Teams & Riders Team Visma - Lease a Bike

[Dekker_Tifosi]

their C team didn't do that bad considering. Van Dijke's were quite a revelation. Just a bit inexperienced and unlucky. Ofcourse the inexperience in finales mainly comes from them having to ride very early usually..

 

[rokovski]

Yup, they will loan Rogla only for the Tour! Bora will get some pocket money for it and Hindley will lead the team. Everybody happy.

With Roglic they got everything, despite he crashing everywhere, everytime, without him they will not get nothing, karma is a bit€h.

 

[scribers]

They got Cian. What's the problem?

 

[Rob5091]

Visma looking very plain without Roglic, WvA & Vinge
"Once again we did everything we could." - Grischa Niermann

 

[Bolder]

Visma looking very plain without Roglic, WvA & Vinge
"Once again we did everything we could." - Grischa Niermann

They sure are. Those guys were good for 20 wins a year or more. They’ve also had injuries to Laporte and Van Baarle. If everyone was healthy they’d be doing just fine, I think. (Jury is still out on Cian as a replacement for Roglic.)

 

[Red Rick]

They sure are. Those guys were good for 20 wins a year or more. They’ve also had injuries to Laporte and Van Baarle. If everyone was healthy they’d be doing just fine, I think. (Jury is still out on Cian as a replacement for Roglic.)

Riders of Roglic' quality generally aren't remotely replacable, apart from fantasyland where Pogacar or Evenepoel are available.

 

[Froome]

Jorgenson replaced decently Roglic until now.

The problem was the issues of the classic guys, WVA, van baarle and Laporte, and the crash of Vingegaard.

Jorgenson and Vingegaard won TA, PN, O gran camino, E3 saxo classic, travers la flandres.

 

[Berniece]

Visma looking very plain without Roglic, WvA & Vinge
"Once again we did everything we could." - Grischa Niermann

Every team looks plain without their 3 best riders

 

[samhocking]

It's often the pattern, lose your big GC or one day leader abruptly and the team dynamic is affected. The problem Jumbo have on the GC side is they don't have anyone almost as strong as Vingo anymore with Roglic gone. Kind of the same situation Ineos were in after Bernal but they don't really have a Thomas or Tao to soften the loss in GC. At least Vingo should be back next year 100%, I don't feel it will be a multi-year recovery like Bernal has taken,

 

[Rob5091]

If they keep crashing at this rate, they'll be down to the dev team for the Tour.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

• Vingegaard: bad crash
• Van Aert: Bad crash
• Kooij: sick in giro
• Benoot: started season with a fracture
• Laporte: sick in spring + giro
• Uijtdebroecks: sick in giro
• Kelderman: Paris Nice crash
• Lemmen: fractured collarbone
• Van Baarle: sick in spring classics
• Gesink: crash in giro
• Per Strand Hagenes: crash in E3
• Gloag: hit by car end of last season

At this point I fully expect half their Tour team to get kidnapped by Aliens and their Vuelta team gets sucked in by a black hole into another dimension

 

[tobydawq]

• Vingegaard: bad crash
• Van Aert: Bad crash
• Kooij: sick in giro
• Benoot: started season with a fracture
• Laporte: sick in spring + giro
• Uijtdebroecks: sick in giro
• Kelderman: Paris Nice crash
• Lemmen: fractured collarbone
• Van Baarle: sick in spring classics
• Gesink: crash in giro
• Per Strand Hagenes: crash in E3
• Gloag: hit by car end of last season

At this point I fully expect half their Tour team to get kidnapped by Aliens and their Vuelta team gets sucked in by a black hole into another dimension

Didn't Tratnik also lose a couple of spring classics due to sickness?

 

[Monte Serra]

Visma going full-on Sky by designating a swim coach as replacement for Merijn Zeeman. Jacco Verhaeren has previously led the Dutch and Australian Olympic swimming teams, resulting in several gold medals. He has been involved with Jumbo/Visma in an advisory roll since last season. Verhaeren will act as technical director, with Grischa Niermann and Mathieu Heijboer as his deputies.

He's probably a capable person, but he lacks the hands-on experience in cycling that Zeeman had.

https://www.wielerflits.nl/nieuws/z...pvolger-merijn-zeeman-bij-visma-lease-a-bike/

 

[Lequack]

Some behind the stage from Visma LAB

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-zEJ-os84g

 

[Ilmaestro99]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1798768449503809666

View: https://x.com/vismaleaseabike/status/1798768449503809666?t=NBISlNRk1W4oIYRjMxYWOA&s=19


No Kruijsvijk or van barlle in the Tour

 

[Rackham]

It's time to recall Tony Martin out of retirement.

 

[Netserk]

Better hope Kelderman stays safe in Suisse.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I'm all aboard GC Kooij now.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

It's time to recall Tony Martin out of retirement.

So he can crash into a spectator holding a sign?

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Vingegard - crashed in Itzulia, broken ribs and lungs
Belg Pozzato - crashed in DDV, many broken bones, missed the Flanders and Roubaix
Gesink- crashed himself out of race on giro stage 2
Keldweman- crashed his collarbone in Paris nice, missed the Ardennes and the giro
Laporte - got sick in Sanremo and missed the classics, got sick again in the giro and left the race
Kruijvijk - crashed his hip in Dauphine and will miss le tour
Dylan van barlle - Ill all the classics, crashed his colleabone in Dauphine and miss the tour
Trarnik - crashed in E2 and miss the Flanders
Ujtedbreckes - left the giro as a leader because he had a sickness
Glogg - missed every race.
Kuss - isn't good anymore

Season could be better so far.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Vingegard - crashed in Itzulia, broken ribs and lungs
Belg Pozzato - crashed in DDV, many broken bones, missed the Flanders and Roubaix
Gesink- crashed himself out of race on giro stage 2
Keldweman- crashed his collarbone in Paris nice, missed the Ardennes and the giro
Laporte - got sick in Sanremo and missed the classics, got sick again in the giro and left the race
Kruijvijk - crashed his hip in Dauphine and will miss le tour
Dylan van barlle - Ill all the classics, crashed his colleabone in Dauphine and miss the tour
Trarnik - crashed in E2 and miss the Flanders
Ujtedbreckes - left the giro as a leader because he had a sickness
Glogg - missed every race.
Kuss - isn't good anymore

Season could be better so far.

You forgot Kooij dropping out of the Giro due to sickness

 

[Monte Serra]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1798768449503809666

View: https://x.com/vismaleaseabike/status/1798768449503809666?t=NBISlNRk1W4oIYRjMxYWOA&s=19


No Kruijsvijk or van barlle in the Tour

I'm all aboard GC Kooij now.

Where can I put some money on Koen Bouwman winning the KOM jersey in the Tour?

 

[KZD]

Assuming that Vingegaard will be ready for the Tour, I think Visma can still build a strong team to support him in the mountains with Kuss, Jorgenson and Kelderman (assuming that he doesn't crash hard in TDS) however the biggest problem that I see is that the rouleur support will be much thinner than before with Van Hooydonck gone from cycling and now Van Baarle out of the Tour as well. This makes me think that Van Aert will need to ride the Tour regrdless of his shape because otherwise Vingegaard will be left just with Laporte and Tratnik for the flat.

I don't even know who will be the 8th rider, maybe Gesink?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Where can I put some money on Koen Bouwman winning the KOM jersey in the Tour?

I'll happily take your money if no one else will.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Going to be a cracking TDF when Nordhagen and Matt Brennan are stringing out the bunch on Stage 1 for Wilco.