[Heidi]

Let's say money was no option and as a team director your season goal was to win as many races as possible. I know that normally teams have like 30 guys, but let's say you only got to pick 9...who would they be? Remember, you need climbers, sprinters, classics riders and stage riders, etc.. You can't expect a team to work with just all the top guys either. Dream away....

 

[Westy]

10 Eddie Merkx clones. End of thread.

 

[James]

10 Eddie Merkx clones. End of thread.

Damn, that was gonna be MY answer!
Damn.
Well, I'll have a team with *another* 9 EM clones!
Can you imagine what a race with those teams would look like?

Ligget: "And we have an attack! It looks like all 18 Merkx clones have jumped off the front of the pack, and they're digging deep into their suitcase of pain, dancing on the pedals in a most immodest way up this HC climb! It's amazing to think that they are all riding 22lb steel 10 speeds with toe clips isn't it Paul?"

Sherwin: "It certainly is Phil. I will admit that I haven't seen a display of pure power and bravado since, well, ever! It is certainly a sight to see almost two dozen clones of perhaps the best rider ever charging up this hill, shoulder to shoulder, in 4 rows! They're so closely matched that none has a chance of getting away. We may be looking at the first 18-person tie in the history of the Tour!"

 

[OGRipper]

Hahahaha!

"Eddie is putting Eddie in a spot of bother, but Eddie's glistening bronze pistons will surely carry the day!"

 

[Heidi]

LMAO - you guys crack me up.

 

[Westy]

Damn, that was gonna be MY answer!
Damn.
Well, I'll have a team with *another* 9 EM clones!
Can you imagine what a race with those teams would look like?

Ligget: "And we have an attack! It looks like all 18 Merkx clones have jumped off the front of the pack, and they're digging deep into their suitcase of pain, dancing on the pedals in a most immodest way up this HC climb! It's amazing to think that they are all riding 22lb steel 10 speeds with toe clips isn't it Paul?"

Sherwin: "It certainly is Phil. I will admit that I haven't seen a display of pure power and bravado since, well, ever! It is certainly a sight to see almost two dozen clones of perhaps the best rider ever charging up this hill, shoulder to shoulder, in 4 rows! They're so closely matched that none has a chance of getting away. We may be looking at the first 18-person tie in the history of the Tour!"

It could never be an 18 person all Eddie tie. Eddie would win or die trying, so all 18 Eddies would collapse and die at the same time. Of course Eddie can not be killed so really the universe would cease to exist. We need to prevent cloning or the universe is doomed.

 

[ire]

I'll take Tom Simpson and the money spent on the other 8 will go towards drugs and liquor....get Simpson hop'd up enough he'll kill Eddie!!