Predicted Best rider of 2013

[El Pistolero]

Will be hard for Nibali to win a classic without a good (uphill) sprint. Lombardia is his best chance if he can stay upright.

 

[Afrank]

Will be hard for Nibali to win a classic without a good (uphill) sprint. Lombardia is his best chance if he can stay upright.

He'll have a good chance at LBL as well.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Alberto, duh

 

[the asian]

contador's Algarve,T-A, Catalunya, Pais Vasco, Tour, Vuelta wins will be hard to beat

Pretty much this.

My Predictions of the GT winners.

Giro-Nibali
Tour- Contador
Vuelta-Contador


Monument Winners

MSR-Degenkolb
Ronde- Sagan
PR- Boonen
LBL-Gilbert
Lombardia-Uran

Worlds RR-Valverde( Winning on Italian soil)

 

[velosiped]

I am sure Sagan will win everything next year; classics, GT's, shorter stage races, worlds road race and TT - everything!!

Because he is God.

 

[El Pistolero]

He'll have a good chance at LBL as well.

Not with Valverde and Andy Schleck back and hopefully a fit Gilbert again.

 

[The Hitch]

I could have won 8 Tour de France's with proper training and a proper program from US Postal

I could have won a stage in each with a rabo one

 

[jens_attacks]

most likely valverde.

 

[Knutsen]

ebh

2013 will be the second coming of ebh. You haven't seen anything yet! You heard it here first.

 

[screaming fist]

Cancellara to rise to old form

 

[Afrank]

Not with Valverde and Andy Schleck back and hopefully a fit Gilbert again.

If they are in form then yes, Valverde was no where to be seen in the classics this year and all his results (with the exception of worlds) came from stage races, and there's still a big question mark over if Schleck will be back to form. Gilbert I see as the most dangerous to Niabli's chances at LBL. But of the 3 Ardennes races LBL will present him with his best chance for a win.

 

[El Pistolero]

If they are in form then yes, Valverde was no where to be seen in the classics this year and all his results (with the exception of worlds) came from stage races, and there's still a big question mark over if Schleck will be back to form. Gilbert I see as the most dangerous to Niabli's chances at LBL. But of the 3 Ardennes races LBL will present him with his best chance for a win.

Valverde needed a GT in his legs, just like Phil.

 

[Pentacycle]

2013 will be the second coming of ebh. You haven't seen anything yet! You heard it here first.

Sure, but I have a feeling his achilles will be somewhat overstrained. Moreover this isn't the first time I've read this, and everything EBH can do, Sagan will do twice as good.

Still Valverde will be the man next year, probably with Fleche/LBL, TdF podium and finally winning the Worlds in Italy. He can't stay away from Italy forever. Maybe it'll already happen in the Tour, depending on what route they've planned.

Also looking forward to the rematch of LBL 2010: Valverde vs Gilbert

 

[Knutsen]

Sure, but I have a feeling his achilles will be somewhat overstrained. Moreover this isn't the first time I've read this, and everything EBH can do, Sagan will do twice as good.

I know that is the consensus, but I dont agree Looking forward to see Sagan and Ebh going full trottle head to head. Should be great entertainment.

 

[skidmark]

The question with Sagan is, how much more can he progress? When he did well at the TDU as a 19-year old, I thought it was a fluke. Then came Paris-Nice, California, the Quebec race he got 2nd...

then his second year, I figured he couldn't improve. But then he won Sardegna, started hanging in the classics a bit more, and won a bunch of stages in his first GT.

Then in his third year, I figured he couldn't improve. But he showed at the end of long classics like MSR, RVV and AGR, then took the TDF by storm.

If he progresses in similar linear fashion next year, he'll be the best rider in the world, no doubt.

 

[The Hitch]

Thing i worry about with sagan is he said that he finds cycling boring, and he got a lot of glory at the tdf and at his home country he certainly will find more glory with a few more tour stages than with classics. Will he maybe just focus all on tdf and worlds?

 

[Parker]

Biggest breakthrough act: Geraint Thomas (also Elia Viviani)

 

[ferryman]

C_O_N_T_A_D_O_R. That is all

 

[ferryman]

Biggest breakthrough act: Geraint Thomas (also Elia Viviani)

G moving up to the A team then

 

[El Pistolero]

Thing i worry about with sagan is he said that he finds cycling boring, and he got a lot of glory at the tdf and at his home country he certainly will find more glory with a few more tour stages than with classics. Will he maybe just focus all on tdf and worlds?

He said that cycling is often boring and by that he meant the tempo ride stages during the Tour de France.

He loves to ride the final of a classic or stage race. So no he will not focus just on the TdF, where did you get that from?

The Ronde van Vlaanderen is the classic he wants to win the most.

I fail to see what his home country has to do with this. He's not getting paid by them.

 

[hiero2]

I voted Cav b-cuz somebody needs to. I really think Sagan will dominate, which I will find appalling - due, in part, to reasons that I can not discuss in this forum.

I really want to see how Cav, Boonen, Canc, DeGendt, and Turbo Pinot do this coming year.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Thing i worry about with sagan is he said that he finds cycling boring, and he got a lot of glory at the tdf and at his home country he certainly will find more glory with a few more tour stages than with classics. Will he maybe just focus all on tdf and worlds?

he will go back to mtb

 

[RedheadDane]

My money is with one of these guys:

 

[ebandit]

jtl

where is jtl in the poll?

voting for other/cadel is hardly an option...............................
.......................i dislike cadel almost as much as


.....................lance

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

Next year will be Kasheckins year

If not, then I expect that AC will win TA, Basque, DL, the tour and probably something in the autumn