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

[Froome]

I thought everyone knew that far doesn’t make You fat, the same way sugar doesn’t make you sugar.

Yeah, but what is the perfect weight for Remco during the Tour France 2024?

 

[VayaVayaVaya]

N-1

Yeah, but what is the perfect weight for Remco during the Tour France 2024?

 

[Elos Anjos]

Remco will never have the perfect weight/nutrition/bicycle/team until he wins a GT.

Blaming outside factors on his underperformance is the only way to keep the hype alive. I wrote many times about this. Buy my book.

 

[proffate]

That's because they didn't have a test for EPO and the limit was set to prevent heart attack, when they knew an illicit substance was causing the danger. Setting a limit on body fat seems like replacing a physiological constraint, as going too low will have an adverse effect on the body anyway and hence drop performance. So riders, unless ill-advised or stupid, won't go too low. At any rate, telling people how much body fat they can ride with, just seems like going against a main performance criteria of the sport. And for this reason, I don't see it ever happening.

Conveniently ignoring the bio passport here, which was implemented because everyone knows that it's easy to dodge the EPO tests.

The UCI also hands out health breaks for cortisol levels. Health break for low BF% is the same principle.

 

[red_flanders]

Sooooo....back to Remco....

 

[Lequack]

N-1

This is peak Remco weight, no one can tell me it's not

 

[houtdffan]

he needs to hit the Pillsbury

 

[Froome]

This is peak Remco weight, no one can tell me it's not

If Remco had that weight during the Tour, even Mario Cipollini would survive more time than Remco in the Tour, before DNS.

 

[Berniece]

Remco will never have the perfect weight/nutrition/bicycle/team until he wins a GT.

Blaming outside factors on his underperformance is the only way to keep the hype alive. I wrote many times about this. Buy my book.

Until he wins a GT?

 

[SHAD0W93]

Until he wins a GT?

GTs don’t count when Roglic crashes out or doesn’t take part

 

[Elos Anjos]

Until he wins a GT?

Having won a GT already is irrelevant. His ideal weight is being brought up as an issue, so clearly my point holds.

EDIT: specially after the Vuelta 2023 debacle.

 

[red_flanders]

GTs don’t count when Roglic crashes out or doesn’t take part

So most GT”s then…

 

[Berniece]

Having won a GT already is irrelevant. His ideal weight is being brought up as an issue, so clearly my point holds.

EDIT: specially after the Vuelta 2023 debacle.

You didn't really have a point. You are trying to be *** in a fanboy topic.

Next time don't type something that is easily debunked.

 

[Elos Anjos]

You didn't really have a point. You are trying to be *** in a fanboy topic.

Next time don't type something that is easily debunked.

Numerous pages discussing Remco's misshaps prove me otherwise. But go on and make use of your blinders, you're part of the show, puppet.

 

[KZD]

Its hilarious how Remco haters put in question the simple fact that he already won a Grand Tour.

Sure, Remco didn't beat Pogačar or Vingegård and Roglič crashed out while he was significantly behind Remco but that same season Hindley also won a GT without beating any of the top GT riders and I don't see people questioning his Giro win. As I don't see people questioning Roglič Vuelta 2020 win despite having been a 18 day GT won on bonus seconds.

A GT win is a GT win period.

 

[houtdffan]

Its hilarious how Remco haters put in question the simple fact that he already won a Grand Tour.

Sure, Remco didn't beat Pogačar or Vingegård and Roglič crashed out while he was significantly behind Remco but that same season Hindley also won a GT without beating any of the top GT riders and I don't see people questioning his Giro win. As I don't see people questioning Roglič Vuelta 2020 win despite having been a 18 day GT won on bonus seconds.

A GT win is a GT win period.

classic Remco Derangement Syndrome

 

[Netserk]

You didn't really have a point. You are trying to be *** in a fanboy topic.

Next time don't type something that is easily debunked.

This thread is not a fanboy topic. Separate threads of appreciation and depreciation ceased long ago on this board.

 

[Elos Anjos]

How Remco fanboys look at him after he doesn't win.

 

[EddyMazzoleni]

This thread is not a fanboy topic. Separate threads of appreciation and depreciation ceased long ago on this board.

So it is appreciation and deprecation at the same time, a.k.a the quantistic Remco thread

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

This is peak Remco weight, no one can tell me it's not

The type of climber who doesn't actually climb, but rather revolves the earth beneath him.

 

[Berniece]

This thread is not a fanboy topic. Separate threads of appreciation and depreciation ceased long ago on this board.

You are correct. He's just being silly for no reason. What he said made no sense and was purely to rile people up.

 

[Andre]

...and he claims he wrote a book. I can't imagine the pain on the paper as it shrunk and recoiled from his scribble.

 

[Extinction]

Conveniently ignoring the bio passport here, which was implemented because everyone knows that it's easy to dodge the EPO tests.

The UCI also hands out health breaks for cortisol levels. Health break for low BF% is the same principle.

Ok, but what's the biopassport got to do with fat percentage? How can you put a minimum limit and not basically stop performance science from seeking optimal ratios between power per kilos? It's just too fundamental to the sport, in my opinion. At any rate, it will never happen unless a bunch of pros die from starvation.

 

[scribers]

This is peak Remco weight, no one can tell me it's not

This is a new take on power to weight ratio!

 

[red_flanders]

This is peak Remco weight, no one can tell me it's not

This is amazing. Funniest thing I've seen on this forum in a while. Tip 'o the hat, Quack!