Obviously, he starts great, and then improves a point or two here and there to become ridiculous.
To be honest, he deserves it, he is one of those riders that cannot really be quantified by stats. His time-trialing and cobbled abilities are well documented, but the fact that he can climb so well, and his ability to power away from the pack down the final straight makes him absolutely amazing.
Read the biopic in Velonews this past month, he really is the physically most gifted rider in the pro peloton
I agree with you deadpool, I think he deserves it too.
To be able to attack in the last 750m in the Tour de France and to bridge 2 gaps at the olympics, its really cool.
And not to forget last year, when he rode away from the pack in Tour de Suisse and never let them catch him. He won that stage after a 10km solo.
Edited by JDC on 31-03-2009 14:33
From my experience with PCM 08, Cancellara is the only rider who reaches an 85-overall rating.
This might be a bit unnerving, as he's basically unbeatable in the cobbled classics and the Milano-San Remo, but I agree that he is the best time trialist and classics rider of his generation; only Ballan, Cunego and Valverde come close in that department. I wouldn't rule him out from winning all of the five Monuments!
And to be quite honest, I feel Contador's PCM 08 dominance in the GTs is far more undeserved...
There's no doubt that he becomes way too good in PCM.daily's 2009 DB. The thing is that he says he wants to become a GT rider, and if he decides to try that out, he may be able to become a great climber - however, that will certainly affect his cobbles skills, also partly his time trial, and that's something that PCM doesn't handle too well.
Generally speaking, the progressions aren't the best in V2. It's one of the main things that are getting tested before the release of V3.
