Recent content by stonerider

Mathieu is on the downside of his peak years...he will decline. How fast will he decline...no one knows.

Many multi-discipline racers have found it too difficult to race a full road and/or XCO calendar while also trying to race CX in the winter. You only have so many "mental" matches to burn each year so you need to be careful where you use those matches. I suspect road and XCO pays the bills so...

Maybe Tibor Del Grosso will step up to elites and slot into the number 3 position? He seems talented but I'm not sure he pushes hard. He looks like he races holding back a little.

I imagine MvdP is in no hurry to race CX when he can live and train in warm Spain. Let's face it, he'd be bored to death racing CX against the current crop of racers. No one currently racing has made a step up in form to challenge him and make it fun for him to race. He'll show up around...

Nys seems "mental" to me. If something is just a little bit off it really gets into his head. Seems everything has to go perfect for him to win. He also didn't have the raw watts to ride the sand section.

This is why you really need to practice your hard starts for CX, especially if you're a Dutch woman.

I feel like Nys' problems are totally mental. He does lose focus too easily.

Kudos to Matt Beers for winning "big" Sugar.

Is Shirin racing CX? She didn't race last year.

CX in the USA is a participation sport. We don't support the pro racers very well financially. It makes financial sense for the best cycling athletes to gravitate towards road, gravel, and XCO racing.

If you want a close race then the less technical race is better. I get bored with real technical races with big gaps between the leaders.

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.