings with the teams, starting with world champion Magdeleine Vallieres's @EFprocycling 🌈 It is a pleasure to talk to the riders we represent during the calm of the off-season 🤝 #WeAreTheRiders #StrongerTogether #Cycling 📸 @SprintCycling

@jollyboytwitte @YukiyaArashiro @hijirioda Very nice!

先日いただいた新城幸也選手と織田聖選手のサイン入りゼッケンを、それぞれ額装して我が家の自転車壁に飾りました。 同様に東京五輪のボトル(裏に全選手たちのサインプリント入り！)も、鉄人アダム・ハンセン氏のサイン入りボトルの横に飾りました(^^)ゝ @YukiyaArashiro @hijirioda @HansenAdam

Maybe this will be a monthly thing....@cpacycling

The @UCIRWANDA worlds is the most impressive worlds I have been to. The fans were incredible and packed, the course closure was top level, maybe the course was a bit too difficult 🫣, but well done to put on a race like this on the other side of the world. Thanks World Champion Magdeleine Vallieres for the photo and congrats.

@dog_bob_ @ProCyclingStats @Kigali2025 @UCI_cycling No, thank you. It's just the next strong guy is UAE and it only looks that way.... But it's not. Also to go against your home country, you would not get invited back......

@HansenAdam @ProCyclingStats @Kigali2025 @UCI_cycling Yeah, I get that. We actually used that exact thing you say in my sociology class at university. The only sport where rivals combine. I guess I forgot that. Thanks Adam.

It may look like it. But when you are in a breakaway, you automatically become companions with whoever or whatever team they come from. You are "friends" till you are not. It's not right to say UAE "helped"..... If you do, then you might as well say that for every other breakaway. You always work together at one point.

@ProCyclingStats @HansenAdam @Kigali2025 @UCI_cycling I mean, tiny pog is good, but without his trade teammates last year and this year, at world's, would he that good? I don't have a solution, but it's ruining the sport I love.

@Rekus76 @UCIRWANDA Attaching anything to a helmet voids it. Look at Schumacher..... You should never attach anything to a helmet that is not approved by the manufacturer.

@HansenAdam @UCIRWANDA I saw that these are not small devices, but perhaps a smaller device in the helmet? Combined together? Could this be the future?

Really great to see at the @UCIRWANDA that they have full tracking on all riders. It's impressive system. The system shows directly if a rider stops for any reason. We really need this.