Soudal - Quick Step Thread

[YavorD]

Man this is such a tragedy. Such a nice guy who never gets many opportunities to display just how talented he is, because of all the time bad luck.

Didn't he already have it as an u23? And that's why he took a long time to turn pro.

Shame for the sport man.

I didn't mean for the Fausto stuff to get so out of hand. I think he is a very underrated rider and also a super nice guy and very passionate about the sport. Always on the attack. So I became a very big fan.

And when I join the forum I was claiming he should be leading the Giro for Quickstep instead of Remco or Almida who I thought didn't have a chance of podium

A lot of people thought this was a strange viewpoint, and so it became a bit of a meme, but I am just a fan of Fausto who wants the best for him.

Last year tendinitis in the Giro and then fracture sacrum in July, this year out with mono. He is really having so much bad luck and he doesn't deserve it.

In short Italian Merckx with the heart of Laporte?

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Petition to change the thread title:

QuickStep is the new Lotto.

 

[Big Doopie]

Is QS underperforming or is it other teams that appear to defy logic?

#bahrainridiculous

 

[SafeBet]

Teuns winning Fleche Wallonne hardly defies logic. He podiumed this race in 2017 and was always considered a great puncher.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Teuns winning Fleche Wallonne hardly defies logic. He podiumed this race in 2017 and was always considered a great puncher.

If anything him not stepping up as a top puncheur during the last few years is the bigger surprise.

 

[Carrick-On-Seine]

Petition to change the thread title:

QuickStep is the new Lotto.

Or maybe Quickstep is not Jumbo. Monument in the bag!

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Or maybe Quickstep is not Jumbo. Monument in the bag!

It was a reference to doing all the work and controlling the race for a guy you know isn't going to pull it off. Like Lotto has been doing for decades.

Glad for Evenepoel. Imagine him going solo in the penultimate Mur de Huy. Let's hope team hierarchy had changed now.

 

[Carrick-On-Seine]

It was a reference to doing all the work and controlling the race for a guy you know isn't going to pull it off. Like Lotto has been doing for decades.

Glad for Evenepoel. Imagine him going solo in the penultimate Mur de Huy. Let's hope team hierarchy had changed now.

Ah I thought it was a reference to fading from past successes.
Still can't see how Remco can win La Flèche but hope to be proved wrong.
For now though so pleased for him.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Ah I thought it was a refuse to fading from past successes.
Still can't see how Remco can win La Flèche but hope to be proved wrong.
For now though so pleased for him.

It wasn't just FW, also Itzulia and Provence where the team kept riding for Alaphilippe while he was clearly not on form.

 

[SHAD0W93]

A bad day at the office for Quickstep in two races with Cav and Jakobsen. Can they bounce back tomorrow/later today with a win for both!

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Team at altitude in Sierra Nevada.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Any news about Mari, did he get sick during the Giro?
Getting dropped by his teammate Ballerini on the final mountain stage isn't normal.

 

[Akuryo]

As bad as their spring was, they had quite the start to the Tour with 2 stage wins to open the race. Certainly not their best season to date but they turned a mediocre start to the year around it seems.

 

[Terrefretter]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546477266175238144

View: https://twitter.com/BenjiNaesen/status/1546477266175238144?t=TRk7OLrBN1kOj-CCOYEEQA&s=19

 

[Bonimenier]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546477266175238144

View: https://twitter.com/BenjiNaesen/status/1546477266175238144?t=TRk7OLrBN1kOj-CCOYEEQA&s=19

That looks really bad imo

 

[baojoao]

ugly as hell

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Kind of just looks like they got the current quickstep and lotto jerseys and combined them.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Back to the drawing board.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Another picture:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546479322436964353

My goodness that is absolutey horrendous. The red soudal stripe does not fit whatsoever, what are these shoulder pad logos? Yikes.

 

[Netserk]

What I really don't get is how something so god-awfully ugly can still be so bland and boring. I can do with ugly, but not with bland.

 

[MartinGT]

No, just no, just NO

 

[Unchained]

Another picture:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546479322436964353

My goodness that is absolutey horrendous. The red soudal stripe does not fit whatsoever, what are these shoulder pad logos? Yikes.

Wow!! The timing of this roll out..silly, the public talk about Cav cutting w the team..again..silly..and now the consolidation of 2 teams..I am happy that the sponsorship went years deep, good for the sport and some of my favorite racers, but the timing is bad form.
.if anyone has a good photo of the German Gorilla wearing a kit that looks like this..love to see the side by side..
also wondering where Ridley falls when all this is over..and I wonder if Bianchi will re enter and w what team..Would have loved to see a bike maker shake it up w a switch at Quick Step

 

[BR2]

Now I really, really want Ala to win his third worlds this year...

 

[Netserk]

Much better alternative without the stupid white:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546504083896471553

View: https://twitter.com/dirkvangaal/status/1546504083896471553

 

[Skalman]

Much better alternative without the stupid white:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546504083896471553

View: https://twitter.com/dirkvangaal/status/1546504083896471553

That one i like, really nice, why not use that one?