Cam Meyer as a GT rider?

[auscyclefan94]

Many are predicting that Cam Meyer will be a GT winner in the future especially after his dominating win in the Points race. I'm not so sure...

What are your thoughts?

 

[joy118118]

CN says he will make giro debut this year, but he was in giro last year.

He is more of a stage winner till now.

 

[Cerberus]

Wait? Point Race=GT? How is that even remotely reasonable?

 

[Ferminal]

CN says he will make giro debut this year, but he was in giro last year.

He is more of a stage winner till now.

Yes, that article had me questioning myself... *I'm sure he rode the Giro last year*

It's way too early to make any judgement on him. He needs to get very good and consistent in his TT. Did OK in Oman I guess, and beat Kreuziger, Kloden and Karpets in the final TT at Suisse last year.

But gaining climbing ability from there, and putting it all together in a GT package is such a distant goal.

Are Meyer/Meyer/Bobridge all going to stay with the track program until 2012?

 

[auscyclefan94]

Wait? Point Race=GT? How is that even remotely reasonable?

no, people have brought up the subject of him being a GT winner in the future after he won the points race. He has a good chrono but not sure about his climbing.

 

[joy118118]

Are Meyer/Meyer/Bobridge all going to stay with the track program until 2012?

Leigh Howard said he would ride track in London. I think the same with Meyers

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

no i don't think so.

 

[Oldman]

no, people have brought up the subject of him being a GT winner in the future after he won the points race. He has a good chrono but not sure about his climbing.

Have seen several good riders come from the same background, the points/pursuit ability at a young age can translate into a GC rider if-and it's a big if; they've already won some amateur/pro stage races. I don't know him but would love to see someone from that background come to the fore.
It isn't that difficult to translate track power into climbing if they can recover. What's the story?

 

[lone_cowboy]

he's aussie, that makes him a sure thing to win a GT

 

[craig1985]

Have seen several good riders come from the same background, the points/pursuit ability at a young age can translate into a GC rider if-and it's a big if; they've already won some amateur/pro stage races. I don't know him but would love to see someone from that background come to the fore.
It isn't that difficult to translate track power into climbing if they can recover. What's the story?

I believe somebody like Popovych grew up on the boards in the Ukraine.

 

[Michele]

If you take as example Wiggins, it would seems so.
But even a certain Kam Po Wong won the points race but that didn't turn him into a GC rider.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Cam Meyer to win a GT? Only if he signs for Sky.

 

[Glockers]

Aussies can't win a GC in a grand tour, the Eurocentric posters should shoot this down.

Hell I suggest Michael Rogers could have won the year he crashed while in virtual yellow and got shut down because a drug cheat was also in the break.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Aussies can't win a GC in a grand tour, the Eurocentric posters should shoot this down.

Hell I suggest Michael Rogers could have won the year he crashed while in virtual yellow and got shut down because a drug cheat was also in the break.

no it got shot down because he wasn't gonna win.

 

[Glockers]

Yes the World Time Trial champion was gaining time on all the contenders and had a time trial to extend his lead. Only Rasmussen was in the group.

Rasmussen doped.

Enough said, Rogers could have won.

 

[Galic Ho]

Yes the World Time Trial champion was gaining time on all the contenders and had a time trial to extend his lead. Only Rasmussen was in the group.

Rasmussen doped.

Enough said, Rogers could have won.

Explain to me why then in last years prologue that Andy Schleck went faster than a former world champion? Drugs. Get your head checked fanboy. Rogers is nothing special. He hasn't won squat. Heck him winning the Tour would have been a big sign he was doped. As I said, you might want to get your head checked.

Cameron Meyer a GT winner, let alone contender? Nope. As was pointed out, every aussie who wins something is often hailed the next great white hope. Who cares? Thats right, the aussie fanboys like Glockers and Aussiecyclefan94 who realise they need a new whipping boy considering their darlings Rogers and Evans respectively have come up with nothing so far, except some broken collarbones, epstein bar virus and a second place to "dirty Spaniard." Oh and I forgot, they both choked! Cough, cough. But Evans WC jersey will bring him luck won't it fellas?

To the original OP. Who mentioned Cameron Meyer as a GT winner? He raced this week and all of a sudden he is seen as a potential winner. WTF! Here is how I see it. Aussiecyclefan94 by starting this thread is one of those people proclaiming Meyer as a future winner, with no basis to do so. He/She (there is confusion amongst forumists to the exact sex of the poster) said "people see" and "have mentioned." Well until you did Aussiecyclefan94 I had not heard a word of that dribble. Hence we don't need to look hard to find who has been suggesting as much. You have and tried to disguise it with a veiled question in the OP. How about leaving the young fella alone and dropping the talk of him being your next messiah. Let him race and if he turns out some great showings then good for him. Till then, just drop it. Hypothetical BS is all it is right now.

Why do people do this? They're Aussies and they are fanboys. They have to latch onto every Aussie who can pedal decently, because compared to the Europeans in GTs they are few and far between. Really it is nothing more than deluded rampant patriotism run amok. I know, I am an Aussie and I see this crap all the time.

 

[Anonymous]

Who knows.

Anyway, what's this obsession with "can x be a GT rider", as though GT riders are the only respected ones. What's wrong with being a classics specialist like Boonen, Gilbert, Cancellara, Friere etc. I'd rather be a Boonen than a Wiggins or Leipheimer. (off the bike as well as on it ).

 

[theyoungest]

.

To be fair to auscyclefan, here is Brad Wiggins' tweet after Meyer's race:

Big congratulations to Cam Meyer, very classy. This guy will be Australia's TDF winner some day!

Yeah right. Then again, Wiggins believes he can win the Tour himself, so in hiw view anything's possible.

 

[Ferminal]

Explain to me why then in last years prologue that Andy Schleck went faster than a former world champion? Drugs. Get your head checked fanboy. Rogers is nothing special. He hasn't won squat. Heck him winning the Tour would have been a big sign he was doped. As I said, you might want to get your head checked.

Cameron Meyer a GT winner, let alone contender? Nope. As was pointed out, every aussie who wins something is often hailed the next great white hope. Who cares? Thats right, the aussie fanboys like Glockers and Aussiecyclefan94 who realise they need a new whipping boy considering their darlings Rogers and Evans respectively have come up with nothing so far, except some broken collarbones, epstein bar virus and a second place to "dirty Spaniard." Oh and I forgot, they both choked! Cough, cough. But Evans WC jersey will bring him luck won't it fellas?

To the original OP. Who mentioned Cameron Meyer as a GT winner? He raced this week and all of a sudden he is seen as a potential winner. WTF! Here is how I see it. Aussiecyclefan94 by starting this thread is one of those people proclaiming Meyer as a future winner, with no basis to do so. He/She (there is confusion amongst forumists to the exact sex of the poster) said "people see" and "have mentioned." Well until you did Aussiecyclefan94 I had not heard a word of that dribble. Hence we don't need to look hard to find who has been suggesting as much. You have and tried to disguise it with a veiled question in the OP. How about leaving the young fella alone and dropping the talk of him being your next messiah. Let him race and if he turns out some great showings then good for him. Till then, just drop it. Hypothetical BS is all it is right now.

Why do people do this? They're Aussies and they are fanboys. They have to latch onto every Aussie who can pedal decently, because compared to the Europeans in GTs they are few and far between. Really it is nothing more than deluded rampant patriotism run amok. I know, I am an Aussie and I see this crap all the time.

Meyer himself has stated his ambitions of being world class on the road.

Not sure whether or not that entails being a GT GC rider, but obviously people are going to read into it what they want.

Not worth the essay.

 

[WonderLance]

He/She (there is confusion amongst forumists to the exact sex of the poster)

No confusion. She is a girl.

You wrote alot of other stuff, was that hard?

 

[bicing]

Explain to me why then in last years prologue that Andy Schleck went faster than a former world champion? Drugs. Get your head checked fanboy. Rogers is nothing special. He hasn't won squat. Heck him winning the Tour would have been a big sign he was doped. As I said, you might want to get your head checked.

Cameron Meyer a GT winner, let alone contender? Nope. As was pointed out, every aussie who wins something is often hailed the next great white hope. Who cares? Thats right, the aussie fanboys like Glockers and Aussiecyclefan94 who realise they need a new whipping boy considering their darlings Rogers and Evans respectively have come up with nothing so far, except some broken collarbones, epstein bar virus and a second place to "dirty Spaniard." Oh and I forgot, they both choked! Cough, cough. But Evans WC jersey will bring him luck won't it fellas?

To the original OP. Who mentioned Cameron Meyer as a GT winner? He raced this week and all of a sudden he is seen as a potential winner. WTF! Here is how I see it. Aussiecyclefan94 by starting this thread is one of those people proclaiming Meyer as a future winner, with no basis to do so. He/She (there is confusion amongst forumists to the exact sex of the poster) said "people see" and "have mentioned." Well until you did Aussiecyclefan94 I had not heard a word of that dribble. Hence we don't need to look hard to find who has been suggesting as much. You have and tried to disguise it with a veiled question in the OP. How about leaving the young fella alone and dropping the talk of him being your next messiah. Let him race and if he turns out some great showings then good for him. Till then, just drop it. Hypothetical BS is all it is right now.

Why do people do this? They're Aussies and they are fanboys. They have to latch onto every Aussie who can pedal decently, because compared to the Europeans in GTs they are few and far between. Really it is nothing more than deluded rampant patriotism run amok. I know, I am an Aussie and I see this crap all the time.

yawn......

 

[theswordsman]

From twitter:

@mickrogers

To all the internet cycling forum experts commenting on Cameron Meyer's future GT possibilities. Leave the kid alone, he's only 22 years old

@mickrogers

Let me rephrase. To all the cycling forum experts "negatively" commenting on Cameron Meyer's future GT possibilities...

 

[Cerberus]

Yes the World Time Trial champion
was gaining time on all the contenders

Correction, the former World TT champion got into an early breakaway which, as all such breakaways, were allowed an early lead. He crashed out before the chase really begun.

had a time trial to extend his lead.

Except that he just doesn't have a very good record in GT TTs. He could perhaps have defended the lead you dreamed up towards Leipheimer and Evans and gained a bit of time on Contador, with luck. Sadly a number of Mountain stages remained, and Rogers has a proven lack of ability to climb with the best.

Enough said, Rogers could have won.

I suppose that's true, for a sufficiently lenient definition of the word "could". That doesn't mean it's remotely plausible.

 

[the big ring]

Galic Ho - you are a hateful, spiteful little ball of fluff.

http://twitter.com/mickrogers/status/11081664370

To all the internet cycling forum experts commenting on Cameron Meyer's future GT possibilities. Leave the kid alone, he's only 22 years old

http://twitter.com/mickrogers/status/11081945003

Let me rephrase. To all the cycling forum experts "negatively" commenting on Cameron Meyer's future GT possibilities...

That pretty much sums up my feelings on the matter of Meyers.

 

[Cerberus]

That pretty much sums up my feelings on the matter of Meyers.

I'll make you a deal. If other posters will stop declaring people who have shown zero promise as GT riders to be future GT winners I'll stop explaining how unlikely that is.