PTP - Liège-Bastogne-Liège

afx237vi
afx237vi Posts: 12,630
edited April 2012 in Pro race
Liège-Bastogne-Liège, the oldest of the monuments and... er... the least interesting... coming up on Sunday, and the last one-day race before the focus switches to stage-racing for the next few months.

http://www.letour.fr/us/homepage_horscourseLBL.html

257 km from Liège to Ans.

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Startlist: http://www.cyclingfever.com/editie.html ... d=MjI5MTA=

Past winners:

2011 GILBERT Philippe
2010 VINOKOUROV Alexandre
2009 SCHLECK Andy
2008 VALVERDE BELMONTE Alejandro
2007 DI LUCA Danilo
2006 VALVERDE BELMONTE Alejandro
2005 VINOKOUROV Alexandre
2004 REBELLIN Davide
2003 HAMILTON Tyler
2002 BETTINI Paolo
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Comments

  • mroli
    mroli Posts: 3,622
    Get in there sharpish - Phil G please...
    http://www.georgesfoundation.org
    http://100hillsforgeorge.blogspot.com/
    http://www.12on12in12.blogspot.co.uk/
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,615
    afx237vi wrote:
    Liège-Bastogne-Liège, the oldest of the monuments and... er... the least interesting... coming up on Sunday,
    :lol:
    _
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 18,932
    afx237vi wrote:
    Liège-Bastogne-Liège, the oldest of the monuments and... er... the least interesting

    But just to be clear, it's not a chipper.
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • josame
    josame Posts: 1,141
    Nibali

    thanks
    'Do not compare your bike to others, for always there will be greater and lesser bikes'
  • bigmat
    bigmat Posts: 5,134
    I struggle to get excited about Lombardy - is that wrong?
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/41991871@N ... otostream/
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,805
    CUNEGO Damiano if he starts

    if not Gilbert [safety shot]
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • Glut4
    Glut4 Posts: 198
    Gilbert please
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    BigMat wrote:
    I struggle to get excited about Lombardy - is that wrong?


    Yes. Yes it is.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    Gilbert please - Gotta come good at some point
    http://www.twitter.com/InTheGC http://www.InTheGC.com http://www.facebook.com/intheGC
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,150
    BigMat wrote:
    I struggle to get excited about Lombardy - is that wrong?
    No, I agree.

    LBL PTP: Rigoberto Uran.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,615
    BigMat wrote:
    I struggle to get excited about Lombardy - is that wrong?

    Totally with ya.
    _
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,490
    I'm committed to avoiding favourites now if I want to pull back points so Dan Martin for me please AFX.
  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,232
    Hang on a minute...
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    afx237vi wrote:
    Liège-Bastogne-Liège, the oldest of the monuments and... er... the least interesting... coming up on Sunday,
    :lol:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    BigMat wrote:
    I struggle to get excited about Lombardy - is that wrong?
    Totally with ya.
    RichN95 wrote:
    ...I agree.
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    afx237vi wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Has this race [Amstel Gold] ever been exciting before the 30km mark - crashes aside?
    You meant to say 300 metres, right?
    :lol:
    Couple years ago it got exciting at 15-20k out didn't it?
    frenchfighter wrote:
    ...I dont like these long races much. Basically in most cases they just ride and ride and ride before launching the hostilities in the same places as if they race was 50km shorter and in many cases the hostilities are unleashed nearer to the finish as the riders are smoked.

    ...I'm starting to suspect that there are some folk around here who don't really like cycling at all.
  • Moontrane
    Moontrane Posts: 233
    Alejandro frackin' Valverde cool.gif
    Infinite diversity, infinte variations
  • sonny73
    sonny73 Posts: 2,203
    Can't get decent PTP points for toffee, time to change that Nibs... Vincenzo Nibali please.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,615
    OCDuPalais wrote:
    Hang on a minute...

    ...I'm starting to suspect that there are some folk around here who don't really like cycling at all.

    ..Ssssh...

    Don't tell anyone ;)

    Remember, we're the people who watch more than more or less anyone.

    Most regulars here will watch more or less every stage in GTs and big 1 weekers, hours and hours of one day races.

    Most of us will even watch the Tour of Oman and Tour of Qatar.
    _
  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    Kiryienka (sp?)

    PS - Milan San Remo. Meh, eh?
    ___________________

    Strava is not Zen.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,490
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    OCDuPalais wrote:
    Hang on a minute...

    ...I'm starting to suspect that there are some folk around here who don't really like cycling at all.

    ..Ssssh...

    Don't tell anyone ;)

    Remember, we're the people who watch more than more or less anyone.

    Most regulars here will watch more or less every stage in GTs and big 1 weekers, hours and hours of one day races.

    Most of us will even watch the Tour of Oman and Tour of Qatar.

    I even watched a stage of the Tour of Taiwan (my DVD of the local crit wasn't working that day)
  • stjohnswell
    stjohnswell Posts: 482
    I'm still wedded to the folly of punting on last years form, so GILBERT please afx.
  • smithy21
    smithy21 Posts: 2,204
    Frank Schleck please
  • seven7faces
    seven7faces Posts: 360
    Nibali ta
  • scwxx77
    scwxx77 Posts: 1,469
    I'd better post my pick before I forget again. I woke this morning not knowing what day it was then realised I'd missed Fleche Wallonne.

    Philippe Gilbert for LBL please.
    Winner: PTP Vuelta 2007 :wink:
  • Noclue
    Noclue Posts: 503
    Gilbert please.
    Flickr
  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,002
    Try to make up some ground and pick an outsider - or stay at the back of the peleton?

    Gilbert please.
  • Moomaloid
    Moomaloid Posts: 2,040
    I think we'd all agree that theres gotta be a cobble or three involved :) Fleche & Amstel, as i think Rick mentioned before now, only need to be watched in the closing stages really... even 3 laps of the Muur doesn't seem to generate more exciting racing. Liege is better, but not by much over the past few years...

    That said... i'll still be watching em all ;)

    Trying to be clever on the PTP is getting my nowhere, so ill go for each way bet on PIP please.
  • Tusher
    Tusher Posts: 2,762
    Dear Mr Mod,

    I've just glimpsed an advert in the bottom left hand corner for what appeared to be a 'Cycling in Norway' holiday. Only it vanished after 4 seconds and I can't find out what to click on to bring it back. But the adverts for Fedex last for ages. Please can you fix it for me.

    Thankyou,

    Tusher (Mrs)
  • Tusher
    Tusher Posts: 2,762
    And as for LBL, I really would like to think that Rigoberto can do it, I believe he can, but I don't think Sky can.
  • slimreaper
    slimreaper Posts: 738
    Jelle Vanendert please
  • patchy
    patchy Posts: 779
    Go Go Gilbert Legs!

    Gilbert please dammit.
    point your handlebars towards the heavens and sweat like you're in hell
  • victorponf
    victorponf Posts: 1,187
    Gilbert plearse
    If you like Flandes, Roubaix or Eroica, you would like GP Canal de Castilla, www.gpcanaldecastilla.com

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