Philippe Gilbert Discussion Thread

[Netserk]

In this case, different jersey and different bib.

Different jersey You don't say! He was leading the ProTour and had to wear the Protour jersey! (of course it was a fusion with the worlds jersey)

EDIT: Here you have him when he *wasn't* leading the ProTour:

 

[El Pistolero]

Different jersey You don't say! He was leading the ProTour and had to wear the Protour jersey! (of course it was a fusion with the worlds jersey)

EDIT: Here you have him when he *wasn't* leading the ProTour:

I know that lol. Hence the wink. Also we were talking about standard WC kits, the fusion jersey is proof that it's not always the same.

 

[pastronef]

Gilbert's father in rainbow stripes ("i just took it out when he was 300mts from the finish!") and his girlfriend "tonight? tonight champagne for sure!"

http://www.rtbf.be/video/v_la-reaction-de-la-famille-de-gilbert?id=1761515

 

[ultimobici]

It was probably different in the past, but now the World Champion can either wear white rainbow shorts or their normal trade team shorts. You can't put rainbow bands on black shorts.

http://www.uci.ch/includes/asp/getTarget.asp?type=FILE&id=NDE5NDk

Where do you get that from? It merely says that "The wearer of the world champion jersey is entitled to match the colour of his shorts to the colour of the jersey."

 

[Caruut]

Isn't it just the standard WC kit?

WC kit always looks better with a plain logo, I think.

 

[GPdesAmeriques]

Where do you get that from? It merely says that "The wearer of the world champion jersey is entitled to match the colour of his shorts to the colour of the jersey."

Actually I have no idea what I'm talking about! This looks like Gilbert's new uniform for 2013.

 

[The Hitch]

What a great pic.

 

[the asian]

Gilbert contemplating what might have been had he joined Astana.

 

[Fus087]

Where do you get that from? It merely says that "The wearer of the world champion jersey is entitled to match the colour of his shorts to the colour of the jersey."

Last year (well, early this year), Cavendish wanted to wear black Sky shorts with rainbow stripes. UCI said no, either white shorts with rainbow stripes or the regular team shorts.
Cavendish opted for the regular, black shorts.

 

[The Hitch]

 

[Afrank]

What's it say? I don't speak whatever language that is .

 

[The Hitch]

What's it say? I don't speak whatever language that is .

No.idea, i don't speak dutch either, but the people on foro de ciclismo seemed to like it.

 

[ultimobici]

Google is your friend.

The Messy Divorce of Gilbert & Couke is the title.

"For the medicine cabinet" is the phrase in the bubble. I'll leave you to arrive at your own conclusions.

 

[El Pistolero]

Google is your friend.

The Messy Divorce of Gilbert & Couke is the title.

"For the medicine cabinet" is the phrase in the bubble. I'll leave you to arrive at your own conclusions.

It's a joke on the fact that Coucke has sued Gilbert because he didn't honor his contract that said he should've stayed with the team until 2012. There's a court case going on right now. The only way Marec can make cycling cartoons funny is by throwing in a doping insinuation seeing as all his cycling cartoons revolve around the same thing these days.

 

[coinneach]

Interesting comments by PG on CN today.
Acknowledging the mistakes he made in shifting teams, and how long it took to sort out.
I think this aspect if often overlooked by our friends on the c***** page.
Also complaining about having to use new saddle & pedals.....I can believe saddles feel different, but pedals (if cleats set up properly??)

 

[Arnout]

Interesting comments by PG on CN today.
Acknowledging the mistakes he made in shifting teams, and how long it took to sort out.
I think this aspect if often overlooked by our friends on the c***** page.
Also complaining about having to use new saddle & pedals.....I can believe saddles feel different, but pedals (if cleats set up properly??)

Of course. Clinic regulars treat cyclists as machines with a fixed watt/kg output over time, especially after the age of 24. It makes life (and their agenda) easy but it is ignoring a lot of other variables.

 

[Afrank]

He didn't do too bad in AGR, but was pretty bad today. Can he be a factor for LBL? Or does he not have the form?
IMO I don't see him winning on Sunday, a podium is probably his best shot.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

He didn't do too bad in AGR, but was pretty bad today. Can he be a factor for LBL? Or does he not have the form?
IMO I don't see him winning on Sunday, a podium is probably his best shot.

he can win if it somehow stays together and he can sprint the last 200m if he doesn't have to spend much energy before

but that most likely will never happen. Meaning he might win the sprint for 3rd place or something but that's really the maximum. If it's a real hard race he might not even finish top 15

 

[will10]

He panicked today and trashed himself too soon. I think he can win Liege.

 

[Netserk]

No matter the scenario he will get beaten by Valverde (and others).

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Gilbert is carrying just that little bit extra weight imo.
Depending of how LBL is raced, that will not prevent him from winning the race.

 

[Shardi]

I think his form is ok, not 2011, not september 2012 but better than spring 2012. The biggest difference is the extra weight he seem to have. Don't think its only the RRC dress that has unfavorable design...

Extra weight has a larger inpact on a steep wall like Mur, than at a more rolling hill like cauberg.

For LBL he should be there in the end. I don't think he will fall over on any of the LBL hills. He looked better this AGR than the one in 2012 and is likely not gonna run empty at the top of the hill replacing roche aux faucons with 20km to go.

Have a feeling that LBL will have a larger group than usual coming into saint-nicholas. But its LBL so its quite difficult to estimate that. Theres a vast array of possibilities.

 

[Miburo]

He panicked today and trashed himself too soon. I think he can win Liege.

Exactly, people are taking way too quickly conclusions.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Exactly, people are taking way too quickly conclusions.

they took too early conclusion that he was good after agr, not the other way around like you claim

 

[Miburo]

they took too early conclusion that he was good after agr, not the other way around like you claim

Yeah he was dropping gerrans and valverde, real bad.

He was obviously going too early on the muur.

Btw what was his result in 2010 here? And how did he do in LBL that year?

Yeah...