Recent content by Rule #9 apostle

What bikes are they riding though? Is JV on the TT bike? If so I'll give him 10 sec to the bottom of the climb, Pog to take 5 seconds per kilometre up, to put him 30 secs ahead at the finish. Remco, Roglic and Lipo all within one minute down. I hope

How the turntables...

Old guys can't go out of form without everyone thinking it is the last time. Still, it seems very bizarre that he is at the Tour this year after the last few months. He could have aimed for Vuelta once he crashed out of giro. I think he would have a good chance of winning that one. I don't think...

Wow. Makes it very clear how random and incomparable climbing times are.

Ah, in that case absolutely agree

I love remco as much as the next guy but come on

TDF is so much bigger both in terms of stature and level though. The guy with 2 wins and (likely) 3 2nds the last 5 editions is the second best road racer.

In all seriousness, his life partner going out saying that they're burning him out is a pretty big deal. You would think she would know him quite well. And he is way below his best this year.

It may very well be the best of many bad options, and vlab surely knows better than us, but I think it's possible to make the case that they should focus their efforts on stages that suit vingegaard best. When vlab go all out to pressure pog on the hilly or classic type stages, normally jonas...

Riding hard just to get Pog in yellow for three extra days seems like a very high-effort low-reward tactic. Do we realistically believe that doing three extra pressers will have any discernible impact on his performance? If they seriously believed in themselves, they would surely focus their...

He rode yesterday like he doesnt consider JV an equal anymore. He's always been anxious to take every little advantage he can get against him. Now I think he's confident the game is all on his raquet. Also, its clear his main aim for the dauphine was to verify his level is there with that being...

Honestly find it very difficult to see any way del toro could have won yesterday from being isolated with two better climbers rolling attacks on him from the bottom of the finestre. He decided not to let the closest guy and presumed best climber carapaz go, and he just about manages to hang on...

Just like any vuelta contender: any year over the nex ten years he's unable to compete in the tour (illness, crashes etc.) I think he'll fall into 2 vueltas even if he never relly plans for it. And imo, as with giro, once hes done it once it should really not be a priority for him. Number of...

It's easy to overestimate the effect of G2 syndrome in situations at the end of races where the strongest rider simply drops everyone off his wheel. They're all basically ***. If you see the replay from after Oude on Sunday they never looked around or gave him free seconds; he gained steadily...

I thought so before this year's race. Didn't think he had a clear way to win so i had some stupid ideas for how they could play wellens or someone like that. But now it's obvious pog can explode this race as well at will. If he keeps going on cipressa its just a matter of time before he gets it...