CN Reader Poll

[Moondance]

Would be nice to have a show and discuss about how everyone voted. My ballot:

Most improved: Peter Sagan
Best stage race: Giro
Best one-day: Men's Worlds
Best male roadie: Nibali
Best female roadie: Marianne Vos
Best team: Liquigas
Best male trackie: Cameron Meyer (three Golds in one WC is damn impressive)
Best female trackie: Anna Meares
Best male cyclo-crosser: Stybar
Best female cyclo-crosser: Marianne Vos
Rider of the year: Nibali
Legend of cycling: Servais Knaven (I know Fignon will walk this.... Althouh Ballerini is an outside shot, but had to go Dutch)
Moment of the Year: Evans' stage 7 win in the Giro
Picture of the Year: The stage 4 shot from the ToC... Gorgeous.

I left the mountain bike and the technical question blank, since I don't know s*** about them.

 

[The Hitch]

Sorry. Dont know enough about the non road catergories.

Most improved: The shark
Best stage race: Giro/ Tour de Pologne
Best one-day: Liege Bastogne Liege
Best male roadie: Fabian Cancellara
Best female roadie: Marianne Vos
Best team: Team High Road
Best male trackie: Chris Hoy
Rider of the year: Fabian Cancellara
Legend of cycling: Laurent Fingon
Moment of the Year: Manuel Belletti crying upon winning Giro stage in his home town.
Picture of the Year: Baredo vs Costa.

 

[issoisso]

Once again we're forced to vote even in categories where we don't feel qualified to.

Talk about skewering the polls.

Makes zero sense.

 

[luckyboy]

I just guessed all the non-road stuff. Apart from Stybar, been seeing his name a lot.

 

[Moondance]

Once again we're forced to vote even in categories where we don't feel qualified to.

Talk about skewering the polls.

Makes zero sense.

Yes... I took the protest option of voting for the first one in every category, although 15 on from taking the poll have no recollection of what I voted for in those categories.

Actually I think the primo-alphabetical means I voted Absalon as best MTBer... I know he was owning a few years back, although I have no idea whether he still does.

 

[Moondance]

Sorry. Dont know enough about the non road catergories.

Most improved: The shark
Best stage race: Giro/ Tour de Pologne
Best one-day: Liege Bastogne Liege
Best male roadie: Fabian Cancellara
Best female roadie: Marianne Vos
Best team: Team High Road
Best male trackie: Chris Hoy
Rider of the year: Fabian Cancellara
Legend of cycling: Laurent Fingon
Moment of the Year: Manuel Belletti crying upon winning Giro stage in his home town.
Picture of the Year: Baredo vs Costa.

Did you actually take the poll? These weren't options...

 

[The Hitch]

Did you actually take the poll? These weren't options...

Yeah i only realised this after isoiso said

Once again we're forced to vote even in categories where we don't feel qualified to.

which seemed bizzare at first, as did your thread title.

a bit of a fail on my part.

I took the poll in the end and pretty much the same options.

Only the best moment answers had just a lot of crap from the Tour- stage 2, 3 8 and 17. If your going to focus pretty much only on the Tour, why not Vinos stage win? In the end i had to vote negatively for Cancellara on RVV.

And Armstrong for best picture.

 

[Mambo95]

Most improved: Hesjedal
Best stage race: Giro
Best one-day: L-B-L
Best male roadie: Nibali #
Best female roadie: Vos
Best team: HTC (Men)
Best male trackie: Meyer
Best female trackie: Whittan
Best male cyclo-crosser: Stybar*
Best female cyclo-crosser: Vos*
Best male MTB: Schurter*
Best female MTB: Pendrel*
Rider of the year: Cancellara #
Best team bike: Sky's Pinarello
Legend of cycling: Fignon (why the hell is Bordry on that list)
Moment of the Year: Schleck dropping his chain (I went for biggest, not best)
Picture of the Year: Cavendish/Haussler crash
Best product: Garmin Edge*
Best Innovation: GPS computers

Notes: # These contradict each other, but I'm sharing the love
* These are really uninformed picks, but I couldn't abstain

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

I don't even remember half my votes and was too dissapointed Gesink or TGBM weren't in any of them obviously

 

[redranger]

If I win that bike Im stripping it for parts and trading the frame

 

[steelciocc]

Me too!

If I win that bike Im stripping it for parts and trading the frame

Me too! And selling off the Di2 junk...

 

[Ferminal]

Most Improved: Hesjedal
Best Stage Race: Giro
Best One Day Race: L-B-L
Best Male Road: Cancellara
Best Female Road: Vos
Best Team: Leakygas
Best Track Male: Cameron Meyer
Best Track Female: Anna Meares
Best Cross Male: Stybar
Best Cross Female: Umm
Mens MTB: Okay this is definitely pushing it.
Women's MTB: Ditto.
New Product: Can't say I've had the pleasure of trying them.
Best Bike: ORCA! Followed by Sky and Cervelo.
Best Tech Innovation: zzzz
Legend: Ballerini
Moment: Giro Stage 7
Picture: Gavia

 

[Archibald]

Most improved: Hesjedal
Best stage race: Giro
Best one-day: Worlds RR
Best male roadie: Spartacus
Best female roadie: NFI (pooley)
Best team: Liquigas
Best male trackie: Meyer
Best female trackie: Meares
Best male cyclo-crosser: NFI (nys)
Best female cyclo-crosser: NFI (don't recall)
Best male MTB: NFI (Sam Hill)
Best female MTB: NFI (Jounnier)
Rider of the year: Cancellara
Best team bike: (can't recall)
Legend of cycling: Fignon
Moment of the Year: Landis (it was pretty big)
Picture of the Year: Giro in the snow
Best product: NFI
Best Innovation: NFI

NFI = No F***ing Idea, so most answers were guesses for these catagories

But the Biggest question for folks to answer is your 25 words or less response...

 

[The Hitch]

Most improved: Hesjedal
Best stage race: Giro
Best one-day: Worlds RR
Best male roadie: Spartacus
Best female roadie: NFI (pooley)
Best team: Liquigas
Best male trackie: Meyer
Best female trackie: Meares
Best male cyclo-crosser: NFI (nys)
Best female cyclo-crosser: NFI (don't recall)
Best male MTB: NFI (Sam Hill)
Best female MTB: NFI (Jounnier)
Rider of the year: Cancellara
Best team bike: (can't recall)
Legend of cycling: Fignon
Moment of the Year: Landis (it was pretty big)
Picture of the Year: Giro in the snow
Best product: NFI
Best Innovation: NFI

NFI = No F***ing Idea, so most answers were guesses for these catagories

But the Biggest question for folks to answer is your 25 words or less response...

Was that the "why was 2010 season the best of this decade"?

i figured the obvious answer would be "its the first year of the decade", but I wasnt sure, if maybe its not the last year of the decade instead, so i just wrote "because the Giro was so great", hence covering all my bases

 

[The Hitch]

mmm when i entered the Bike competition they said they would send me a confirmation email. It never came.

 

[maltiv]

mmm when i entered the Bike competition they said they would send me a confirmation email. It never came.

It has probably been absorbed by your spam filter?

 

[Jukebox]

Most improved: Ryder Hesdejal
Best stage race: Giro
Best one-day: Leige
Best male roadie: Canc
Best male MTBer: Nino Shurter
Best female roadie: Marianne Vos
Best female MTBer: Georgia Gould
Best team: Liquigas
Best male trackie: Bobridge, but to be fair I dont follow track
Best female trackie: Pendelton
Best male cyclo-crosser: Stybar
Best female cyclo-crosser: Katie F'n Compton
Rider of the year: Canc
Team bike: Sky Pinarello
Legend of cycling: Fignon
Product: Sram X0
Innovation: Disc for CX
Moment of the Year: Floyd's allegations, it's the moment that is still most talked about.
Picture of the Year: The TDF pic through the tunnel

 

[ak-zaaf]

This thread reminds me of this post:

No, im dismissive of the result because most intelligent people do not feel the need to participate in polls.

People do polls becuase they lack confidence in their opinion, and desperately want what they think to be the winning option to give them some faith in themselves.

Intelligent people are perfectly happy with their thoughts and opinions and dont need them substantiated by the results of am irrelevant poll..

Therefore, logic dictates that the only people who participate in polls are stupid, making the results of the polls largely irrelevant, and does nothing for the polled except to make them think that their stupidity is acceptable and normal.

hehehe, what an ***.

 

[The Hitch]

It has probably been absorbed by your spam filter?

Thanks. Appreciate it.

This thread reminds me of this post:


hehehe, what an ***.

Good memory.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Most improved: Hesjedal. A lot of the choices aren't really "improved", they're breakthrough people who've always been that good but not at the same level - Phinney, Sagan, van Garderen for example.

Stage race: Giro.

One day race: LBL. I love the Ardennes, and the tension here was great.

Best male road rider: Rodríguez - hard to argue with his results stepping from the shadow of Valverde. Consistent top results from February to September.

Best female road rider: Pooley - quite frankly it would be insane to pick anybody else.

Best team: Liquigas - 3 GT podiums, 2 GTs, and a hell of a lot of wins, despite losing one of their leaders.

Best track male: Grégory Baugé - I don't really follow track, but I did watch the clip of his incredible save vs. Sireau recently so will vote for him even if that wasn't this year.

Best track female: Kaarle McCulloch - does a lot of the less appreciated work very well.

Best CX male: Zdenek Stybar - guy is a beast.

Best CX female: Daphny vd Brand - girl is great. Fast, aggressive, hugely talented and wears silly inappropriate pigtails.

Best male MTBer: Sam Hill
Best female MTBer: Maja Wloszczowska
I kinda voted for these (and the tech questions) on the basis of liking their names.

With the best team bike, I love the Dogma, but I felt aggrieved at being forced to vote for Team Sky not for Caisse d'Epargne, so I went for Euskaltel instead, I love Orbea.

Rider of the year: Emma Pooley.

Legend: Gilberto Simoni - Fignon is so obviously going to stroll this that I don't feel guilty for going for Gibo.

Best moment: KBK.

 

[Siriuscat]

Most improved: Peter Sagan
Best stage race: Giro
Best one-day: Paris Roubaix
Best male roadie: Evans (Rode the year like a World Champ should)
Best male MTBer: Gee Atherton
Best female roadie: Emma Pooley
Best female MTBer: Tracey Mosely
Best team: Liquigas
Best male trackie: Cam Meyer
Best female trackie: Anna Meares
Best male cyclo-crosser: Zednek Stybar
Best female cyclo-crosser: Katie Compton
Rider of the year: Emma Pooley
Team bike: Garmin Felt
Legend of cycling: Laurent Fignon
Product: Sram X0
Innovation: cant fluffing remember
Moment of the Year: St7 of the Giro best days stage racing in many years
Picture of the Year: Evans St7 of the Giro

 

[Jamsque]

Am I the only one who thinks that the 'picture of the year' nominees this year are weak across the board?

 

[Kazistuta]

Was that the "why was 2010 season the best of this decade"?

i figured the obvious answer would be "its the first year of the decade", but I wasnt sure, if maybe its not the last year of the decade instead, so i just wrote "because the Giro was so great", hence covering all my bases

I wrote the exact same thing as you would have done

 

[Kwibus]

Where can I find this poll?

 

[Ferminal]

https://www.futurecompetitions.com/readerpoll2010/Default.asp