Challenge Ciclista Mallorca 2026 (January 28 - February 1)

[KZD]

Great start of the season for Remco with 3 wins in his 3 first race days for Red Bull.

Rondel with an impressive performance and Morgado again finishing with the best, this time 4th.

 

[Berniece]

Come on now. It makes a huge difference. When you snap the elastic and spend more energy to claw back.

Motopacing makes a difference, but based on the 20s difference at the finish it doesn’t matter. He would’ve been dropped anyway

 

[red_flanders]

When Pog gets towed at AGR and at a random Italian farmers' race it is just as ugly.

You seem to be mistaking me for someone arguing that moto towing is a good thing.

 

[AmRacer]

Motopacing makes a difference, but based on the 20s difference at the finish it doesn’t matter. He would’ve been dropped anyway

You don't know that

 

[KoopaCycling]

Movistar getting towed by the moto, no problem.
Remco attacks and uses the moto in a smiliar way, it's almost cheating....

At least be consistent and either condemn the moto drag or be fine with moto drag.
Don't change your standpoint according to which rider is getting the moto drag.

 

[Squire]

Motopacing makes a difference, but based on the 20s difference at the finish it doesn’t matter. He would’ve been dropped anyway

Maybe, but it's not so obvious. It was a big headwind, so that moto really helped Evenepoel. The attacking rider had more slipstream than the attacked. You saw how everyone else were in big groups on the climb. Hard to get away without motos.

 

[AmRacer]

Movistar getting towed by the moto, no problem.
Remco attacks and uses the moto in a smiliar way, it's almost cheating....

At least be consistent and either condemn the moto drag or be fine with moto drag.
Don't change your standpoint according to which rider is getting the moto drag.

It also goes like this..
Remco attacks and uses the moto in a smiliar way, it's inconvenient but didn't matter in the end.

 

[Cycling111]

You don't know that

He would have won today anyway.

But I have doubts about the medal in Rwanda. He recovered more than a minute behind the cars.

Motorcycles in races are a problem, but it has to be said that they're a problem for everyone. In breakaways in the Tour and other races, they're often decisive for many cyclists.

 

[AmRacer]

He would have won today anyway.

But I have doubts about the medal in Rwanda. He recovered more than a minute behind the cars.

Motorcycles in races are a problem, but it has to be said that they're a problem for everyone. In breakaways in the Tour and other races, they're often decisive for many cyclists.

Sometimes they block the rider....

 

[chickenlips]

Remco was waving his arms like a man possessed when he was trying to catch up on the previous descent with a moto in front of the lead rider. I didn't see him telling the moto to effoff when he attacked on the final climb. But it does happen all the time. Suppose its ok if its your fav rider, and not if its not.

 

[chickenlips]

as I said, Remco could have smoked a whole pack of cigs today and still won.

He will need to be better to win the UAE Tour, however

Lmao. It's a good job he wasn't up against decent opposition. It's not as though he smashed em out of the park. He was blowing like he is on 100 cigs a day at the finish.

 

[KoopaCycling]

It was an enjoyable race to watch, with Remco being remco and doing too much to get the win. It's part of why i like watching him race despite me always thinking he could have about the same chances of winning a race by doing a whole lot less.

 

[Squire]

It was an enjoyable race to watch, with Remco being remco and doing too much to get the win. It's part of why i like watching him race despite me always thinking he could have about the same chances of winning a race by doing a whole lot less.

He did give himself and the team the best chance of getting the win, I thought. Short shallow headwind climb against Scaroni and Morgado isn't an absolute given, even though he'd still be favourite probably. A duel against Rondel is way better odds. And it gave Van Gils license to sit on.

 

[ColonelKidneyBeans]

Lmao. It's a good job he wasn't up against decent opposition. It's not as though he smashed em out of the park. He was blowing like he is on 100 cigs a day at the finish.

Rondel is a promising rider, he had some good results last year and rode a smart race, he's no pogacar but to call him "not decent opposition" isn't fair to him.

 

[AlpRaid]

seemed much more tired than yesterday at the end. time for some rest and recovery. last climb was not that impressive against Rondel, but he kept opening the gap against the chasers.

 

[yaco]

He would have won today anyway.

But I have doubts about the medal in Rwanda. He recovered more than a minute behind the cars.

Motorcycles in races are a problem, but it has to be said that they're a problem for everyone. In breakaways in the Tour and other races, they're often decisive for many cyclists.

Just like Christen in stage one of the Alula Tour.

 

[bah]

Remco was waving his arms like a man possessed when he was trying to catch up on the previous descent with a moto in front of the lead rider. I didn't see him telling the moto to effoff when he attacked on the final climb. But it does happen all the time. Suppose its ok if its your fav rider, and not if its not.

Exactly. Like when I've never heard a peep out of Pogacar fans when he does it.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

So the last race in the Mallorcan series:

Startlist not finalized yet.

 

[saunaking]

as I said, Remco could have smoked a whole pack of cigs today and still won.

He will need to be better to win the UAE Tour, however

If he keeps smashing farmers like this the Belgian or French or Dutch authorities will hire him to quell protests

 

[KoopaCycling]

I think the level of comp is underrated. There seem to be a lot of talented upcoming young racers present.
Better than expected going in.

 

[AmRacer]

I think the level of comp is underrated. There seem to be a lot of talented upcoming young racers present.
Better than expected going in.

Give them a few years

 

[houtdffan]

This week was nothing more than Remco marking his territory. Reminding everyone how he does 1 day races (if they needed a reminder after last fall)

 

[Rob5091]

Remco did enough to win although a guy only slighly better then Rondel could have made it embarrassing. Back to the training camp!

 

[KoopaCycling]

Remco did enough to win although a guy only slighly better then Rondel could have made it embarrassing. Back to the training camp!

Or a guy slightly better than Rondel would already be a big enough name to not make it embarrasing.

Rondel is a young talent that became 4th in giro next gen and 9th in last year tour of romandie

 

[red_flanders]

Remco did enough to win although a guy only slighly better then Rondel could have made it embarrassing. Back to the training camp!

It would have been embarrassing not to win 3 races in a row in January?