SafeBet said:I strongly believe he's a better one day racer and stage hunter than GT rider.
He should focus on that, improve his power and sprint, even if that means adding a couple extra kgs.
Check his results as a neo pro.Leinster said:SafeBet said:I strongly believe he's a better one day racer and stage hunter than GT rider.
He should focus on that, improve his power and sprint, even if that means adding a couple extra kgs.
Not that I'm saying you're wrong, but what one-day races other than LBL are you basing that on? And bare in mind that Liege has pretty much always been the monument most friendly to stage-race riders.
What would you say is a better result generally speaking and for him, a top 5 in Lombardia but without winning or a stage win in CdD?I'm still disappointed he won't race Lombardia in this kind of shape but winning a stage in the Dauphine partially makes up for that.
Great effort. Hopefully he'll be given the freedom to be in a few breakaways during the Tour as well.
He himself will take the win in CdD for sure. Guys like him don't win too often. For the spectator he would have been a welcome addition to the IL roster, but on the other hand, if he weren't at the Dauphiné, today's stage would have been überboring.What would you say is a better result generally speaking and for him, a top 5 in Lombardia but without winning or a stage win in CdD?
What would you say is a better result generally speaking and for him, a top 5 in Lombardia but without winning or a stage win in CdD?
Yeah I agree with this.There's an element of hindsight to that; nobody knew a week ago that he'd get the leeway to win today, and you don't know that he wouldn't have won Lombardia.
He always looks like he went to the Weening school of grinding huge gears at low cadence.
He clearly has the engine for long solo moves, this one, that Catalunya stage and his win at the Italian NC were all the result of it.
He's got his stage win yesterday. He wouldn't have won Lombardia. No chance he could be stronger than Fuglsang, Bennett and Vlasov today.Today was a bit meh, he could have been there fighting for the win in Como, but the team wanted him to ride the Dauphine...
In the end he was stronger than Fuglsang in Strade Bianche, you never know...He's got his stage win yesterday. He wouldn't have won Lombardia. No chance he could be stronger than Fuglsang, Bennett and Vlasov today.
I don't think he is that good of a climber. He showed weakness also in Dauphine before his stage win. But in the end you are right, you never know.In the end he was stronger than Fuglsang in Strade Bianche, you never know...
Formolo's problem is recovery, not climbing. That's why he's hit or miss in stage races. And that's why he finally decided to focus on Classics and stage hunting (which obviously requires letting go in some stages, so you can join the break in others).
He would've been there with the best on Civiglio.
I never looked at him this way but after checking his results I gotta admit there's some truth in your statement: he tends to struggle in hard mountain stages (although there are exceptions).I have to disagree. His problem is indeed climbing. Generally speaking, he is unable to handle the real hard mountain stages or extremely long climbs. If you check his results in the Giro or Vuelta, he does not have a problem with recovery (this kind of riders falter after 10 stages), he has a problem with hard mountain stages.