Tom Pidcock DESTROYS Famous Strava KOM with BIG WATTS | Tour de France Contender? 

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Go take it back and show him who's boss.

Ed’s a class act.

That's what you get for being lazy watching soccer

@@CowneloAlvaroid he was watching football

Casually, with a straight face!

To win, he needs a really strong team behind him...like Froome had. Not sure Ineos have got that these days...and he probably needs another year to develop. He certainly brings another dynamic to races though.

Problem with Ineos’ team is that they no longer has the top rider in the Tour to inspire the troops. You can have domestiques at the same level on paper. However, those from the team with the race leader or close challenger would perform at 120% (see Martinez in the Giro for Bernal). It has nothing to do with how unified or well drilled the squad is, it’s just a spur of the moment thing. You just don’t get this adrenaline rush if you are supporting a distant, almost invisible 3rd (even if the 3rd is performing at a different level to the rest). Even Thomas doesn’t believe he can challenge Pog and Jonas (which is a very level headed assessment), how could he expect the troop to go beyond themselves? The situation would definitely change if Pidcock or Bernal got into yellow with a devil decent. Then you will see the Ineos of old levelling everybody else (provided Pidcock can keep up).

Over 22 minutes Paddy, hardly worth getting your kit on for ;)

@@jerrychicken967 🤣🤣

@@paddydunne774 it's Jerome BTW 😉 better use of your kit is to do a 200+ mile loop of the island, you nutter 🏝️😉

dont forget drifting

Agree but he seems so far to lack the mindset. Still doing cyclocross and mountain biking just seems pointless. He should have fully committed to be being a gc rider a while ago now and he still shows no signs of doing it

He is winning in cycling and mountainbiking. He is not obligated to do what you want him to do. Also his ridiculous bike handling skills come from cyclocross and mountainbiking.

@@HkFinn83 What mindset? That everyone 'should' just do GC in case some people on the internet think they should? Do elite runners all have to do either 100m or marathon, because the disciplines are supposed to be more 'prestige', instead of doing a discipline they actually like?

@@xx765 obviously I’m taking about being a gc rider. If he wants to win cyclocross races in front of 20 people in the middle of winter keep doing as is

Do you know him personally?

Definitely. But Vingegaard is less versatile comparing to the other top prospects. I'd say it looks like the future belongs to Pog and Remco, with Pidcock coming up fast and Ayuso starting to show scary potential.

While it's true that Vingegaard is more climey than sprinty, if no one can put time into you going up the big mountains then you'll be in the mix

He should also do some cyclocross if he is aloud to

Too right

That’s still a solid effort for an amateur. Well done.

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hehe exactly

said it like it was nothing

Lol thats what you call a dedicated hater

not even close to WvA honestly. Deserved loss

@@bertfransman9864 agree that WvA is the better rider. But Pidcock won that sprint vs WvA on Amstel.

@@bertfransman9864 lol, whatever the result was, "not even close" couldn't be any more not factual, it couldn't have been less close

@@shaylorcyclingwahoolecol8313 That was kind of the joke, since it was maybe the closest finish in the last 3 years of WT... Just funny to me that people still flock to that one camera angle when the photo-finish was quite clear, and as a Belgian, it's just Amstel, not a real classic :)

@@bertfransman9864 I see, fair enough...

watch some cx if you can, super fun off-season entertainment

Think about that when you're about to drop a few thousand bucks on a carbon frame to save a kg...

Plus noone was fussed about chasing him...had pog, jonas amd wva wanted to chase, thwyd have blown pidcock away

I’d rather spend 2-3k on a carbon road bike with ultegra mechanical. And be able to properly enjoy christmas. Obviously spending 13k+ on a bike with just another kg saved makes no sense whatsoever. You can get a lot of professional help for that money that will make much greater improvements to your riding.

@Barney Klingenberg Snap. 2nd hand, less than 1 year old, just a mark on a brake lever, £1,600, less than half original price. Wheels could do with upgrading when I've saved up

True. Cavendish makes that point too

Pidcock is a bit lighter

@@LanterneRougeCycling Same height?

@@merckxy54 remco is 171cm and tom is 170cm

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In Dutch you would actually not pronounce it "Menkies," so I'm assuming it's South African (Afrikaanse) pronunciation?

I believe that ‘tj’ is pronounced as a hard K in South African names

@@jaknewby2922 Wow, really? I did not know that was a thing. I’m Dutch, so we would pronounce it as ‘Mine-tjes’. Just assumed it would be the same in Afrikaans.

@@danielduisenberg8097 In Afrikaans, "tj" is pronounced "k". A poitje (cooking pot), is pronounced poiky. Meintjies should be pronounced slightly more like Maingkies than Mennkies, but it's subtle.

It's only looking at 1 min 27secs of the data for the "Cat 2"

it literally said world tour

Probably too small and light for men's PR. It helps to be big with long wheelbase

Where do you get the 6.6W/kg for 45min from? it was around 23min and 7.5w/kg for 1:30.

@@MDP1702 he was getting confused with my turbo session tonight..... :)

Merch will drop in 2023

@@LanterneRougeCycling awesome! I'm really happy to hear that. It'll be a good way to help support your channel. I'm hoping some will feature the drawings I see on Raúl's analysis articles. Whoever does those drawings is really fantastic. Cheers LR...best cycling channel on RU-vid!

@@benfolds17 haha you already know whats happening, yes Louemans will be involved

The first half of the climb was paced slower than the second half. This makes a slimb more difficult than a steady effort throughout. What's so difficult to understand?

@@conormoore7084 100% correct, but it is also worth adding that asymmetry can work the other way too: a faster first half and a slower second.

CX isn’t a steady effort but tons of sprints

@@rein2523 and Pidcock is known to be explosive... Also VDP and WVA always go full gas for an entire hour in CX.

weight plays a bigger factor in cx with Mathieu and Wout just rolling through the mud and such with their huge watts. But Pidcock has a w/kg advantage on the climby courses like Namur and others (Hulst he won).

@@81caasi He got beaten in Namur by Vanthourenhout and only won in Hulst because Wout had a mechanical in the beginning. He gets destroyed on the climb courses as well.

He definitely is a good climber, question is how good. Personally I am for now sceptical about his GT GC chances, mostly due to TT results so far with the u23 and pro's (was good as juniors, but doesn't say that much necessarily). His climbing so far is also maybe enough for a top 10, but podium or top 5 is still difficult, let alone winning it. But this would have been said about so many riders that eventually won a GT at his age.

I think winning up alp dhuez is enough to make you a half decent climber

"He's not even a climber". So, a non-climber won a TdF stage on Alpe D'Huez, right? A non-climber just took KOM on a climb that almost every single pro-rider in the world will train on at some point in every year. Did you think at all before you started typing? Did it cross your mind to engage your brain for half a second before pontificating?

@@MikeAG333 yeah you simple cunt a non-climber won a mountain stage - can you wrap your mind around that? Wout also did it and yet he is still “not even a climber” which is why Jumbo does not rally behind him for GC. Ineos did the same thing and will continue to because he is, stay with me, not a climber. You think Pogacar is out trying to take KOM’s during training? No way, real climbers don’t have to prove to the world they can do such a thing because it is wasted effort. Pidcock was hardly even the third best climber on his own team at least year’s tour. He was not there for the GC and never will be because he is not even a climber. Sheesh!

@@MikeAG333 yeah all right pipe down mate it’s a video about cycling you silly little boy acting like your Mike Tyson

He's still young and has only done road for a year or two. So not this year, but he's still developing as a rider and shows a lot of promise for GC.

And most other teams

Yep. It's exactly the same drug culture: none at all. Clean. You half-wits who just spout "drugs" any time anyone does something a bit special, or everytime someone does something you couldn't conceive of doing yourself.........well, you're just pathetic. You should just toddle off back to kindergarten and finish your fingerpainting. Leave the conversation to the adults in the room.

@@MikeAG333 Naïve

@@okantichrist Not in the slightest. As a retired professional sportsman, I understand the drug testing regime. I am also in regular touch with current sportsmen who have to undergo it, and who tell me of its rigours. Married to a scientist, and with a scientist daughter, I also have a clue as to how difficult it would be to evade the modern testing system. If you guys who threw allegations around understood anything about science (you don't), you'd know that the onus (scientific burden), falls on those making the claim: your claim, you need to produce the evidence. And you'd also know that you haven't got any evidence. It's the easiest thing in the world to chuck around unsubstantiated allegations.