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

[Berniece]

1 down, 2 to go

 

[AmRacer]

1 down, 2 to go

LbL and TdF?

 

[SHAD0W93]

LbL and TdF?

The next two days

 

[Jan the Man]

1 down, 2 to go

Form looks good.

 

[Berniece]

Form looks good.

Yeah, but tomorrow will be difficult. Maybe he can win it in a sprint. RBH could set a high pace for 6km's and then they can try to launch him with Van Gils. Or if they want to give other riders in the team a chance too, let someone attack early.

Last climb

 

[Red Rick]

Just play the team game with Lipowitz and perhaps Van Gils as well on this route. It's a 1.1 race in January, this is when you can create some good will within your team.

 

[Faserr]

Sent Lipo on a suicide mission on Puig and Evenepoel or Van Gils could finish it of on the last climb.

 

[Didinho]

Good start with the new team. Weird to see him with long sleeves on the TT bike. Just colder here or his skin isn’t aero anymore.

 

[Berniece]

Good start with the new team. Weird to see him with long sleeves on the TT bike. Just colder here or his skin isn’t aero anymore.

New jersey tech

 

[Berniece]

Just play the team game with Lipowitz and perhaps Van Gils as well on this route. It's a 1.1 race in January, this is when you can create some good will within your team.

Not even sure if all 3 are riding

 

[Oldman]

Form looks good.

The whole team looked good although in the Tour they'll need to keep the principal climbers in their echelon. GC depends on more than 4 finishers.

 

[KoopaCycling]

Just watched the TTT, and it was a disappointing watch. I understand them focusing on movistar. But even when they had finished, they barely showed the TT World Champ. Focusing on UAE who were in truth already out of the running.

 

[AlpRaid]

Just watched the TTT, and it was a disappointing watch. I understand them focusing on movistar. But even when they had finished, they barely showed the TT World Champ. Focusing on UAE who were in truth already out of the running.

Reports I have read said Remco took long sustained pulls throughout.

 

[AlpRaid]

The whole team looked good although in the Tour they'll need to keep the principal climbers in their echelon. GC depends on more than 4 finishers.

TDF I think actually has the same deal as recent P-N with individual being counted, so launching one rider at the end. Makes it tough strategically for teams with more than one leader. Particularly with it ending in a climb.

 

[houtdffan]

TDF I think actually has the same deal as recent P-N with individual being counted, so launching one rider at the end. Makes it tough strategically for teams with more than one leader. Particularly with it ending in a climb.

the coleader thing is nonsense. It's not going to happen.

It will most certainly be the Red Bull Remcos at the TDF

 

[Berniece]

the coleader thing is nonsense. It's not going to happen.

It will most certainly be the Red Bull Remcos at the TDF

You think so? I think they really have Lipowitz as co-leader, which makes sense. Probably even today in Mallorca they’ll be co-leaders

 

[Kazistuta]

the coleader thing is nonsense. It's not going to happen.

It will most certainly be the Red Bull Remcos at the TDF

No way. Period. Just like Vismas tour team, when Vingegaard took his first win, and it was decided on the road who'd be captain. If Pogi starts at TDF, there's definitely no need for a single-leader strategy at Red Bull, first place is unattainable then.

 

[Oldman]

Good start with the new team. Weird to see him with long sleeves on the TT bike. Just colder here or his skin isn’t aero anymore.

Easier to have predictable long-sleeved suits for aero metrics. Plus....we don't have to look at the Mantis forearms of climbers in direct comparison to other teammates.

 

[Oldman]

No way. Period. Just like Vismas tour team, when Vingegaard took his first win, and it was decided on the road who'd be captain. If Pogi starts at TDF, there's definitely no need for a single-leader strategy at Red Bull, first place is unattainable then.

Visma decided to leave Primoz; who was leading on the PR pave' stage of that Tour by a considerable margin...on the road edge to reset his own shoulder and ride to the finish. Then he worked with what assets he had left to assist his team to get the win. JV decided in the car and probably didn't expect to here from Roglic again.
Then they absolutely screwed him in the Vuelta. If he hadn't gone down there and had a seriously good Tour; would Jonas have been able to contribute? Would he have contributed? Interesting how Fate grants those gifts and then torments the pretenders forever after.
To your point: declared joint leadership doesn't work. Team tactics can work; but massaging the egos of several riders and expecting to play out well is a wish.

 

[Red Rick]

Reports I have read said Remco took long sustained pulls throughout.

We need a report for that?

 

[Berniece]

No way. Period. Just like Vismas tour team, when Vingegaard took his first win, and it was decided on the road who'd be captain. If Pogi starts at TDF, there's definitely no need for a single-leader strategy at Red Bull, first place is unattainable then.

Indeed, chances are already extremely slim they can take the win, but they are higher with 2 leaders than just 1

 

[AmRacer]

Indeed, chances are already extremely slim they can take the win, but they are higher with 2 leaders than just 1

If they had only 1 leader, he would come 4th or lower?

 

[KoopaCycling]

Lipowitz was amongst the 4 riders that remained, he is co-leader with remco in the Tour. I'm not seeing the problem.
Lipowitz isn't a climber with disaster level TT skills. Van Gils was there as well. I'm not seeing a future TTT problem with Red Bull.

 

[Cycling111]

If they had only 1 leader, he would come 4th or lower?

Third in 2025.

 

[Berflamand]

Yeah, but tomorrow will be difficult. Maybe he can win it in a sprint. RBH could set a high pace for 6km's and then they can try to launch him with Van Gils. Or if they want to give other riders in the team a chance too, let someone attack early.

Last climb

I'd rather like to see them shred the peloton in the hard middle part of the race and see what/who is left after Coll de Soller and take it from there.

Apparently this race (Trofeo Serra Tramuntana) has been won by a Belgian rider 6 times out of the last 9 editions (with Wellens winning 4 (!) of them). It's only logical that Remco would continue this tradition.

Van Gils isn't on the startlist.