Predictions 2014

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  • nic_77
    nic_77 Posts: 929
    Wiggins to ride the tour in support of Froome.
    Brad will be a model teammate and then push it very very close in the time trial.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Boonen will be good but not top, but QS to be still sh!t hot with Kiakowski and Stybar who will both really step up.

    Not that it'll make any difference since Canc will still smash them.

    Froome will win the Tour with two fingers in his nose.

    Chasey to get a migraine after stage 3 of the TdF because he got overexcited.
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  • hstiles
    hstiles Posts: 414
    Sky to have an unremarkable season in the classics
    BMC to have an unremarkable season in the grand tours
    Lampre to have an unremarkable season
  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,310
    hstiles wrote:
    Lampre to have an unremarkable season

    That's a given...
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  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    To be fair, Mantova could make it remarkable for Lampre...
  • alanjay
    alanjay Posts: 363
    frenchfighter wrote:
    My boy to rip it up. That is all.

    Contador to win not one single race in 2014.
  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    nic_77 wrote:
    Wiggins to ride the tour in support of Froome.
    Brad will be a model teammate and then push it very very close in the time trial.
    More chance of Mrs Wiggins and Michelle Cound becoming besties than this ever happening!

    Cav to win on the Champs Elysees after losing out to the big German this year
    Cancellara to win another Roubaix
    A rider from Torku to get busted
    Froome to win the tour after difficulty with cobbled sections
    Sagan to win a classic
    Quintana to win whatever Grand tour it is he is riding (Can't remember if it is Giro or Vuelta)
    Dowsett to win another TT stage
    Wiggins to ride grand tour and lose all motivation after the first week
    Cancellara to beat hour record then have it taken off him by Martin
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  • DHTT
    DHTT Posts: 345
    TDU win by Gerrans.
    Paris Nice to Tony Martin
    Evans to win Giro, with Wilco Kelderman in top 5.
    Van Avermaet wins Strade Bianchi
    Haussler to win MSR.
    Cancellera to win Flanders.
    Van Marcke for Paris Roubaix.
    Gilbert to win LBL.
    Froome to repeat win in TDF. Kwiatkowski to win White.
    Rodriguez to win Vuelta and World Number one again.

    Adam Hansen to ride another 3 grand tours consecutively.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Greenedge to win the TDU, with either Kittel or Greipel to win the sprint stages
    Cav to win the flat one out of Oman or Qatar
    Sagan will dominate in the spring
    Stannard to win one of the classics or semi classics, also top 3 in PR
    Stybar to win PR
    Boonen to win nothing
    Fabs to moan about no prologue in the tour and to do the Veulta withdrawing in the second week to focus on finishing 2 in the worlds.
    Wiggins to ride 2 races before retiring, he will show up at the revolution track events, winning some
    the giro to be the best race of the year (again) Porte to finish 1 and quintana second
    Both of the above end up riding the tour in support and have a terrible time of it
    Evans becomes to the GC, what Goss is to sprints.
    Froome and nibali to go head to head winning alternate events with froome winning the tour on the TT at the end.
    One of the GC favs will fall on the cobbles and break something, with the cobbles the yellow will stay off the skinny shoulders for longer with someone opening up a 5 minute lead on that stage.
    Contador to struggle to make top 10 in the tour (possibly withdraw) and to finish high/win the Veulta to make up for
    it.
    Purieto to win the riders cchampionship (whats it called) but again have an unremarkable season.
    No one at Sky will get done for doping, yet the world will meltdown.
  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    David Millar to win a stage of the TdF from an amazing crazy one-man breakaway.
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  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    I would love that!
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  • dodgy
    dodgy Posts: 2,890
    Alright, just for a bit of fun:

    Cav in Pink in NI for Giro

    Cav to win either stage 1, 2 or most likely 3

    Cav in Yellow on British soil

    Quintana or Froome to win TdF and other to win Giro

    Wiggins doesn't make Paris

    Chris Horner fails to get a ride, and is subsequently proven beyond doubt to be clean

    Ditto JTL

    No buses get stuck under gantries

    Cancellara to attempt and fail at hour record

    Road discs approved by UCI but not in time for 2014 TdF
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Rui Costa to cause numerous cases of nausea with his Rainbow Bright/Mavis Cruet World Champs Lampre kit.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    Can I add to mine?

    White boy trash to get banned ;)
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  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    Paul 8v wrote:
    Can I add to mine?

    White boy trash to get banned ;)
    I don't agree.
    Yes he is OTT and puts me to sleep zzzzzzzzzzzzz but in the main he raises other questions in a debate.
    Organiser, National Championship 50 mile Time Trial 1972
  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    deejay wrote:
    Paul 8v wrote:
    Can I add to mine?

    White boy trash to get banned ;)
    I don't agree.
    Yes he is OTT and puts me to sleep zzzzzzzzzzzzz but in the main he raises other questions in a debate.
    I wasn't saying he should be, just he probably will be. I do agree he does ask some alternate questions but will probably end up with a ban unless he reads the sticky about defamatory comments and takes it on board :wink:
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Modz r fickle innit.


    Oh I predict you lot will get some slightly supercilious post from me about course conditions for Flanders since I'll be riding it the day before.
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  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Modz r fickle innit.


    Oh I predict you lot will get some slightly supercilious post from me about course conditions for Flanders since I'll be riding it the day before.
    Good Luck with that.
    And to think it used to be so quiet on the Saturday before RVV with just some local riders and me wandering about.

    Tom Boonen to win Flanders. :)
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  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Modz r fickle innit.


    Oh I predict you lot will get some slightly supercilious post from me about course conditions for Flanders since I'll be riding it the day before.
    Have fun on the Koppenberg :D
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Yeah.

    Good little money spinner for the hosts and I'll look forward to prancing around in my flanders t shirt acting like I'm the next Museeuw. Everyone wins.
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  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    Just like this:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnX4uaDYyIU#t=14
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  • mike6
    mike6 Posts: 1,199
    deejay wrote:
    Paul 8v wrote:
    Can I add to mine?

    White boy trash to get banned ;)
    I don't agree.
    Yes he is OTT and puts me to sleep zzzzzzzzzzzzz but in the main he raises other questions in a debate.

    Never heard him raise a question yet, just the mantra "Sky are doping". His words not mine. I love Sky and hope they win everything next year, and I mean everything, just to see WBT and the Clinic foaming at the mouth. Oh joy. :D
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Paul 8v wrote:
    Can I add to mine?

    White boy trash to get banned ;)

    Err, 2014 predictions!
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,791
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Kiakowski and Stybar who will both really step up.

    .

    yep
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  • smokey_bacon
    smokey_bacon Posts: 1,639
    EBH to win a classic (personally dont care which one!)
  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    Smokey Bacon wrote:
    EBH to win a classic (personally dont care which one!)
    Oh Yeah? Sur Braddurley to win a classic. Again not bothered which one.
    Oh, go on then. LBL. :)
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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Modz r fickle innit.


    Oh I predict you lot will get some slightly supercilious post from me about course conditions for Flanders since I'll be riding it the day before.

    Me too! Need digs?
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Stybar to win a semi classic
    Talansky to podium in a GT
    A new winner for Flanders or Roubaix
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    There will be no crosswinds in Qatar :cry:
    Correlation is not causation.
  • smokey_bacon
    smokey_bacon Posts: 1,639
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    Smokey Bacon wrote:
    EBH to win a classic (personally dont care which one!)
    Oh Yeah? Sur Braddurley to win a classic. Again not bothered which one.
    Oh, go on then. LBL. :)

    Didnt know LBL was less than a 100k :D

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