Best pain-fighter?

[Panda Claws]

What cyclists do you think can endure the most pain?
are the most willing to fight on?
will keep fighting no matter what?

 

[Zam_Olyas]

At the top of my head Voight, hoggy and ten dam...current riders?

 

[will10]

 

[El Pistolero]

I would say Gilbert, but he does not feel pain.

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Voigt

 

[The Hitch]

Vino obviously. Coming back from those injuries, hell getting on a bike again, insane.

To be honest I think its the top ones. Not all of them neccesarily but I think Lance when he was on top would be willing to walk into Lubyanka with a copy of Animal Farm, if it meant winning a TDF.

Props to his former friend Tyler for 2nd in Giro with a broken elbow.

But yeah, endurance is such an important part of the sport that the ones at the top have to have immense pain endurance. You dont always see it like with Voigt and they probably dont enjoy it like him, but that motivation to win trumps the pain in most of them.

And the likes of Cancellara and Martin go into these brutal tts, and they are essentially on the pain limit for a majority of that tt. Theres no tactics there, just go as fast as you can at first then fight the pain and the fact that they are up there, every tt shows that they are able to take that pain everytime out.

Especially T this year doing it pretty much every time from PN to Dauphine to TDF to Vuelta to Worlds To chrono des naciones.

As to the others well Wiggins I think is up there. Hes got the that Tommy Simpson mentality.

Gesink I think, dont remember where I got the idea but I do see him as one of those riders.

VDB for trying to get on his bike after the injury. Thats just sick to me, as in I see it as a sickness to have that kind of motivation for a race.

Other names come to me as I watch over the season

 

[SHAD0W93]

Vino
Canc
Contador
Evans
Gilbert
Voigt
Tommy V
Hoogerland
and many more...

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

1. vino
2. voigt





117. conta,martin,canc,wiggins,gilbert+++




1000000000. frandy

 

[El Pistolero]

Vino obviously. Coming back from those injuries, hell getting on a bike again, insane.

To be honest I think its the top ones. Not all of them neccesarily but I think Lance when he was on top would be willing to walk into Lubyanka with a copy of Animal Farm, if it meant winning a TDF.

Props to his former friend Tyler for 2nd in Giro with a broken elbow.

But yeah, endurance is such an important part of the sport that the ones at the top have to have immense pain endurance. You dont always see it like with Voigt and they probably dont enjoy it like him, but that motivation to win trumps the pain in most of them.

And the likes of Cancellara and Martin go into these brutal tts, and they are essentially on the pain limit for a majority of that tt. Theres no tactics there, just go as fast as you can at first then fight the pain and the fact that they are up there, every tt shows that they are able to take that pain everytime out.

Especially T this year doing it pretty much every time from PN to Dauphine to TDF to Vuelta to Worlds To chrono des naciones.

As to the others well Wiggins I think is up there. Hes got the that Tommy Simpson mentality.

Gesink I think, dont remember where I got the idea but I do see him as one of those riders.

VDB for trying to get on his bike after the injury. Thats just sick to me, as in I see it as a sickness to have that kind of motivation for a race.

Other names come to me as I watch over the season

Contador won the Giro in 2008 with a similar kind of fracture Evans had in Tour of 2010.

 

[The Hitch]

Contador won the Giro in 2008 with a similar kind of fracture Evans had in Tour of 2010.

I would say Gilbert, but he does not feel pain.

Surprisingly you went for Contador and Gilbert.

 

[El Pistolero]

The Gilbert thing was actually a joke, my serious answer was Voigt.

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

in all fairness though, i would probably make two different categories.

1 for the iron men, Tyler Hamilton finish the giro with a broken elbow for an eksample, and 1 for the immense pain endurance people like Voigt.

 

[Havetts]

Painface-factor:

1. Voigt
2. Chris Anker Sorensen
3. Gesink

Rest: No one comes close.

 

[The Hitch]

The Gilbert thing was actually a joke, my serious answer was Voigt.

What's the joke?

 

[Panda Claws]

I think Hitch is right with the TT. I hadn't thought of that yet.

Of the others I believe it are especially the puncheurs like Gilbert that have high pain tolerance.

Guys like Nuyens on the other hand...

 

[El Pistolero]

What's the joke?

I posted a picture of one of the hardest classics in recent memory, only 34 people or so actually made it to the finish line, but many many minutes behind the winner. The guy that got second looked like an 80 year old man that day. Yet Phil looks as fresh as a daisy with a big grin on his face. As if he doesn't even feel pain during a race.

 

[Arnout]

I posted a picture of one of the hardest classics in recent memory, only 34 people or so actually made it to the finish line, but many many minutes behind the winner. The guy that got second looked like an 80 year old man that day. Yet Phil looks as fresh as a daisy with a big grin on his face. As if he doesn't even feel pain during a race.

Sorry to kill off your fairy tale but I was there live and Gilbert looked absolutely spent as well, just as much as all the others.

People on the cyclingnews forums, don't buy this story as its not true

 

[El Pistolero]

Sorry to kill off your fairy tale but I was there live and Gilbert looked absolutely spent as well, just as much as all the others.

People on the cyclingnews forums, don't buy this story as its not true

No **** Sherlock, it's not meant to be taken seriously. Everyone that finished that day deserves a mention in this thread.

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

Painface-factor:

1. Voigt
2. Chris Anker Sorensen
3. Gesink

Rest: No one comes close.

1 name mate Vinokourov http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9LBsWCNE9I the time trial of the century

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Contador won the Giro in 2008 with a similar kind of fracture Evans had in Tour of 2010.

do you feel the need to constantly talk up contador and phil?

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cyclists in genreal are very strong in this regard.

 

[Arnout]

No **** Sherlock, it's not meant to be taken seriously.

No.

No, of course not.

 

[El Pistolero]

do you feel the need to constantly talk up contador and phil?

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cyclists in genreal are very strong in this regard.

Say that to this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GrpKShsWek

(at around 1:20, the guy from the Andalucia team)

But really, I can pick any guy I want to pick, u mad bro?

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

Say that to this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GrpKShsWek

(at around 1:20, the guy from the Andalucia team)

But really, I can pick any guy I want to pick, u mad bro?

poor guy

 

[El Pistolero]

poor guy

Who is that by the way? Anyone?

 

[maltiv]

Guardini, for him every speed dumb is like Zoncolan...The amount of suffering he goes through to just get to the finish line of a flat race is enormous

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

Guardini, for him every speed dumb is like Zoncolan...The amount of suffering he goes through to just get to the finish line of a flat race is enormous

lool, with that logic Piepoli is the biggest wuss of them all.