Recent content by stonerider

MvdP's problem is over confidence in his limited XC skills. He had built up some skills once but the bikes have changed a lot since he stopped riding the MTB for a long time to concentrate on road. He needs saddle time on the MTB to regain those skills. Has he done the needed training on the...

Good to see Beers finally get a win. I was afraid he was just working as Keegan's secret domestique in all his races since they are good training buddies.

I did not see Roglic make any performance gains when he left Visma for Red Bull/Bora. There are no guarantees Remco will make any performance gains with his move.

I fixed it for you. Too many crashes for Remco for him to ever reach his absolute physical peak.

This is the answer. His team have a deal with Scott thru the end of 2025 and he knows the heavy Spark will too much bike for his light weight/max power.

He will take a nice break, play some golf, then he will put out his summer/fall calendar. But I would say, he better get back on the MTB soon and do some training on it if he wants to add the XCO World Championship to his palmares. He certainly needs to learn how the front MTB tires grip in...

He wants to race PR because he wants to race against the best of his generation and he wants to win all the Monuments. Right now the best racer besides himself is MvdP and he needs to figure out how to win PR. Might as well start this season. Winning the TdF isn't that much a challenge for...

They need to forget Wout and go all in with Mateo as the leader. I feel like Mateo was holding back waiting for Wout. He should have attacked on the final decisive climb and tried to solo to the finish. Wout is just average right now and is certainly not a topper in the sport.

So you think someone at age 40 has the same potential as their 30 year old self if training and nutrition is the same? What studies do you have to back that up: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9992958/

I'm guessing he needs to leave the farming behind until he retires from professional cycling.

Wout will be 31 this year, right? He is 3 years past his peak powers (age 28 for males) and since last year he is concerned with crashing. His concern with crashing is understandable because he will never win Flanders or PR if he can't arrive injury free. I'm not concerned he is trying to be...

Let's hope that MvdP, Pog, Wout, etc arrive at RVV healthy and injury free. It should be an excellent race to watch if all the toppers arrive on race day in great shape.

It's a shame not to see the current Gravel World Champion and CX World Champion race Strade. Since it has dirt sections, could he race in his Gravel World Champion rainbow jersey. That would he hilarious to see both he and Pog show up with World Champion jerseys. What is the clarification...

That's why concerned parents are careful who they let their kids hang around...don't want any bad habits rubbing off.

This! It's all about motivation. He wanted to prove that Ineos was wrong so he put in the "road" training time in the off-season. Instead spending time on the CX bike doing short intervals he spent more time doing longer intervals on the road bike which pays off in road racing. Probably...