Tom 'Pidders' Pidcock

[RedheadDane]

Clearly the nickname should be Pidcock the Peacock.

Now, how would you know anything about that?

 

[King Boonen]

Now, how would you know anything about that?

He's from Leeds, my mind isn't in the gutter!

 

[BlueRoads]

Ah, he's 1,70 after all, I had his height wrong!

 

[Axel Hangleck]

I don't think he is comparable to anybody his age - comparisons with Pogacar and Evenepoel are useless as they are pure out & out road racers.

Just look at his 2020 season: CX, and a silver medal at the Worlds - followed by a trip to South Africa for the Cape Epic MTB race, which was cancelled late on. A few months until some French MTB races, then the European TT & Road race. The Baby Giro win, and then the World Road race. A week later he's in Nove Mesto for the two U23 XCO World Cups, which he won, and set comparable times to the Elites. And finally the World MTB Champs in Leogang; a double gold - the eMTB, and the U23 XCO.

He's now back in CX, and the form isn't quite there, but maybe he's planning to peak later on, and also has road races in the spring. I'm sure I read he did a training camp in the summer pre Baby Giro with Ineos. .

 

[Zams]

I think he is going to be very good in the coming years.

 

[SafeBet]

He's now back in CX, and the form isn't quite there, but maybe he's planning to peak later on

Plan is kinda working.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

 

[RedheadDane]

See, this is one of the situations when I kind of think we should just have a specific Rider Threads section, because this wasn't actually road racing.

 

[Axel Hangleck]

The rest of the season could be interesting - but not only that, if he does some elite MTB XCO races.

 

[tobydawq]

See, this is one of the situations when I kind of think we should just have a specific Rider Threads section, because this wasn't actually road racing.

He crossed the line on a road.

 

[Ricco']

The rest of the season could be interesting - but not only that, if he does some elite MTB XCO races.

He will.

After the ardennes he will switch to MTB. Three world cups with the elites to qualify for Tokyo, his main goal of the 2021 season.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

See, this is one of the situations when I kind of think we should just have a specific Rider Threads section, because this wasn't actually road racing.

No, because this is also relevant to his road season/career. If we can discuss how a rider is doing wintertraining or altitude training, we can also discuss how he performs at a different branch. Imho.

 

[tobydawq]

No, because this is also relevant to his road season/career. If we can discuss how a rider is doing wintertraining or altitude training, we can also discuss how he performs at a different branch. Imho.

Definitely. You have to have some sort of severe OCD if you can't accept cross talk about a part time crosser in his road section thread (I'm not saying RhD doesn't have that, though, even her initials sort of have the same rhythm as the affliction).

 

[RedheadDane]

No, because this is also relevant to his road season/career. If we can discuss how a rider is doing wintertraining or altitude training, we can also discuss how he performs at a different branch. Imho.

Hence why I want a section where we can just talk about anything a rider does - in a race - regardless of whether it's road, cross, MTB, track, cyclo-dance...

 

[tobydawq]

Hence why I want a section where we can just talk about anything a rider does - in a race - regardless of whether it's road, cross, MTB, track, cyclo-dance...

But what stops us from doing that in this thread?

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

But what stops us from doing that in this thread?

Her.

 

[RedheadDane]

Her.

Not really, but would it hurt to have a specific section? Or maybe just no discipline sections at all?

 

[Bonimenier]

Not really, but would it hurt to have a specific section? Or maybe just no discipline sections at all?

I wouldn't mind the off-road sections to be moved here and make it a sort of competition section.

 

[tobydawq]

Not really, but would it hurt to have a specific section?

Yeah. I would think that the professional cycling road section is significantly more visited than all other sections, so it would be pretty unfortunate to remove such essential content away from here...

 

[RedheadDane]

I wouldn't mind the off-road sections to be moved here and make it a sort of competition section.

I definitely wouldn't mind have a section that was just "Racing". Especially since now our silly games are listed higher than all of MTB, Cross, and Track.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

This guy is good

 

[TMP402]

Attempt at a nickname: the Yorkshire Terrier. Small but feisty.

 

[tobydawq]

Attempt at a nickname: the Yorkshire Terrier. Small but feisty.

I think that nickname is too cockless.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

We got Froomedog, so why not Tomcat?

 

[Bolder]

But if he's 1.7 meters, he's not that small. Although he has tiny shoulders. I think his shoulders are about half as wide as SK's.

I only saw the end of the race but he must have been crazy strong to put time into MVDP. Not sure yet what his road strength will be, one would assume hilly classics given his size ==> but he's young so maybe could pivot toward stage races. I also think Iserbyt could be a good stage racer; have no idea on his recovery but he's got a climber's build.