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

[peterfin]

the way Remco is riding on the flat, he's taking more than a minute out of the field.

Had Gouvenou grew a pair and put in a proper 55km ITT, we'd see an Indurain Luxembourg performance

Or a Jan Ullrich Saint Etienne performance.

 

[Le Grand Doop]

I think he will go absolutely nuts on Friday in an all out effort to go for yellow.

agreed. because he is a competitor.

however, hard to imagine anyone taking 46 seconds out of this Pog.

Pog at last year's worlds TT, sure -- I think he beat him by 3 minutes or so -- but much longer, flatter course and Pog was at the absolute end of a TDF and Worlds that he had prioritized.

 

[Snake]

I think he will gain over a minute on vingeegard

 

[peterfin]

The faster the TT, the better for Remco. Excluding a national ITT title Pogacar won only one ITT with an average speed above 48 km/h (out of 23 ITT's). Remco won 11 out of 24 above 50 km/h. 45s equals about 1 km/h difference for a 25km TT. It's a lot but it's not impossible.

 

[Froome]

the way Remco is riding on the flat, he's taking more than a minute out of the field.

Had Gouvenou grew a pair and put in a proper 55km ITT, we'd see an Indurain Luxembourg performance

He will not take 1 minute on Pogacar, Roglic and Vingegaard.

He will win the ITT, but the gaps will not be that high.

 

[topt]

Yes, exactly. It's also in the back of my head. He basically lost 1kg per week, which is likely not ideal when it comes to recovery. I am not sure how losing muscle weight factors in, as i think he lost both muscle as well as fat. Maybe if he only lost roughly 1kg of fat in total (and 1.5kg muscle) since Dauphiné, the risk isn't that big?

But i hope it's clear to everybody now, that when he gets his weight down, he is an actual contender. Like i've always said.

sure he is, still waiting for that time that he will beat pogacar; will NEVER happen

 

[Didinho]

Isn’t Tarling riding here also? Don’t now about winning the TT just yet. Maybe he had a harder time leading up to it but he could better save energy for maybe his only target this Tour.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Isn’t Tarling riding here also? Don’t now about winning the TT just yet. Maybe he had a harder time leading up to it but he could better save energy for maybe his only target this Tour.

No, Tarling isn‘t riding.

 

[Didinho]

No, Tarling isn‘t riding.

Ow my bad. Had him in my provisional Sporza Tour prono but didn’t knew they selected more riders, not just the real start list.

Could be his first Tour stage win then indeed. I’m taking it day by day. Stay out of trouble.

 

[red_flanders]

sure he is, still waiting for that time that he will beat pogacar; will NEVER happen

Never is a strong word.

Never beat him at...the Tour? Anything? The TT? Assume you mean the Tour.

 

[topt]

Never is a strong word.

Never beat him at...the Tour? Anything? The TT? Assume you mean the Tour.

sure Tour; as a Pog fan I dont see Remco as a threat, he will lose a lot of time on at least one climb, will be top 10 in the end.

 

[Jagartrott]

If he doesn't crash, doesn't get ill and doesn't have a complete off-day, he should be able to podium. A lot of ifs, and still Pogacar seems to be in a league of his own at the moment. I think the upcoming TT will be close.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

If I was Tadej I would no sleep well at night knowing remco was behind me in GC.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

sure he is, still waiting for that time that he will beat pogacar; will NEVER happen

 

[Froome]

If I was Tadej I would no sleep well at night knowing remco was behind me in GC.

He is got now Slimco behind him. Slimco is more dangerous than Remco.

 

[red_flanders]

sure Tour; as a Pog fan I dont see Remco as a threat, he will lose a lot of time on at least one climb, will be top 10 in the end.

First part fair, he’s not a threat to Pogi. Only Vingo and MVDP are, depending on the race and whether it’s a A race for them.

The second part…sounds like maybe you’re not adjusting your opinion to current facts? Hard to see assessing Remco as top 10. Right now he looks like the 3rd strongest in the race and could well win the TT.

 

[tobydawq]

I know he ended up being out-punched near the top and then put in his place on the descent, but my God, he looked like he was absolutely floating on the Galibier.

I was skeptical as to his form when I heard he had shipped 2.5 kgs since the Dauphiné because I don't think it's particularly performance boosting to be energy deficient for lengthy periods of times just before a competition, but so far it seems to have worked for him.

But why was he Fatco at the Dauphiné? It seems to have deteriorated into a meme but I assume there must be a reason? Is it just incompetence on his trainer's part?

 

[houtdffan]

He wasn't even breathing on the Galiber

which is why I said he made the mistake of just not setting his crushing tempo

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

I know he ended up being out-punched near the top and then put in his place on the descent, but my God, he looked like he was absolutely floating on the Galibier.

I was skeptical as to his form when I heard he had shipped 2.5 kgs since the Dauphiné because I don't think it's particularly performance boosting to be energy deficient for lengthy periods of times just before a competition, but so far it seems to have worked for him.

But why was he Fatco at the Dauphiné? It seems to have deteriorated into a meme but I assume there must be a reason? Is it just incompetence on his trainer's part?

The crash in Itzulia. He was off the bike 3 weeks and puts on weight like a champ. And he did specific exercise for his shoulder (and maybe collarbone) to strengthen the muscles in that area.

 

[rghysens]

His descending was not very good but in the end he only loses 18s to Pogacar from the top to the finish. There have been GC riders who lost minutes on descends.

But it is one of the other issues the team was supposed to address 3 yeas ago. They were going to have him do some training on cornering at high speeds with a MotoGP friend of Cavendish (when they were still team mates). Never happened. But since Evenepoel descends "well" on training, they assume he will do the same when riding 20kmh faster for GC in the biggest race of all and the issue got solved by itself.

Didn´t he do some descent training with Alaphilippe?

 

[topcat]

I'm one of the 15 smart people to pick Remco to win the tour and I've seen nothing to change my mind in the first 4 days. I'm a neutral observer but I might become a fan some day.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

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[Peyroteo94]

Even Tom Steels said Pogacar is out of reach and some folks think Remco has a chance. Barring a crash, Remco should lose a lot in stages 14 and 15 to Pogacar.

 

[houtdffan]

Remco should do an all out raid on stage 11

 

[Tim Cahill]

Anything could happen to Pogacar you know, he's on his 2nd GC, maybe he finally runs out of gas, maybe Vingegaard is bluffing and he won't do *** in week 3 . Two tts coming up too, and he claims his plan is to get better throughout the race. He has a chance.