Tiered classiness.

cogidubnus

Pross wrote:

Climbers:

Tier 1 Bertie, Pozzovivo, A Schleck, Cunego?
Tier 2 Anton, Gadret, F Schleck, Nibali, Basso
Tier 3 Wiggo, Evans, a load of Rabo riders

Samu Sanchez is surely in T2. He's a far better climber than Wiggins.

Rolland? Winning on L'Alpe is surely worthy of a mention

Rujano only man who could live with Bertie at the Giro last year.

Horner/Leipheimer are pretty decent as much as I hate to say it

Pross

Cogidubnus wrote:

Pross wrote:

Climbers:

Tier 1 Bertie, Pozzovivo, A Schleck, Cunego?
Tier 2 Anton, Gadret, F Schleck, Nibali, Basso
Tier 3 Wiggo, Evans, a load of Rabo riders

Samu Sanchez is surely in T2. He's a far better climber than Wiggins.

Rolland? Winning on L'Alpe is surely worthy of a mention

Rujano only man who could live with Bertie at the Giro last year.

Horner/Leipheimer are pretty decent as much as I hate to say it

I had Samu in at first but deleted him. Tiralongo should probably be in tier 2 as well. Plenty missing as I just did it off the top of my head. Biggest problem is that the only time I get to see climbers is in stage races where they are often either working for a team leader or getting hailed back by the GC contenders and their teams. Not enough big mountain one day races where they can shine.

blazing_saddles

So, the Giro rest day has bored Rick to tiers. :oops:
What next: Hors Catagory threads?

I put the Emanuele Sella of the 2008 Giro into climbers tier 1+. :P

Moomaloid

Rick Chasey wrote:

iainf72 wrote:

No tA Doctor wrote:

Of course head to head we know who won out of Schleck and Evans. On a "climbers TdF" at that.

They've both won the Tour once.

I did have Cadel in the top tier but moved him down.

Schleck's far more consistant in the Tour, so far.

Consistent in the only bloody race he rides... i find him the most annoying rider in the peloton.

rick_chasey

In three hours we get 65 posts.

Not bad for a thread that isn't a spoiler or PTP.

cogidubnus

Pross wrote:

Cogidubnus wrote:

Pross wrote:

Climbers:

Tier 1 Bertie, Pozzovivo, A Schleck, Cunego?
Tier 2 Anton, Gadret, F Schleck, Nibali, Basso
Tier 3 Wiggo, Evans, a load of Rabo riders

Samu Sanchez is surely in T2. He's a far better climber than Wiggins.

Rolland? Winning on L'Alpe is surely worthy of a mention

Rujano only man who could live with Bertie at the Giro last year.

Horner/Leipheimer are pretty decent as much as I hate to say it

I had Samu in at first but deleted him. Tiralongo should probably be in tier 2 as well. Plenty missing as I just did it off the top of my head. Biggest problem is that the only time I get to see climbers is in stage races where they are often either working for a team leader or getting hailed back by the GC contenders and their teams. Not enough big mountain one day races where they can shine.

I'll let you off then I'm just a big fan of Samu lol

RichN95.

Rick Chasey wrote:

In three hours we get 65 posts.

Not bad for a thread that isn't a spoiler or PTP.

Following on from Iain's research in the past:

rick_chasey

RichN95 wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

In three hours we get 65 posts.

Not bad for a thread that isn't a spoiler or PTP.

Following on from Iain's research in the past:

Yes.

Yes very much.

LangerDan

But you've forgotten the "Will Cav win the SPOTY?"

Anyhoo, you're all wrong. The thread title is about classiness. Oscarito wins, thread closed.

afx237vi

LangerDan wrote:

But you've forgotten the "Will Cav win the SPOTY?"

Anyhoo, you're all wrong. The thread title is about classiness. Oscarito wins, thread closed.

Elia Favilli must have shot up in the classiness rankings, surely?

Everyone raves about that time Freire bunnyhopped a traffic island to take a win in some chipper race somewhere... Favilli bunnyhopped the frickin' world champion!

LangerDan

afx237vi wrote:

LangerDan wrote:

But you've forgotten the "Will Cav win the SPOTY?"

Anyhoo, you're all wrong. The thread title is about classiness. Oscarito wins, thread closed.

Elia Favilli must have shot up in the classiness rankings, surely?

Everyone raves about that time Freire bunnyhopped a traffic island to take a win in some chipper race somewhere... Favilli bunnyhopped the frickin' world champion!

Though to be fair, Favilli only had to hop over Cavs legs - it wasn't as if he had to clear Cav's stomach.
Or head.

greasedscotsman

afx237vi wrote:

LangerDan wrote:

But you've forgotten the "Will Cav win the SPOTY?"

Anyhoo, you're all wrong. The thread title is about classiness. Oscarito wins, thread closed.

Elia Favilli must have shot up in the classiness rankings, surely?

Everyone raves about that time Freire bunnyhopped a traffic island to take a win in some chipper race somewhere... Favilli bunnyhopped the frickin' world champion!

Did he bunny hop or just ride straight over him?

No_Ta_Doctor

greasedscotsman wrote:

afx237vi wrote:

LangerDan wrote:

But you've forgotten the "Will Cav win the SPOTY?"

Anyhoo, you're all wrong. The thread title is about classiness. Oscarito wins, thread closed.

Elia Favilli must have shot up in the classiness rankings, surely?

Everyone raves about that time Freire bunnyhopped a traffic island to take a win in some chipper race somewhere... Favilli bunnyhopped the frickin' world champion!

Did he bunny hop or just ride straight over him?

Oh he bunnyhopped alright. His bidon popped out when he landed!

No_Ta_Doctor

afx237vi wrote:

LangerDan wrote:

But you've forgotten the "Will Cav win the SPOTY?"

Anyhoo, you're all wrong. The thread title is about classiness. Oscarito wins, thread closed.

Elia Favilli must have shot up in the classiness rankings, surely?

Everyone raves about that time Freire bunnyhopped a traffic island to take a win in some chipper race somewhere... Favilli bunnyhopped the frickin' world champion!

Exactly how many panache points is bunnyhopping the world champion worth?

We haven't had a panache graph yet, have we?

ocdupalais

How long does a rider need to perform to justify their Tierage?
Surely Szmyd's looking solid upper Tier 2 after Trentino? And poor old young Gesink was nudging Tier 1 a season or two back (dropping Andy Schmuck and everyone all over the shop in some pre Tour chippers) - where's he at now?

RichN95.

No tA Doctor wrote:

Exactly how many panache points is bunnyhopping the world champion worth?

We haven't had a panache graph yet, have we?

Patience. These things take time.

graeme_s-2

The panache chart is my favourite so far. I'm not sure how the forum has coped this long without it!

RichN95.

Graeme_S wrote:

The panache chart is my favourite so far. I'm not sure how the forum has coped this long without it!

Until now nobody's managed to jump the World Champion. Back in 1967, Evel Knievel tried to jump Rudi Altig, but it ended in disaster.

Anonymous

Is Ron Burgundy HC in every classification?

Yellow Peril

greasedscotsman wrote:

afx237vi wrote:

LangerDan wrote:

But you've forgotten the "Will Cav win the SPOTY?"

Anyhoo, you're all wrong. The thread title is about classiness. Oscarito wins, thread closed.

Elia Favilli must have shot up in the classiness rankings, surely?

Everyone raves about that time Freire bunnyhopped a traffic island to take a win in some chipper race somewhere... Favilli bunnyhopped the frickin' world champion!

Did he bunny hop or just ride straight over him?

Definitely a bunny hop. He probably wasn't riding with a low enough gear to climb over Cav at this time of the year.

No_Ta_Doctor

Yellow Peril wrote:

Definitely a bunny hop. He probably wasn't riding with a low enough gear to climb over Cav at this time of the year.

And top work on the panache chart Rich, perfect!

alan_a

Chapeau everyone. Much lolling over breakfast.

LangerDan

Right then, Mr N95. Tier these according to degree of "Corporate Whoredom"

Basso cooking shoes
Cav flogging shampoo
Boonen with pate or laminate
Farrar with sunnies, sorry, "Transition" lenses
Bertie with matresses
A greased Pipppo dry-humping a pair of Sidis

RichN95.

LangerDan wrote:

Right then, Mr N95. Tier these according to degree of "Corporate Whoredom"

Basso cooking shoes
Cav flogging shampoo
Boonen with pate or laminate
Farrar with sunnies, sorry, "Transition" lenses
Bertie with matresses
A greased Pipppo dry-humping a pair of Sidis

No. 1: Eddy Merckx flogging cigarettes:

rick_chasey

Rick's team classiness table

Note, being a gimpy new skool team counts heavily agains you. Being seen as a bunch of hard men who do stuff old skool counts heavily in favour.

LeicesterLad

RichN95 wrote:

LangerDan wrote:

Right then, Mr N95. Tier these according to degree of "Corporate Whoredom"

Basso cooking shoes
Cav flogging shampoo
Boonen with pate or laminate
Farrar with sunnies, sorry, "Transition" lenses
Bertie with matresses
A greased Pipppo dry-humping a pair of Sidis

No. 1: Eddy Merckx flogging cigarettes:

Somebody translate that for me. Is it along the lines of ''cigarettes will make you faster''?

rick_chasey

LeicesterLad wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

LangerDan wrote:

Right then, Mr N95. Tier these according to degree of "Corporate Whoredom"

Basso cooking shoes
Cav flogging shampoo
Boonen with pate or laminate
Farrar with sunnies, sorry, "Transition" lenses
Bertie with matresses
A greased Pipppo dry-humping a pair of Sidis

No. 1: Eddy Merckx flogging cigarettes:

Somebody translate that for me. Is it along the lines of ''cigarettes will make you faster''?

I've gone over to R6. For me it's the only nicotine and (I think that says Tar...) cigerette that has so much flavour.

alan_a

LeicesterLad wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

No. 1: Eddy Merckx flogging cigarettes:

Somebody translate that for me. Is it along the lines of ''cigarettes will make you faster''?

I switched to R6. For me that first nicotine and low tar cigarette that has so much flavour

---

Damn it Rick beat me to it.

LangerDan

RichN95 wrote:

LangerDan wrote:

Right then, Mr N95. Tier these according to degree of "Corporate Whoredom"

Basso cooking shoes
Cav flogging shampoo
Boonen with pate or laminate
Farrar with sunnies, sorry, "Transition" lenses
Bertie with matresses
A greased Pipppo dry-humping a pair of Sidis

No. 1: Eddy Merckx flogging cigarettes:

Bloody Merckx. He just has to p!ss on everything, doesn't he......

Not to mention De Vlaeminck in "Boonen's ads not as good as mine" shocka -

"I hope Cancellara participates next year, then we see a different poster campaign," de Vlaeminck said. "I knew beforehand that he [Boonen] would be next to me [on the list of all-time endorsements]. Tom can not help it that this time he had no opposition. They were not second, but third-rate media tarts.

"Take Pozzato: if you want to win, your task is to stick your oily bits into a pair of Sidi Ergos. The competition provided ​​him with no obstacles and they probably couldn't have done any better than they did. For the Belgian fans, it was fantastic, but for the average, foreign consumers there was nothing to be seen, which is a sad affair. When he [Boonen] was holding the pate, I already knew the outcome."

frenchfighter

Congratulations on the charts.