2015 Strade Bianche ***SPOILERS***

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  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    Stybar and Valverde distancing Vanmarcke, caught up to GvA
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    Time to start the Anyone but Valverde Dance AtC!
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Crampeur
    Crampeur Posts: 1,065
    Noooo Sep :cry:
  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    Vanmarcke pops. It's between Valverde and Stybar I think. Come on Stybar!
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    ddraver wrote:
    Time to start the Anyone but Valverde Dance AtC!

    I've been doing that since I turned on the telly and saw he was in the front group. Not a massive fan of GvA either. So Stybar it is!
    Correlation is not causation.
  • EKIMIKE
    EKIMIKE Posts: 2,232
    edited March 2015
    These three all have good accelerations. Very well matched. Gonna be exciting if they make it to the final ramp.

    That said, GvA looks like he's nearly cooked.
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  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    Front 3 have almost 20" on Vanmarcke already, 10k remaining
  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    Wtf is going on with the time gap to Vanmarcke? It's going up second by second, 58" now?? Obviously some dodgy GPS readings here...
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    Voeckler Tongue from SvM
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Crampeur
    Crampeur Posts: 1,065
    Sep seems doomed to be 15-30s behind in every race.
  • EKIMIKE
    EKIMIKE Posts: 2,232
    Surely Valverde is taking that gel way too late?!
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  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    Vanmarcke's around 15 seconds back but even if he makes it back on, I can't see him beating valverde or stybar up the final ramp.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Final km!
    Correlation is not causation.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    edited March 2015
    Jaysus SvM is so nearly back!

    That man is a machine!!!
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Sep's hanging off the back now like a daglock.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Señor Hairplugs is blown!

    Kom op Stybar!
    Correlation is not causation.
  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    edited March 2015
    Well played Stybar!

    GvA attacked first, Valverde followed and cracked, Stybar chased and passed GvA towards the top and won easily from there.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    Too easy for Stybar! Great ride!

    Must have been kicking himself (and Boonen, and Terpstra and GvA) last week!
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    Great win by Stybar. One of my reserve men.

    Valverde popped. I didn't see that coming.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Señor Hairplugs is blown

    Excellent Dancing my Flower!
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Was I the only one who picked him for PTP?

    As he was the only one of my men racing... hem hem
    "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
    I'm very happy with that result.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    UK Cycling Expert ‏@ukcyclingexpert
    Brilliant win for Zebedee Sidecar in the Erotica!! The Essex-KwikFit team cyclist will enjoy looking at his times on Strava later!!!
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    That's why Valverde sups wheels. Cracking race.
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  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    That was a really poor effort from Sagan.

    Cancellara hasn't got that many miles in his legs so far this year, and he didn't do much in this race last year before going on to have a good classics season, so I'm not that surprised he came up short. But Sagan has been riding quite a bit already and was talking up his chances. Not sure what happened. Did he even finish?
  • Crampeur
    Crampeur Posts: 1,065
    GvA the eternal bridesmaid.

    Great race though today, action all the way from 60km out.
  • EKIMIKE
    EKIMIKE Posts: 2,232
    Ha! That's a cracker from UK Cycling Expert.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    Hat tip to BMC. Animated the race!
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • EKIMIKE
    EKIMIKE Posts: 2,232
    This race is more Amstel than RVV (in terms of the length of the hills) - the bigger guys like Cancellara have to go solo for the win otherwise they get smoked by the lighter guys on the run in. See Sagan vs Kwiatkowski.
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    I doubt it made a difference in the end - Stybar was so strong - but once again Terminator Vanmarcke kept them honest out front forcing Valverde to ride.
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