77th Tour de Romandie (2.UWT) // 23rd - 28th of April 2024

[Samamba]

And Zijlaard indeed really good as expected. New best time! He can honestly win this.

 

[Didinho]

Ayuso 6th for now.

 

[Landeirovic]

Christen can suprise today

 

[Samamba]

Surprisingly good from Mas, he might actually finally have some form

 

[Tim Cahill]

Wasn't I just saying before that Maikel Zijlaard would dust everyone here, isn't that what I've been telling you guys all along

 

[Samamba]

This is an absolute nightmare for climber types like Rodriguez, Martin or Meintjes

Or add Plapp, almost deadlast lmao

 

[roundabout]

IIRC Tratnik won one of the Romandie prologues a few years back, but he is probably not in full form.

Edit: looking at the map, the 2019 was probably a bit simpler than I remembered

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Oooooohhh ohhhh ohhhh
Everywhere we go
Watching super Fausto
Putting on a show!

 

[Tim Cahill]

Is Plapp riding on a unicycle or something, he's a pursuit champion, should at least be reasonable at this distance

 

[Samamba]

Is Plapp riding on a unicycle or something, he's a pursuit champion, should at least be reasonable at this distance

You don't have to do 13 turns in the pursuit.

I mean just look at the images, it's basically sprinting every 200m.

 

[Landeirovic]

Christen fly

 

[Samamba]

Oooooohhh ohhhh ohhhh
Everywhere we go
Watching super Fausto
Putting on a show!

Managed to keep 5 guys behind him, wonderful

 

[Landeirovic]

Christen 6e

 

[roundabout]

Is Plapp riding on a unicycle or something, he's a pursuit champion, should at least be reasonable at this distance

no 45 degree banking today

 

[Tim Cahill]

You don't have to do 13 turns in the pursuit.

No, but he should be able to use his power profile and aero to compensate for at least some of his lack of technical ability to finish higher than 41st out of 47 so far.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Wow, Mas... did not expect that.

 

[Samamba]

No, but he should be able to use his power profile and aero to compensate for at least some of his lack of technical ability to finish higher than 41st out of 47 so far.

It's a corner every 200m and then sprinting for those 200m. That's nothing for Plapp. Probably also didn't take risks.

 

[roundabout]

No, but he should be able to use his power profile and aero to compensate for at least some of his lack of technical ability to finish higher than 41st out of 47 so far.

Constant power vs stop-start though

 

[Didinho]

What’s the km/h for Zijlaard? With all these corners.

And wouldn’t it be better with a normal bike here?

 

[roundabout]

What’s the km/h for Zijlaard? With all these corners.

And wouldn’t it be better with a normal bike here?

somewhere around 47.2 km/h perhaps (not sure about the actual length of the course)

 

[Didinho]

somewhere around 47.2 km/h perhaps (not sure about the actual length of the course)

Thought it was 2.28km from the photos.

 

[Samamba]

And wouldn’t it be better with a normal bike here?

They are all riding with a normal bike (well at least no TT frame)

 

[roundabout]

Thought it was 2.28km from the photos.

Yeah, checked the official page and it's 2.28km there as well. So a bit slower average (I used 2.3km before as distance) at 46.8 km/h

 

[tobydawq]

Maikel... What a crackpot way is that to be called Michael anyway?

 

[Salvarani]

Maikel... What a crackpot way is that to be called Michael anyway?

You have a q instead of g at the end of yours?