Lidl-Trek (no longer Radioshack-Leopard Trek)

[pastronef]

Who is the greater fraud, Putin, Tinkoff, or Trump?
:geek:

that´s the way, that brings me back to the way the merger was welcomed. then it was Becca, Bruyneel or Trek
you should scroll back to autumn 2011, some users went mad about the merger and it was genuine fun. so far away from the recent madness on the british cyclist threads.

this thread was my favourite

 

[lenric]

It would be good (curiosity-wise) to know the average age of next year's Trek rooster.

 

[Ricco']

Re:

It would be good (curiosity-wise) to know the average age of next year's Trek rooster.

With the riders announced so far, they will start 2017 with an average age of 28.815 years.

 

[Benotti69]

Re:

It would be good (curiosity-wise) to know the average age of next year's Trek rooster.

Which came first the chicken or the egg?

 

[lenric]

Re: Re:

It would be good (curiosity-wise) to know the average age of next year's Trek rooster.

With the riders announced so far, they will start 2017 with an average age of 28.815 years.

I might be wrong, but they are probably one of the oldest teams (in terms of average age of its riders).

 

[sir fly]

Re: Re:

It would be good (curiosity-wise) to know the average age of next year's Trek rooster.

With the riders announced so far, they will start 2017 with an average age of 28.815 years.

I might be wrong, but they are probably one of the oldest teams (in terms of average age of its riders).

It is a retirement home, after all.

 

[lenric]

Re: Re:

It would be good (curiosity-wise) to know the average age of next year's Trek rooster.

With the riders announced so far, they will start 2017 with an average age of 28.815 years.

I might be wrong, but they are probably one of the oldest teams (in terms of average age of its riders).

It is a retirement home, after all.

Yep, my point. Looks like Serie A (football). :razz:

 

[TourOfSardinia]

How come Trek SegaFredo has UCI team code: TFS?

Just wondering.

 

[Netserk]

Trek
Factory
Segafredo

I guess.

 

[staubsauger]

It was TFR for Trek Factory Racing before I think, so Netserk should be right!

 

[Leinster]

Toms Skujins in the 1st KOM Jersey of any consequence at the Tour.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Cyclingweekly reporting Trek are set to launch a women's team in 2019. Lizzie Deignan, Ellen van Dijk, Elisa Longo Borghini and Audrey Cordon-Ragot are linked to the team.
http://amp.timeinc.net/cyclingweekly/news/racing/trek-segafredo-launch-womens-team-lizzie-deignan-rumoured-among-strong-roster-386208?source=dam&__twitter_impression=true

 

[Escarabajo]

Re: Re:

It would be good (curiosity-wise) to know the average age of next year's Trek rooster.

With the riders announced so far, they will start 2017 with an average age of 28.815 years.

I might be wrong, but they are probably one of the oldest teams (in terms of average age of its riders).

So average age will come down a bit next year!

 

[tobydawq]

Those people who said that Nibali was the most Trek signing ever are probably a bit amused about the most recent rumour:

The 39-year-old Pieter Weening is apparently set to join Trek...

Edit: Nicely updated thread title, by the way...

 

[RedheadDane]

They signed an 18-year-old for this season. They gotta find a way to bring the average age up to proper Trek levels.

 

[SHAD0W93]

They signed an 18-year-old for this season. They gotta find a way to bring the average age up to proper Trek levels.

They can always bring Horner, Levi, and/or Kloden back.

 

[pastronef]

They can always bring Horner, Levi, and/or Kloden back.

I´d love to see Kloden back!

 

[Rob5091]

After 3 years in the wilderness, the Trek thread returns. Now of course as Lidl-Trek and with a hefty budget.

 

[pastronef]

THIS very thread 2 years ago opened my eyes about the CyclingNewsForum madness. I loved every minute of it. when the "merger" was announced" it was wild on here

 

[Rob5091]

Jonathan Milan off to the Giro again after a Spring full of classics. The "nodding donkey" of the peloton with a new team and leadout men will be the sprinter to watch at the Giro -
https://cyclinguptodate.com/cycling...ic-games-its-going-to-be-tough-but-im-excited

 

[Wyndbrook]

I´d love to see Kloden back!

And why is he not on this currently debated top 10 riders of the century list!

 

[Squire]

And why is he not on this currently debated top 10 riders of the century list!

I strongly considered making an alternative list where the criteria was style and put him on top (obviously). But even the most enthusiastic Klödists might have a hard time sneaking him into the top 10 riders of the century. His Paris-Nice win and one of his Itzulias wasn't even in this century by the definition used in that thread.

 

[Barnacle Bill]

There was an article in the Times today from a journalist who spent some time with the team on an altitude camp at Sierra Nevada. I found some of the details interesting, although it's always a shame seeing what someone is putting in before later being denied by a crash (TGH).

Behind a paywall as usual with the Times, but well worth a read. A couple of snippets:

https://www.thetimes.com/sport/cycling/article/we-live-in-a-bubble-inside-lidl-treks-training-camp-at-2300m-altitude-7dptq7xhq

In the improvised workshop nearby, the Lidl-Trek mechanics worked on their new bikes; next door Decathlon–AG2R La Mondiale did likewise. “You should see Teide [in Tenerife],” the Lidl-Trek performance coach Aritz Arberas Pampin says. “There is only one hotel [at altitude], so every morning at 10am it looks like the start of a race.”

On the 20-kilometre road to Canales, the Lidl-Trek riders descending in their wind-breakers and gloves, we passed Visma-Lease A Bike, already hard at their efforts; later, on the cursive roads that rise towards Pico Veleta (3,398 metres), the Bora-Hansgrohe riders Jai Hindley and Primoz Roglic. We were following a group that included Tao Geoghegan-Hart — set to lead the team at the Tour until injury and illness intervened — and Giulio Ciccone, the Italian who will be co-leader in Geoghegan-Hart’s absence.
...
To ensure each rider was working in the correct power/heart-rate zones, Arberas Pampin and his team performed lactate tests at the beginning of the camp. “They do a climb with more intensity and after each step we take a blood sample and we see the lactate concentration in that blood sample,” he says. “With that we create a curve of lactate accumulation.” In this, he explains, you can see the numerical evidence of why the leader is the leader and the domestiques the domestiques.

“The highest-level riders have a better lactate curve — more efficient, all the way. Racing is another thing … you can have two riders with the same lactate curve but when you put them in racing, one is performing better than the other. In racing you also have technique, heat adaptation, carbohydrate absorption.”

At altitude, heart-rate, not power, is often the preferred guide to exertion levels. Rather than the input (force on the pedals), you read the output (how the cardiovascular system is responding). The team were also monitored regularly by blood tests — measuring Creatine Phosphokinase (CPK) and urea, which indicate fatigue — and their training stress was tracked. And there was simple oral feedback. During training, the Dutch rider Sam Oomen — who joined from Visma-Lease A Bike ahead of the season, and struggled with his bike position — arrived at the window of the team car to tell Arberas Pampin that the mechanics had cracked his set-up. “It feels like I have come home,” he says.

 

[Netserk]

https://archive.ph/U3bPp

 

[Rob5091]

https://archive.ph/U3bPp

Thanks for the link!
Interesting about taking blood samples as Sky & Doc Freeman got into trouble for their in-house testing some years ago.