Message sent! Rampant Remco Evenepoel storms to time trial win at the Dauphiné and gains big on Vingegaard & Pogacar
CyclingWednesday, 11 June 2025 at 23:37
There is a reason Remco Evenepoel is widely regarded as the best time trialist on the planet and on stage 4 of the 2025 Criterium du Dauphiné, the Olympic and World TT champ proved why yet again with an astonishing stage win, gaining big on both Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar in the process.
Among the early starters, by far the fastest time set was that of Uno-X Mobility's Soren Waerenskjold. The Norwegian clocked in at 23:00 for his efforts, enough to take firm control of the hotseat early on. Before too long however, Waerenskjold was unseated as former time trial world champion Tobias Foss powered into the stage lead with his time of 22:00.
Thibault Guernalec threatened Foss' time, but as the finish line came into sight, the Frenchman couldn't quite keep up the pace required and eventually finished 9 seconds slower the INEOS Grenadiers man. Shortly after though, Foss' time was bettered as the two-time French TT champion Remi Cavagna set a new benchmark of 21:57.
Once some of the big names started to hit the road though, Cavagna's time quickly started to look in trouble. The first to beat the Frenchman's time was Matteo Jorgenson and the Visma star beat it comfortably too, taking around half a minute on Cavagna, and setting the new fastest time at 21:28. There was a bit of disappointment for INEOS Grenadiers leader Carlos Rodriguez however, finishing a minute down on Jorgenson.
When Remco Evenepoel went flying through the intermediate time check already 30 seconds quicker than Jorgenson however, shockwaves were sent through the Dauphine. By the time he crossed the line, the Belgian had even managed to add a further 7 seconds to his gain on the American, finishing with an incredible time of 20:50.
A few moments later, Jonas Vingegaard crossed the line. The Dane was quicker than his teammate Jorgenson, but lost 21 seconds to the Soudal - Quick-Step leader in the end. Tadej Pogacar was the next big name to finish and the Slovenian was slower than both his rivals, reaching the line 48 seconds slower than Evenepoel and 27 seconds down on Vingegaard.
Mathieu van der Poel set the provisional 5th fastest time, 1:01 down on Evenepoel. Florian Lipowitz then slotted into 5th himself moments later, ceding 56 seconds to Evenepoel. The Maillot Jaune Ivan Romeo then finally ended the day, crossing the line 1:25 down.
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- He has a better shot at winning a stage than Roglic, sadly...bobo25-06-2025
- Horner ain't lyin'...bobo25-06-2025
- Don't forget just how important newspapers have been - pretty much every race has been started by a newspaper. Which means that cyclinguptodate could launch it's own races. I propose a mountain classic in Wales [Cymru] - a 257km long route in Abergavenny [Y Fenni], with a repeated loop of Blorenge [Blorens], thus climbing the Foxhunter [5.2km at 8.7% average, max gradient 19%] 18 times, totalling to 8380m of climbing [that's twice a grand tour queen stage].
Llywelynglyndwr24-06-2025 - If you're riding against Pog, sending your team to the front to "make it hard" doesn't help, it plays into UAE's hands. Do something, literally anything, else!acem8224-06-2025
- If Jonas wins the 'tour... 🤦♂️ - but I don't think he will in the slightest
leedorney24-06-2025 - look at how useful Van Aert can be as a leadout man or sprinter in his own rightLlywelynglyndwr24-06-2025
- Mostly that's because he knows he doesn't have much of a chance, e.g in the olympics. I think that if he had a proper chance to get something out of the mountain stages [i.e if he had a GC leader]Llywelynglyndwr24-06-2025
- Not if you like at the climbing times. Then it's like 2-3%Nomadic1924-06-2025
- I mean, he always stood out for consistency/resilience, not just in 2025. ANd not crashes... I don't recall he crashing.
maria2024202424-06-2025 - Almeida's resilience is phenomenal. I remember a stage of La Vuelta 2023 (l'Angrilu?): he was sick, with a severe cold. The team left him completely alone (discarded). He rode 100km alone, finishing... top 6!. It's usual to see him being dropped/ disappeared, but suddenly, somehow, at the end, arriving in privileged positions. His effort/energy control is brilliant. He's not a super-winner, but he's a fabulous ridermaria2024202424-06-2025
The word is that Jonas is running 150mm cranks on his road bike, I can't tell on his TT bike but they look much shorter. I moved to 155mm cranks at the end of 2023 for both my road bikes and my TT bike, it's been a game changer for me and looks to agree with Jonas as well.
Can you elaborate a bit on what difference you notice or feel or how it changes your perception of effort on various types of terrain/intensity? Any pain or stress relief for sensitive parts?
For me, I was able to open up the hip angle allowing me to get a good bit more aero, not so much on the road bike, but some. Mainly you'll see the aero benefits on the TT bike. It took some time to get used to them as well, feels like you are pedaling a kids bike at first, and then they just look odd. I'm 5'11" and ran 172.5 and then 165's until I bit the bullet and went to 155. It took me about 500 miles to really get used to them. Now I wouldn't trade them for anything.
For me shorter cranks (165) feel better on the knees. Maybe it's a placebo effect, but it feels real
Despite having torn a meniscus in September, not being able to ride before April and still feeling it slightly during rides a few weeks ago (plus immediately noticing I definitely shouldn’t try pedalling a bmx when someone came to buy my sons’) I did a pretty tough test ride yesterday 115k with 2200m and a 3km 15% section and felt/feel absolutely nothing anymore so hopefully as far as road cycling goes, knees are no longer a worry, now I have to start working on real condition again.
I only ride road and I have very unaero shoulders (high+wide) and an inefficient body shape (too long back too short legs) with a too injured back/basin to hope for sustained aero positions so not sure it will help me as much. ca bad at cadence, flat or downhill efforts, also hardly ever use up all gears even dead tired at 15-20% but I feel I lose too much energy moving legs/hips and was hoping the shorter cranks might reduce the amplitude and energy for pressing downwards. And with 500 to do before making observations it’s maybe something for a few years down the line if I finally get to a stage where I can take cycling seriously.
Good job!