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

[gregrowlerson]

it's not if, but when))

Yeah, liyf is permanently glowing.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

it's not if, but when))

We are all at the mercy of the whims of certain people.

How much did he weight at the 2021 Giro?

About 60. He gave 2 interviews right at the start, in one he said below 60, in the other he said between 60-61.

 

[Riek s]

Maybe Remco has so much power they dont bother with trimming him down too much Plus its not just about an additional 1 kg of fat (this wouldnt give tt advantage) so even more difficult to change during a GT

1,5 kg @ 6.5W/kg, would mean he needs 10W additional power to maintain his climbing speed. (which doesn't sound a lot, but it is a lot on that level. difference between 6.5Wk or 6.35W/kg).

Lets hope they are rounding up and his real weight is 62,5000001kg and in the vuelta they rounded down and his real weight was 61,9999kg.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

If going up wasn't possible, how did they know? Sombody saw the conditions and thus the road width before, but nobody says anything until the eve of the Giro? The teams have no idea of the course of such a potentially decisive stage until just now? I don't buy it.

How i imagine these things go, is that it is common knowledge that those mountains are snowed shut and that the roads are closed by local authorities who will communicate with Giro organisation when the roads will be opened up. Chances are teams would not even be allowed 10 meters up the road before the roads are cleared.

 

[jmdirt]

I'd say thet Vegni miscalculated, however, this still does not exonerate the teams.

My point is that we have become a bunch of lilly-livered sissies.

Oh, so no real point then, just ranting and chest thumping? The concern is spare wheels, not cold toes.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

1,5 kg @ 6.5W/kg, would mean he needs 10W additional power to maintain his climbing speed. (which doesn't sound a lot, but it is a lot on that level. difference between 6.5Wk or 6.35W/kg).

Lets hope they are rounding up and his real weight is 62,5000001kg and in the vuelta they rounded down and his real weight was 61,9999kg.

Obviously I was joking a bit. At this level 0.1 w/kg (6-7 watts or 1 kg) is significant.

 

[red_flanders]

1,5 kg @ 6.5W/kg, would mean he needs 10W additional power to maintain his climbing speed. (which doesn't sound a lot, but it is a lot on that level. difference between 6.5Wk or 6.35W/kg).

Lets hope they are rounding up and his real weight is 62,5000001kg and in the vuelta they rounded down and his real weight was 61,9999kg.

Reported weights have been fabrications as long as I’ve been watching cycling. I wouldn’t give it another thought if I were you. He‘ll be in the form he’s in.

 

[jmdirt]

GREAT first 19 K of the GdI young man!

 

[xREv]

Not bad huh

 

[KZD]

Remco with a magnificent performance in the TT today, but we will need to wait 3 weeks to see how the Giro ends.

However after what I saw today, he would be my bet for the Worlds TT.

 

[Didinho]

This guy!

 

[DNP-Old]

Cesena will be his magnum opus.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Ganna must have checked his calendar and noticed it's no longer 2021. Who would have thought, right.
I also want to apologise for starting the discussion which resulted in half the forum telling me i had no idea what i was talking about last year during Tour de Suisse, where i had the audacity to imply Evenepoel is a more gifted TT'er than Küng. My formal apologies.

 

[peterfin]

Amazing result!

One of his goals this year is winning the WC ITT. I guess he is on schedule.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Ganna must have checked his calendar and noticed it's no longer 2021. Who would have thought, right.
I also want to apologise for starting the discussion which resulted in half the forum telling me i had no idea what i was talking about last year during Tour de Suisse, where i had the audacity to imply Evenepoel is a more gifted TT'er than Küng. My formal apologies.

Man, just be happy that your boy convincingly won instead..

In the interview he basically said that he'd just save as much energy as possible until stage 9. Chances are he will just obliterate the field and Roglic will be at about 2 minutes.

Those 2 minutes don't mean that much going into the mountains though, but I think Remco is the strongest there as well.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Man, just be happy that your boy convincingly won instead..

In the interview he basically said that he'd just save as much energy as possible until stage 9. Chances are he will just obliterate the field and Roglic will be at about 2 minutes.

Those 2 minutes don't mean that much going into the mountains though, but I think Remco is the strongest there as well.

Logic starts with an L. The difference between GOAT and GLOAT. I've been called insane one too many times when i was simply stating facts and logical deduction.

I'm not sure he will be the strongest in the mountains. We'll see.

 

[repre]

Between his Nibali-like antics and ITT stuff i guess Giro is in his bag

 

[Offline]

Sounds crazy after today's perfomance. But don't think he will win the Giro. Starting so much better than anyone else seems like he mistimed his from. The 3rd week are insane.

But what a ride!

 

[Riek s]

yeah, wouldn't say he will the best man in the mountain either based on this TT. Hart and Almeida looked very strong. (and Roglic has been climbing better this year than his TT results would indicate).


But great win, at least he won a stage and wears pink. So that are 2 objectives out of the way.

 

[xREv]

Pretty in pink

 

[Peyroteo94]

Remco already showed he can mantain his peak shape for more than 3 weeks

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Remco already showed he can mantain his peak shape for more than 3 weeks

Remco was dominant in LBL already so he was probably close to his peak there as well.

 

[LookProGoSlow]

Wow! Amazing TT. chapeau!

 

[EddyMazzoleni]

We are all at the mercy of the whims of certain people.


About 60. He gave 2 interviews right at the start, in one he said below 60, in the other he said between 60-61.

If he was at 61 in that Giro, i don't thinck he was the same weight in last year Vuelta. I've never seen Remco so thin ever again as when i came back from the crash, and for the good, there is a limit on how much you can cut your weight before you lose power and also the ability to recover. His weight is a bit of mistery, like for all GC rider.

 

[SHAD0W93]

Anyone check on @Andy schleck? Last I heard Roglic was putting time into Evenepoel each time trial.