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

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How would you describe him? He spends most of his time in a train and usually attacks in the final 1k.
A punchy climber. He's very good on steep and uneven climbs, best with shorter efforts and packs a mean sprint. He dealt much better with the accelerations on Lo Port than Evenepoel did.

Purito also usually attacked in the final km, and he too was no tempo climber. Basso was a tempo climber.
In that case Evenepoel is also not a tempoclimber and similar to Roglic. Both have a punchy sprint. But when i see both Evenepoel or Roglic climb on their own, i can't really recall either climbing like Contador or Pantani. When they climb on their own, they climb from the saddle and at a steady pace. For me the fact that they both have a punchy sprint, doesnt change how they climb. But if you guys want to use a different label, that's totally fine. The point is that they are similar.
Evenepoel does not thrive with many changes in tempo. Rogla does.
 
A punchy climber. He's very good on steep and uneven climbs, best with shorter efforts and packs a mean sprint. He dealt much better with the accelerations on Lo Port than Evenepoel did.

Purito also usually attacked in the final km, and he too was no tempo climber. Basso was a tempo climber.

Evenepoel does not thrive with many changes in tempo. Rogla does.

This is true about Roglič.

G Thomas explained some of this during one of his Giro 2023 podcasts, i.e. where he described how Rog was changing pace on the climbs like a pure climber in order to disrupt his own rhythm.

He said it was annoying.
 
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A punchy climber. He's very good on steep and uneven climbs, best with shorter efforts and packs a mean sprint. He dealt much better with the accelerations on Lo Port than Evenepoel did.

Purito also usually attacked in the final km, and he too was no tempo climber. Basso was a tempo climber.

Evenepoel does not thrive with many changes in tempo. Rogla does.

Purito launched fairly frequent long range attacks, nearly as many as Contador did.

He was the one who attacked first on the Giau stage of the 2011 giro, and he also attacked on the Finestre, nearly dropping Contador
 
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How to say "i don't watch races, i just check PCS" without saying it.
As I recall, he dictated pace a lot but it was only on stage 9 that he rode people off his wheel. He crashed on stage 12 but it was not bad. I’m not saying it didn’t impact him, but he looked the strongest of the GC riders finishing that stage. Mas was quicker on the climbs in aggregate than Remco. Roglic put :56 into him on stage 14 (likely some impact from crash, but also could have been some cumulative fatigue).
 
As I recall, he dictated pace a lot but it was only on stage 9 that he rode people off his wheel. He crashed on stage 12 but it was not bad. I’m not saying it didn’t impact him, but he looked the strongest of the GC riders finishing that stage. Mas was quicker on the climbs in aggregate than Remco. Roglic put :56 into him on stage 14 (likely some impact from crash, but also could have been some cumulative fatigue).
He couldn't get off his bike without people carrying him off 2 days after the crash.

If it was cumulative fatigue, it'd be very weird how he rode the rest of the race, including the stage he won, where he wasted a lot of energy with silly counters and attacks, just to outsprint Mas and overtake Gesink at the end. On stage 15 Roglic attacked him at the foot of the Sierra Nevada climb with all of Visma going full gas, but he couldn't drop Evenepoel, who after that lead most of the climb, except when Vervaeke dropped back to do some work. Roglic stayed in the wheel all climb long, and launched an attack at the top to take 15 seconds. Mas who had attacked sooner, ended up taking 36s. If it was fatigue, his tempo would have dropped and Roglic would have attacked a lot sooner or followed Mas to ensure winning the Vuelta.
 
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