Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne 3 march 2019 201 km

[tobydawq]

Re: Re:

Jungels has the engine and potential to be the next Boonen-Valverde combo.

Dear Bob, please stop wasting your time on those lame GTs and work on your sprinting instead. You can be the total one-day racer package.

I fail to see any similarity to those two. Maybe new Terpstra, or somebody like that...

Jungels won U23 Paris-Roubaix and he also already won LBL so I would say those are some similarities.

... he can also TT better than Tom & Piti so maybe he can be even more versatile than those two.

Well, he TTs better than both, is not fast in a sprint, which they are --> I don't see how he remotely compares to them.

I think Cancellara indeed is a better comparison, but it's true, he's a much better climber (and inferior time trialist).

The Terpstra comparison also has some merits in that his solo attack at the end of a tough race seems to be deadly (a trait I really dislike in a rider because he destroys the suspense).

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Re: Re:

Jungels has the engine and potential to be the next Boonen-Valverde combo.

Dear Bob, please stop wasting your time on those lame GTs and work on your sprinting instead. You can be the total one-day racer package.

I fail to see any similarity to those two. Maybe new Terpstra, or somebody like that...

Jungels won U23 Paris-Roubaix and he also already won LBL so I would say those are some similarities.

... he can also TT better than Tom & Piti so maybe he can be even more versatile than those two.

A guy that could perform on the cobbles, and in the Ardennes, and do a top 10 in a GT on a good day... A bit like Criquielion?

 

[Blanco]

Re: Re:

Jungels has the engine and potential to be the next Boonen-Valverde combo.

Dear Bob, please stop wasting your time on those lame GTs and work on your sprinting instead. You can be the total one-day racer package.

I fail to see any similarity to those two. Maybe new Terpstra, or somebody like that...

Jungels won U23 Paris-Roubaix and he also already won LBL so I would say those are some similarities.

... he can also TT better than Tom & Piti so maybe he can be even more versatile than those two.

But he lacks the speed to become one of the very best. Even Cancellara needed a fast sprint, without that I doubt Jungels will become classics great.

 

[Alexandre B.]

Re: Re:

Jungels has the engine and potential to be the next Boonen-Valverde combo.

Dear Bob, please stop wasting your time on those lame GTs and work on your sprinting instead. You can be the total one-day racer package.

I fail to see any similarity to those two. Maybe new Terpstra, or somebody like that...

Jungels won U23 Paris-Roubaix and he also already won LBL so I would say those are some similarities.

... he can also TT better than Tom & Piti so maybe he can be even more versatile than those two.

But he lacks the speed to become one of the very best. Even Cancellara needed a fast sprint, without that I doubt Jungels will become classics great.

He did win a Giro sprint against the likes of Pinot and Quintana. That's a start.

 

[Robert5091]

Re:

Also some props to Doull who's been riding very well this weekend.

Agree - a bright spot for Sky.

 

[Jancouver]

Re: Re:

Jungels has the engine and potential to be the next Boonen-Valverde combo.

Dear Bob, please stop wasting your time on those lame GTs and work on your sprinting instead. You can be the total one-day racer package.

I fail to see any similarity to those two. Maybe new Terpstra, or somebody like that...

Jungels won U23 Paris-Roubaix and he also already won LBL so I would say those are some similarities.

... he can also TT better than Tom & Piti so maybe he can be even more versatile than those two.

But he lacks the speed to become one of the very best. Even Cancellara needed a fast sprint, without that I doubt Jungels will become classics great.

Yes, I agree, he does lack the speed/sprint and that's why I suggested that he works on that instead of training for GTs.

He already is a great rouleur and with a better sprint, and more explosiveness on shorter climbs, he got the potential to be a great classic rider.

 

[Lequack]

KBK Junior race crash at the start, pretty stupid move by the car driver:
https://twitter.com/ProCyclingStats/status/1102298423179558912

 

[42x16ss]

Re: Re:

Jungels has the engine and potential to be the next Boonen-Valverde combo.

Dear Bob, please stop wasting your time on those lame GTs and work on your sprinting instead. You can be the total one-day racer package.

I fail to see any similarity to those two. Maybe new Terpstra, or somebody like that...

Jungels won U23 Paris-Roubaix and he also already won LBL so I would say those are some similarities.

... he can also TT better than Tom & Piti so maybe he can be even more versatile than those two.

But he lacks the speed to become one of the very best. Even Cancellara needed a fast sprint, without that I doubt Jungels will become classics great.

Yes, I agree, he does luck the speed/sprint and that's why I suggested that he works on that instead of training for GTs.

He already is a great rouleur and with a better sprint, and more explosiveness on shorter climbs, he got the potential to be a great classic rider.

If Jungels keeps choosing his attacks as well as he has been, that may be enough for him to become a great classics rider. He seems to read the race very well.

 

[MartinGT]

Any news on Colbrelli? He seemed to deck it hard yesterday.

 

[SafeBet]

Any news on Colbrelli? He seemed to deck it hard yesterday.

He's fine, just some bruises. There was a video on Bahrain's Twitter right after the race.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Jungels really has developed into a superb rider.

 

[Valanga]

Re:

KBK Junior race crash at the start, pretty stupid move by the car driver:
https://twitter.com/ProCyclingStats/status/1102298423179558912

The driver was not used to driving an automatic gearbox. So when he wanted to shift and press the clutch, well, wrong foot wrong pedal, and then this happens