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Cookster15 reacted to Rockestar_33's post in the thread Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia 2026 Route: Speculation, Rumours and Announcements with
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Cookster15 reacted to Krzysztof_O's post in the thread Teams & Riders The Remco Evenepoel is the next Eddy Merckx thread with Like.
Pantani was less consistent. His heights were unreachable but he also had worse days, he was crushed by Indurain (like other top...
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Cookster15 replied to the thread Teams & Riders The Remco Evenepoel is the next Eddy Merckx thread.Pantani was a revelation but never a genuine threat to Indurain at the ‘94 Tour. Finished 7 minutes down. With Indurain’s crushing TT...
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Cookster15 reacted to YavorD's post in the thread Teams & Riders The Remco Evenepoel is the next Eddy Merckx thread with Like.
I was considering exactly that Giro in 1994, when Pantani beat Indurain despite losing like 5 minutes in the ITT's, which for me is an...
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Cookster15 replied to the thread Teams & Riders The Remco Evenepoel is the next Eddy Merckx thread.Always difficult to compare different eras and of course the current crop of Pogi and Jonas are all time greats but Tony Rominger was an...
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Cookster15 reacted to KZD's post in the thread Teams & Riders The Remco Evenepoel is the next Eddy Merckx thread with Like.
I have to say the Giro route looks pretty good for Remco, few mountain stages, lots of hilly/punchy stages and a 40km flat and largely...
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Cookster15 replied to the thread Giro d'Italia Rate the 2026 Giro d'Italia route.Could only give it a 4. Underwhelming. As someone else said, knowing the geography available in Italy it fails to inspire other than the...
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Cookster15 reacted to red_flanders's post in the thread Giro d'Italia Rate the 2026 Giro d'Italia route with Love.
I gave it a 10.
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Cookster15 reacted to Escarabajo's post in the thread Giro d'Italia Rate the 2026 Giro d'Italia route with Haha.
Only 2 stages look OK. And one of them is too short. LOL. This is pitiful!
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Cookster15 reacted to OlavEH's post in the thread Giro d'Italia Rate the 2026 Giro d'Italia route with Like.
4 - Given the celing for a Giro route, this is really disappointing. They dont exploit the geography of the country at all.
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Cookster15 reacted to vappaxbipmv's post in the thread Giro d'Italia Rate the 2026 Giro d'Italia route with Haha.
Was deciding between 8 and 9, then I chose to stop messing around and went 4, for obvious reasons
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Cookster15 reacted to Devil's Elbow's post in the thread Giro d'Italia Rate the 2026 Giro d'Italia route with Like.
+ Somewhat low on the pure sprint stages + Stage 19 is definitely worth being called a queen stage + Not too backloaded (especially by...
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Cookster15 reacted to Red Rick's post in the thread Giro d'Italia Rate the 2026 Giro d'Italia route with Like.
Images all stolen from @Netserk's post, though somehow the quote thing disappeared.
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Cookster15 reacted to Krzysztof_O's post in the thread Teams & Riders The "MVP" Mathieu Van der Poel Road Discussion Thread with Like.
I'm not expecting him to get close to world-beaters from Africa but to beat Dumoulin's 10 k result by 2 minutes or so. I don't think...
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Cookster15 reacted to Red Rick's post in the thread Teams & Riders The "MVP" Mathieu Van der Poel Road Discussion Thread with Like.
Yeah individual running economy his highly variable and I'm pretty sure it tapers off after an x amount of training. It does improve...
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