>>42637
he and trek need to scale back his expectations, treated him as a guy who could challenge pog in hill classics and he's just not that good [yet]. the tour is a terrible place for world class but not pog/mvdp level puncheurs, because if you cant beat them [and aren't a GC runner] you just end up with no wins and wasted potential. he should do giro + one-weeks, send himback to last year's schedule.

the question is whether his ego will allow this, my opinion on his intelligence has soured over the past year. i think this struggle calls for another tatoo