{"id":178431,"date":"2020-07-01T08:09:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T08:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=178431"},"modified":"2020-07-01T09:47:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T09:47:39","slug":"the-best-things-wed-like-to-adopt-from-peter-sagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2020\/07\/01\/the-best-things-wed-like-to-adopt-from-peter-sagan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Things We’d Like to Adopt from Peter Sagan"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you ask your non-cycling friends about the greatest cyclists of all time, only a few of them would name Eddy Merckx, Miguel Indurain or Chris Froome. Most of them, however, would recall Peter Sagan that became a favourite celebrity even beyond the cycling community. These are the things any cyclist might learn from him.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Keeps his word<\/strong><\/h2>\n

When the route of the 2020 Giro d’Italia was presented last fall in Milan, Sagan promised to take part this year for the very first time in his career. \u201cYou’ll see me there,\u201d he said back then expecting to squeeze the race across Italy between the Cycling Monuments and the Tour de France. But then the coronavirus stroke and tore all the plans to pieces. The 2020 UCI calendar failed to exist. When the new race plan was revealed after the lockdown relief, the start of the Tour was set not later but 12 days after the Giro should have been finished. Moreover, the Giro was scheduled so it coincided with this year’s monuments. It could have been easy for Sagan to excuse himself and say sorry to the Italians but he didn’t do that. Therefore, it will be his first absence from the monuments since 2009 but we will see him racing the 42 stages of the Giro and the Tour within only 58 days instead. Our fingers will be crossed.<\/p>\n<\/lite-youtube>\n

Stays entertaining<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Be it the Wolf of the Wall Street while doing an interview for the media or passing across the finish line in Forrest Gump-like fashion, Sagan seems to be a master of movie character impersonation. You can find him in videos where he’s pulling off a hard training session like Rocky Balboa or dancing with his wife in the famous Grease movie cover of You’re The One That I Want. \u201cMy life is like from a movie,\u201d he says on a video depicting his homeland, Slovakia, which is undoubtedly true yet, on top of that, he brings a lot from the movies to his life too just to make us laugh.<\/p>\n<\/lite-youtube>\n

Exceptional bike-handling skills<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Apart from many other skills, Sagan’s bike handling is legendary. No matter if he’s overtaking a peloton, holding a perfect position on the road bike with his chest pushing on the handlebars to reduce aerodynamic drag, riding on the front wheel, skipping over the traffic refuges, skidding sideways in full speed, turning wild in switchbacks, jumping up a stairway or performing wheelies even with both of his feet off pedals \u2013 every second Sagan spends on the bike, he always seems to maintain it with the ease of a wizard. This ability makes him rather a free-minded downhill community member than an ascetic road cyclist. Do his competitors possess similar skills? Even if they do, they don\u2019t seem tempted to show them in public so far.<\/p>\n

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After a long and hard day in the saddle, training in the mountains of @oetztalcom<\/a>, it's time to relax a bit…@BORAhansgrohe<\/a> @BORAGmbH @Hansgrohe_PR<\/a> @iamspecialized<\/a> @sportful<\/a> @ride100percent<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/f2snQyGfvm<\/a><\/p>\n

— Peter Sagan (@petosagan) June 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n