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

[topt]

Like when Simmons dropped? And eventually Storer?

hm, I though his competition is Pog and Jonas

 

[Krzysztof_O]

He should try a lot of new things in my opinion. Another season of focusing on Ardennes, TDF, WC/Lombardia is going to be so boring. Just ride a lot of things casually, have a bit of fun in your schedule. Just like Pogacar does basically.

No reason not to try De Ronde. It's in his home country and there shouldn't be many doubts anymore regarding his abilities on cobbled hills. Sure, MVP and Pogacar are monsters there but why not having some fun and trying to challenge them? He wouldn't be favoured but top3 seems within his reach.

 

[houtdffan]

I hope giro has at least 100 kms of ITT.

Then a good, healthy winter. win Basque or Catalonia, finish 2nd to Pog at LBL, race Giro to win.

and then ride TDF to see how his body will respond to two GTs.

If Gouvenou goes full Gouvenou, Giro and Vuelta for Remco

 

[Berniece]

No reason not to try De Ronde. It's in his home country and there shouldn't be many doubts anymore regarding his abilities on cobbled hills. Sure, MVP and Pogacar are monsters there but why not having some fun and trying to challenge them? He wouldn't be favoured but top3 seems within his reach.

As long as they are able to position him correctly it should be fine, otherwise he'll be done before the race explodes

 

[AlpRaid]

If Gouvenou goes full Gouvenou, Giro and Vuelta for Remco

well ASO controls Vuelta and I really don't think Remco needs to even try to accumulate Vuelta wins (as Rog has). I would rather he focus on and win other races.

Giro would be nice tho.

 

[Lurkerman]

Challenges and wins should be what a reasonable person would wants, and in these races, he had no wins and no challenges (Pog doesn't qualify as merely a challenge). So I agree, do a 2023-like stage-racing focused season that targets the Giro. Both because he's then ducking Pog a lot, and also because in stage races he still has things to prove even if you factor out Pog, I think hasn't won a GC since UAE Tour 23

 

[YavorD]

It will be interesting how much or will he progress at all next season at RB?
I won't be surprised if he has his best season next year. If we go by some previous examples (Hindley, Vlasov, Higuita, DFM..), they had their best results in the first season with the team.
It's a bit worrying that this year's signings were mostly poor, except for maybe Pellizzari.

 

[Shortcut]

Challenges and wins should be what a reasonable person would wants, and in these races, he had no wins and no challenges (Pog doesn't qualify as merely a challenge). So I agree, do a 2023-like stage-racing focused season that targets the Giro. Both because he's then ducking Pog a lot, and also because in stage races he still has things to prove even if you factor out Pog, I think hasn't won a GC since UAE Tour 23

Yeah i think he should try win at least one one week stage race, T-A should be good for him. He is terrible at those. About Giro..it is really tricky one.. there will be no Pogacar but there will probably be Jonas and Almeida/Del Toro. Also he likes to prepare for LBL so he doesn't really peaks for Giro after that. And if he doesn't do LBL and they are all doing Giro it would be even easier for Pogacar to collect LBL and TdF.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

It will be interesting how much or will he progress at all next season at RB?
I won't be surprised if he has his best season next year. If we go by some previous examples (Hindley, Vlasov, Higuita, DFM..), they had their best results in the first season with the team.
It's a bit worrying that this year's signings were mostly poor, except for maybe Pellizzari.

Staying on the bike would be good start. Doing better than this season shouldn't be hard at all. This year was his worst season since 2021. Whether he can close the gap to Pogacar and Vingegaard (as a climber) compared to 2024, we'll have to wait and see.
Personally, i don't think the performance managers / coaches at SQS were able to keep up with what was happening at other teams. The entire team has fallen off a cliff since 2020. Van Wilder Vansevenant barely made progress in 4-5 years, in fact it's hard to think of many riders who improved (other than the really young ones that would always improve due to maturing, like Magnier and Lecerf). Alaphilippe this year was much better at a new team after leaving SQS. So if Bora has their stuff in order, we should see an improvement.

 

[houtdffan]

well ASO controls Vuelta and I really don't think Remco needs to even try to accumulate Vuelta wins (as Rog has). I would rather he focus on and win other races.

Giro would be nice tho.

Prudhomme then needs to grow a spine and tell Gouvenou and Guillen to put at least 1 long ITT in each race