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Drew-O
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Drew-O sarahmoore's article
Jul 26, 2024 at 15:11
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Velo Digest: Expensive Time Trial Bikes, Who Won the Most Prize Money & More - Tour de France 2024
@turtletim3: This is false. World Tour minimum is ~$60k/year but nearly all riders in the Tour make several times that.
Drew-O sarahmoore's article
Jul 25, 2024 at 12:51
1 day
Velo Digest: Expensive Time Trial Bikes, Who Won the Most Prize Money & More - Tour de France 2024
@sjma: Agreed, but a lot of that is the move toward electric/hybrid vehicles (batteries are heavy AF). While making full size electric pickups and SUVs makes little sense, if that's what it takes to reduce fossil fuel consumption I think it's a net benefit.
Drew-O sarahmoore's article
Jul 25, 2024 at 12:47
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Velo Digest: Expensive Time Trial Bikes, Who Won the Most Prize Money & More - Tour de France 2024
Prize money is generally shared among teams, including staff. However, many riders have performance bonuses in their contracts; they likely make much more from those than from prize money provided by the race.
Golf comparison: Golfers make most of their money from tournament winnings and endorsements, cyclists make most of their money via their contract salaries from their teams, which don't exist in golf. On top teams these are pretty good, high 6 to low 7-figures. And roadies make way way more than mountain bikers; lowest paid domestique on the UAE or VLAB tour squad almost certainly has a higher salary than Nino, Loic or any other MTBer.
Drew-O sarahmoore's article
Jul 10, 2024 at 15:03
Jul 10, 2024
Velo Digest: Batman Glasses, High-Speed Bunny-Hops, Prize Money, 8000 Calorie Food Plans & More - Tour de France 2024
Jumbo no longer a sponsor but Intermarche would like a word...
Drew-O mikekazimer's article
Jul 2, 2024 at 6:06
Jul 2, 2024
It's Not Presta, It's Not Schrader - Schwalbe Introduces New Clik Valve
In addition to clogging, Schrader is never going to be popular for narrower/deeper road and gravel rims. Since at this point there’s basically a continuum of equipment from MTB to road via gravel (i.e. plenty of gravel bikes are spec’ing what we’d previously consider MTB rims) I can’t see Schrader gaining much ground anywhere.
Drew-O edspratt's article
Jun 24, 2024 at 10:43
Jun 24, 2024
[UPDATED] Elite XCC Highlights, Results & Overall Standings from the Crans Montana XC World Cup 2024
@strawberryjams: Per PCS, De Lie has 23 wins, Pidcock has 5. Sure lots of De Lie's are minor Belgian one-days, and no doubt Pidcock's wins at Strade, Amstel and on Alp d'Huez are more impressive. But De Lie is also 2 years younger, and just beat Phillipsen, van Aert and Merlier to win the Belgian championship. If I were building a fantasy team for road racing I'd take De Lie over Pidders any day.
Drew-O edspratt's article
Jun 23, 2024 at 12:55
Jun 23, 2024
[UPDATED] Elite XCC Highlights, Results & Overall Standings from the Crans Montana XC World Cup 2024
@toowheeler: He’s currently ranked 10th in the WT among riders 24 (his age) or less. Solid, but not “remarkable” in my view. And you note yourself that his road career has been unfocused; that’s what I mean by roadies considering him a MTB/CX rider who sometimes rides road too. Compare to (e.g.) Jorgensen, Ayuso, Rodriguez or De Lie, all of whom are his age or younger and all have more impressive road palmares IMO.
Drew-O edspratt's article
Jun 22, 2024 at 9:25
Jun 22, 2024
[UPDATED] Elite XCC Highlights, Results & Overall Standings from the Crans Montana XC World Cup 2024
@hllclmbr: Not quite, Pog is the highest paid on an estimated 6 million euros per year. More that that with endorsements I’m sure. But the point is correct, there are probably dozens of WT pros who make more than the undisputed GOAT of MTB.
Sam Gaze has raced on the road a fair amount for Alpecin, he even did the Vuelta last year. (Dropped out after a week due to illness.) He’s never had a major result on the road though. I think the metabolic requirements are just really different; threshold for 90 min with repeated VO2 surges vs. 4-6 hours including multiple 20-60 minute limit efforts.
Drew-O edspratt's article
Jun 22, 2024 at 8:55
Jun 22, 2024
[UPDATED] Elite XCC Highlights, Results & Overall Standings from the Crans Montana XC World Cup 2024
@Ironchefjon: I get a sense that he may not have the patience and focus to be a great GC rider. Most of those guys build their whole season around a grand tour, and actually riding for GC requires never having a bad day and avoiding crashes and gaps even on sprint stages where you’re not in any way trying for a result. Pidcock may have a bit to much “f$%& it let’s give it a whack and see what happens” to him to thrive on GC. But I think he’s going to try at the Tour this year, so we’ll see.
Drew-O edspratt's article
Jun 22, 2024 at 6:56
Jun 22, 2024
[UPDATED] Elite XCC Highlights, Results & Overall Standings from the Crans Montana XC World Cup 2024
Funnily enough his road palmares are actually not that impressive. I think he’s won 5 races total on the road, and while they are solid (Strade Bianche, Alp d’Huez stage at the Tour, Amstel Gold), his MTB and ‘cross palmares are on paper more remarkable.
He’s tried to ride for GC at a few big road stage races (see e.g. the new Unchained series on Netflix on last year’s tour) and sometimes makes into the top 10. WT roadies might consider him an MTBer pretending to ride on the road…
