UAE Tour 2026, February 16-22

[Cycling111]

I find it really hard to make predictions because we have no clue in what form most riders are. It's basically the first race for Gall, Gee, Van Wilder, Storer, Johannessen, and Van Eetvelt. LVE also rode TDU, but due to crash not a real metric.

We've seen Remco and Tiberi in good shape in several races, and Del Toro seems to be too. Gee´s shape is more unknhown.

It's just a prediction on a forum.

 

[Didinho]

Seems like Rickaert wants another podium.

 

[Cycling111]

I wasn't expecting collaboration between several teams. I was surprised that Soudal also was pulling.

 

[Berniece]

We've seen Remco and Tiberi in good shape in several races, and Del Toro seems to be too. Gee´s shape is more unknhown.

It's just a prediction on a forum.

Sure, I'm just saying that I have difficulties making proper prediction because it's hard to gauge the form. Tiberi was indeed decent in Valencia.

 

[Rob5091]

So how do we gauge a good, bad, middling Remco performance? A win? Good. A win by last meters sprint, middling? A win by more then 15 seconds really good? No win, bad?
Of course it's only February, but the pressure is all on him.

 

[KoopaCycling]

What was his conclusion?

That he can beat remco in a TT if he finetunes some more.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Only the 26th placed team in the UCI standings has bothered to put riders in the break. These weak squads need the exposure, of course.

 

[Rob5091]

Flamingos!

 

[repre]

So how do we gauge a good, bad, middling Remco performance? A win? Good. A win by last meters sprint, middling? A win by more then 15 seconds really good? No win, bad?
Of course it's only February, but the pressure is all on him.

He won't win today, so don't bother

 

[buddy buddy buddy]

Thanks Broccoli, charge in with no context on a random alt after not being around for months and ruin the joke with a weird paragraph. Great commitment to the bit!

please dont call names, i hate that nationalist moron

what is the weird paragraph? also dont know what bit means, british is not my native language

 

[Potomac]

For tomorrow, if I was UAE, I wouldn't set a high pace on the climb. You want to create chaos, give more riders from other teams the possibility to go for it. RBH doesn't have the team to control this, which means Evenepoel has to do it himself. Which makes room to make mistakes tactically, Paris-Nice 2024 is a great example of this.

Unless Evenepoel is much stronger and drops everyone himself with a high pace, but in that case tactics don't matter anyway.

I want that chaos!

 

[Rob5091]

He won't win today, so don't bother

I have a feeling he'll struggle but I think it'll depend on whether other guys work together or not.

 

[repre]

I have a feeling he'll struggle but I think it'll depend on whether other guys work together or not.

I guess you won't have to work with somebody on such slopes. It's 13+% for couple kms and 11.8 for nearly 7 km. Everybody will be for themselves today. It's just not the Remco's area, he has nightmares about such climbes from Giro.

 

[Cycling111]