Your favourite riders!

[Jspear]

1. AC
Chaves
Cavendish
Nibali
Pinot
Sagan
Gaviria

 

[Velolover2]

After today, I have to add Gallopin. Great all-rounder.

 

[DBotero]

Re:

After today, I have to add Gallopin. Great all-rounder.

Plus he comes with a bonus

 

[Laplaz]

Nibali
Aru
Sagan
Stuyven
Benoot
Pinot
Colbrelli
Rowe
Moscon
Van Avermaet

 

[spiritualride]

I don't really like certain ones more than most. I like most of them. It's good to see the underdogs do a good result. I only dislike those that act in a way that I feel is unethical. That includes those "Don's" of the peloton that can pressure others to stop and ruin the racing because they want to take a piss or whatever bs reason they have.

 

[Mr.White]

In particular order:
Valverde
Boonen
Sagan

and then in no particular order:
Contador, Quintana, Samu, Greipel, Erviti, Moscon and Van Keirsbulck

 

[gunara]

Contador
Purito
Peter Sagan
Ion Izagirre
Degenkolb
Antón
Zubeldia
Valverde
De Backer
Vuillermoz

The next 10 alphabetically:
Battaglin, Bilbao, Bodnar, Bongiorno, De Kort, Erviti, Ruben Fernández, Quéméneur, Rowe, Samu Sánchez (used to be my number one)

I like too many riders actually, some I fail to remember right now

 

[Alexandre B.]

Ah yes Quemeneur is so funny!

 

[gunara]

Re:

Ah yes Quemeneur is so funny!

Nooo, he's lovable

 

[Carstenbf]

Lars Bak! :razz:

Otherwise: Contador, Nibali, Sagan.

Special mention to Voeckler. Started cheering for him as a bit of a joke, but he's really grown on me over the years. Such a gutsy rider, and much stronger than people give him credit for imo.

 

[Echoes]

Do you folks even know the kind of people that those guys are in real life? Because I know from reliable sources that Voeckler and Rolland are obnoxious characters as they get.

 

[RedheadDane]

Lars Bak! :razz:

Well, he's kinda made watching certain races (such as the Tour) feel a bit like Deja Vu.
"Oh, there's Lars Bak. Sitting in front of the peloton."

 

[StryderHells]

I must be an odd cycling fan as I don't have any favourite riders

 

[RedheadDane]

Oh, I'm odd too.
Sure, I have lots of riders I like, and will cheer for basically everyone if they do something especially impressive - even if I don't actually know who they are - but actual favourites? Naah...

 

[Netserk]

Do you folks even know the kind of people that those guys are in real life? Because I know from reliable sources that Voeckler and Rolland are obnoxious characters as they get.

Stone. Glasshouse.

 

[Carstenbf]

Well, he's kinda made watching certain races (such as the Tour) feel a bit like Deja Vu.
"Oh, there's Lars Bak. Sitting in front of the peloton."

Well, I think that's it for me really. Such a workhorse, and a great team player. That and his ever positive attitude. Now if he could just make that infamous turn in PR for once this year without somersaulting. :razz:

 

[RedheadDane]

I think he managed last year.
But yeah, Lars Bak is awesome.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Do you folks even know the kind of people that those guys are in real life? Because I know from reliable sources that Voeckler and Rolland are obnoxious characters as they get.

Needless to say, most of us don't - that doesn't stop us from rooting for them.

 

[Brullnux]

Do you folks even know the kind of people that those guys are in real life? Because I know from reliable sources that Voeckler and Rolland are obnoxious characters as they get.

Rolland too? Voeckler I kind of guessed, but come to think of it Rolland can be a bit of a primadonna sometimes. I am hesitant to meet any of the riders I like just in case they turn out to be obnoxious and rude. For this, I reckon I'd rather live in blissful ignorance.

 

[KyoGrey]

Contador is the current one that has made me cover many kms by car just to se him pass a few seconds. Never spoken to him in person, although family members that live near him have had the oppotunity to do so and we have some very cool personally dedicated posters of his Astaná GT wins in our local bar.

 

[wouterkaas]

Chris Froome
Luke Rowe
Wout Poels
Richie Porte
Jarlinson Pantano
Steven Kruijswijk
Stephen Cummings

In the past years I would've put Peter Sagan in the list, but he has been prone to becoming a caricature of himself....

 

[Nick C.]

Boonen
Valverde
Sagan
Mollema
Alaphillipe
Vanmarcke
Greipel
Gavira
Contador
Kwiatkowski

 

[barmaher]

Re:

Chris Froome
Luke Rowe
Wout Poels
Richie Porte
Jarlinson Pantano
Steven Kruijswijk
Stephen Cummings

In the past years I would've put Peter Sagan in the list, but he has been prone to becoming a caricature of himself....

Do you like Simon Clarke or Sebastian Reichenbach?

 

[Põhja Konn]

Of GC riders Quintana and one-day racers Vanmarcke. I'm no die hard-fan of anybody, but those two are who I support the most in races.

 

[carton]

It usually depends on the race. The wins I enjoyed the most aren't from guys I'm particularly attached to. In the last few months I've really dug watching Hayman somehow outsprint history at Roubaix; Brambi adding his signature to the ledger at Formigal after laying down the first strokes on that masterpiece; Pantano and Atapuma and Colbrelli just out-and-out crack after those first big wins; Thomas (assisted by a brilliant Henao) overextend himself up and down the outskirts of the principality and his potential to stave off Contador by a whisker; and Quintana tear up and then seal up the Vuelta after all the inane screeching surrounding his Tour podium.

But sure, there are some guys who I find myself pulling for race after race. I can tally up Uran, Sagan, Gaviria, Kwiato, Gallopin, Betancur, Pinot, Dombrowski, Tony Martin and Gesink among them. Had no particular reason for most of them, and that added up to ten serendipitously. Attacking flair and a certain joie de vivre both on and off the bike, maybe? Or a general sense that no one on that list has wholly made good on their talents, yet they keep at it with unwavering passion?