Who is/are your favorite rider(s)

[Angliru]

Schlecks
GVA
Canc
Evans
Boonen
Morabito
Valverde

The one in bold might be grounds for your expulsion from the dreaded ACF Mafia!

 

[boomcie]

I've only seen cx over the last couple seasons.
It is epic stuff, I too find it hard to dislike a cx guy (probably the main reason I don't dislike gadret)

Bart Wellens is one seriously annoying fella though.

 

[nvpacchi]

After Jeremy finished his first Paris-Roubaix in 2006:

Madiot: You are another man, now.

Jeremy: No! I've just become a man !

I really like him. He's also very much concerned with the environment. And as an engineer, he worked on the electric derailleur.


Thank you for your comment, lol.



PS: well Andy Schleck might get a mention, here. Not that he's my favourite rider. Far from it. But his haters (most of them being French) sometimes make him kind of a nice guy to me, lol.

Yes! I like Jeremy Roy a lot! I met him briefly in Montreal (along with other FDJ teammates) very nice guy!

 

[El Pistolero]

Bart Wellens is one seriously annoying fella though.

I used to root for him, but I root for everyone that challenges Nys(I like Nys, but I think he has a big enough palmares already).

Nowadays it's Pauwels, Stybar and Niels Albert I mostly root for. Especially Albert, his interviews are sooo funny.

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Personality wise I can like both humble(Contador) and arrogant(Gilbert and the one and only VDB) cyclists. I like it when a cyclist says he's going to win that day and manages to do it.

 

[The Hitch]

I used to root for him, but I root for everyone that challenges Nys(I like Nys, but I think he has a big enough palmares already).

Nowadays it's Pauwels, Stybar and Niels Albert I mostly root for. Especially Albert, his interviews are sooo funny.

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Personality wise I can like both humble(Contador) and arrogant(Gilbert and the one and only VDB) cyclists. I like it when a cyclist says he's going to win that day and manages to do it.

You must love Boom then.

 

[Nick C.]

off the top of my head:

Sastre
Kloden
Farrar
Gilbert
Boonen
Gasporotto
Flecha
Nibali
Rodriguez
Sagan
Sylvain Chavanel

 

[El Pistolero]

You must love Boom then.

No, he doesn't do cyclocross anymore Or only a couple races each year. But yes, I like to see him win on the road no matter what the silly Dutchies think

 

[The Hitch]

No, he doesn't do cyclocross anymore Or only a couple races each year.

CX is only one part of it.

I like it when a cyclist says he's going to win that day and manages to do it.

Boom did that in style on Sunday.

 

[El Pistolero]

CX is only one part of it.



Boom did that in style on Sunday.

Nah, he said in an interview after he was surprised with his results. You can't say you're going to win and than be surprised you did.

 

[movingtarget]

Evans
Chavanel
Menchov
Horner
Voeckler
Haussler

 

[CatsNK]

Vino
Vino
Vino

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

I used to root for him, but I root for everyone that challenges Nys(I like Nys, but I think he has a big enough palmares already).

Pauwels is probably my favorite.
I like Albert also.

ahh can't wait fir cx

 

[hatcher]

Kiryienka also.

 

[Cobblestoned]

CX is only one part of it.



Boom did that in style on Sunday.

Come on, that was an easy one with absence of The Great Peter Sagan and The Great Zdenek Stybar, while EVEN me predicted that win.
Anyway, Stybar would have given Boom a minute. lol

 

[Cobblestoned]

I have to admit, that there is still no rider I would call my absolute favorite rider right now.
That would mean sweating blood and tears, and total devotion.

My heart was destroyed on 30.06.2006 and it's still healing. I still feel like a widower.

 

[luckyboy]

Damnit I clicked someone else before I saw Gilbert was there.

Anyway: Sylvain Chavanel, Gilbert, Moncoutie, Voeckler, Coppel, Soler, Txurruka, Menchov, Vanmarcke...

 

[Sydney21]

Simon Clarke, Heinrich Haussler, Gossy, Cadel and Matty Lloyd would have to be my top 5 but i like all the Aussie guys (excepts for Grahem Brown)
Bole, Vanmarke, Terpstra, Sicard, Thomas would be my favourite foreigners
I usually go for an Kiwi, south African, Irishman, Welshman, Scottsman, Canadian, Yank or Frenchman over a Spaniard or Italian but there are some exceptions. (cant bring myself to go for englishmen until Aus win the ashes back)

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Pauwels is probably my favorite.
I like Albert also.

ahh can't wait fir cx

I like Albert cos he's a climber on the road.

I like Pauwels cos he's the best interview in the sport.

I like Walsleben too.

 

[El Pistolero]

I like Albert cos he's a climber on the road.

I like Pauwels cos he's the best interview in the sport.

I like Walsleben too.

It's even funnier when you understand Dutch

 

[boomcie]

I like Albert cos he's a climber on the road.

I like Pauwels cos he's the best interview in the sport.

I like Walsleben too.

Albert is by far my favorite cyclo crosser. He's also pretty friendly in person despite all those tools mobbing him after the race.

Pauwels really is as shy as they get, impossible to have a conversation with the guy.

Walsleben is incredibly amiable, my favorite foreigner by a mile. He's the nicest guy of the pack and pretty funny to talk with.

I don't like Stybar, because he became more arrogant after his recent status upgrade.

Nys is pretty boring, but he's an OK guy in the end.

Wellens: unfriendly self centered f*cker.

Boom: never spoke with him, but he's pretty badass. Unfortunately he's Dutch

 

[Angliru]

Denis Menchov, obviously, and Jurgen van den Broeck.

EDIT: I forgot that the rider who made me a cycling fan is back - RASMUSSEN.

Even with him having said "Menchov couldn't get his derriere over the Galibier"?

 

[Bike Boy]

So I discover that Denmark isn't the great cycling nation it used to be. If we had this poll in the 90'ies Rolf Sørensen and maybe Bjarne Riis would have appeared on that list.

I will make two lists, one with my favourite danish riders and another with my favourite international riders.

Favourite danish riders:

Matti Breschel
Chris Anker Sørensen
Nicki Sørensen
Alex Rasmussen
Jacob Nielsen

Favourite international riders:

Alberto Contador
Cadel Evans
Pierrick Fedrigo
Phillipe Gilbert
Davide Moncoutie
Fabian Cancellara
Fränk Schleck
Jack Bobridge

 

[El Pistolero]

Albert is by far my favorite cyclo crosser. He's also pretty friendly in person despite all those tools mobbing him after the race.

Pauwels really is as shy as they get, impossible to have a conversation with the guy.

Walsleben is incredibly amiable, my favorite foreigner by a mile. He's the nicest guy of the pack and pretty funny to talk with.

I don't like Stybar, because he became more arrogant after his recent status upgrade.

Nys is pretty boring, but he's an OK guy in the end.

Wellens: unfriendly self centered f*cker.

Boom: never spoke with him, but he's pretty badass. Unfortunately he's Dutch

He's not that arrogant, but have you read the story about the Belgian "foster" home he was staying with when he first went to Belgium for cyclocross?

 

[boomcie]

He's not that arrogant, but have you read the story about the Belgian "foster" home he was staying with when he first went to Belgium for cyclocross?

I have not. Please enlighten me El Pistolet.

 

[Michielveedeebee]

He's not that arrogant, but have you read the story about the Belgian "foster" home he was staying with when he first went to Belgium for cyclocross?

nope, what about it ?

Albert is by far my favorite cyclo crosser. He's also pretty friendly in person despite all those tools mobbing him after the race.

Pauwels really is as shy as they get, impossible to have a conversation with the guy.

Walsleben is incredibly amiable, my favorite foreigner by a mile. He's the nicest guy of the pack and pretty funny to talk with.

I don't like Stybar, because he became more arrogant after his recent status upgrade.

Nys is pretty boring, but he's an OK guy in the end.

Wellens: unfriendly self centered f*cker.

Boom: never spoke with him, but he's pretty badass. Unfortunately he's Dutch

you clearly know a lot of procrossers Boomcie