Lieuwe Westra to go PN-mode the entire season and pull a Wiggins, except attacking all the time instead of hiding behind Froome. Rujano will pull a Froome on Westra though.
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Shardi said:Perhaps the former Other/Vino-option should be changed to Other/Machado, now that Vino is officially retired ?
You mean Cancellara will become the world road champion? Have you seen the course?maltiv said:I think Cancellara will dominate the spring classics again and finally become WC, while Contador wins every stage race he enters, including TDF and Vuelta.
Wiggins will underperform and blame his lack of motivation and/or alchoholism whilst Froome will underperform and blame his bilharzia
He was by far the strongest in Mendrisio. With the same form, he definitely has a chance. Perhaps the course doesn't suit him, but you never know. I believe he's skipping TDF next year to prepare for the last part of the season so he'll definitely try to slim down ahead of the WC.theyoungest said:You mean Cancellara will become the world road champion? Have you seen the course?
maltiv said:He was by far the strongest in Mendrisio. With the same form, he definitely has a chance. Perhaps the course doesn't suit him, but you never know. I believe he's skipping TDF next year to prepare for the last part of the season so he'll definitely try to slim down ahead of the WC.
maltiv said:He was by far the strongest in Mendrisio. With the same form, he definitely has a chance. Perhaps the course doesn't suit him, but you never know. I believe he's skipping TDF next year to prepare for the last part of the season so he'll definitely try to slim down ahead of the WC.
El Pistolero said:Mendrisio was easy compared to Firenze. And Mendrisio was his home terrain. For some strange reasons that I'll never understand that matters in sport.
Anyway, everything can happen I suppose, with some cyclists you just never know. Although it has been since 2008 that the great Cancellara has won a race that isn't a time trial or national road race after April.
theyoungest said:You mean Cancellara will become the world road champion? Have you seen the course?
He'll need a lot of slimming down. That course is basically a climber's course. Mendrisio was more for allrounders.maltiv said:He was by far the strongest in Mendrisio. With the same form, he definitely has a chance. Perhaps the course doesn't suit him, but you never know. I believe he's skipping TDF next year to prepare for the last part of the season so he'll definitely try to slim down ahead of the WC.
Just look up the Via Salviati in Florence on Google Maps. That thing is steep.velosiped said:Does anyone have a link to a THOROUGH roadmap of the Tuscany parcours?
I would really like to see detailed gradients of the 2 hills.
El Pistolero said:Anyway, everything can happen I suppose, with some cyclists you just never know. Although it has been since 2008 that the great Cancellara has won a race that isn't a time trial or national road race after April.
The Hitch said:He won the Tour de Suiise.
But lets pretend (as you do) that he did not.
Well discluding time trials as you always do never makes any sense.
Hes a time trial specialist. There are plenty of races he could go to for a win that he doesnt because hes saving himself for a time trial or tired after a time trial or wearing the yellow jersey.
If he knew time trials dont count he would go for the win in other races Its like mocking Contador for never winning a breakaway stage in a Grand Tour.
And to be fair (which you never are to Cancellara), he has every one of those years spent over half of his post april season domestiquing for the Schlecks
El Pistolero said:The World Road Race in Firenze is a time trial? Good to know. You hit the nail on the head, he's a time trial specialist.
He won Tour de Suisse? Yeah, because of the time trials. Lol.
He's tired from winning prologues(and one long time trial in a GT)? As if.
The Schlecks only ride one race a year and the Tour is not half your season post April. He had a free reign this year anyway.
Does Contador not win both real stages and time trials in stage races?
Bushman said:Time trials and real stages??? Time trials are som sort of fantasy stage?
El Pistolero said:Real stages as in racing against multiple people directly instead of indirectly.
What's the point of cycling if it is completely devoid of tactics as time trials are!
will10 said:Strongest guy wins. Simples.
El Pistolero said:Real stages as in racing against multiple people directly instead of indirectly.
What's the point of cycling if it is completely devoid of tactics as time trials are!
Afrank said:So, what? Winning a time trial is not a real win? In a time trial you push yourself to and past your limits in order to beat the other guys time, often only being separated by seconds. In fact, a rider is probably working a lot harder in a TT than they are in a road race.
Afrank said:So, what? Winning a time trial is not a real win? In a time trial you push yourself to and past your limits in order to beat the other guys time, often only being separated by seconds. A rider is probably working a lot harder in a TT than they are in a road race in fact.
theyoungest said:Guys, it's simple. Boonen isn't great at time trials, that's why they're boring and unimportant.