Most overrated rider

[Altitude]

Who is the most overrated rider in the current peleton? For me it has to be Pozzato-- always a "favorite" to win the big ones but never actually does. Your thoughts please...

 

[The Hitch]

As far as this forum is concerned Id say Richie Porte, maybe EBH. Renshaw seeing as Cav manages well enough without him?

For a more specific list look here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabobank_(cycling_team)#ProTour_team

 

[Faserr]

Pozzato. He's a really good and strong rider, but he wasn't able to win the real big races in the last couple of years, although he was always a favorite.

 

[LugHugger]

Bradley Wiggins

 

[ingsve]

Bradley Wiggins

How can he be overrated when most people here think he sucks? Is he not living up to the sucky level people seem to think he has? Only a small minority thinks he can actually podium a GT.

 

[AlHooKoo]

Bradley Wiggins

 

[Arnout]

LL Sanchez and Gerdemann.

 

[Christian]

Yup Gerdemann for sure. 2 days in yellow and all of a sudden he was the new Ullrich.

 

[Vonn Brinkman]

Steegmans and EBH.

 

[Altitude]

As far as this forum is concerned Id say Richie Porte, maybe EBH. Renshaw seeing as Cav manages well enough without him?

For a more specific list look here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabobank_(cycling_team)#ProTour_team

Renshaw is an interesting one. In my opinion he should go elsewhere and see if he can win some sprints himself.

 

[Barrus]

As far as this forum is concerned Id say Richie Porte, maybe EBH. Renshaw seeing as Cav manages well enough without him?

For a more specific list look here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabobank_(cycling_team)#ProTour_team

Come on, even we Dutch, or even the Aussies don't overrate Brown

 

[staubsauger]

well, 2 years ago the answer would've been very easy: damiano cunego.

 

[Fowsto Cope-E]

Who is the most overrated rider in the current peleton? For me it has to be Pozzato-- always a "favorite" to win the big ones but never actually does. Your thoughts please...

Yeah, a couple of months ago I thinking this very thing. Pipo is similar to Paolo Bettini, only a lot worse: he can't sprint as well as Bettini, and he certainly can't climb him, either

 

[nvpacchi]

well, 2 years ago the answer would've been very easy: damiano cunego.

2 years ago Cunego won Amstel Gold, and Giro di Lombardia, hardly see that as being overrated

 

[Angliru]

Yeah, a couple of months ago I thinking this very thing. Pipo is similar to Paolo Bettini, only a lot worse: he can't sprint as well as Bettini, and he certainly can't climb him, either

Bettini was a beast. Pipo is not even in the same solar system as Paolo.

 

[L'arriviste]

Though I personally like him, how about Sastre? Good but not that good? A fading star?

 

[luckyboy]

Though I personally like him, how about Sastre? Good but not that good? A fading star?

Think most people probably accept that now. Though top 20 in all 3 GTs this year is pretty great.

Not even sure where to start with this. Maybe one of the really young guys who everyone talks up so much.

 

[Anonymous]

This Bauke Mollema fella..

 

[hfer07]

EBH (another wonder boy with no results)
Pozzato (apart from the exotic lifestyle, this guy wins not much TBH)
Kreuziger (I know he's young but his name has been touted as the next big thing and yet nothing has happened)
Michael Rogers (keep waiting to replace Cuddles as a GT rider and nothing has happend yet to indicate it otherwise)

 

[The Hitch]

well, 2 years ago the answer would've been very easy: damiano cunego.

The same 2 years ago that Damiano Cunego won Amstel Gold, Giro di Lombardia, silver in the World RR and podium in Flech Wallone?

 

[Fowsto Cope-E]

This Bauke Mollema fella..

How could The Great Bauke Mollema possibly be overrated!?!

 

[jsem94]

post-comeback LA. Enough said. (maybe not on this forum, but ppl in general thinking he could win races.. phail)

 

[shouldawouldacoulda]

Pozzato. He's a really good and strong rider, but he wasn't able to win the real big races in the last couple of years, although he was always a favorite.

This sounds an awful lot like George Hincapie. Only Pozzato has actually won a monument - Milan San Remo in 2006. For as much as he was hyped up to do so, Hincapie never won a monument and barely came close - in his 18 yrs as a pro he can count two podiums in monuments - a 2nd in Roubaix and a 3rd in Flanders.

In fact at 23yrs old you could say EBH's palmares are better than Hincapie's at 37. So, as much as I do like him, I'll vote Hincapie - most over hyped current pro. At least as far as english cycling media is concerned.

I'm looking forward to when he retires so I don't have to hear how "he's a major threat to win Roubaix" ever again.

 

[Christian]

Michael Rogers (keep waiting to replace Cuddles as a GT rider and nothing has happend yet to indicate it otherwise)

Well luckily it seems he has renounced from that project. Kept getting tired of waiting for this GT breakthrough that has been announced for years ...

 

[For The World]

Juan Antonio Flecha.

He's constantly talked about by many, many cycling commentators as being a "big threat" in classics races, but never materialises apart from his 4 major wins in the last ten years.