Recent content by Berflamand

A little bit yeah, I was stapling but the staples in my stapler have just run out and I don't have any reserves. It's quite frustrating to be honest.

I don't really understand all the back-and-forth between the Remco fans and Pogi fans and the apparent frustration of Pogi fans regarding claims made in this thread. I don't think anybody (not even Berniece) is actually saying or believing that Remco is a better rider overall than Pogacar...

Let me start by saying that I don't believe Remco can actually cook Pogi on his wheel on the flat (especially not in a race with that much climbing). But a mano a mano battle where they're both solo is not a good comparison I think because they're both having to ride all out all the time. The...

He's a Championship rider and he lives for titles and records. The TT gives him an opportunity to be the first guy ever to hold all possible TT titles at the same time (National, European, World and Olympic title). The RR gives him an opportunity to be the first guy ever to have won all...

It looks like there's going to be a lot of wind. That doesn't sound ideal for Pedersen's plan to ride with two full disc wheels.

Isn't it more comparable with La Redoute than Mur de Huy?

There's also a 7km climb at 7.2% they're doing 3 times with the final time at 70k from the finish. That's already quite late for Pogacar to start attacking nowadays. ;) I'm excited to see the race but I'm not getting my hopes up too much just yet.

Gold and silver at the Worlds. Only beaten by the best rider of this generation who is well on his way to becoming the best rider in the history of the sport. He should be very proud of his achievements. His 8th medal at the Worlds (recordholder) and 10th medal at the Worlds and Olympics...

Last big training ride today and he took the KOM on Mount Kigali for what it's worth (probably not much). https://www.strava.com/activities/15932059656

The riders are saying that it does not feel that hot when they're not doing anything or only doing easy training rides (as the temperatures themselves are indeed not extreme) but once they do intensive efforts it's apparently a lot more difficult to cool down because of the humidity and some are...

Better than ever this year.

I agree with your second paragraph but regarding your first paragraph, aren't we starting to overestimate the cobbled climb a bit because of the TT races? I mean, doing a cobbled climb on a stiff TT bike is very different from doing it on a road bike I would think. Also, for the TT Evenepoel had...

I was strictly talking about Championship titles because he has won: NC RR and ITT Worlds RR and ITT Olympic RR and ITT ECC ITT So only ECC RR is missing to collect them all.

Definitely. And perhaps even ECC RR if it were a choice because then he would have collected all possible titles in his career as it's the only one missing.

IIRC he actually only arrives in Europe (France) on tuesday morning. It will definitely be tricky because of the timing but he does have another chance at realising something exceptional as right now he is the reigning: World Champion ITT Olympic Champion ITT National (Belgian) Champion ITT...