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

[Krzysztof_O]

Pogi fans got into a trap here and are boosting the post count of this thread (the true GOAT determinator). @Logic-is-your-friend is doing a great job (as always).

 

[AmRacer]

Pogi fans got into a trap here and are boosting the post count of this thread (the true GOAT determinator). @Logic-is-your-friend is doing a great job (as always).

Yeah, this thread will eventually have the largest post count all-time record.

 

[Berniece]

Pogi fans got into a trap here and are boosting the post count of this thread (the true GOAT determinator). @Logic-is-your-friend is doing a great job (as always).

Unfair because the internet didn't exist yet in the time of Eddy Merckx!!

 

[topt]

The insecurity is based on the same intrinsic knowledge that what they see is too good to be true. Same as Froome and Armstrong fans. That is why they kneed the confirmation of each other. It’s like the story of the GOAT emperor and his new clothes.

dont we have enough of this crap in the clinic...

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Unfair because the internet didn't exist yet in the time of Eddy Merckx!!

If Eddy is as good as they say he should resume his career and kick Teddy's *** but he's too scared of losing!

 

[Berniece]

If Eddy is as good as they say he should resume his career and kick Teddy's *** but he's too scared of losing!

Merckx actually did try a comeback last year, but he rage-quit when Strava auto-flagged his ride as an e-bike.

 

[KoopaCycling]

The insecurity is based on the same intrinsic knowledge that what they see is too good to be true. Same as Froome and Armstrong fans. That is why they kneed the confirmation of each other. It’s like the story of the GOAT emperor and his new clothes.

Remco could already have his bingo card. Vermeersch would be a monument man. if what i think is true.
Could be wrong ofcourse. and so on.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

If Eddy is as good as they say he should resume his career and kick Teddy's *** but he's too scared of losing!

People talk a lot about Kristoff having a hard time winning these days, but this guy hasn't taken a single victory in nearly 50 years. 34% of his wins came from races that don't even exist anymore while that stat's less than 2% for Pogačar.

 

[Jagartrott]

Unfair because the internet didn't exist yet in the time of Eddy Merckx!!

Few people know that Eddy Merckx invented the internet, finally finding the time for it after retiring from cycling.

 

[KoopaCycling]

Few people know that Eddy Merckx invented the internet, finally finding the time for it after retiring from cycling.

Pogacar will have a hard time beating that

 

[Berniece]

Pogacar will have a hard time beating that

Pogacar is already having a hard time beating the palmares of Evenepoel

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Unfair because the internet didn't exist yet in the time of Eddy Merckx!!

It did actually. But nobody owned computers. Not Evenepoel's fault Merckx' fans didn't want to spend a few hundred millions to solidify his status.

 

[KoopaCycling]

It did actually. But nobody owned computers. Not Evenepoel's fault Merckx' fans didn't want to spend a few hundred millions to solidify his status.

I'm not sure. I think Merckx retired before internet came into existance.
It depends on when 'internet' is considered to exist. This what google-ai gives me.
Merckx final race was in 1978. Maybe Merckx starting working on the internet on the side during his career.
And once his career fully ended, he helped the switch to the TCP/IP protocol.

• 1969: The Beginning of ARPANET
  The first successful data packet was sent between two computers on ARPANET, the precursor to the modern Internet, marking a crucial early step.
  
  
• 1983: The Official Birth of the Internet
  The ARPANET officially switched to the TCP/IP protocol on January 1, 1983, establishing the standard for how different networks would communicate.
  
  
• 1989-1991: The Creation of the World Wide Web
  Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web (WWW) and the first web browser, which made the Internet accessible to a broader audience by allowing users to easily share information through websites and links.

 

[Oldman]

Few people know that Eddy Merckx invented the internet, finally finding the time for it after retiring from cycling.

....the part that only works in Belgium.

 

[KoopaCycling]

to be fair, belgians were on the track.
The Mundaneum (Conceptual Precursor)

• Origins:
  In 1895, Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine began documenting information and creating a comprehensive, organized knowledge system.
  
  
• The Project:
  They established the Mundaneum in 1910, a vast collection of index cards that they envisioned as a "paper Google" or "paper Wikipedia," a way to make all human knowledge accessible to everyone from their homes.
  
  
• Relevance:
  The Mundaneum is considered an early "analog search engine" and a forerunner of the internet because it aimed to classify, index, and share information universally, a goal achieved by the modern internet.

 

[peterfin]

I'm not sure. I think Merckx retired before internet came into existance.
It depends on when 'internet' is considered to exist. This what google-ai gives me.
Merckx final race was in 1978. Maybe Merckx starting working on the internet on the side during his career.
And once his career fully ended, he helped the switch to the TCP/IP protocol.

• 1969: The Beginning of ARPANET
  The first successful data packet was sent between two computers on ARPANET, the precursor to the modern Internet, marking a crucial early step.
  
  
• 1983: The Official Birth of the Internet
  The ARPANET officially switched to the TCP/IP protocol on January 1, 1983, establishing the standard for how different networks would communicate.
  
  
• 1989-1991: The Creation of the World Wide Web
  Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web (WWW) and the first web browser, which made the Internet accessible to a broader audience by allowing users to easily share information through websites and links.

Who knows. Maybe he is a friend of Belgian Robert Cailliau (78 yo) who partnered with Berners-Lee to get the WWW started. Maybe it was Merckx who was behind all this? The GOAT! I met Cailliau 20 years ago. I should have asked.

 

[AlpRaid]

Actually that was Crashco®, who piled into a fan shortly after the celebration...

kind of sums up Crashco's career so far: moments of superb triumph followed immediately by devastating misfortune.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

It did actually. But nobody owned computers. Not Evenepoel's fault Merckx' fans didn't want to spend a few hundred millions to solidify his status.

Eddy's fans weren't as devoted as Remco's fans are in this thread!

 

[Berniece]

He already has the right mindset for Sunday

I'm a winner and want to ride like one.

"Ik ben een winnaar, en wil zo rijden": Remco Evenepoel is klaar voor titanenstrijd op EK (en heeft droomscenario klaar) | sporza

Het grote doel komt steeds dichterbij. Zondag wil Remco Evenepoel eindelijk het laatste puzzelstukje in zijn palmares leggen: de EK-wegrit. Na de verkenning fonkelen zijn ogen, bij de gedachte aan een nieuwe krachtmeting met Tadej Pogacar en Jonas Vingegaard beginnen ze te branden. Maar boven...

sporza.be

 

[KoopaCycling]

Eddy's fans weren't as devoted as Remco's fans are in this thread!

You haven't met eddy fans then. Mark Uytterhoeven comes to mind.

 

[peterfin]

kind of sums up Crashco's career so far: moments of superb triumph followed immediately by devastating misfortune.

His late choice to move to a cycling career basically guaranteed that he would take a significant risk and crash a lot. Nevertheless, he did it so all credit goes to him of making that move. His triumphs negate all the sacrifices he had to do to comeback after another crash. And they were not minor. We definitely should not underestimate that life-threatening crash in 2020, so early in his career. Taking all this in to account, it's easy to make fun of him when he can't hold himself and starts making gestures. The guy goes all in, all the time. It defined his move to cycling and it defines his career.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

I'm not sure. I think Merckx retired before internet came into existance.
It depends on when 'internet' is considered to exist. This what google-ai gives me.
Merckx final race was in 1978. Maybe Merckx starting working on the internet on the side during his career.
And once his career fully ended, he helped the switch to the TCP/IP protocol.

• 1969: The Beginning of ARPANET
  The first successful data packet was sent between two computers on ARPANET, the precursor to the modern Internet, marking a crucial early step.
  
  
• 1983: The Official Birth of the Internet
  The ARPANET officially switched to the TCP/IP protocol on January 1, 1983, establishing the standard for how different networks would communicate.
  
  
• 1989-1991: The Creation of the World Wide Web
  Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web (WWW) and the first web browser, which made the Internet accessible to a broader audience by allowing users to easily share information through websites and links.

Arpanet is generally seen as the birth of Internet. Computers could send messages from one side of the world to another. If you owned a university and your wife owned a military base, you could in theory tell her you would be home late for dinner.

 

[peterfin]

Arpanet is generally seen as the birth of Internet. Computers could send messages from one side of the world to another. If you owned a university and your wife owned a military base, you could in theory tell here you would be home late for dinner.

With a modem and access to BBS boards (hosted by universities, NASA and others institutes) using a terminal program you could already 'surf' in the late 70's. It was also my first encounter with the internet (in the early 90's).

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Bruyneel has acknowledged he was talking out the side of his neck when he said Evenepoel was thinking about doing the WHR soon. Somebody must have reached out to him and told him he was full of crap. Those WEDU / The Move podcasts are really tough to listen to. One dumb take after another. Now Seixas is one of the 6 best riders in the world. Insufferable hogwash.

 

[Berniece]

Article about the performance team of RBH on working with Evenepoel. They start in the offseason and hope Evenepoel understands there’s still a lot of work to be done.

'I think we'll improve him' - Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe plot performance gains for incoming Remco Evenepoel

Dan Bigham hopes to make Belgian time trial star 'even more outrageous than he already is'

www.cyclingweekly.com