Recent content by AlpRaid

Red Bull Bora has got to be the ugliest design almost ever. Hoping Remco gets the Belgian nat champs road soon to cover that up.

Just a completely healthy run for once. Thats my wish. He has not had a season that has not been marred/challenged by a bad crash or major illness. Not since his very first anyway. His best season in 2022 really only started at LBL when he was finally fully recovered from the Lombardia crash.

but this is demonstrably false. at the onset of epo many, many riders and teams were at bare minimum conflicted and many chose to quit instead of cheating. however, and I think this is the point of many here, Gianetti has shown over and over and over again that he does not have any of those...

UAE “physio” staff being poached by Football teams. I guess they “want what she is having”. lol. Another similarity with the arrival of epo and its providers in the early 90s.

and you would be correct. I would suggest between 1990 and 1991 was the first big change (and in interviews, he agrees), but it's likely a gradual thing over 2-3 years. By 1993, he could not get even the slightest result. he actually is not. he has repeatedly defended all riders who succumbed...

u do realize that Gianetti literally has decades of working with doping, with doping doctors, with doping systems. in fact, it can be argued that it is only through this lens he knows cycling at all. so give me a reason why he would change out of the blue? also, I agree it is crazy when people...

I have been watching it since 1972, so…😱 hardly less boring than the same 3-4 riders repeating the same watts/kg battle on the last climb with the same result over and over…and over. It’s also about balance. The greatest and most exciting GT of all time had 145.3 kms of ITT. (And 46 kms of TTT)

ayuso has always seemed a case in point for this. dad hired a trainer at very young age. he has been a "pro" since his teens. pog clearly had no good training until 2024. crazy what a shorter crank can do. :p if remco wants to stay ahead of the del toros and seixases, he will have to hope...

life ban?

"And according to Het Laatste Nieuws, there will be a long time trial at the Corsa Rosa, potentially up to 40 kilometers long." LOL! 40 kms of ITT is considered a "long time trial". Modern cycling is an absolute joke. WTF.

Merckx won most of his 7 MSRs by being the best and most fearless descender of his time (until Moser showed up).

Gap between vingo and Remco not the same as with Pog. How much did Vingo beat Almeida (and Pidders!) at the Vuelta. Vingo favorite for sure. If he has a healthy prep for once, Remco should be competitive, tho, particularly if good amount of flat tts.

Agreed. Best he retire. But seriously, folks, no one wants to see Remco trying to follow the best on the descent of the Poggio just to go somersaulting head first over a parapet.

remco should do absolutely nothing until giro but build gently and staying healthy. MSR and Ronde should be out of the question for now after what his body has gone through since Lombardi 2020. no crashes. stay healthy. that's it.

ultimately no one really cares about one week stage races. also, as mentioned, he has so often been injured, recovering from injury, or health issues (TdS 2023, post-COVID). also, if the one week stage races regularly had even a 20 km ITT (as they used to), he would have won many. frankly, I...