Andy Schleck Discussion thread.

[Big Doopie]

schlecklet is just another complete fraud.

 

[airstream]

It's ok. Andy just preffers not to use volition on preparatory races. The hill required some extra efforts and he easily switched to the mode of training cadence.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Young Andy Schleck, ranked 958th in the 2012 CQ ranking with 20 points, hailing from small cycling nation Luxembourg and riding for the third tier team RadioShack-Nissan-Trek, defended himself quite well in the second stage of the big Dauphiné Libéré, featuring a lot of experienced World Tour teams fielding many of their top riders. He was dropped from the peloton on the last serious climb of the day, but eventually managed to beat over 30 other riders including Kvachuk, Kostyuk, Lindeman, Dehaes, Grabsch and young Leigh Howard, taking a glorious 138th on the stage. Not too shabby. Andy is now quietly sitting in 144th place overall and is widely expected to finish this Dauphiné after his strong performance of today, thus increasing his CQ value by 25%.

Hilarious.

 

[Ferminal]

Why do people keep falling for Andy's trolling?

 

[LaFlorecita]

Why do people keep falling for Andy's trolling?

I don't. He's just sandbagging.

 

[Zam_Olyas]

It's ok. Andy just preffers not to use volition on preparatory races. The hill required some extra efforts and he easily switched to the mode of training cadence.

So "cadence" will be the answer to why a good tt at the tour. nice

 

[burning]

Young Andy Schleck, ranked 958th in the 2012 CQ ranking with 20 points, hailing from small cycling nation Luxembourg and riding for the third tier team RadioShack-Nissan-Trek, defended himself quite well in the second stage of the big Dauphiné Libéré, featuring a lot of experienced World Tour teams fielding many of their top riders. He was dropped from the peloton on the last serious climb of the day, but eventually managed to beat over 30 other riders including Kvachuk, Kostyuk, Lindeman, Dehaes, Grabsch and young Leigh Howard, taking a glorious 138th on the stage. Not too shabby. Andy is now quietly sitting in 144th place overall and is widely expected to finish this Dauphiné after his strong performance of today, thus increasing his CQ value by 25%.

He will abandon and wont increase his crazy CQ value

 

[Fowsto Cope-E]

What's the point of using racing for training if you choose not to stay with the peloton? And if he races like this, does he also never do any hard training days? That hardly seems like the training plan of a Tour champion to me.

 

[airstream]

What's the point of using racing for training if you choose not to stay with the peloton? And if he races like this, does he also never do any hard training days? That hardly seems like the training plan of a Tour champion to me.

It's unknown. More precisely, there are a lot of tactic considerations that GC riders use at Dauphine and Tour of Swiss we are not aware of.

But having looked at him at the moment he was dropped, I'm certain he could ride faster. He was softpedaling. When Andy is weak, he desperately "breaks" gears.

 

[Bavarianrider]

Thursday is going to be ugly

 

[roundabout]

Why do people keep falling for Andy's trolling?

I suppose getting dropped on a 3rd cat climb is the new "highpoint" then.

 

[c&cfan]

It's unknown. More precisely, there are a lot of tactic considerations that GC riders use at Dauphine and Tour of Swiss we are not aware of.

But having looked at him at the moment he was dropped, I'm certain he could ride faster. He was softpedaling. When Andy is weak, he desperately "breaks" gears.

bang bang!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcN2HrkrnF4

 

[airstream]

bang bang!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcN2HrkrnF4

Thanks, I know that stage was ended with a 30 second loss to Sammy and Menchov which decided nothing. MJ was already in the bag.

 

[c&cfan]

Thanks, I know that stage was ended with a 30 second loss to Sammy and Menchov which decided nothing. MJ was already in the bag.

bang bang!

ok...

 

[Zam_Olyas]

What is this? war of two trolls?

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

It was a tribute from Andy to Mr. Trololo Eduard Khil, who died after suffering a stroke today.
A honour to the original troll, Andy is trolling everyone like always. If Bruyneel selects him he's probably in top shape in the TDF (to my own dislike).

Then again, he did kinda tell us before the season, that he would focus even more on TDF which means he'd do even nothing in the ardennes anymore.

 

[theyoungest]

I already thought before the season that the Schleck-Bruyneel combo would mean no racing until the Tour, but currently I think Schleck is out-Bruyneeling Bruyneel with his lame a$$ attitude.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Bruyneel should leave him home, would be hilarious.

 

[c&cfan]

I already thought before the season that the Schleck-Bruyneel combo would mean no racing until the Tour, but currently I think Schleck is out-Bruyneeling Bruyneel with his lame a$$ attitude.

on the other hand,

i think that we need the bruynells and the shlecks and cavs more than ever. it gets so boring without them..

contador is too *good. i just hope he comes back more like armstrong (a ***, basically).

we need a michael shumacher, someone that wins everything everywhere and he loves it so much that he is willing to go against someone at 300kmH just to not loose!

 

[patrick767]

Honestly, I don't want to bash the riders, but what is with the Schlecks? I've cheered for them for years. I want to like them. Yet they both seemed determined to be the biggest underachievers in the peloton given their immense talent.

Speculative bashing aside, does anyone have a clue what the problem is? Do they have a poor work ethic? Lack determination? I know Andy previously got in trouble at the Vuelta and got booted, but that should have been a big lesson. Surely these guys are out training hard, right? They wouldn't be on the team if they just blew everything off.

It's so disappointing. Andy was pathetic today. He so often gets beat by riders with less innate ability than him. He won the genetic lottery.

 

[Fowsto Cope-E]

 

[c&cfan]

lol awesome...

 

[maltiv]

Considering his facial expression he actually looked tired. In that case there's no way he'll be good for the TDF. He hasn't been great the two past years in TdS, but he hasn't been horrible either. In 2010 he was actually pretty strong in TdS (he launched a quite convincing attack on the stage Gesink won). That was also the year in which he was by far at his strongest in the TDF.

Being this horrible 1 month away from TDF is an abnormality even for Schleck.

 

[c&cfan]

Considering his facial expression he actually looked tired. In that case there's no way he'll be good for the TDF. He hasn't been great the two past years in TdS, but he hasn't been horrible either. In 2010 he was actually pretty strong in TdS (he launched a quite convincing attack on the stage Gesink won). That was also the year in which he was by far at his strongest in the TDF.

Being this horrible 1 month away from TDF is an abnormality even for Schleck.

how can i say this without being banned..

 

[MrRoboto]

Andy made a statement today, and that statement is: 'I will not be motivated'.