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

[AmRacer]

Remco's riding diaries, 'My life as a fatco'

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Talked with him on Discord. First thing he said after Wednesday was that apparently still no one sees that he's overweight for climbing long or hard climbs. He specifically said:

Remco with Logic as his coach would be unbeatable but Luck Merchant strikes again!

 

[Gratemans]

To bad there's no Logic anymore. He would give us exciting updates about Remco's weight during this time.

Yeah, whats up with that, he had his account deleted or something?

 

[Berniece]

Yeah, whats up with that, he had his account deleted or something?

Tired of the forum. I get it, have thought about it too. If it's not fun anymore, why bother.

 

[Berniece]

damn hed have won by one and a half minute if only the fat bastard could skip a meal ( more than two minutes faster than pogis fastest time on that climb ever )

So you don't think weight has any influence on how fast you can go on a climb? Interesting take

 

[AmRacer]

So you don't think weight has any influence on how fast you can go on a climb? Interesting take

There's only one rider who is struggling with weight

 

[Netserk]

So you don't think weight has any influence on how fast you can go on a climb? Interesting take

can you read

 

[Salvarani]

Isnt just clear, as I think the team and even Lefevere said years ago, that Remco needs specific preparation to be at a good climbing level.

They always said and Remco himself, I believe, that preparation needs to be "perfect".

Likely meaning altitude + losing a couple of kgs, which probably requires great dedication and some sacrifices to get to that level.

He may be able to do that for a short amount of time and a pin-point effort, but he has a hard time staying there. For whatever reason.

It also has to be looked into regarding things like his recovery as well. Too many collapses and big drops at this point.

Great one-day racer and time trialist. Stage-racing, he struggles now and then for different reasons.

Some been saying this for a long time and we keep ending up here.

With that said, Remco has showed that he can deliver... when preparation has been perfect. It just seems hard to get right. Or did he just get "lucky" and had the perfect race a couple of times in the GTs? Maybe it is just hard to produce such outcomes often, as we have seen with it often ending up in collapses or DNFs in other instances. Anyway... the team and mostly Remco himself has to take some accountability in that or admit it is a flaw, which I very much understand why he wouldnt do.

Still believe he can podium the Tour, if everything goes right for him, and scenarios where he could still even win it.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

The hard thing with the weight issue in the modern era is how much carbs are needed for fuel.

15 years ago everyone starved themselves to prep a GT. So if you needed to drop kilos to be competitive, you weren't preparing worse than your competitors if you starved yourself to lose weight.

Now on training camps and at races, you need to stuff your face and be able to digest high amounts of carbs. If someone like Remco naturally holds a higher weight, losing weight to be competitive on climbs, without underfueling relative to his competitors, is gonna be really really hard.