Predictions 2015

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ddraver wrote:

For the newbies this is where to stake your claims to any wacky, wild, outrageous or even serious, thoughtful predictions for 2013 2014 2015. You may ask for clarification, but this is not the place for disagreements or discussion. everyone is entitled to their prediction.

2013 Thread
2014 Thread

Anonymous

Cav for MSR
Nibs doubles the Tour
Porte wins a GT
Sagan wins a monument
Wiggins comes top 3 in P-R. Sod it. He wins. Geraint 2nd.

greasedscotsman

I'll go with the same prediction as 2014. Sep Vanmarcke to win Paris Roubaix.

salsiccia1

Sagan for MSR
Canc to do the Flanders/PR double
Contador to do the Giro/Tour double
Froome for the Vuelta
Vos to win everything

me-109

Thomas for Paris-Roubaix
Sagan for Paris-Nice
Contador for Giro
Nibali for TdF
Pinot for Vuelta
Van Garderen for Worlds RR

bigmat

Quintana for the Tour. Nibs doesn't even make the podium. Cav wins MSR. Wiggins close but no cigar at Paris Roubaix (but he SMASHES the hour record). Aru for the Giro.

joelsim

Martin for LBL
Cav for MSR
Contador for Giro
Froome for Tour
Quintana for Vuelta
Kwia to get several podiums and a win in the other classics
Aru to get busted

bigmat

Joelsim wrote:

Aru to get busted

Well yes, I was thinking that as well...

bigmat

Joelsim wrote:

Aru to get busted

Well yes, I was thinking that as well...

EKIMIKE

Not predictions as such but things i'm looking forward to/expecting:

- A re-invigorated Cav challenging Kittel's dominance with canny moves in the sprints
- The renaissance of Carlos Betancur, particularly in the Ardennes
- A tactical barrage against Froome in Le Tour, deliver by Nibali, Quintana and Contador
- The rise of Esteban Chaves
- An ever-determined and hopefully victorious Sep Vanmarcke
- A very motivated Tom Boonen
- Kwiatkowski doing the rainbow bands justice
- The development of the Adam and Simon Yates

joelsim

Froome will be better placed this year in the tdf with Nieve, Konig, Roche, Porte, Kennaugh, Henao. It wouldn't surprise me to see just climbers for Sky.

EKIMIKE

Bit more action in this thread wouldn't go amiss! All this talk of licence commissions and doping doctors is getting lame.

I'll put some more in the ring:

-MTN's new sprint train will be a shambolic disaster with Bos, Goss, Farrer and Boasson Hagen basically all sprinting for themselves.
-RVV will be one by an outside tip while all the favourite's look at each other to make the first move on an even harder course. Boonen will be first of the favourites, cue an incensed Partick Lefevre.
-One of the young African riders on MTN will have a breakout season - one of Meintjes, Kudus or Berhane?
-Chaves will win a GT stage and crack the top 10 in at least one GT.
-Peter Kennaugh will leave Sky, frustrated by a lack of opportunities to ride in the top races and for himself in the smaller races. OGE, Garmin or BMC likely destinations.
-Davide Formolo will win a Giro stage.
-Dan Martin will do a Fleche Wallone and L-B-L double.

ai_1

Joelsim wrote:

Martin for LBL...

I presume that's Dan Martin not Tony Martin?

If Martin can avoid crashes and continues on the promise of last year he could be very prominent in 2015.

RichN95.

Vinokourov will 'retire' from cycling management to concentrate on his political career.

joelsim

Ai_1 wrote:

Joelsim wrote:

Martin for LBL...

I presume that's Dan Martin not Tony Martin?

If Martin can avoid crashes and continues on the promise of last year he could be very prominent in 2015.

Depends on whether it's a breakaway from 200km out!

mm1

Swift takes MSR.
G top 10 in Flanders.
Stannard, G and Wiggins all top 10 at Roubaix, outwitted by OPQS.
Wiggins smashes Dowsett's new hour record.
Nibali changes teams.
Quintana wins Tour, several favourites don't make it to the start.
Cav wins 4 Tour stages and goes on to surprise World's win.

joelsim

mm1 wrote:

Swift takes MSR.
G top 10 in Flanders.
Stannard, G and Wiggins all top 10 at Roubaix, outwitted by OPQS.
Wiggins smashes Dowsett's new hour record.
Nibali changes teams.
Quintana wins Tour, several favourites don't make it to the start.
Cav wins 4 Tour stages and goes on to surprise World's win.

It would be nice to see Cav back on song and competing with Kittel.

nic_77

A previous GT winner busted
A Colombian GT winner
A GB monument winner
A French GT podium
An American World Champion

mulletmaster

Cav to win nothing top drawer, Kittel and bouhanni to divvy out the big stuff.
Roche to be last mountain man for sky and do not a lot. Porte to do nothing of note. Sagan to win a host of second tier races but no monuments.
Winners I find much harder. Contador for le tour. Giro I find impossible as nobody of note will even confirm their attendance and la Vuelta even harder as it's such a mix of riders who missed out earlier in the season.
Wiggins to fail at his monument goal before putting the hour record on the shelf.

rick_chasey

Cancellara will finish outside of the top 3 in a monument...

Silly Old Hector

Wiggins does the Hour Record before Martin and keeps it.
Astana get busted - disarray for Nibs pre-TdF
Cav does nothing
Quintana wins TdF
Thomas in top 5 for P-R

EKIMIKE

Rick Chasey wrote:

Cancellara will finish outside of the top 3 in a monument...

Never!

Although the pedant within me wants to say "even L-B-L and Lombardia?"

Along similar lines of remarkable consistency, but with a positive outlook - Adam Hansen to finish all three GT's again.

Anonymous

Wiggins to ride as many TT's as possible and to top 3 PR
Stybar to win PR
Thomas to win Flanders.
Kwia to have a wonderful year in the rainbow, and to win 3 or 4 major races
Wiggins not to do the Hour
Contador to get busted
Astana further doping issues
Nibali to do the double and win Giro and Tour
Froome to win Veulta
MTN to do well but no WT level wins
Cav crashes and misses most of season

frisbee

Sagan finishes second in every race he enters and attempts to compensate by winning the bushiest beard in the peloton competition but finishes 998th.

joelsim

sjmclean wrote:

Wiggins to ride as many TT's as possible and to top 3 PR
Stybar to win PR
Thomas to win Flanders.
Kwia to have a wonderful year in the rainbow, and to win 3 or 4 major races
Wiggins not to do the Hour
Contador to get busted
Astana further doping issues
Nibali to do the double and win Giro and Tour
Froome to win Veulta
MTN to do well but no WT level wins
Cav crashes and misses most of season

I'll be surprised if Nibs wins the Giro

milton50

Love the prediction thread:

1) The three Grand Tours will be won by three different riders.
2) Sagan will go another year without a monument
3) Kwiatkowski will have a good season in the rainbow jersey
4) Wiggo won't podium in Paris Roubaix but will hold the hour record at the end of the year.
5) My biggest prediction ---> Quintana will win the Tour.

ddraver

How did you do??

No_Ta_Doctor

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19721244#p19721244]ddraver[/url] wrote:

How did you do??

I think I win by default, having not made a prediction I'm less wrong than everyone else :-D

salsiccia1

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19290421#p19290421]Salsiccia1[/url] wrote:

Sagan for MSR
Canc to do the Flanders/PR double
Contador to do the Giro/Tour double
Froome for the Vuelta
Vos to win everything

Never take note of anything I say ever again. As if anybody did anyway

TheBigBean

I wanted to give this some respect

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19310587#p19310587]EKIMIKE[/url] wrote:

-Chaves will win a GT stage and crack the top 10 in at least one GT.

But then I read this

EKIMIKE wrote:

- The renaissance of Carlos Betancur, particularly in the Ardennes

rick_chasey

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19312822#p19312822]Rick Chasey[/url] wrote:

Cancellara will finish outside of the top 3 in a monument...

Straight in with a 7th place finish for Cancellara at MSR