Teams & Riders The Remco Evenepoel is the next Eddy Merckx thread

[houtdffan]

I agree about the TTs. I already said the Tour is missing a real flat ITT of 55/60 km, but a lot of mountain stages in this Tour are also garbage.

This Tour is missing a real hard mountain finish like Granon, La loze(i'm waiting for the side of La Tougnette in the Tour), Portet, or Alpe d'huez.

Some of the mountain finishes are garbage like Col de la Couillolle.

Plateau de Beille is a good one

This tour really needs two tweaks. 30km extra on the first TT and add the Aubisque or Spandelles before the Tourmalet on the Pla D'Adet stage

That would give us a classic Tour route and we could see a decent battle between the TTists vs the climbers

 

[Froome]

Plateau de Beille is a good one

This tour really needs two tweaks. 30km extra on the first TT and add the Aubisque or Spandelles before the Tourmalet on the Pla D'Adet stage

That would give us a classic Tour route and we could see a decent battle between the TTists vs the climbers

Plateau is also a good one because is a stage of 200 km.

I don't understand why they are doing so much mountain stages with just 130/140 km, because that doesn't benefit the guys with better resistance.

 

[houtdffan]

Plateau is also a good one because is a stage of 200 km.

I don't understand why they are doing so much mountain stages with just 130/140 km, because that doesn't benefit the guys with better resistance.

I agree, too many short mountain stages.

stage 1 was a good one. Too bad the riders did not race it. Pla D'Adet had some great potential, but Gouvenou has to Gouvenou and refuses to put back to back monster stages.

If you gave him the 2007 route (which heavily favored the climbers despite 115km of flat ITT), he'd have a triple coronary. He'd melt down over Port de Pailhares and Plateau de Beille being the EASY mountain stage of a Pyrenean trio

 

[Krzysztof_O]

I agree about the TTs. I already said the Tour is missing a real flat ITT of 55/60 km, but a lot of mountain stages in this Tour are also garbage.

This Tour is missing a real hard mountain finish like Granon, La loze(i'm waiting for the side of La Tougnette in the Tour), Portet, or Alpe d'huez.

Some of the mountain finishes are garbage like Col de la Couillolle.

I can't complain about MTFs when there are climbs like Plateau de Beille, Pla d'Adet or Isola (all after healthy dose of climbing). Those are good ones. To me the problem is way too weak first 13 stages (in terms of the mountains) i.e. too backloaded race. If we stick to this route then the Alpine stage should be harder and there should be something big between stage 10 and 12 (i.e. Puy de Dome or Mont Ventoux) instead of one mountain stage of the final weekend (i.e. Couillole stage). As for the TTs, almost 60 km of them is still not bad compared to other editions or this era.

 

[shadowrider]

could you please tell me what's the source for this ?

Oh, I'm sorry. An interview in HLN, but maybe after a paywall.

Ploegdiëtiste legt uit hoe Remco Evenepoel perfect op gewicht aan zijn eerste Tour begon: “Het zag er lastiger uit dan het was”

Gooi een volkorentje naar Remco Evenepoel (24) en er komen boterhammen van. Vlijmscherp begon hij afgelopen weekend aan zijn allereerste Tour de France. Dat er best wel wat karakter voor nodig was om na de Dauphiné nog een paar kilo te verliezen, klonk het. Hoe ging dat precies in zijn werk...

www.hln.be

 

[shadowrider]

I agree about the TTs. I already said the Tour is missing a real flat ITT of 55/60 km, but a lot of mountain stages in this Tour are also garbage.

This Tour is missing a real hard mountain finish like Granon, La loze(i'm waiting for the side of La Tougnette in the Tour), Portet, or Alpe d'huez.

Some of the mountain finishes are garbage like Col de la Couillolle.

I totally agree. The idea of the French organizers was/is to favor the French riders because they are bad TT riders. But they also ultimately fall short in climbing. Gaudu in particular was pushed so much. But he was never worse than this year. In the meantime, the Tour has become less balanced for a number of years. In favor of climbers and less than all-rounders.

 

[AmRacer]

In the meantime, the Tour has become less balanced for a number of years. In favor of climbers and less than all-rounders.

And that's why Tadej Merckx lost the Tour twice. 😁

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

1033 pages? lol
The-next-M effect.

 

[Peter von]

1033 pages? lol
The-next-M effect.

one might get the impression that cycling is rather big in Belgium

 

[Low is rhe new high]

one might get the impression that cycling is rather big in Belgium

Or that Visma robots and UAEs well domesticated mercenary's doesn’t engage as much. But I mostly read this thread since all the cool people seems to be here.

Edit, come to think of it VLab and UAE has engaging threads in other parts of the forum.

 

[Le Grand Doop]

wind for tomorrow?

hoping for head wind.

 

[Billy The Kid]

wind for tomorrow?

hoping for head wind.

Only 2 m/s..Coming from south/east, so tailwind from the start, a little head wind from top of the hill and down, before last part is side/tailwind

 

[Berniece]

Only 2 m/s..Coming from south/east, so tailwind from the start, a little head wind from top of the hill and down, before last part is side/tailwind

Pogacar lucky again

 

[Extinction]

Tadej is clearly trying to fook with Remco. He's the World Champion, the favorite, he's shown he can best everybody and so forth. The legs as always will tell.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Plateau de Beille is a good one

This tour really needs two tweaks. 30km extra on the first TT and add the Aubisque or Spandelles before the Tourmalet on the Pla D'Adet stage

That would give us a classic Tour route and we could see a decent battle between the TTists vs the climbers

It would still be a battle between Pogacar and Vingegaard with two seemingly far away contenders in Remco and Roglic.

 

[Berniece]

Tadej is clearly trying to fook with Remco. He's the World Champion, the favorite, he's shown he can best everybody and so forth. The legs as always will tell.

Doubt it will fook with him. He probably thinks: "Yes, that's correct"

 

[James M]

The champ TT bike. I assume he will use the same as he did in Dauphine

https://twitter.com/x/status/1798288570920452235

View: https://x.com/Domestique___/status/1798288570920452235

 

[Venge 82]

The champ TT bike. I assume he will use the same as he did in Dauphine

https://twitter.com/x/status/1798288570920452235

View: https://x.com/Domestique___/status/1798288570920452235

Bike porn

 

[KZD]

Stage winner in all three Grand Tours now.

If Remco avoids a bad day, he will podium the Tour.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Stage winner in all three Grand Tours now.

If Remco avoids a bad day, he will podium the Tour.

Mountains are yet to come mate

 

[KZD]

Mountains are yet to come mate

This is why I said, if he avoids a bad day...

 

[Andre]

Tadej not looking super

 

[Didinho]

First goal accomplished. Now focus on the podium. I’m hyped.
If he really aimed to be at his best from week 2 it can happen. I’m guessing they meant starting from this TT he would be 100%.
Just need to reduce his losses if a bad day happens.

 

[wheresmybrakes]

Nice win Rem, now hold on for dear life and keep the race interesting.

 

[Frobisher Bay]

Tadej not looking super

Pff, won't say that to be honest, 20 seconds better than Roglic & Vingegaard. Remco impressive, only lost some time in the descent. I see the haters are already downplaying him, but he's on schedule for a top-3. Hope he survives Troyes.