Did some searching on Alan Davis, but didn't really come up with much other than his TDU win.
What sort of rider is he? Will he ride the TDF? Thanks.
What sort of rider is he? Will he ride the TDF? Thanks.
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richwagmn said:Did some searching on Alan Davis, but didn't really come up with much other than his TDU win.
What sort of rider is he? Will he ride the TDF? Thanks.
richwagmn said:Did some searching on Alan Davis, but didn't really come up with much other than his TDU win.
What sort of rider is he? Will he ride the TDF? Thanks.
42x16ss said:... and has always been in the running at the TDU (He has made the final podium every time he has raced it).
El Imbatido said:Don't blow up at me if this is wrong, cos i'm doing this from memory.
Davis and Contador were friends from their ONCE/Liberty Seguros/Astana-Wurth days.
Davis was caught up in Operation Puerto because of dirty, dirty DS Manolo Saiz (which is where JB most likely learnt his trade), i think Davis' name was in the documents somewhere too. Very much like Contador he was cleared and allowed to return.
Signed with Disco in 07. Did jack all. Once Disco folded went into the wilderness until Quickstep picked him up.
Regarding Davis as a rider. More a sprinter but in my eyes not an out and out sprinter. He has always been more of a lead out man and more classicy (more like Renshaw than Cav IMO) but has made it known he wants to be a number 1 sprinter which would never happen on Quickstep, hence probably part of the reason he probably left.
El Imbatido said:Signed with Disco in 07. Did jack all. Once Disco folded went into the wilderness until Quickstep picked him up
El Imbatido said:Don't blow up at me if this is wrong, cos i'm doing this from memory.
Davis and Contador were friends from their ONCE/Liberty Seguros/Astana-Wurth days.
Davis was caught up in Operation Puerto because of dirty, dirty DS Manolo Saiz (which is where JB most likely learnt his trade), i think Davis' name was in the documents somewhere too. Very much like Contador he was cleared and allowed to return.
Signed with Disco in 07. Did jack all. Once Disco folded went into the wilderness until Quickstep picked him up.
Regarding Davis as a rider. More a sprinter but in my eyes not an out and out sprinter. He has always been more of a lead out man and more classicy (more like Renshaw than Cav IMO) but has made it known he wants to be a number 1 sprinter which would never happen on Quickstep, hence probably part of the reason he probably left.
rgmerk said:but at the last minute management changed their minds and Boonen rode.
rgmerk said:Wikipedia has his results.
He's a sprinter. Some good results at Milan-Sanremo, for instance.
He was going to ride the TDF for Quickstep last year after Boonen's episodes with the Bolivian marching powder, but at the last minute management changed their minds and Boonen rode.
Thoughtforfood said:Yea, that was one of the most moronic moves of the year.
craig1985 said:I reckon they still could have found room for Davis and Boonen in the same team.
sTTevie said:yeah, asking ASO to give room for 10 riders instead of 9 in the peloton
sTTevie said:there's more to life than the Tour alone ... I wonder if 90% of the forum members are aware of this
sTTevie said:there's more to life than the Tour alone ... I wonder if 90% of the forum members are aware of this
sTTevie said:I like you too
firstly, this thread was about Allan alone, somebody else dragged in Tom ...
secondly, I was just saying that QSI told Allan that there was a good chance he wouldn't be riding the Tour if the court ruled in favour of Tom ... that's all ... after the ruling was announced Patrick & Tom thanked Allan for being very professional about it, in hindsight with Tom being sick and the whole commotion around his drugs use it would've been better to let Allan ride, but believe it or not, Tom is still the major player at QSI (mmmm, why in the world would that be?) ... so it's only logical that he would ride the Tour ... and yes, QSI doesn't have the best Tour team in the peleton, something they should work on ... with a guy like Seel they've got a good talent coming trough the ranks & if Patrick makes a couple of good tranfers next year who knows ...
thirdly ... check the smiley I put at the end of the sentence ... don't be offended (I've placed two now, so you'd notice)