Messner.
What?
Possibly a controversial take, but "pure climbers" increasingly look to have gone the way of fixed gears and drinking wine on your way up - it's simply no longer the fastest way of getting up a mountain, and possibly never was. A historic mistake, in fact.
To put it another way, it's funny that people worry about the GC lads displacing supposedly "pure" climbers and not about the best climbers - exactly the same GC lads - displacing "pure" TT specialists...
It always feels a bit of a misnomer to talk about "pure climber" as though we mean a small guy, with the assumption that this means they're rubbish in time trials. Both Remco and Vingegaard are kind of the same build as Pantani in terms of height and weight, yet both seem extremely good at time trialling. It feels like those two are almost dispelling a myth around smaller riders being great on climbs but not so good on the flat. Someone like Egan Bernal is perhaps more of the archetype, as while he could pull out a decent TT (as could Pantani), his norm was around 20th place.Yes.
And more to the point - any "pure climber" that can hang with Jonas and Pog (the best climbers in the peloton) on an HC climb should be straight down to the wind tunnel to find out how to get aero on a TT bike.
Yes I was reading the first page and liked a few posts... Until I saw the date.haha, just looked at the date of this thread, Holy thread resurrection Batman?![]()
With the rider or the thread?I think you are about 40 years out of date.