which rider can't you stand and you don't like in the peloton??

[ImmaculateKadence]

Haussler - seems to think he's ten times better than he actually is and moans constantly

Really? I think he is that good. In 2009 he finished second at MSR (a race he would have one if the finish was an inch closer) and RVV, seventh at Roubaix, won a stage at P-N, and absolutely destroyed the field at a TDF stage winning by over four minutes. Last year, he had multiple knee injuries, which ruined his season and all his goals for this one. I agree with every other comment you made, but this one troubles me.

 

[red_flanders]

I like riders who animate races. Huge Tommy Voekler fan. I like Chris Horner for his energy and enthusiasm. Who doesn't like watching Jens or Vino attack? I've spent a lot of time rooting for George, even though I think he rides like an idiot. Pure patriotism on that one. Gotta like Gilbert, who is smart, strong and shrewd. Love watching Sagan ride. This year's Suisse was one of my favorite races in a while.

Really dislike:
Leipheimer
Evans

Don't love:
Menchov

Leipheimer, while he gets the most out of his limited talent and that's quite admirable, is just about as boring a person and rider as I can imagine.

Evans is just a whiny little beeotch with a crooked helmet, though he now rides with much more style. Menchov has the stoic Russian thing going which is cool but he does tend to make me want to change the channel.

 

[Mambo95]

Really? I think he is that good. In 2009 he finished second at MSR (a race he would have one if the finish was an inch closer) and RVV, seventh at Roubaix, won a stage at P-N, and absolutely destroyed the field at a TDF stage winning by over four minutes. Last year, he had multiple knee injuries, which ruined his season and all his goals for this one. I agree with every other comment you made, but this one troubles me.

He had good results in 2009, but I think they flattered him a little and he seems to have believed the subsequent hype a bit too much. MSR and RVV second places were a result of well timed opportunist jumps away from a fairly large bunch whilethe others all looked at each other. They weren't 'strongman' performances that mark out a proper classics star. 7th at PR was decent showing, but agin it doesn't make him a superstar. And the TdF stage was on a wet stage when most riders were just trying to be safe.

I'm not saying he's a bad rider, he just seems overrated, not least by himself. For example before this year's Ronde, Eurosport had special spots with Boonen, Cancellara, Gilbert and Haussler. I thought - 'you don't belong in that sort of company', but there was no doubt in his mind that he did. Maybe he'll prove me wrong one day, but I won't hold my breath.

And he's always complaining. He didn't come across well in those BTP videos.

 

[UpTheRoad]

Definitely Andy Schleck. He just talks too much despite the fact that he hasn't won the TDF. I hated how he was 2 against 1 at LBL and didn't really do anything to take advantage of it. He seems a little too buddy-buddy with his brother. If you and your brother are alone at the end of a race, wouldn't you want to sprint it out?

Today's article where he bashes Contador's TDF team shows no class.

Link to the article, please.

Also, just to further your ire...Andy Schleck has never won *any* stage race, let alone the TdF.

 

[Boeing]

Cadel (DON'T TOUCH ME) Evans

 

[bobs nob]

Link to the article, please.

Also, just to further your ire...Andy Schleck has never won *any* stage race, let alone the TdF.

He may be referring to this:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/andy-schleck-the-tour-starts-at-luz-ardiden

or perhaps this...although my Luxembourgian is a tad rusty and translate.google.com is for comedians.

http://www.lequotidien.lu/les-sports/24851.html

 

[Marva32]

It's going to be an awfully long July for some of you.



Oh well...

It won't be a long July for me, I don't like the guy, but I will still enjoy the racing.

 

[*Falze*]

Andy Schleck

 

[LaFlorecita]

Since last year I find myself really disliking Andy and his brother. Sad, I used to like them... Also Cancellara, TJvG and Hushovd (don't know why, just dislike him a lot)

I used to find Gilbert really annoying as well, but I've learned to appreciate him.

nice..

but can't we ask for reasons to dislike someone, to prevent hypocrites like denismenchov and ACF from saying a name that anyone was expecting because the cyclist in question is just better (a lot) than the ones that they choose to "love"?

My "reasons":
Imo, Andy is a whiny biatch, plus I have no respect for his way of racing(racing 4 weeks per season.) My dislike for Fränk may not be completely just, as it came with my dislike for Andy.

Cancellara and van Garderen seem really arrogant, something I absolutely disgust. And as I said, I don't know where my dislike for Hushovd comes from. I woke up one day, and it was there.

This is my opinion, other people may think otherwise.

 

[Ferminal]

Ok, it's taken me some time to formulate my own opinion given that there is no poll, but here is a few of my lesser liked:

Andy
Thor
Bradley
Vincenzo
Schumi
Gerro
Andre

 

[dabaideschbi]

Andy needs to stfu! he is talking to much and he didnt show anything yet! we'll remember him as a big talent who races once a year at the Tdf and he does not win!

 

[Scansorial]

He may be referring to this:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/andy-schleck-the-tour-starts-at-luz-ardiden

That's the one.

“The way I see it is that maybe Contador has the motor to do a Giro-Tour de France double, but I don’t think that his teammates do,” Schleck said. “We’ll see how they are in the mountains. I don’t think that all the riders on the team who were with him on the Giro have his motor. With us, nobody did the Giro. From a team point of view, I have an advantage on him. I don’t think it, I’m certain of it.”

 

[JimPanzen]

Definitely Andy Schleck. He just talks too much despite the fact that he hasn't won the TDF. I hated how he was 2 against 1 at LBL and didn't really do anything to take advantage of it. He seems a little too buddy-buddy with his brother. If you and your brother are alone at the end of a race, wouldn't you want to sprint it out?

Today's article where he bashes Contador's TDF team shows no class.

Exactly, especially his interviews. I think he has too many people around him who are constantly telling him how great he his.

 

[hrotha]

That's the one.

“The way I see it is that maybe Contador has the motor to do a Giro-Tour de France double, but I don’t think that his teammates do,” Schleck said. “We’ll see how they are in the mountains. I don’t think that all the riders on the team who were with him on the Giro have his motor. With us, nobody did the Giro. From a team point of view, I have an advantage on him. I don’t think it, I’m certain of it.”

I agree with everything he said in that quote.

 

[jaylew]

I agree with everything he said in that quote.

Agreed. I like Contador and I'm not a fan of Andy but I don't see anything wrong with him saying that. He's just speaking the truth.

 

[Midnightfright]

I really can't see what is wrong with what Schleck said itn that interview. He's just saying what he thinks. If anything u could argue that he's using it as an opportunity to build his teams confidence. The amusing thing is if he had of went the other way and said he felt Albies team would be very strong for the tour there would be as many ppl lambasting hin for being submissive and settling for 2nd place. If he won the tour by 20 minutes all most people would bother talking about was his arrogance for winning by so much time.

 

[ImmaculateKadence]

He had good results in 2009, but I think they flattered him a little and he seems to have believed the subsequent hype a bit too much. MSR and RVV second places were a result of well timed opportunist jumps away from a fairly large bunch whilethe others all looked at each other. They weren't 'strongman' performances that mark out a proper classics star. 7th at PR was decent showing, but agin it doesn't make him a superstar. And the TdF stage was on a wet stage when most riders were just trying to be safe.

I'm not saying he's a bad rider, he just seems overrated, not least by himself. For example before this year's Ronde, Eurosport had special spots with Boonen, Cancellara, Gilbert and Haussler. I thought - 'you don't belong in that sort of company', but there was no doubt in his mind that he did. Maybe he'll prove me wrong one day, but I won't hold my breath.

And he's always complaining. He didn't come across well in those BTP videos.

I see what you're saying, but that Tour stage was impressive regardless of the rain. I think people forget that he rode away from Chavanel and a few others on the descent and rode about 50k by himself. At a certain point, the peloton did stop chasing, but I think that's because they had pulled most of them back, and Haussler was not a GC threat. Either way, after MSR this year, we knew he wasn't a contender in any other monuments, so he was a bit unjustifiably hyped going into RvV and even Roubaix, but by that point we all knew he'd finish Roubaix in a support car.

I think he'll back to form next year. Hopefully he won't be in any Sidi commercials though

 

[el chava]

What's up with the hate for Nibali?

 

[saronni 9]

Not sure if anyone mentioned him yet but I cant stand Linus Gerdeman. My list of reasons are many. Starting with the way he bobs his head from side to side. If your gonna be PRO you better have good style. I also don't like how he would put the whole milram team on the front only to hang in a few seconds off the front for 5K and then get dropped, I mean who does that? And last I thought it was really stupid how a few years ago he offered to have a film crew follow him at the tour to prove he was not doping. I didn't think people really cared about him and his results really don't raise any eyebrows as to wether or not he was clean.
I think that about covers it.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

That was last year, and it was part of an attempt to try and re-sell Germany on the sport.

As for pros having good style, well, Fernando Escartín? Juan Mauricio Soler? They both looked like they were doing a crab walk as they pulled their bike inelegantly uphill.

 

[Duartista]

That was last year, and it was part of an attempt to try and re-sell Germany on the sport.

As for pros having good style, well, Fernando Escartín? Juan Mauricio Soler? They both looked like they were doing a crab walk as they pulled their bike inelegantly uphill.

Mancebo too. In general I like riders with idiosyncratic styles - it makes them seem a little more human, to me at least.

On the thread topic, the only riders I can think of that I really can't abide are Armstrong and Di Luca. I would have said Leipheimer, but felt kind of sorry for him after the reactions to his TdS win.

 

[Midnightfright]

Mancebo too. In general I like riders with idiosyncratic styles - it makes them seem a little more human, to me at least.

On the thread topic, the only riders I can think of that I really can't abide are Armstrong and Di Luca. I would have said Leipheimer, but felt kind of sorry for him after the reactions to his TdS win.

I have to agree with u on Levi. I did have a little chuckle once I realised it was his little attack that gained 6 seconds that allowed him to win. I think that's actually what intensified the furor.

 

[bobs nob]

Agreed. I like Contador and I'm not a fan of Andy but I don't see anything wrong with him saying that. He's just speaking the truth.

I imagine that regardless of what culture you may be from, when an opponent verbally trashes you or your team, those quotes are posted prominently where all the team can see them and be motivated to prove the person who quoted them wrong, thus the term 'Bulletin Board Material'. Andy may be right in his analysis, but it's usually smarter to take the AC 'aw, shucks' approach than to fire up your opponent a week before the start of the race. Maybe better to say this stuff a week after you win, Andy.

But then again, I do find it refreshing to see someone, especially a professional athlete with a lot of sponsorship money to lose, who just has no filter whatsoever. He thinks it and then says it. Despite all that, I hope AC destroys him without mercy.

 

[Anonymous]

Schlecklet
Cancellara
Cavendish

 

[the_kman]

Millar
Cav
Andy Schleck
Cancellara
and somewhat Contador but as time goes on i think he is getting better