Recent content by senna6541

Bad TDF route and bad WC course make it easy for MVDP to finally focus on the MTB after the Spring Classics!

Sounds good to me, especially given the 2026 WC road race course in Montreal likely has too many sustained climbs?

I'd like to see him ride everything because any race or stage is worth watching if he is in it. But focus on getting at least one more PR and RVV and then the only other road targets should be those he can fit in around a robust MTB season from now until the Olympics in 2028. The guy obviously...

Yeah, don't spend as much time on the MTB here during the summer. But it's still plenty doable early AM. And there's some good stuff up in the mountains as close 90 minutes to the east or 2+ plus hours if you want to hit Prescott, Sedona or Flag.

South Mountain and Hawes are my favorites, but we're lucky to have a lot of good options here in Phoenix Metro and in AZ in general.

I get it. And there is no doubt the level on the descents has gone way up since MVDP was winning in 2019 - it's actually kind of insane how fast the younger guys descend techy stuff. That said, older guys like Fluckiger and Blevins have managed pretty much stay on level. The sport has gotten a...

Pidcock better on the MTB (mostly because he rides it a lot more often), but he's nowhere near the bike handler that MVDP is in CX or on the road. In CX he takes all kinds of time on Pidcock in and out of corners, over barriers, in the sand, technical power uphills sections that no one else...

I don't think MVDP is lacking in XC skills, but rather he's never built up any race rhythm since he stopped racing with any regularity after 2019. The bikes have changed a lot - as in they've made it a lot easier to ride faster (especially on the techy stuff) than MVDP's setup 6 years ago when...

Happy for Wout, but he caught a big break when MVDP went home.

MVDP would have crushed everyone.

Mindset of a super-champion with the freakish talent to back it up. You also got a glimpse of it in that interview clip when they asked him about whether he saw the footage of Pogi doing the PR recon earlier this spring. I don’t care that much about other opinions. I do what I have in mind...

Talking about the greatest multi-discipline bike racer. Road racing counts as ONE discipline. MVDP's biggest goal (his words) this year isn't even on the road bike.

Nope. The Olympics were in July and PR was in early October.

Pogi is the best road racer in the world, but he is not the best all-around bike racer in the world. That guy won the bike race today. Now on to the MTB!

MVDP went into that race a bit compromised. Was still in the thick of the back issues that were exacerbated by his big crash just a few months earlier in Tokyo. Without the wet conditions that year he probably isn't even at the front of that race. Was there because he was killing guys in an out...