How am I biased? Sure, I sometimes pitch in a little skewedly in Valverde/Nibali discussions to offset the heavy Nibali bias on this forum, otherwise I wouldn't exactly say that I have my head up the butt of certain riders.
Whereas your bias is laughingly obvious, even if you once in a while come up with a post along the lines of "oh, I'm so sorry, I never meant to be like this on this forum, sorry if it has gotten out of hand" after which you continue in the exact same way.
I don't know if it necessarily should merit a ban, though, but if you can't see yourself that you elevate Masnada to a demigod (if he wasn't already) for being second in a monument whereas Van Aert's podium places in monuments are just proof of his complete uselessness, then I really don't know what to tell you.
The context of the riders and the race make a difference in that comparison but you do make a good point.
But when assessing van aert I have no bias. I don't understand why being Masnada fan makes me biased about wout van aert.
You being a valverde fan doesn't make you biased about assessing van aert.
Van aert is not the best rider in the world.
I enjoy llmaestro99's posts most of the times, including his extreme biases, but I see toby as the least biased (hyper)active poster in this forum. And I, being a biased poster, am not biased in this.
Toby is a good guy and he understand the sport.
But I've though it's about heart, passion, emotion, fighting spirit... If it's just about results, then that makes Masnada an irrelevant gregario
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... Is that what you're trying to say? That's just cold man
The Masnada thing is a combination of me being a fan of his character and his racing style, and my belief that he's underrated.
I don't believe that Masanda is the best rider in the world and I never claimed that. People here are claiming van aert is the best rider in the wrold.
This so called best rider won only 1 monument in the last 4 years.
Meanwhile we have a guy that won 1 monument, 2 wolrd championships and a top 5 on the Tour de France in the same period
We have a guy that won 2x monuments in the same season with the Tour de France.
We have a guy who finished 1st, 2nd, 1st in the last 3 edition of RVV
We have a guy like roglic that won 3 grand tours, a monument and an Olympic gold.
Results matter. For sure Van Aert might be the strongest in the world if the Tour de France was done on zwift. But this is not cycling.