What type of rider would you like to be?

[flicker]

Roger De Vlemink , Eddy Merckx or Giamondi, Fausto Coppi,

Capable of any road win and a six day track winner.

 

[Benotti69]

i'd rather be a sycophantic fanboy on a cycling forum fantasising about being my hero on a website

 

[Wallace]

The type of bike racer I'd like to be is one about 25 years younger than I am.

(This is just as a bike racer, by the way--I have no other complaints about the aging process, especially since it's so much better than the alternative.)

 

[WinterRider]

Definitely Merckx. I always want to win no matter what the terrain. To be able to do it would be my dream.

 

[Jukebox]

Ardennes man, like Gilbert. Able to punch up the steep stuff and take hilly stages too.

In reality, pure rouler/tter.

 

[Hmmmmm]

I selected Ardennes classics rider from a practical point of view - I would have chosen Cobbled classics rider but I rode on cobblestones once on the east coast and it scared me royally! Riderwise, I would want to be a combo of Eddy Merckx, Sean Kelly, and Jens Voigt.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Why is there no option for 'climb, climb and nothing but climb, and get in every breakaway that moves'? I want to be like the 2008 CSF-Navigare team.

 

[jens_attacks]

just to make in another life the move that bjarne made to hautacam in '96 and i'll be content with that.after you do a thing like that in the tour de france in front of hundreds of thousands of people,you can die peacefully.you just made history.

 

[hrotha]

just to make in another life the move that bjarne made to hautacam in '96 and i'll be content with that.after you do a thing like that in the tour de france in front of hundreds of thousands of people,you can die peacefully

Yes. In your sleep. That same night.

 

[jaylew]

I voted Ardennes, but really a rider like Valverde who's good at just about everything - able to dominate in short stage races and hilly classics and still win sprints, TTs, and GTs on occasion.

 

[jens_attacks]

Yes. In your sleep. That same night.

just like riis,am i right?

but that won't bother me anyway.you can't be dead and bothered at the same time.

 

[Winterfold]

Ardennes man, like Gilbert. Able to punch up the steep stuff and take hilly stages too.

In reality, pure rouler/tter.

LOL +1

or Kelly - not sure if he really fits into those categories, but the spirit was exceptionally admirable.

It's a spirit Gilbert also has even if he is a different rider.

At least they both look like they eat protein.

Not on the list: Steve Peat, but i guess that is a different forum, and also not on the list: being Queen Victoria's chamois.

 

[on3m@n@rmy]

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.

A very noble position. But you forget, the Domestiques are usually the ones face down in their pasta after a hard day, and the team's leaders are much fresher.

 

[on3m@n@rmy]

other... just good at one thing, and don't care what

 

[uphillstruggle]

Sign me up for Euskaltel! climber who is rubbish on the flats, TT's, sprinting, goes backwards in crosswinds etc but who goes and gets stage wins and does a great job for someone who could win a GT.

 

[Jancouver]

Cancellara with a better sprint ..... pretty much somebody like Tom Boonen with Cancellara's skills and TT engine

 

[unsheath]

Pure climber. Someone like Purito. Great on the gradient, useless in the TT.

 

[blaxland]

Definantly a Grand Tour winner they are remembered the most.....All three GTs in the same year

 

[who dat]

I would definately love to be a mountain goat and just climb and climb all day and then get into a long break the day after and do this continually throughout the mountains of a grand tour.

But I would definately be a clean mountain goat

 

[Roland Rat]

i'd rather be a sycophantic fanboy on a cycling forum fantasising about being my hero on a website

You want to be Polish?

 

[Benotti69]

You want to be Polish?

i dont have one arm that could do 'that' all day while still trolling on a forum, but one can dream, no?

who are you gonna be when you grow up?

stupid childish thread deserves a stupid childish answer

 

[Buffalo Soldier]

Answering "like eddy merckx" is not a fair answer.
That's choosing not to choose...

 

[Roland Rat]

i dont have one arm that could do 'that' all day while still trolling on a forum, but one can dream, no?

who are you gonna be when you grow up?

stupid childish thread deserves a stupid childish answer

Most people who race like to compare the type of rider they are/try to be to the pro's.

Judging by UK racing it's usually Gilbert in the first 10k and Cavendish for the rest.

 

[Archibald]

Sign me up for Euskaltel! climber who is rubbish on the flats, TT's, sprinting, goes backwards in crosswinds etc but who goes and gets stage wins and does a great job for someone who could win a GT.

you just want to be one of these guys

 

[flatclimb]

LOL!

Lance is not even helping, come on!