Teams & Riders The Red Bull - Bora - Hansgrohe team thread

[SHAD0W93]

He was better even on Cipressa.

Good thing he’ll race soon and can potentially jump up the leadership ladder.

 

[SHAD0W93]

Roglic was better in Milano Torino than Remco here IMO

Sub 200 km basically unipuerto stage, his bread and butter. Evenepoel at least has the “excuse” of crashing

 

[MLKarlos]

Tuckwell is better than Boiches in this roll and has shown it in Catalunya

He was really strong

 

[Divergence]

*** blew up in Germany post Tour with Lipowtiz, still is but media is being managed correctly.

No, he did not.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

So who will be the Tour leader?
Remco? (the biggest balls)
Lipo? (supported by the sponsors)
Rogla? (called up from vacations in the last moment to save the situation)
Hindley? (as a compromise between the previous three)
Or maybe that Etxebarria guy? (who'll lead the Basque Race with Rogla as a super dom )
The stakes are high: their leader (surrounded by such an armada) will be in the pole position to win the Tour!

 

[Divergence]

So who will be the Tour leader?
Remco? (the biggest balls)
Lipo? (supported by sponsors)
Rogla? (called up to save the situation)
Hindley? (as a compromise between the previous three)
Or maybe that Etxebarria guy? (who'll lead the Basque Race with Rogla as a super dom )
The stakes are high: their leader (surrounded by such an armada) will be in the pole position to win the Tour!

Based on what we have seen so far they will go with Remco and Lipo and ride for dominant two 2nd places and 7th and 9th in GC. But pretty dominant.

 

[Berniece]

Based on what we have seen so far they will go with Remco and Lipo and ride for dominant two 2nd places and 7th and 9th in GC. But pretty dominant.

And why wouldn't they finish 3rd and 4th?

 

[QueenStagiaire]

And why wouldn't they finish 3rd and 4th?

Because they‘re not a certain amazing ex-ski jumper.

 

[Divergence]

And why wouldn't they finish 3rd and 4th?

They are not the 3rd and 4th best GT riders.

 

[Berniece]

They are not the 3rd and 4th best GT riders.

Who are?

 

[Divergence]

Rog, Ayuso, IDT and a few others are certainly better

 

[YavorD]

Rog, Ayuso, IDT and a few others are certainly better

Okay, making a case that Ayuso is better GT rider than Evenepoel is strange.
Ayuso is better one week rider (results speak for themselves), but in GTs, that's steep .


But yes, the chances of Evenepoel not competing for the GC podium are probably (well) above 50%, so good amount of riders are better bet than him.

 

[kamaveli]

Based on what we have seen so far they will go with Remco and Lipo and ride for dominant two 2nd places and 7th and 9th in GC. But pretty dominant.

They even might be lucky enough to get one podium from dedicated sprint train that they'll also send.

 

[Berniece]

Rog, Ayuso, IDT and a few others are certainly better

2 riders that have never won a GT or stood next to Vingegaard and Pogi on a podium. And Roglic isn’t even riding the TDF…

 

[AmRacer]

2 riders that have never won a GT or stood next to Vingegaard and Pogi on a podium. And Roglic isn’t even riding the TDF…

Results from the past don't count, and there are 2 more GT's

 

[Peter von]

So who will be the Tour leader?
Remco? (the biggest balls)
Lipo? (supported by the sponsors)
Rogla? (called up from vacations in the last moment to save the situation)
Hindley? (as a compromise between the previous three)
Or maybe that Etxebarria guy? (who'll lead the Basque Race with Rogla as a super dom )
The stakes are high: their leader (surrounded by such an armada) will be in the pole position to win the Tour!

Lipo and Remco I guess. Trying to podium both of them. Unless both of them somehow takes such a leap that they are both better or equal climbers to Pogi, they can easily manage two leaders.
UAE and maybe sometimes Visma will destroy the peloton on key stages and Pogi will attack and behind it will be every man for himself, more or less.

Lipo isn't just supported by the sponsors, he finished 3rd last term and was arguably the 3rd best GC rider in 2025, and him being younger than both riders ahead of him in that pecking order, it makes total sense.

Remco is their shiny new toy and they will show him off on the biggest stage. Also they probably still reckons Remco has the highest ceiling when it comes to 3 weeks.

I don't know if it was Roglic idea to go all in on winning the 5th Vuelta, but seems like that is their plan, and I kinda like it. Hoping he can beat a tired Pogi to the honors.

Hindley had his shot at leading the line in the Tour. Brutal world, but it is what it is.

 

[LongtimeLurker]

No, he did not.

Based on this reply, I understand how much you don't know which makes replying to you more understandable.

 

[Divergence]

2 riders that have never won a GT or stood next to Vingegaard and Pogi on a podium. And Roglic isn’t even riding the TDF…

To be fair, if Evenepoel gets his head right and trains well, he could very well be 2nd best after Pog but we have seen that.

 

[MLKarlos]

I don’t know…I feel like the team makes huge progress compared to last year. I don’t understand all the blame for their strategies..so far they are the second best team for this season

 

[canina82]

I don’t know…I feel like the team makes huge progress compared to last year. I don’t understand all the blame for their strategies..so far they are the second best team for this season

Who is better? UAE or Visma? To me, both are ahead.

 

[YavorD]

Results from the past don't count, and there are 2 more GT's

Results from the past count (for Evenepoel fans though).
It will be 2030, until then Evenepoel will contend 1 GT, finishing 3rd, with 2 podiums in one week races and his fans wil be like "but he's the 4th best GC rider, he won the Vuelta 2022 and was great in TdF 2024 as well".

 

[CyclistAbi]

They have the riders to be there at the end, Roglic has not been able to be there. Hard to ride for someone that’s not in contention.

Rogla is omnipresent so he is always there. And quite literally he is always there. Hence good if RBH has riders to support Rogla, lets hope they stretch their legs in doing that, ultimate climbs, much appreciated.

Well, what do you expect? It is between the most important cobbled classic races, so all of those riders are not able to ride in Spain, the Giro squad will be in altitude training (do you expect them to sacrifice the Giro for a one week stage race?) The riders who are eligible are the riders who will mostly also be part of the hill classics. van Gils who was also planned for this race is injured, Martinez is injured.
Which rider did you expect here that is better than the selected ones and is not at the classics, injured or at the Giro preparation?

What I also see, this is not the best team at this race and this is the part were Bora needs to get better, develop a better and deeper climbing support team. But what I do like at this team, it will be fully there to support Roglic, one clear leader and no side objectives. I think all riders will work really hard for Roglic and Tuckwell (as seen in Catalunya) FFB and Boichis can be a good climbing support.

Currently the options are no support on ultimate climbs or an additional capable RBH rider to be there riding for himself.

Let’s see what he does in Itzulia, but if he performs well, the team needs to do some thinking.

What is there to think about, support Rogla.

Did Roglic race this week? Evenepoel finished on the podium of multiple stages and Lipo was third. Better than Roglic has done this season.

So far and IMHO Rogla did rather good in this season.

 

[vappa]

Lipo and Remco I guess. Trying to podium both of them. Unless both of them somehow takes such a leap that they are both better or equal climbers to Pogi, they can easily manage two leaders.
UAE and maybe sometimes Visma will destroy the peloton on key stages and Pogi will attack and behind it will be every man for himself, more or less.

Lipo isn't just supported by the sponsors, he finished 3rd last term and was arguably the 3rd best GC rider in 2025, and him being younger than both riders ahead of him in that pecking order, it makes total sense.

Remco is their shiny new toy and they will show him off on the biggest stage. Also they probably still reckons Remco has the highest ceiling when it comes to 3 weeks.

I don't know if it was Roglic idea to go all in on winning the 5th Vuelta, but seems like that is their plan, and I kinda like it. Hoping he can beat a tired Pogi to the honors.

Hindley had his shot at leading the line in the Tour. Brutal world, but it is what it is.

Pretty sure that if Pogacar is tired after the Tour he won't be racing the Vuelta