obviously the 2-3 hardcore fanboys of him here can't wait for him to win every race. Others will be bored by this domination.
Are you still here? :O
Thought you would quit cycling, because it is getting too boring for you?
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obviously the 2-3 hardcore fanboys of him here can't wait for him to win every race. Others will be bored by this domination.
We'll cross that bridge when we get there. For the moment, it's a 19 year old who keeps surprising everyone (well, except for Flamin apparently, lol) and is showing thrilling racing (maybe you 'd rather see sprints stages and boring racing). Calling it boring at this time, is simply disingenuous. Maybe he will not evolve much more. Maybe the rest will start marking him and he won't get away in the future. Maybe he'll get tired of it and start playing football again.obviously the 2-3 hardcore fanboys of him here can't wait for him to win every race. Others will be bored by this domination.
We'll cross that bridge when we get there. For the moment, it's a 19 year old who keeps surprising everyone (well, except for Flamin apparently, lol) and is showing thrilling racing (maybe you 'd rather see sprints stages and boring racing). Calling it boring at this time, is simply disingenuous. Maybe he will not evolve much more. Maybe the rest will start marking him and he won't get away in the future. Maybe he'll get tired of it and start playing football again.
I expected a top 5. Because it was this windy, i thought the bigger guys would have the advantage, but turns out most of it was head wind or tailwind, not so much crosswinds from what i understood (like in the ITT BC). I think it might have been in his advantage in the second part especially, considering his far more aerodynamic posture.I mean that, in a certain way, it shouldn't have been that big a surprise after what he showed recently
Six weeks ago, he finished barely 7 seconds behind Lampaert, who just won an ITT in Suisse, in the Belgian nationals, and he obviously improved since then. Still, the huge gap he won by, IS obviously surprising like I mentioned.
I'm willing to bet he is now.It's all going crazy fast.
Was he's gonna go to the men's ITT in Yorkshire?
What "decent" opponents do you mean, on the climbs?Super impressive for such a young kid to destroy 15-20kg heavier specialists.
I still don't get how you can be 61kg and be world class in TTs and as a rouleur, but struggle against decent opponents on the climbs. Logic tells you that his power to weight ratio should be god-tier.
I mean that, in a certain way, it shouldn't have been that big a surprise after what he showed recently
Six weeks ago, he finished barely 7 seconds behind Lampaert, who just won an ITT in Suisse, in the Belgian nationals, and he obviously improved since then. Still, the huge gap he won by, IS obviously surprising like I mentioned.
All I can imagine is if his weight is underreported/not accurate anymore. That or slight differences in which muscle groups you use when climbing vs TTingSuper impressive for such a young kid to destroy 15-20kg heavier specialists.
I still don't get how you can be 61kg and be world class in TTs and as a rouleur, but struggle against decent opponents on the climbs. Logic tells you that his power to weight ratio should be god-tier.
Super impressive for such a young kid to destroy 15-20kg heavier specialists.
I still don't get how you can be 61kg and be world class in TTs and as a rouleur, but struggle against decent opponents on the climbs. Logic tells you that his power to weight ratio should be god-tier.
Hard to say gauging his efforts has been the problem in climbing races when he literally won San Sebastian cause he could go balls deep and never slow down.I’m not sure how much he’s struggling on climbs, but it would certainly make sense that a kid that young needs time to figure out how to gauge his efforts during road races as opposed to relatively short TT efforts.
Tactics, race length, terrain never seen before, distances never ridden...takes some experience to figure it out. He’s winning on sheer power right now. The climbing will come.
I don't know if you watched that stage and I don't know if those guys were actually better than him, if you consider the effort he made in his break attempt . He made the mistake, to attack at nearly 9km from the finish, which was an attack that went nowhere, because Hermans let his teammate ride full gas. He went in the red and got dropped as soon as he got caught 3k later, but managed to limit his losses. He was 1m30s behind in GC due to a crash in the first stage, otherwise he might not have felt the need to attack so early. In which case i'm sure he would have been able to hold on much longer. The AI Race is no real point of reference imho, because of that. It was also his first multi mountain stage (and he finished 10 minutes ahead of Rivera ). He's been climbing on the level of Jan Polanc in both Turkey and AIR, that guy finished 14th in the Giro. UAE was his first ever MTF at the pro's, and Romandie was just a fluke. Saying he doesn't climb as well as Knox, based on these results seems silly. Knox, by the way, is the same age as De Plus.Guys like Conti, Kudus, Conci in AIR or his teammate Knox, who has outclimbed him in every stage race against decent opposition. Atm he seems to be a lot stronger on rolling terrain
Hard to say gauging his efforts has been the problem in climbing races when he literally won San Sebastian cause he could go balls deep and never slow down.
I just don't think getting "outclimbed" by 7 seconds by Kudus and Conti has to be an issue for a 19 year old. Whatever the reason of his attack in AIR, is irrelevant. He attacked too soon, blew himself up, still managed to lose only 1m30s. I'm sure Knox was ok with him attacking, because it was in Knox best interest as well.It's just an observation and on the Misurina stage he attacked because he wanted to, Knox told him to ride for himself on the final climb.
People just seem to expect him to crush everyone on a MTF, but he still hasn't done that.
I think we both agree that his climbing will only get better, so let's just agree that we disagree on the other stuff, we both made our points and a further discussion seems rather pointless to me.
1m30 is kinda much considering Evenepoel seems physically unable of blowing up elsewhere. Anyway, could just be a bad day, it doesn't really matter.I just don't think getting "outclimbed" by 7 seconds by Kudus and Conti has to be an issue for a 19 year old. Whatever the reason of his attack in AIR, is irrelevant. He attacked too soon, blew himself up, still managed to lose only 1m30s. I'm sure Knox was ok with him attacking, because it was in Knox best interest as well.
1m30 on 6km climbing isn't much if you blow up imho.1m30 is kinda much considering Evenepoel seems physically unable of blowing up elsewhere. Anyway, could just be a bad day, it doesn't really matter.
Maybe he actually sat up a little bit.