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

[Logic-is-your-friend]

His first bike seems to work just fine. Did they fixed it at the roof?

It's a different bike. This one doesn't have a tag.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

It's a different bike. This one doesn't have a tag.

Good catch, I did not see that before now.

 

[AmRacer]

It's a different bike. This one doesn't have a tag.

So, he should've started with this bike. I just saw the other golden on the roof

 

[Stablo]

No need to be worried, clearly the best today too.

 

[AmRacer]

No need to be worried, clearly the best today too.

It was his spare golden bike

 

[Peyroteo94]

Great race. He fought like a champion and never gave up.

 

[houtdffan]

Great race. He fought like a champion and never gave up.

This is what he needs to do every time something does not go quite right

I dont think these mechanicals would made a difference in the end as if he didn't have them, Pog likely drops him on the second to last cobbled climb anyways. I would have liked to see Pog win it by dropping Remco, however, vs the mechanicals

 

[EddyMazzoleni]

Great race. He fought like a champion and never gave up.

Honestly, I don't know. He was definitively strong, but he is too fragile mentally. He panicked after getting dropped and stopped twice for problems that I can't say if they were real or not. Could he ave won without that?
Probably not, but he would have kept Pogacar busier in the last 2 laps

 

[AmRacer]

So, Remco has 8 podium at worlds at 25.

 

[Salvarani]

So, Remco has 8 podium at worlds at 25.

If you combine ITT and RR

Valverde has seven in just the RR

 

[AmRacer]

If you combine ITT and RR

Valverde has seven in just the RR

Pogi has 2 wins

 

[Rou]

This is what he needs to do every time something does not go quite right

I dont think these mechanicals would made a difference in the end as if he didn't have them, Pog likely drops him on the second to last cobbled climb anyways. I would have liked to see Pog win it by dropping Remco, however, vs the mechanicals

Clearly Remco doesn't have the necessary climbing legs. If he wants to compete with Jonas and Tadej in stage races next year he needs to rebuild his physique and remove the buff.
But if he wants to keep winning TTs and get destroyed in the mountains he can continue being a sexy bodybuilder for Oumi.

 

[houtdffan]

Honestly, I don't know. He was definitively strong, but he is too fragile mentally. He panicked after getting dropped and stopped twice for problems that I can't say if they were real or not. Could he ave won without that?
Probably not, but he would have kept Pogacar busier in the last 2 laps

he got dropped because he had a mechanical

no way did he blow. He wouldn't have been able to ride like he did had he blown

 

[Red Rick]

Over the top reactions when things don't go his way once again. Ever predictable.

Problems all start with coming in not at Tour weight so's spending extra energy every climb.

 

[houtdffan]

Clearly Remco doesn't have the necessary climbing legs. If he wants to compete with Jonas and Tadej in stage races next year he needs to rebuild his physique and remove the buff.
But if he wants to keep winning TTs and get destroyed in the mountains he can continue being a sexy bodybuilder for Oumi.

He climbed very well today. He couldn't have finished solo second if he couldn't climb

Besides, happy wife, happy life

 

[Rou]

He climbed very well today. He couldn't have finished solo second if he couldn't climb

Besides, happy wife, happy life

I'm saying these things because I want him to be competitive in one week races and GTs.
He got dropped on the only medium length climb today. He can't win the Tour even with 100 km ITTs if he is built like a tank.

 

[EddyMazzoleni]

he got dropped because he had a mechanical

no way did he blow. He wouldn't have been able to ride like he did had he blown

Actually he followed the same trajectory in many races in the past. Suffering on eraly efforts and then coming back thanks to his endurance. He should just accept that this happens when he does not do specific climb preparation and race accordingly, independently of the genuinity of his mechanicals

 

[James M]

He climbed very well today. He couldn't have finished solo second if he couldn't climb

Besides, happy wife, happy life

Initially, I thought, here we go again just like we've seen all year. But Remco was really good, hats off to him. Pogacar is just many leagues above everyone: theres nothing anyone can do. But Remco was, beyond any doubt, by far the second-best rider today, zero doubt about it. Well done, if you ask me good and promising performance.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

He panicked after getting dropped and stopped twice for problems that I can't say if they were real or not.

Someone quoted Hermans saying that Remcos saddle went out of position (fell down a bit?) on Mount Kigali. So to me it seems pretty clear that he got dropped because of the mechanical (he was looking very comfortable just 10-15s before he suddenly went right out of Pogacars wheel and dropped like a stone. So the getting dropped and first bike change definitively looked like a real problem.

The second one is much more questionable. Apparently Hermans said Remco felt uncomfortable with the saddle position on the spare bike and therefore wanted to change once more. That one could definitiviely only be mental.

 

[houtdffan]

I'm saying these things because I want him to competitive in one week races and GTs.
He got dropped on the only medium length climb today. He can't win the Tour even with 100 km ITTs if he is built like a tank.

he got dropped due to a mechanical! He was looking at his saddle on Mt Kigali!

 

[red_flanders]

Clearly Remco doesn't have the necessary climbing legs. If he wants to compete with Jonas and Tadej in stage races next year he needs to rebuild his physique and remove the buff.
But if he wants to keep winning TTs and get destroyed in the mountains he can continue being a sexy bodybuilder for Oumi.

This is just very weird commentary on multiple levels.

 

[houtdffan]

Someone quoted Hermans saying that Remcos saddle went out of position (fell down a bit?) on Mount Kigali. So to me it seems pretty clear that he got dropped because of the mechanical (he was looking very comfortable just 10-15s before he suddenly went right out of Pogacars wheel and dropped like a stone. So the getting dropped and first bike change definitively looked like a real problem.

The second one is much more questionable. Apparently Hermans said Remco felt uncomfortable with the saddle position on the spare bike and therefore wanted to change once more. That one could definitiviely only be mental.

FFS. Thi is a major championship. You MUST get this right

 

[Karl Merckx]

he rode in a put on the road before mt kigali then his saddle dropped and couldn't push as hard on the pedals as he would have otherwise.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

After hitting a pothole his saddle dropped. He had to ride Mount Kigali on a dropped saddle and was completely cramped up by the time they reached the top, he had no choice but to stop. Had Van Wilder still been in the race, he could have given his bike. But Soler took out Van Wilder early on.

 

[kingjr]

He is certainly the only rider in the world who suffers an existential crisis if he doesn't win two gold medals at the WC.