Winning rider’s team in World Championships???

Well i have a TT team lined
Well i have a TT team lined up, but pretty annoyed that its not going to be limited by country rather than team, because i want to put in 3 from the same team, but can’t even though they are from 3 different countries and as they are racing for their countries, i dont see why it should be limited by team X(

Thought so, thanks Dave
Thought so, thanks Dave 🙂

Yeah but the rules are
Yeah but the rules are different for having grey’d out riders during a tour, i’m pretty sure you cant start a race with grey’d out riders as its then not a vaild team

I’m sure Dave will clear this up or move some of the riders into different categories to cover that issue

yh but if there are no PC
yh but if there are no PC guys at all, what will the difference be as everyone’s team will be invalid in that case

TERatcliffe26 wrote:The road

TERatcliffe26 wrote:

The road race will be much easy to pick anyway due to it being like a normal stage, im finding the TT hard, i want 5 DS’s to feel like i have a strong team

and putting in mr Dekkers to free up cash wont exactly help either based on who i have picked and the lack of (current non existance to my knowledge) PC KM riders,

As usual all the TTers are all-rounders so despite the likes of Taylor Phinney and Dave Zabriskie being likely to finish top 20 I can’t see them being massively popular just down to who else is in the that category. Hopefully next year with some added flexibility in how you set up your team we can have a bit more freedom on who we choose.

I think everyone is going to struggle to pick someone likely to finish in the top 20 from the PC and KM list, I can’t find anyone that I’m overly confident of and to be honest most of them probably won’t even compete.

Dave, if there are no/few sprinters/climbers competing in the TT and we pick someone like Dekkers or Hinault who are cheap but not racing will our team still be valid? I know having greyed out riders is fine mid-tour but usually you need a valid team going into the first stage. How does that apply for classics and the worlds?

drheaton wrote:Gkam84

drheaton wrote:

Gkam84 wrote:

Ok, so i made up a mock team

Bradley WIGGINS
Mark CAVENDISH
David MILLAR
Jonathan BELLIS
Christopher FROOME
Daniel LLOYD

So if that for instance was the British team and Cav won a sprint finish, does that mean i’ve already made 45 points without anyone else finishing in the top 20?

20 for Cav’s win and 5 for the rest cause they are British, or only 20 for the win because non of the rest are from HTC??

My understanding is that you would get 45 points as each Brit would get 5pts but you would not be allowed to have EBH as another rider as that would take you to three Team Sky riders.

you could do this but overall you wouldnt do that well in the road race with those riders, not on this course.
You’d get your 20 points for Cav and 5 for each of the others, so 60 points or so, but I would doubt any of them would come in the top 20 really, bar Cav.

Better to go for people finishing in the top 20, perhaps augmented by a couple of brits, maybe GT for example.

Gkam84 wrote:Ok, so i made up

Gkam84 wrote:

Ok, so i made up a mock team

Bradley WIGGINS
Mark CAVENDISH
David MILLAR
Jonathan BELLIS
Christopher FROOME
Daniel LLOYD

So if that for instance was the British team and Cav won a sprint finish, does that mean i’ve already made 45 points without anyone else finishing in the top 20?

20 for Cav’s win and 5 for the rest cause they are British, or only 20 for the win because non of the rest are from HTC??

My understanding is that you would get 45 points as each Brit would get 5pts but you would not be allowed to have EBH as another rider as that would take you to three Team Sky riders.

I agree, I’ve always watched
I agree, I’ve always watched the TdF but never so much the Giro or Vuelta but the last two years I’ve got alot more into these races. It’s also caused me to pay more attention to who’s in the breakaways, which Domestiques are doing well and who’s in form rather than just watching sprint finishes and waiting for the mountains where it gets interesting.