Whats a Cav to do?

LangerDan

Poor old Cav.

First Bradders bogs off to Garmin and now Ciolek is off to Milram
Boasson-Hagen is soon going to start harbouring personal ambitions of big wins and Big George isn't getting any younger.

Is his lead-out team starting to crumble?

RichN95.

They've signed Mark Renshaw though - young, selfless, good lead out man

Kléber

I doubt it. His team mates will realise he's one of the top sprinters in the world and so will ride for him. There are still some handy guys there for him, and others like Mark Renshaw are joining etc. So he'll be fine.

damage36

Boasson-Hagen is more of one for the classics than a stage sprinter though surely. Don't see why they couldn't be on the same team.

NervexProf

Cav stands atop the achievement tree for the number of wins this year:

Don't see him going backwards in 2009 !


Mark Cavendish 17
Tom Boonen 15
Andre Greipel 14
Lars Boom 13
Alejandro Valverde 12
Cancellara 10
Alberto Contador 10

Columbia had 29 more wins than CSC - and DOUBLE the wins of 4th place Rabobank Continental.

Team Wins
Columbia 76
CSC 47
QuickStep 45
Rabo CT 38
Credit Agricole 31
Astana 30
Liquigas 30

LangerDan

NervexProf wrote:

Cav stands atop the achievement tree for the number of wins this year:

Don't see him going backwards in 2009 !


Mark Cavendish 17
Tom Boonen 15
Andre Greipel 14
Lars Boom 13
Alejandro Valverde 12
Cancellara 10
Alberto Contador 10

To be fair, those results are a little skewed. A stage in in the Tour of Ireland or Ruban Granitier is not really equivalent to winning the Giro overall.

The only solution is to bring back the old Pernod / Superprestige ratings, or in the absence of that, the CQ rankings might have to suffice http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/info/whats.asp

jimmythecuckoo

best website ever... how have I missed that one all these years.

That will help pick my team for next seasons Cobblestone competition.

timoid.

jimmythecuckoo wrote:

best website ever... how have I missed that one all these years.

That will help pick my team for next seasons Cobblestone competition.

What he said. Marvellous.

Zabel has done the most kilometers racing this year.

Who knew?

moray_gub

LangerDan wrote:

NervexProf wrote:

Cav stands atop the achievement tree for the number of wins this year:

Don't see him going backwards in 2009 !


Mark Cavendish 17
Tom Boonen 15
Andre Greipel 14
Lars Boom 13
Alejandro Valverde 12
Cancellara 10
Alberto Contador 10

To be fair, those results are a little skewed. A stage in in the Tour of Ireland or Ruban Granitier is not really equivalent to winning the Giro overall.

The only solution is to bring back the old Pernod / Superprestige ratings, or in the absence of that, the CQ rankings might have to suffice http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/info/whats.asp

The idea of the Pro Tour rankings had some merit if they could have sorted the points system a bit better.

cheers
MG

moray_gub

LangerDan wrote:

NervexProf wrote:

Cav stands atop the achievement tree for the number of wins this year:




The only solution is to bring back the old Pernod / Superprestige ratings, or in the absence of that, the CQ rankings might have to suffice http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/info/whats.asp

top marks for posting that link..........superb site will keep me going for a few hours.

cheers
MG

jimmythecuckoo

have downloaded the end of season stats pdf file... it is awesome

iainf72

If you lot read my posts you could have been enjoying the site since July

I bet I wouldn't get ignored if I had a funny avatar.

moray_gub

iainf72 wrote:

If you lot read my posts you could have been enjoying the site since July

I bet I wouldn't get ignored if I had a funny avatar.

Cant recall seeing a link to it before from you, then again i havent read ALL of your posts :-)

cheers
MG

iainf72

Moray Gub wrote:

Cant recall seeing a link to it before from you, then again i havent read ALL of your posts :-)

See, it's not all about doping

http://www.bikeradar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12577342

skavanagh.bikeradar

Brilliant stuff. Someone is doing it better than the UCI. Again.

jimmythecuckoo

iainf72 wrote:

If you lot read my posts you could have been enjoying the site since July

I bet I wouldn't get ignored if I had a funny avatar.

Sometimes your posts tend to be a bit long

lloyd_bower

Moray Gub wrote:

LangerDan wrote:

NervexProf wrote:

Cav stands atop the achievement tree for the number of wins this year:




The only solution is to bring back the old Pernod / Superprestige ratings, or in the absence of that, the CQ rankings might have to suffice http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/info/whats.asp

top marks for posting that link..........superb site will keep me going for a few hours.

cheers
MG

Interesting to see how far down those rankings the now drug free DM is. Clearly an advisement for the fact the drugs do work.

moray_gub

iainf72 wrote:

Moray Gub wrote:

Cant recall seeing a link to it before from you, then again i havent read ALL of your posts :-)

See, it's not all about doping

http://www.bikeradar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12577342

Ahhh was over in France on holiday and tour watching when you posted that

cheers
MG

GroupOfOne MkII

iainf72 wrote:

If you lot read my posts you could have been enjoying the site since July

I bet I wouldn't get ignored if I had a funny avatar.

I read it! Just see my post in the thread you've linked to
Really is an excellent site, and very very useful for work.