Ronde Van Vlaanderen 2014 *SPOILERS*

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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    devolder down
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,710
    Devolder ko'd this time, as are just about all of Saxo
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,163
    Orica muppet rides off edge of road and holds everyone up.
  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    O'Reeka green edge. Time for another drink people...
  • slim_boy_fat
    slim_boy_fat Posts: 1,810
    Loving the BMC rider having his team mates rear wheel as he lay injured in the field!
  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    Wow Devolder...
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Devolder back on! Ha.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Devolder is a hard man, still going
  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    Devolder still going, what a trooper! He's like the terminator
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    devolder back...again
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  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    edited April 2014
    Devolder not paying attention there by the looks of it.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,163
    Devolder ko'd this time, as are just about all of Saxo

    Or not, it's Rocky on bikes!
  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    Pross wrote:
    Devolder ko'd this time, as are just about all of Saxo

    Or not, it's Rocky on bikes!
    Adriaaaaan
  • I was about to call Devolder a heavyweight and then it made me realise this thread is missing frenchie.

    Can't believe he's still going out there.
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    Paul 8v wrote:
    Devolder still going, what a trooper! He's like the terminator

    yes he took some poor sod out having a p!ss
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,538
    Devolder looking like he's testing the combination of Tamadol and lsd.
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  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    Legend
  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    Paul 8v wrote:
    Devolder still going, what a trooper! He's like the terminator

    yes he took some poor sod out having a p!ss
    That'll teach him to piss. Taken out by the Devoldenator
  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    Yeh, not happy about Devolder taking out Matti.
  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    The group has really thinned out now
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    That looks like the selection
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  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    Pross wrote:
    knedlicky wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    Rasch down, punctures galore. Considering it's so dry it seems even worse than usual.
    It was wet at the beginning and that probably contributed to the crashes before the race became shown live, e.g. the wet road here - I think it is the crash with Thomas and Vanmarcke, after they’d been on the road about 1-15/1-30.
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    Yep, but I've seen at least half a dozen crashes and countless punctures since going live. Maybe the punctures are due to the rain washing debris onto the road.
    My impression is that they are more due to rider mistakes, not punctures. I can imagine the field may be reduced for future editions.
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    No it wasn't the selection...
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  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    Pross wrote:
    adr82 wrote:
    Camera phone video of the van Summeren incident and yes, it's horrific.
    What on earth were they doing there?
    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152353235233685
    What the hell?? Don't they at least have a guy with a flag or something in front of islands like that?!
    Impossible to cover every island. It needs some common sense by spectators though, like in rallying when people watch on the outside of a bend.
    Looks to me like Vansummeren mounted the kerb of the front little island there, milliseconds before the collision, and if so, then he wasn't paying full attention either (there was nothing for him to gain there by doing so, and even without spectators, he may well have crashed because of the step in the island).
    Don't they have gendarmes at close, regular intervals along the route? I think if there were spectators on such an unprotected island in the TdF, the gendarmes would soon chase them.
    I don't feel optimistic about the woman, there was nothing but concrete to be knocked head-first down on to.
    Pross wrote:
    Belgium must surely have the worst road furniture in Europe for bike races.
    There appeared to be no road furniture at the head of the island. Had there been, it wouldn’t have helped Vansummeren, but maybe he wouldn’t have then hit the woman.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,538
    ThomThom wrote:
    Yeh, not happy about Devolder taking out Matti.

    Bastard.
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  • josame
    josame Posts: 1,162
    Cmon the EddyBOSS!!!!
    'Do not compare your bike to others, for always there will be greater and lesser bikes'
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    stijn "the Urinator" is back!
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,538
    ThomThom - are you commentating for Eurosport.dk? Just heard a mention of you know who :-)
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  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    Probably be the race winning move when this advert is on!
  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    Paul 8v wrote:
    Probably be the race winning move when this advert is on!

    Geraint has attacked apparently.

    although the picture suggest otherwise!