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

[peterfin]

So who do you all think would win if they rode the Tour alone?
If they kept all the stages and parcours, but you had to ride every stage solo without a peloton.
Just them and their bike, needing to finish every stage as quick as possible.

Considering the mental part of doing this all alone: Thomas De Gendt

 

[KoopaCycling]

Dan Lorang apparantly talking about Remco having too much leg muscle for a climber. For now they hold off on making any changes regarding that cause it would effect his TT and messing with it will probably also open up a can of worms they probably ain't ready for. They are willing to do whatever it takes but for now they just gonna keep it as is and see how succesful his season is, and if remco ends up happy with his season under current leg muscle conditions.

 

[houtdffan]

Dan Lorang apparantly talking about Remco having too much leg muscle for a climber. For now they hold off on making any changes regarding that cause it would effect his TT and messing with it will probably also open up a can of worms they probably ain't ready for. They are willing to do whatever it takes but for now they just gonna keep it as is and see how succesful his season is, and if remco ends up happy with his season under current leg muscle conditions.

Remco needs to stick with being a diesel and increasing his power.

His diesel is quite good, as shown in Valencia against Almieda

 

[MLKarlos]

Dan Lorang apparantly talking about Remco having too much leg muscle for a climber. For now they hold off on making any changes regarding that cause it would effect his TT and messing with it will probably also open up a can of worms they probably ain't ready for. They are willing to do whatever it takes but for now they just gonna keep it as is and see how succesful his season is, and if remco ends up happy with his season under current leg muscle conditions.

Any source?

 

[KoopaCycling]

Any source?

Wielerkrant.be not sure if they have a legit source or just made the article up though

 

[Berniece]

Any source?

De Wielergids 2026 from Knack

Inloggen

www.knack.be

 

[KoopaCycling]

I'm not sure what weather it is in Algarve, but the weather has not been good in europe. Remco and Red Bull made the right choice to turn up in the UAE on that front methinks.

 

[memyselfandI]

Dan Lorang apparantly talking about Remco having too much leg muscle for a climber. For now they hold off on making any changes regarding that cause it would effect his TT and messing with it will probably also open up a can of worms they probably ain't ready for. They are willing to do whatever it takes but for now they just gonna keep it as is and see how succesful his season is, and if remco ends up happy with his season under current leg muscle conditions.

I find it so hard to except coach publicly letting this type of things out, putting top athlete mentally onto backfoot that way. Things they should talk inside, not publicly. It's not completely decided yet that gt's are completely climbers races nowadays, they still need complete rider, flats, rolling, wind, rain, downhill, gravel, cobbles, sprint, attack aso aso, not just climbing.

Evenepoel lacks explosivity, high mountains fysics not much more. Bora on the other hand is quite far from general overall level of team support compared to UAE. Hypothetically thinking taking out Pogi and Del Toro from scene and putting Remco in UAE is more brute team support than SQS and Bora combined. But too much muscles in legs...

Weight to height ratio of Remco, Pogi would weight roughly 2 kg less. And same the other way round Remco should weight roughly 1 kg more.

 

[Berniece]

Pre-race interview with Evenepoel discusses his team with focus on rouleurs in case of echelons, since UAE can do the heavy work in the mountains. He’s mostly focused on Del Toro but understands there are others in the mix too. His goal is to win 2 stages and the GC. Would bring his tally up to 9 victories.

 

[houtdffan]

Pre-race interview with Evenepoel discusses his team with focus on rouleurs in case of echelons, since UAE can do the heavy work in the mountains. He’s mostly focused on Del Toro but understands there are others in the mix too. His goal is to win 2 stages and the GC. Would bring his tally up to 9 victories.

Remco finally sounding confident. Haven't heard him speak like this since after winning the TT of the 2022 Vuelta that he said he was taking the red jersey back to Wevelgem.

 

[Berniece]

Remco finally sounding confident. Haven't heard him speak like this since after winning the TT of the 2022 Vuelta that he said he was taking the red jersey back to Wevelgem.

We'll know after Wednesday probably. If they aren't able to drop him on Jebel Mobrah (Wednesday), doubt they are able to drop him on Jebel Hafeet (Saturday). Assuming no crash or echelons he missed of course, but purely on climbing efforts.