I would like to know what was your most frustrating moment in PCM 2015 so far...
Mine (with Be A Pro): I was in my 2nd season and earned a spot in the Vuelta-crew with Wanty. After being in the top third of the riders, I had a great stage 9 and my rider had a +5 for this day. I managed to stay with the top riders throughout the stage and on the last hill I attacked and got away, secured a win by some seconds and was very happy. I watched the replay and took a lot of screenshots and then progressed to the victory ceremony.
But WHAT? I was never shown or mentioned in any of the lists, I had led the young rider classification and now my name was gone...
I thought it was an error in the game and I was really upset, started some other games until I remembered that there were weekly saves, loaded one of them and continued the Vuelta from an earlier stage.
I couldn't reproduce the win and some stages later (I think the 12th) the same happened again... Top 5 finish but I vanished from any list.
This time I checked out my rider and realised that I had broken my wrist... Year ended for me then.
I hope to do better next season, with Cannondale-Garmin.
Yeah, had a situation like that.
In my previous career, I had won Vuelta and Tour young jerseys and was still only 25. I was going into my first Giro d'Italia, with the possibility of winning all three young jerseys, a unique achievement in cycling.
16 stages into the Giro, I was even in the pink jersey, thanks to the many TT kilometers.
But then my rider crashed out
Even worse, his injury keps prolonging and the season was over!
And that was also the end of my career with that rider, started anew after that (though that wasn't the sole reason)
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant." [PT] Xero Racing
This, i would add with so bad acceleration of my stage racer.
Apart from that,most frustrating are my teammates, sometimes i dont know what they are trying to do. I am the leader and they protect me with sprinter, who is dead after first speedbump, but he tries to protect me despite loosing contact with the front again and again.
Meanwhile two 75+ climbers, who would be much bigger help are just crusing along in the middle of the pack. They were most likely set to join the break, but when they failed, i think they should switch to another task, not just ride in the middle of the pack and wait for being dropped during final climb...
Edited by Avin Wargunnson on 29-06-2015 12:07
In the Vuelta, (PCM12) I lost the Vuelta by 1 second with Andy Schleck. Failed that sponsor goal, Then I came second in the UCI Rankings by 20 points and came second in the Velo d'Or
