Who is in your dream GT team?

[greenedge]

To continue this national idea...

Porte
Dennis
Matthews
Durbridge
Gerrans
Cam Meyer
Rogers
Hayman
Dave Tanner/ Haussler/ Clarke- really hard choice

 

[TMP402]

I know it's off topic but on national teams, if there were Worlds TTTs organised with national teams it would surely be Britain vs Australia for the title every year.

Wiggins-Thomas-Dowsett-Froome-Cummings-Stannard vs Porte-Dennis-Durbridge-Bobridge-Rogers-Hepburn/Meyer

 

[Jancouver]

Dream team

Ulrich
Cancellara
Indurain
Merckx
Kelly
Vino
Abdujaparov
Lemond
Hinault

NETSERK RULES

Contador
Quintana
Cancellara
Sagan
Stybar
Panzerwagen
Kwiat
Kittel
Dan Martin

 

[Cance > TheRest]

African superteam

Froooome (Captain)
Meintjes (Superdom)
Kudus (Superdom)
Impey (Sprinter)
R. Van Rensburg (Allround Dom)
Reguigui (Dom)
J L Augustyn (Dom)
Berhane (Dom)
Grmay (Flat Dom)

 

[Singer01]

My Dream GT team with riders only in Britain if the Tour went back to national teams. They would ride british Raleigh bikes. The kit would be similar to the national champs jersey or this. With no Brailsford at the helm the manager would be Rod Ellingworth. The DSs would be Roger Hammond and John Herety (Google these people if you dont know who they are).

The Team:
Simon Yates (GC)
Adam Yates (GC)
Chris Froome/Peter Kennaugh (Super Domestique)
Geraint Thomas (Medium Mountains/Hills Domestique)
Mark Cavendish (Sprinter)
Ben Swift (Sprinter/Leadout man)
Ian Stannard (Strongman/Domestique)
Stephen Cummings (Strongman/Domestique/TTist - sort of)
David Millar (Team Captain)

one yates is clearly a better bet than the other for GC, and neither are remotely close to froome, which i'm sure you know.

if the Columbians put a team together who could do the grunt work? other than Uran do any of them have a proper engine?

I could see the Spaniards falling out worse than wiggins and froome.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Ocana
Fignon
Tony Martin
Mick Rogers
Lars Bak
Vasil Kiri
Tosatto
Tiralongo
Porte

 

[Gotland]

For this year TDF:
N. Quintana
R. Majka
F. Aru
R. Kreuziger (R. Porte if not eligible to start)
T. Dumoulin
M. Rogers
T. Martin
F. Cancellara
S. Vandenbergh

 

[SafeBet]

Pantani
Gibo Simoni
Joseba Beloki
Eddie Merckx
Tony Martin
Vino
Tom Boonen
Sean Kelly
Paolo Bettini

Active riders

Alberto Contador
Wilco Kelderman
Romain Bardet
Diego Rosa
Tom Dumoulin
Tony Martin
Fabio Felline
Alexander Kristoff
Tim Wellens

 

[TomekA]

All time dream team for me:

Ullrich
Contador
Quintana
Beloki
Jose Maria Jimenez RIP
Iban Mayo
Samuel Sanchez
J.Rodriguez
Voeckler

 

[gunara]

Contador at his best
Aru as a superdom/fanboy who wants to stay close to his leader/idol for as long as possible in every stage
Rujano 2011
J.Hernandez
Paulinho
Noval
Tiralongo
not sure about the remaining slot, anyone will do, maybe Gadret in free role, and Porte as a leashed flat dom

 

[gregrowlerson]

Re:

Jan Ullrich, Andreas Klöden, Udo Bölts, Tony Martin, Oscar Freire, Tom Boonen, Michal Kwiatkowski, Luca Paolini, Iljo Keisse.

Nice. Klodi to take over the leadership reigns once Jan cracks on the opening mountain stage obviously

 

[lemon cheese cake]

My Dream GT team with riders only in Britain if the Tour went back to national teams. They would ride british Raleigh bikes. The kit would be similar to the national champs jersey or this. With no Brailsford at the helm the manager would be Rod Ellingworth. The DSs would be Roger Hammond and John Herety (Google these people if you dont know who they are).

The Team:
Simon Yates (GC)
Adam Yates (GC)
Chris Froome/Peter Kennaugh (Super Domestique)
Geraint Thomas (Medium Mountains/Hills Domestique)
Mark Cavendish (Sprinter)
Ben Swift (Sprinter/Leadout man)
Ian Stannard (Strongman/Domestique)
Stephen Cummings (Strongman/Domestique/TTist - sort of)
David Millar (Team Captain)

one yates is clearly a better bet than the other for GC, and neither are remotely close to froome, which i'm sure you know.

if the Columbians put a team together who could do the grunt work? other than Uran do any of them have a proper engine?

I could see the Spaniards falling out worse than wiggins and froome.

At the moment Froomes form is below par. These two have shown quite capably they can stay with the big GC/Hilly terrain men. Out of them I dint know which is stronger as thry either are in different races, or one has broken bones. They'd fight it out on the road not video playbacks and results.

 

[Anderis]

Christian Vande Velde
Thomas Danielson
Ryder Hesjedal
Tejay Van Garderen
Bauke Mollema
Tom-Jelte Slagter
Alex Howes
Johan Vansummeren
Ramunas Navardauskas

Perhaps it needs to be around 2012 to make this work the best. But I've just chosen my favourite riders.

 

[hayzer114]

-Nicolas Roche (General Classification / Stages)

-Daniel Martin (Stages / Mountains Classification)

-Philip Deignan (Domestique)

-Sam Bennett (Sprinter)

- Matt Brammeier (Domestique / Lead-Out)

-Ryan Mullen (Domestique / TT)

- Eddie Dunbar (Domestique)

-Sean Downey (Domestique)

- Martyn Irvine (Sprinter / Lead-Out)


All Irish team

 

[May0maniac]

Basso at his peak as the Leader
Nibali (Superdom)
Pozzovivo (climbing domestique)
Aru (Free role)
Bennati
Tony Martin
Kwiatkowski
Gallopin
Sagan

I know, Basso is currently not at that level, but I wanted to have a team that consists of Robo Basso and current riders.

 

[Velolover2]

Dawg or Contador
Uran
Rodríguez (rabbit nr. 1)
Henao (rabbit nr. 2)
Kiryienka
Tony Martin
Dumoulin
Stybar
Kristoff

 

[ray j willings]

If cloning was possible
Bertie, Bertie, Bertie, Bertie, Bertie, Bertie, Bertie, Wiggins, eerrrrrr I mean Bertie, Bertie

 

[KGB]

Contador
Quintana
Aru
Henao
T.Martin
Kwiatkowsky
Sagan
Kristoff
Degenkolb

 

[the sceptic]

My line up:S.Botero,R.Heras,J.Ullrich,A.Vinokourov,A.Valverde,C.Froome,J.Beloki,O.Sevilla and A.Gonzalez.

lol, this team needs a travelling hospital to function.

 

[DBotero]

My line up:S.Botero,R.Heras,J.Ullrich,A.Vinokourov,A.Valverde,C.Froome,J.Beloki,O.Sevilla and A.Gonzalez.

lol, this team needs a travelling hospital to function.

Why bother,trolling in the clinic is more fun,maybe you should return there

 

[phanatic]

Sagan, Cance, Bertie, Levi, Sastre, Lance, Landis, Andy, Cav

 

[Singer01]

who would be in your dream GT if your objective was not the GC, but to win as many stages in a typical tour as possible (prologue, 1 short, 1 long time trial, 1 TTT, 4 MTF the rest a mixture of the usual amount of none GC important stages)?

 

[Squirbos_19]

Cadel Evans
Andreas Klöden
Joaquim Rodríguez
Fabio Aru
Michael Rogers
Robbie McEwen
Michael Matthews
Fabian Cancellara
Luca Paolini

 

[Gigs_98]

Under Netsek rules:
Chris Froome
Vincenzo Nibali (I think its tactically good to have two leaders. I took Nibali because of the cobbles)
Tony Martin
Fabian Cancellara
Lars Boom
Luca Paolini
Tony Gallopin
Jakob Fuglsang
Rafael Majka
(I think its tactically good to have two leaders so I took Nibali because he might be the best on the cobbles)

 

[greenedge]

Re:

who would be in your dream GT if your objective was not the GC, but to win as many stages in a typical tour as possible (prologue, 1 short, 1 long time trial, 1 TTT, 4 MTF the rest a mixture of the usual amount of none GC important stages)?

From current day riders

Kwiatowski
T.Martin
Kittel
Kristoff
Oss
Majka
Valverde
LL Sanchez/Gallopin
Contador or Froome