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by Cerro Torre RT » Mon Apr 12, 2010 5:26 pm
I only can tell about my experiances with Skjeldal. He made it never to more than 82 in mountain value. I switched to flat raining as he was 24. if you do this now, he can easely reach 68-70 flat and can get a usable rider.
But there are to big differences. The first is the downhill skill, which makes him unusable as a real helper in mountain and medium stages. The other problem is his price, that is way above Skjeldal's. And as i had a cheap team at that point, he fit into quite well, just as another option. Nearly impossible with Bykov, too, ad if you have an expensive team yet, even more. I normally hate to sell riders, but in that case it would probably be what i would do aswell. But wait some weeks more. let him do the 2 last trainings of this months. if he takes both, you may overthink that, even i don't think he will get more usuable with this. if he takes at least won, wait until he's 24 and he gets more expensive. if he doesn't train at all, selling him is the only way i see to get rid of him. I really can't see what he can offer to your team this way.