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  • maddog 2
    maddog 2 Posts: 8,114
    the youtube clip is illuminating as Terpstra comes past Wiggins at 44.00min.

    Wiggins looks across and clearly sees Terpstra accelerating down the line, starting an attack but doesn't respond. With 6.5km to go you must expect this kind of thing... so what's your response going to be, given that you have your teammate in the group too?

    Obviously, it's easy to be clever after the event but at the time I was thinking... go on then, get after him! Maybe the Sky boys (and everyone else) were shot so they couldn't do anything. Fair enough. But if he wants to win it this year then something has to change...
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  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,716
    ddraver wrote:
    Jim - I did RVV last year in the blazing sunshine. This year me and my mate are doing it. I have never done a dry event with this man. I swear he is a rain god.
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  • Daz555
    Daz555 Posts: 3,976
    maddog 2 wrote:
    Wiggins looks across and clearly sees Terpstra accelerating down the line, starting an attack but doesn't respond.
    We see it time and time again in pro-cycling. No-one wants to be the sacrificial lamb and so no-one leads the response to an attack.
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  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    If it rains then anything can happen but in normal circumstances Boom isn't on the same level as the likes of Cancellara, Vanmarcke, Boonen etc.
  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    Daz555 wrote:
    We see it time and time again in pro-cycling. No-one wants to be the sacrificial lamb and so no-one leads the response to an attack.
    That certainly happened in the 1993 World Championship in Norway.
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  • ai_1
    ai_1 Posts: 3,060
    deejay wrote:
    Daz555 wrote:
    We see it time and time again in pro-cycling. No-one wants to be the sacrificial lamb and so no-one leads the response to an attack.
    That certainly happened in the 1993 World Championship in Norway.
    You may have to remind me......
  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,716
    Lance !
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  • cc78
    cc78 Posts: 599
    No-one's mentioned Greg Van Avermaet yet... 2nd, 7th and 4th in the last 3 editions of Flanders and 4th in Roubaix in 2013. At least a dark horse this year, if not a major contender.
  • cal_stewart
    cal_stewart Posts: 1,840
    GVA looks like he's getting better year on year. He's always a good PTP pick of a place
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  • cal_stewart
    cal_stewart Posts: 1,840
    ddraver wrote:
    Jim - I did RVV last year in the blazing sunshine. This year me and my mate are doing it. I have never done a dry event with this man. I swear he is a rain god.

    Lovely day, tan lasted all year after that.
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  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Kristoff has to be a shout for Flanders. 15th, 4th, 5th in the last 3 editions.

    On another note is Valverde going to be as good as last year throughout?
  • ridgerider
    ridgerider Posts: 2,852
    Boon only won stage 5 because vanmarcke, who was right behind him at the time punctured. And as mentioned, he does not last in the long races.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,162
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Not good enough over 200km.

    Is this the first outing of Rick's catchphrase this season?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Pross wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Not good enough over 200km.

    Is this the first outing of Rick's catchphrase this season?

    :) think so. Is true though.
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  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,716
    Joelsim wrote:
    On another note is Valverde going to be as good as last year throughout?
    Hope not
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  • EKIMIKE
    EKIMIKE Posts: 2,232
    Cancellara is looking hungry. Stuyven looks like a good lieutenant in the making. Can Devolder be arsed? If he can, Trek are looking very able.

    On that note, I wonder if Devolder will try to break his own record for the number of crashes in a single edition of the Ronde?
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  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,716
    Devolder had about 5 years worth of bad luck on one afternoon last year.

    Might even have an e/w bet on him this year ! :)
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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Been out to ride the last 70km of Omloop today, so you on't have to! Here are my findings...

    1. Orica Green Edge had the same idea, I crossed paths with a group of 7 of them a couple of times.
    2. Tune in early... the 3km before the Taainberg will be mayhem. The second bit of Donderij is a shambles then the route down to the bottom of the climb (its the other direction to the way RVV goes) is covered in mud and has a trench full of cobbles to seperate the bike lane. Then they make a left down a windy single track descent full of gravel and farm muck.
    3. The Molenberg is proper slippy as they covered it in sand over the winter so residents could get their cars up and down and its washed down the hill and clumped on the corner.
    4. They need to get somebody round with a pressure washer as some of the lanes are absolutely clarted.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    jimmythecuckoo wrote:
    Devolder had about 5 years worth of bad luck on one afternoon last year.

    Might even have an e/w bet on him this year ! :)
    The man is a bad luck magnet. He traded in a lifetime's worth of luck for those two Ronde wins. This is a man who once got taken out of KBK by a dustbin. Don't bet on him.
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  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    The man is a bad luck magnet. He traded in a lifetime's worth of luck for those two Ronde wins

    It's almost worth it.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    RichN95 wrote:
    jimmythecuckoo wrote:
    Devolder had about 5 years worth of bad luck on one afternoon last year.

    Might even have an e/w bet on him this year ! :)
    The man is a bad luck magnet. He traded in a lifetime's worth of luck for those two Ronde wins. This is a man who once got taken out of KBK by a dustbin. Don't bet on him.

    For someone who's supposed to be a Flanders specialist his positioning for key parts is terrible.

    He comes to grief because he's in parts of the pack he shouldn't be, having to take more risks and riding with weaker riders in his immediate vicinity.
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  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,810
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    Been out to ride the last 70km of Omloop today, so you on't have to! Here are my findings...

    1. Orica Green Edge had the same idea, I crossed paths with a group of 7 of them a couple of times.
    2. Tune in early... the 3km before the Taainberg will be mayhem. The second bit of Donderij is a shambles then the route down to the bottom of the climb (its the other direction to the way RVV goes) is covered in mud and has a trench full of cobbles to seperate the bike lane. Then they make a left down a windy single track descent full of gravel and farm muck.
    3. The Molenberg is proper slippy as they covered it in sand over the winter so residents could get their cars up and down and its washed down the hill and clumped on the corner.
    4. They need to get somebody round with a pressure washer as some of the lanes are absolutely clarted.

    Is it on British TV? Rarely is, and I'm working Saturday...
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Sign up for a weeks free trial on unblockus, set your region to Belgium and Sporza it up.

    Your second problem is beyond my help, I'm afraid
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    Sign up for a weeks free trial on unblockus, set your region to Belgium and Sporza it up.

    Your second problem is beyond my help, I'm afraid

    Or use Hola proxy server for free, and do the same.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Team Cult Energy Pro invited to Amstel gold according to Russ downing on twitter.
  • Crampeur
    Crampeur Posts: 1,065
    Giant Alpecin roster for Omloop:
    Nikias Arndt, Roy Curvers, Bert De Backer, Koen de Kort, Ramon Sinkeldam, Tom Stamsnijder, Albert Timmer, Zico Waeytens
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,660
    sjmclean wrote:
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    Sign up for a weeks free trial on unblockus, set your region to Belgium and Sporza it up.

    Your second problem is beyond my help, I'm afraid

    Or use Hola proxy server for free, and do the same.

    Has Hola been added to Rick's how to watch cycling sticky? It's the best way to un-georestrict a feed by far!
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  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,605
    Baffles me that we don't get Het Volk (yes I know) but we do get KBK. The former is always the better race.

    Plus it has a great name, second only to Dwars Door
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Gweeds wrote:
    Baffles me that we don't get Het Volk (yes I know) but we do get KBK. The former is always the better race.

    Plus it has a great name, second only to Dwars Door
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  • chadders81
    chadders81 Posts: 744
    Can we discuss Milan San Remo in this thread?

    I think Lobato looks a great bet on his current form. Smashed Degenkolb in Andalucia. Kristoff looks like the new Hushovd. Wouldn't rule out Cavendish either. He looks properly lean.

    Then there's always the chance someone will go long.

    As a race, it's not as relentless as the Ronde or Paris Roubaix but the finish is usually intriguing and hard to pick a winner this year.

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