Derek Gee is the one that is completely absurd to me
former track rider, nothing to see here
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Derek Gee is the one that is completely absurd to me
Cav group riding faster than the GC group? Nah....Already super bad math, because they take the time he was down on Carapaz 35 minutes before the climb as the time he was down on Pogačar at the foot. I heard Cav caught up a lot of time through the valley already with the Astana guys drilling it. Probably around four minutes further behind than stated here on PdB.
and because he's been the ninja of the Tour so far it's going almost unnoticedDerek Gee is the one that is completely absurd to me
Froome already discovered it but he f*cked up his preparation for the Tour by not delivering in the spring classics. So I think LBL was the key prep here, period.Covid-19 made them want to win more.
Also apparently dominating Liege and Giro is the best preparation for the Tour. And apparently having a punctured lung in Pais Vasco is a great preparation too.
VLAB did it 2021-2022. They can do it again.It's wild how the top two defy every metric, including fan preconceptions about their worth versus the other.
Now it's Vingegaard who is on the backfoot. Next year he needs to not only catch-up but actually surpass Pog's level. Can they do it? UAE managed to dramatically improve their rider year-on-year, but can Visma achieve the same?
The challenge is simple: beat Pantani's Plateau de Beille ascent time by 5 minutes instead of 4, notwithstanding Pog's own potential improvements next year as well.
Jonas and Remco also beat Pantani, and Landa was almost there.The more I think the less yesterday makes sense. 3:30 on the previous record, set by Pantani (the greatest climber in cycling history before yesterday) in 1998 Tour, at the end of a very tough stage? Motors?
Yeah and Jonas with perfect preparation may have been up there with Pogacar, so the same question would apply to him too.Jonas and Remco also beat Pantani, and Landa was almost there.
The more I think the less yesterday makes sense. 3:30 on the previous record, set by Pantani (the greatest climber in cycling history before yesterday) in 1998 Tour, at the end of a very tough stage? Motors?
What kind of motor would you like to use here…? I can agree some exhibitions e.g. Cavendish is looking extremely suspicious with chain dropping at the finish line (not for the first time), but I wonder how could it help on a monstrous climb. You need to sacrifice the bike weight for power, the batteries weight a lot. You want to use such setup for 10-20 minutes which is really long, and it's producing noise, heat when there are tons of spectators around. Any random spectator can measure a temperature of your bike with remote FLIR camera, they can observe major fluctuations on the fly.The more I think the less yesterday makes sense. 3:30 on the previous record, set by Pantani (the greatest climber in cycling history before yesterday) in 1998 Tour, at the end of a very tough stage? Motors?
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