Recent content by proffate

Coulda would shoulda... Or are you going to say Ben tullet is better than piti, pogacar, and most of this honor roll?

I think/hope there is a chance that Paul's presence forces Pog to back off the pace between climbs and Remco can pace back

We can hope for an ill timed mechanical that adds some suspense

Steady pacing is more important than "drafting" on a 16,% climb

soon this race will be rechristened Amstel Juul

Only skjellmose knew how his legs felt. He could have realized that there was no beating Remco. At that point you are trying to hang on for 2nd. And if you make a point of not working then Remco may either call your bluff and let the chasers catch up a bit (they were still fairly close until the...

I don't think we have credible science to back the claim that starting at the age of 10 would make a difference (except to descending skills!). But I agree that they start effective training at a younger age. Amateurs have easy access to good training plans that even pros didn't have 40 years...

fastest roubaix ever is more of a reflection of tires that are too big for even cyclocross, not to mention aero everything, which has the cumulative effect of not just lower rolling resistance but also less fatigue. It's really changed the nature of the race. In mtb XC, more capable bikes have...

aero is not that easy to eyeball. An 80kg rider will tend to be aero-ish, but Wout is really not exceptionally aero for his size, even by the eyeball approximation. His proportions are just not optimal --- legs too long especially the tibia. Tadej being 15cm shorter and having 4cm narrower...

Once you are the favorite it becomes basically impossible to win by any other means than brute force for some number of seconds. Cancellara can't just pull a Terpstra or Nibali or Bettiol. But sometimes it takes a bit of nous to know when to open the throttle. Especially in races like Roubaix...

I guess we don't know what Ganna would do if he didn't have mvdp and Pog in his era but he's only won a single one day race ever I believe.. so not in the same ballpark as canc regardless of what the power meter may say. Boonen vs Van Aert feels like the closest comparison imo.

I don't know if you're trying to make the point that only Europeans can be good at cycling or what, but if you didn't notice, there are active riders from USA, Australia, UK, Ecuador, Colombia, Slovenia, Denmark and Belgium who have won GTs. No Italians, French or Spanish, though not for lack of...

8 and counting is pretty close to 12. (Not to mention 6 additional podiums.) It would be interesting to watch, because if you had Pog and Merckx together, they could collaborate to make it too difficult for the likes of Boonen or Mvdp to ever follow on the Poggio. Mvdp definitely feels like...

Seems to have lemond beat by a few months and armstrong by more than a year. Granted there are much younger riders winning these days.

That's absolutely not ciclismo Sport would be very boring were it not for underdogs winning sometimes.