What type of rider would you like to be?

[auscyclefan94]

If you were a pro, what type of rider would you like to be?

 

[kease7]

I would like to be a Sean Kelly type, super tough & a great alround rider!

 

[Ferminal]

Gilbert..!

 

[For The World]

I would love to be a rider who specialises in the Ardennes classics. That would cover all bases in Australian races, and if I chose to ride in Europe, well, I could go for LBL and Lombardia.

 

[theyoungest]

An Ardennes classics rider. These are the races I like the most, together with the climby stage races, and these are the races that would suit my Schleck-like build the most.

 

[luckyboy]

Preferably Merckx, voted Ardennes.

 

[Buffalo Soldier]

TT'er, Breakaways, ...

 

[hrotha]

A faster Gilbert, or a Valverde with less pressure to perform at GTs and more hair.

 

[Sydney21]

Domestique - all 57 kilograms of me! I'd love to be a pure climber. someone like Matty Lloyd or Mikel Nieve

 

[Buffalo Soldier]

At the end, i would be the best at everything. They're lucky i'm not competing!

 

[Michielveedeebee]

voted other, I want to be like Merckx, the best at everything.

yet as that's impossible, someon like canc...

 

[Arnout]

Climber. Don't really bother with GC's, but be on front uphill.

 

[Avoriaz]

Sprinter. Get pampered. Get led out. Get the girls. Get the paycheck.

 

[Finbouy]

A Barodur (spelling?!?!)

Someone who scuttles off the front, over the hills in a desperate attempt to gain some glory to be caught right........at.........the..........end..........when the sprinters elbows (and heads) come out to play.
But I'd get the glory, I'd be hailed in France as a Demi God.. I'd be loved and admired by French Housewives all across the land..

Whoop..

 

[Roland Rat]

Without a doubt, Cancellara.

But without those two annoying barnacles who I'd have to nanny through the TdF.

 

[Vonn Brinkman]

Voted other.

I would love to be a Voeckler, always fighting and fighting, but succeeding from time to time with glorious break-away wins. And like another poster said above: Be loved by all house-wives in France

 

[Finbouy]

Gotta love preeety French Women..

 

[sublimit]

Something similar to Alberto Contador.

Get access to performance enhancing drugs, no hard turns on the front of the peleton, TV advertising work, get the chance to look like a hard gangster even though you're a total pussy and make lots of money.

 

[mr. tibbs]

It's gotta be the stones for tibbs. I love the (largely) unchanging material culture and romantic history of the races. (Cancellara doing the double on those deep Zipps was a huge blow to my delicate psyche. )

The Ardennes run a close second, though--mostly b/c that type of ability would mean I can target Lombardia.

 

[Archibald]

classics rider, but not just ardennes or cobbles
to win several monuments and their ilk, with the occasional stage in a GT or other stage race (Tirreno, Dauphine, etc...)

 

[will10]

Jens Mk II

 

[flatclimb]

Breakaway rider

I always root for them when they're in the drops hammering on the peddles as hard as they can. Voeckler's stage win comes to mind from last years tour.

But then there's all the days you get caught with only a little ways to go. Then my heart would surely break and crumble.

But if that means you could potentially win a huge stage in the Tour well then that's worth it. I could never handle the pressure of being a top GC rider though, that would be for somebody else.

 

[biopass]

Stage racer.

I just love cycling day in and day out, so doing stage races would be perfect for me.

 

[The Hitch]

Domestique.

Victory isnt that important to me.

If i was a gc guy id probably stop halfway up the first mountain and decide that if other suckers want to go through all this pain to have a taste of victory and feed their ego, let them.

Not that i cant do it, i have a better endurance than my friends. But when your talking about grinding it out mountain after mountain, day after day tearing off your own legs, and the only thing awaiting you on the other side is victory, i calculate that the cost isnt worth the reward.

Throw in immortality into the prize list and ill change my mind though.

Until then i would probably enjoy helping others. Also i would enjoy coming in with the grupeto on the stages with big crowds, and the alleged cameradery of the autobus.

 

[Anonymous]

Other (Sean Kelly)