With the rumoured Vuelta route, there's no way Menchov does the Vuelta unless it's as a super-domestique for Purito.
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Fetisoff said:God awful jersey for 2012.
Gotta make sure I'm not too late to get last year's for riding next year.
Fetisoff said:God awful jersey for 2012.
Gotta make sure I'm not too late to get last year's for riding next year.
Libertine Seguros said:With the rumoured Vuelta route, there's no way Menchov does the Vuelta unless it's as a super-domestique for Purito.
auscyclefan94 said:What is the rumoured route and when is it officially announced?
The Hitch said:I heard it sucks, rarely goes past 1 climb a stage and takes place entirely in the North.
Announced in January.
Swede1 said:I know Menchov won't have the greatest team for the mountain stages next year, but I don't think he even needs one. All he needs is to be protected on the flat stages and kept in front. In the mountains he just needs to follow the best climbers (Schlecks, Contador, Evans...) whose teams will be setting tempo. Then he will beat them in the TT.
greenedge said:I doubt Menchov will be able to follow an in form Contador/ Shleck up the mountains. We saw that in 2010.
Evans' sprint is underrated. He's got quite a kick on him when he needs one. Remember Stirling in 2010, when only Cardoso and Valverde outkicked him and he beat Sagan to the line? Him and Vino interjecting themselves in the bunch kick in Cava dè Tirreni? Coppi e Bartali 2009 when he outsprinted Cunego and Visconti?orangerider said:Lack of time bonuses also works against Menchov. He has relatively good top end sprint ability when compared to the Schlecks, Evans, or Contador. Unfortunately, this would achieve little to nothing, assuming he could even hold their wheels to the end.
Libertine Seguros said:. Menchov has a decent kick, and Sánchez, and Nibali, and it could be close between them, but I'd probably say Evans just shades them on average.
Hence the "on average". Samu might have a better kick when on top form, but Evans spends more time on form than Samu.The Hitch said:Samu has a better sprint than Evans.
Libertine Seguros said:Hence the "on average". Samu might have a better kick when on top form, but Evans spends more time on form than Samu.