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

[Divergence]

They allow for more aggressive racing so fans IMHO shouldn't complain. As for Remco and what he said or didn't say. He was punished enough by that fall so it's all good.

Yes, they do allow for divebombing and maybe a slightly faster descends. Both are not what road cycling is about imho and they just make road cycling more dangerous.

 

[VayaVayaVaya]

Or simply it was a freak accident, which can happens to anyone. He may have had his head down, looked up, didn't realize the round about was so near, braked suddenly, perhaps hitting a small bump in the tarmac and did a summersault.🤷

This is definitely the most likely answer. He panic grabbed the brake for some reason and took himself out. Most likely reason is he was in his head thinking about how to approach the finale or an annoyed by Vingegaard and just didn’t see the roundabout at all, looked up, and instinctively grabbed the brake. The wrong brake. Like 40 riders go through right afterwards with no issues. It was not a pothole that did it.

 

[CyclistAbi]

Yes, they do allow for divebombing and maybe a slightly faster descends. Both are not what road cycling is about imho and they just make road cycling more dangerous.

To be honest i am not sure if it's more dangerous because of it, could be the opposite. We would need more data to back either up. All i can say is when going fast and having worse brakes, that doesn't improve safety.

 

[Divergence]

To be honest i am not sure if it's more dangerous because of it, could be the opposite. We would need more data to back either up. All i can say is when going fast and having worse brakes, that doesn't improve safety.

In this context idk if "worse" is the correct characterization of rim brakes. Sure, on a wet descend you can stop quicker with disc brakes, but disk brakes also tend to lock up more readily and this is exactly what happens when you panic brake. And, I believe, Remco panic braked and he crashed. So if he had rim brakes I do not believe he would have crashed.

 

[CyclistAbi]

@Divergence

But then again there are panic brake usages that do resolve the situation, due to disc brakes being vastly superior in the act of braking. As Remco has demonstrated.

Anyway, yesterday's news.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Zero holes, zero touches, this is a rider who clearly got surprised by the roundabout and braked too much and too fast. But he clearly lives in an alternative world, he imagines things that don't happen. What hole did he see?

Assuming is not imagining

 

[Low is rhe new high]

He obviously wanted to brake check Jonas because of all the wheel sucking, unfortunately Remco is not so good with left and right yet so he pulled the wrong brake.

 

[peterfin]

It's easy to say his crash was because of technical inabilities just because it's him. He was racing his heart out to stay ahead of the peleton while it happened. A hole, blurred vision, slower reaction time, not thinking sharp ... whatever happened it's not because he can't pass a roundabout that he crashed.