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

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It's not a pure engine. It's also position, awareness, rhythm, focus...

Racing up a climb is much more "pure engine". It's sustained engine power per kg weight.
Remco is a pure engine in that, he is best on a time trial bike in the world, and not very big, good on smaller climbs, with his talent in the race of truth he should arguably be better in other races but he isn’t. That’s all I meant by ‘pure engine’
 
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Given the course, and the fact that Pog is likely to participatein all 4 of them, I can't see him winning one of them.
I don't think it's likely at all that Pog will participate at the European Championships.

Also, Pog is going to Canada and there's only 1 week between GP Montréal (14/09) and WC ITT (21/09). With the time difference and travel between Canada and Rwanda that doesn't seem like the best preparation for an ITT to me. But maybe I'm overestimating the travel burden.
 
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Article with Tom Steels about Gigante training on her descending skills. Apparently she got training from Cal Crutchlow, while Evenepoel just focusses more on technique during training...

It's an article with Stijn Steels, not Tom Steels.

Also, the small part about Evenepoel aren't direct quotes from Steels so it could just be the journalist/newspaper writing that stuff without double checking.
 
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Thanks for correcting me, I read too quickly
No problem.

I think the article offers no new insights or interesting stuff on Remco, apart from the fact that Cal Crutchlow is apparently still in the picture for descending skills training (at least for the women's team).

In the (now increasingly unlikely) scenario that Remco stays at SQS I hope they take a page out of the women's team notebook and make Remco work with Crutchlow this winter as well.

I can somewhat understand it wasn't a priority in the past few injury filled seasons with all the rehab that had to be done but if he has a 'normal' winter there really is no excuse to not work on his (weak or at most average) descending/cornering skills even if it's obviously not as big a problem as for Gigante.
 
No problem.

I think the article offers no new insights or interesting stuff on Remco, apart from the fact that Cal Crutchlow is apparently still in the picture for descending skills training (at least for the women's team).

In the (now increasingly unlikely) scenario that Remco stays at SQS I hope they take a page out of the women's team notebook and make Remco work with Crutchlow this winter as well.

I can somewhat understand it wasn't a priority in the past few injury filled seasons with all the rehab that had to be done but if he has a 'normal' winter there really is no excuse to not work on his (weak or at most average) descending/cornering skills even if it's obviously not as big a problem as for Gigante.

What! Gigante's descending have not improved one iota in the last 12 months. Sometimes we have to accept that riders can only get to a certain skill level.
 
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That's a surprise to me. When/where has he confirmed that?

So over a few weeks time he will race the GP's in Canada, Worlds ITT and RR in Rwanda, ECC RR in France and Lombardia in Italy (+ maybe other Italian fall classics?)? Seems a heavy schedule to me but then again, it's Pog...
6 races in 4-5 weeks. That's fine. There is even a full week between Canada and WC RR. Don't think the travel will get to him.
 
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6 races in 4-5 weeks. That's fine. There is even a full week between Canada and WC RR. Don't think the travel will get to him.
Maybe not but I still wouldn't like to see such a schedule if it were Remco.

I'd also like to see the confirmation of Pog's presence at the EEC. I can't seem to find it anywhere. I only found comments of the EEC race organiser that he hopes to see Pog (and Vingegaard) at the start as it's a climbers course and there is no clash with other races at the same time.
 
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