Road Cycling 2019 Discussion Thread

[heywoodu 15,141]

I know apart from Trentin it's not the strongest field one can imagine, but holy mother of God, Van der Poel completely destroyed everyone in the short final uphill finish  

https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-of-britain/2019/stage-4

 

Rarely seen, the Watts he puts on the road there is just out of this world. Not saying he's the favourite for the world title, but he is a very, very, very dangerous candidate and the Dutch team should without a doubt work 100% for his chances.

[heywoodu 15,141]

And it's official, Rwanda is a candidate for the 2025 world championships  

https://sporza.be/nl/2019/09/11/rwanda-wk-wielrennen-2025/

 

Come on, finish the bid process now and give it to them for the world championships with the best atmosphere in the history of world championships

[heywoodu 15,141]

Quebec tonight, that's always a pretty fun race

 

 

The bad news for everyone who is not Remco Evenepoel is that Remco Evenepoel is on the start list, but it'll be cool to see who can fight for second.

https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/gp-quebec/2019/startlist

[heywoodu 15,141]

Meh

 

 

 

[heywoodu 15,141]

9k to go in Quebec, Evenepoel has dropped off a while ago, I guess he'll be content with only winning on Sunday  

[heywoodu 15,141]

Alaphilippe, Sagan and Van Avermaet going to war  

[heywoodu 15,141]

Alaphilippe opening the war way too fast made Matthews be able to come back and win.

[AlFHg 330]

Just now, heywoodu said:

Alaphilippe opening the war way too fast made Matthews be able to come back and win.

I would rather say Sagan too much confident

[heywoodu 15,141]

Just now, AlFHg said:

I would rather say Sagan too much confident

That too, but going at more than 2km before the finish was just way too early from all of them..

[AlFHg 330]

9 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

That too, but going at more than 2km before the finish was just way too early from all of them..

I don’t think so, if he could have gone alone he would have won. With 5 of them, with van Avermaet and Sagan good sprinters, good tactics is taking a wheel. Sagan’s overconfidence in sprint has caused the peloton to come back, in my opinion