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

[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

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Theres a lot of work for Remco to be done, but probably not that much when it comes to TT and that’s probably not what he should spend a lot on time about.

When looking at Bigham at Ineos and also the general TT level of Bora this year I do wonder if Bigham perhaps is one of those sport scientists that goes crazy in the deep on some small stuff while he doesn’t quite get the big stuff right. But that’s purely speculation. I wouldn’t be surprised if Remcos TT level slightly drops (at the beginning) in the new team, even if it’s still Specialized.

 

[Extinction]

Theres a lot of work for Remco to be done, but probably not that much when it comes to TT and that’s probably not what he should spend a lot on time about.

When looking at Bigham at Ineos and also the general TT level of Bora this year I do wonder if Bigham perhaps is one of those sport scientists that goes crazy in the deep on some small stuff while he doesn’t quite get the big stuff right. But that’s purely speculation. I wouldn’t be surprised if Remcos TT level slightly drops (at the beginning) in the new team, even if it’s still Specialized.

Well, it seems fairly obvious, Bora needs to transform him into a climbing world beater. Anything else would be a poor investment. Like what Sky did to Froome, which I'm using only as the paradigmatic example, not clinical stuff. I'm not saying this can be done, only that it must to really get that good return on the investment.

 

[Karl Merckx]

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.

Bruyneel has no inside info. He acts like it just to get his brand up.

 

[KoopaCycling]

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

Bigham is a TT guy though. It's not the TT remco needs to improve.
Still it's good they are looking forward to working with remco and trying to improve him.
So long as they don't sink the ship trying stuff out.

 

[Berniece]

Bigham is a TT guy though. It's not the TT remco needs to improve.
Still it's good they are looking forward to working with remco and trying to improve him.
So long as they don't sink the ship trying stuff out.

The article doesn’t only quote Bigham, and he’s just saying there is always room for improvement, which is true. You don’t want to keep doing the same for 3 years and suddenly lose time trials.

 

[KoopaCycling]

The article doesn’t only quote Bigham, and he’s just saying there is always room for improvement, which is true. You don’t want to keep doing the same for 3 years and suddenly lose time trials.

Like I said, it's good they are looking to improve remco. Hopefully it's a fruitful union.
You just always need to be careful.

 

[KoopaCycling]

In any case how to send a petition to Remco to try and make him ride Chrono des Nations as well.

 

[Berniece]

In any case how to send a petition to Remco to try and make him ride Chrono des Nations as well.

The race lost his prestige a bit. Would be nice to see him win 1 more race, and then call it quits for the season. I don't care which one he wins

 

[KoopaCycling]

The race lost his prestige a bit. Would be nice to see him win 1 more race, and then call it quits for the season. I don't care which one he wins

it still be nice to see him win it. especially since TT seems to come natural atm.

 

[Berniece]

it still be nice to see him win it. especially since TT seems to come natural atm.

True, and it's only 1 more week.

 

[AlpRaid]

Like I said, it's good they are looking to improve remco. Hopefully it's a fruitful union.

If they can keep him injury free, that in of itself will make it fruitful.