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

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What Remco said about his PR junior race:

"Ik was mee in de kopgroep toen we Camphin-en-Pévèle aansneden. Er viel een gat in de kopgroep, waarna ik de renners voor mij wou voorbijsteken. Maar ik reed op een steen en mijn stuur brak in tweeën."

Evenepoel wisselde van fiets en kwam bij het opdraaien van Carrefour de l'Arbre aansluiten bij de kopgroep. "Mijn banden stonden op 8 bar, ik stond dubbel plat van voren en van achteren. De volgauto heb ik niet meer gezien. Ik heb heel Carrefour de l'Arbre te voet gedaan."
 
I'd say realistically he would need the experience of the race first.
Yes, that may be true. But we're talking about a new kind of "atleta fenomeno". Plus with the new modern training and experimental riding nowadays, Remco could just flat out win any race that he attempts on his first try. i.e. La Vuelta, LBL (I don't know if he rode that before winning it) and countless others. San Sebastian?
 
Yes, that may be true. But we're talking about a new kind of "atleta fenomeno". Plus with the new modern training and experimental riding nowadays, Remco could just flat out win any race that he attempts on his first try. i.e. La Vuelta, LBL (I don't know if he rode that before winning it) and countless others. San Sebastian?
Roubaix is really one of the more extreme examples of specialty races that don't really suit him.

Pro races he won from the first try (stages excluded) i think were:
Baloise Belgium Tour
EC TT
San Sebastian
Algarve
Burgos
Pologne
Danmark Rundt
Druivenkoers
Brussels Cycling Classic
Coppa Bernocchi
Liège
Norway
Vuelta
 
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Is there something wrong with him? No strava activities since like 02.04.
He's been updating all his rides very scrupulously, but suddenly there is a gap...
 
Is there something wrong with him? No strava activities since like 02.04.
He's been updating all his rides very scrupulously, but suddenly there is a gap...
Dirk Dewolf told him he shouldn't share his rides so much. A week later he stopped uploading to Strava. There is currently a bounty on Dirk Dewolf's head.
You can still check Van Wilder and Serry's Strava, but it will only give you an idea of which routes he is training. Often he does some extra training or extra distance. Obviously you can't see whether he is setting KOMs etc.

I would like to point out to mods that there is no bounty on Dirk Dewolf's head that i'm aware of and that i was only joking.