Under-rated pro riders.
03-05-09, 07:20 PM
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I agree with CDR about Dom Rollin. Had the pleasure to meet at a local crit while he was in town for fitness testing last season. Super nice guy and hes shown hes a heck of a bike rider.
03-05-09, 09:16 PM
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03-05-09, 09:28 PM
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Linus Gerdemann. He won a stage and wore the yellow jersey in the 2007 TdF. You might remember that he missed most of last season, after he crashed in the stage 5 TT of Tirreno-Adriatico (still finishing 8th on his spare bike). After he returned he won three races straight away, including the Deutschland Tour. I think he is the most talented of the present riders, but gets much less attention than most.
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03-05-09, 10:35 PM
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03-10-09, 06:16 PM
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I forgot to mention Carlos Barredo and Bert Grabsch (sp?).
Barredo can man a long breakaway and can climb well.
Grabsch is probably the least known World Champion. People still don't know who he is. I doubt he'll ever be the favorite for any big TT's either.
Barredo can man a long breakaway and can climb well.
Grabsch is probably the least known World Champion. People still don't know who he is. I doubt he'll ever be the favorite for any big TT's either.
03-10-09, 08:33 PM
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+1. IMO he's probably the best cantidate. He's the CHAMPION OF THE WORLD and people still haven't heard of him. I don't think anyone's ever even done an article/interview with him.
You're not goign to hear any aspiring TTists saying "Bert Grabsch is my hero" either.
You're not goign to hear any aspiring TTists saying "Bert Grabsch is my hero" either.
03-15-09, 09:53 AM
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maybe i am crazy here, but what else has he done? i know, he won a world tt. obviously, that is a huge accomplishment. many riders would be elated with that. however, if you want to go with under rated pure time trialers, i would put serhiy/surgey gonchar/honchar above grabsh.
03-15-09, 09:57 AM
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If you're astute you can type (or even copy/paste!) his name into Google and find as much as I did.
https://www.highroadsports.com/team/13-Bert-Grabsch
https://www.highroadsports.com/team/13-Bert-Grabsch
03-15-09, 11:58 AM
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If you're astute you can type (or even copy/paste!) his name into Google and find as much as I did.
https://www.highroadsports.com/team/13-Bert-Grabsch
https://www.highroadsports.com/team/13-Bert-Grabsch
Bert Grabsch
Marco Pinotti
Michael Rogers
Tony Martin
Kim Kirchen
George Hincapie
Edvald Boassen Hagen
Thomas Lovkvist
Adam Hansen(not usually spoken of in TT circles, but won the Australian TT champs in '08)
Most of these guys could place a top-10 in any time trial they enter. Wow.
03-15-09, 12:38 PM
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Victoria Pendleton. Has the double whammy of being female and on the track which unfortunately seems to banish her to relative obscurity, even to many cycling fans.
03-15-09, 04:50 PM
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maybe i am crazy here, but what else has he done? i know, he won a world tt. obviously, that is a huge accomplishment. many riders would be elated with that. however, if you want to go with under rated pure time trialers, i would put serhiy/surgey gonchar/honchar above grabsh.
Pity Gonchars team sacked him because he couldn't adequately explain his crazy blood values.
03-15-09, 06:24 PM
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Jesus man...just looking at the Columbia team roster, you get a real picture of just how stacked they are, especially with good time trialists:
Bert Grabsch
Marco Pinotti
Michael Rogers
Tony Martin
Kim Kirchen
George Hincapie
Edvald Boassen Hagen
Thomas Lovkvist
Adam Hansen(not usually spoken of in TT circles, but won the Australian TT champs in '08)
Most of these guys could place a top-10 in any time trial they enter. Wow.
Bert Grabsch
Marco Pinotti
Michael Rogers
Tony Martin
Kim Kirchen
George Hincapie
Edvald Boassen Hagen
Thomas Lovkvist
Adam Hansen(not usually spoken of in TT circles, but won the Australian TT champs in '08)
Most of these guys could place a top-10 in any time trial they enter. Wow.
Both of their collective talent pools are very deep.
And Vicky Pendleton is an internation superstar. By no means under-rated, but not over-rated either. Ask for one name on the female track circuit and Vicky Pendleton is it.
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If you're astute you can type (or even copy/paste!) his name into Google and find as much as I did.
https://www.highroadsports.com/team/13-Bert-Grabsch
https://www.highroadsports.com/team/13-Bert-Grabsch
03-15-09, 08:49 PM
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perhaps we should leave the doping allegations out of this or risk losing this thread to an entirely different debate. as far as the records are concerned, honchar/gonchar put together a much more comprehensive list of tt wins than grabsch has. or, do you debate this?
03-15-09, 10:04 PM
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Yeah, Pendleton is about the most recognizable female cyclist in the world right now, she gets TONS of media attention. Press in the UK are making her into a cyclo-sex symbol.
03-16-09, 12:06 AM
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and this thread was started with a reference to eddy merckx. i bet he was clean... perhaps we should leave the doping allegations out of this or risk losing this thread to an entirely different debate. as far as the records are concerned, honchar/gonchar put together a much more comprehensive list of tt wins than grabsch has. or, do you debate this?
perhaps we should leave the doping allegations out of this or risk losing this thread to an entirely different debate. as far as the records are concerned, honchar/gonchar put together a much more comprehensive list of tt wins than grabsch has. or, do you debate this?
Maybe Nicole Cooke.
03-16-09, 08:10 PM
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