Ronde van Vlaanderen 2016 *SPOILERS*

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  • EKIMIKE
    EKIMIKE Posts: 2,232
    Shadowrider wrote:
    Good race, well pleased for Sagan.

    I'd rate it 5 out of 10

    4 out of 10 surely?! :roll: (up your Hipster game, my friend :wink:)
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  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,312
    Good race, although the older course was better, with the Muur and then the Bosberg. This one always finishes the same way, with an attack on the Paterberg... previously there were two possible outcomes.

    Maybe they could try Paterberg + Koppenberg to finish, but ultimately the Muur at Geraardsbergen was "The Ronde"
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,651
    Excellent top 40 finish for Lars Ytting Bak, 7:19
    How many PTP points is that worth? Quite a lot, surely?
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  • Shadowrider
    Shadowrider Posts: 483
    EKIMIKE wrote:
    Shadowrider wrote:
    Good race, well pleased for Sagan.

    I'd rate it 5 out of 10

    4 out of 10 surely?! :roll: (up your Hipster game, my friend :wink:)

    What?
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,651
    Shadowrider wrote:
    EKIMIKE wrote:
    Shadowrider wrote:
    Good race, well pleased for Sagan.

    I'd rate it 5 out of 10

    4 out of 10 surely?! :roll: (up your Hipster game, my friend :wink:)

    What?

    Up your hipsterism.

    Nothing is ever as good as it used to be, especially if it's become popular in the meantime.
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  • Shadowrider
    Shadowrider Posts: 483
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Shadowrider wrote:
    EKIMIKE wrote:
    Shadowrider wrote:
    Good race, well pleased for Sagan.

    I'd rate it 5 out of 10

    4 out of 10 surely?! :roll: (up your Hipster game, my friend :wink:)

    What?

    Up your hipsterism.

    Nothing is ever as good as it used to be, especially if it's become popular in the meantime.

    It wasn't an outstanding race, it was good, but really the last 10km was a procession with the gap not dropping much, the most exciting thing that happened was Cancellera trying and failing to bridge. 5 out of 10 is completely justified.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,651
    Shadowrider wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Shadowrider wrote:
    EKIMIKE wrote:
    Shadowrider wrote:
    Good race, well pleased for Sagan.

    I'd rate it 5 out of 10

    4 out of 10 surely?! :roll: (up your Hipster game, my friend :wink:)

    What?

    Up your hipsterism.

    Nothing is ever as good as it used to be, especially if it's become popular in the meantime.

    It wasn't an outstanding race, it was good, but really the last 10km was a procession with the gap not dropping much, the most exciting thing that happened was Cancellera trying and failing to bridge. 5 out of 10 is completely justified.

    Yeah, but if you were a proper hipster, you'd knock it down another point just on principle.
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  • jam1e
    jam1e Posts: 1,068
    I'm pretty glad Cancellara didn't win, if he had then for the next few years we'd just hear "he's only won because Cancellara has retired". As it is he had a damn good go but just wasn't strong enough to beat the best of the new generation.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,312
    SKY hardly figured. Will Kwiatowski be another EVB at SKY?
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    I thought it was decent.

    7/10
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,651
    Pinno wrote:
    SKY hardly figured. Will Kwiatowski be another EVB at SKY?

    You what? Kwia went with Sagan, but didn't have the legs after 250km.

    My rating 6/10

    There are two additional points of the ten reserved for wet windy conditions.
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  • Shadowrider
    Shadowrider Posts: 483
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    SKY hardly figured. Will Kwiatowski be another EVB at SKY?

    You what? Kwia went with Sagan, but didn't have the legs after 250km.

    My rating 6/10

    There are two additional points of the ten reserved for wet windy conditions.

    And won E3 8 days ago.
  • EKIMIKE
    EKIMIKE Posts: 2,232
    2/10. No British guys in the top 10. Just a Welshman. If Wiggins was still riding...

    (Definite 7. Maybe elevated to 8 in three years time, with the benefit of rose tinted glasses.)
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  • onyourright
    onyourright Posts: 509
    It was a great race and it’s churlish to give it less than 8. The finale was anything but a procession and everything you could have hoped for. Sagan finally won a monument on the 100th edition of De Ronde. Come on.

    Historic.
  • EKIMIKE
    EKIMIKE Posts: 2,232
    In the rainbow jersey! (1/10. Should've been a marked man.)
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    I enjoyed it very much, I would have liked Cancellara to get closer to catching but that's not really a criticism of the race. Also would have preferred if it was more than just me and some random middle aged guy who were getting properly into it, but hey ho.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,434
    Matt Brammeier ‏@Mattbrammeier85 · 6h6 hours ago

    So my #RVV didn't last so long. Eddy stole my bike!
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,434
    Watched delayed on Sky+
    Had a lovely nap until 50k to go.

    7/10
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • thegibdog
    thegibdog Posts: 2,106
    Anyone else thinking that Sagan and Kwiatkowski might have had a chat last week at E3?
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Shadowrider wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    SKY hardly figured. Will Kwiatowski be another EVB at SKY?

    You what? Kwia went with Sagan, but didn't have the legs after 250km.

    My rating 6/10

    There are two additional points of the ten reserved for wet windy conditions.

    And won E3 8 days ago.

    Yeah but apart from that, Stannard attacking to try to bridge to the Greipel group and Rowe finishing 5th (apparently Sky's best ever RVV result) they hardly figured to be fair. Unlike the Kings of the Classics EQS who were all over the race....

    That EVB guy really did fail at Sky though to the extent I never heard him mentioned. :lol:

    Good effort Pinno but a little bit too obvious. I'll give it a 6/10 on the Sky trolling scale :wink:
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    thegibdog wrote:
    Anyone else thinking that Sagan and Kwiatkowski might have had a chat last week at E3?

    I was thinking more that Sagan played himself down a bit there to maybe take a bit of pressure off today. Don't think Kwia would have traded E3 for a possible RVV.
  • Shadowrider
    Shadowrider Posts: 483
    OnYourRight wrote:
    It was a great race and it’s churlish to give it less than 8. The finale was anything but a procession and everything you could have hoped for. Sagan finally won a monument on the 100th edition of De Ronde. Come on.

    Historic.

    If that's everything you hope for for a finale of a monument then you must be a pretty boring person. I would have loved, a small group of 3 or 4 trading attacks in the last few km's, instead Sagan just kept going as VM blew up and then we got 10 km of a gap holding steady between 3 groups.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,312
    thegibdog wrote:
    Anyone else thinking that Sagan and Kwiatkowski might have had a chat last week at E3?

    More than a possibility.
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  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,104
    7/10 - it was pretty good but will be remembered more for Sagan's first win and Cancellera's last ride than for the action.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,312
    I liked it (well the last hour). Hope it's a wet P-R next week.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    edited April 2016
    Another Great weekend in Flanders. Though the sportive yesterday was not the best one of recent years (through nobodies fault) today was great! Saw the men pass three times on the Kwaremont, the beginning of Lizzie's attack and one of our correspondants whilst sitting in the sun, with a big screen behind us so we could follow what was happening and within easy reach of bars selling copius amonts of Kwaremont beer on the Kwaremont

    Great win for Sagan taken in style. Good on him!

    (if someone could tell me what happened between the base of the kwaremont and half way up that would be great as when we turned around there were 3 seperate groups but that bore no resemblance to what came past on the road...)
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  • EKIMIKE
    EKIMIKE Posts: 2,232
    Cancellara threw the hammer down. Thomas and Stybar (I think) tried to follow but couldn't. Then big Stijn VDB was entrusted with the chase.

    Also, Kwiatek got dropped by Sagan and Sep. Sagan led the way.
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  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,182
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    I enjoyed it very much, I would have liked Cancellara to get closer to catching but that's not really a criticism of the race. Also would have preferred if it was more than just me and some random middle aged guy who were getting properly into it, but hey ho.

    I'm 19 and my name is Natasha
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,312
    Mad_Malx wrote:
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    I enjoyed it very much, I would have liked Cancellara to get closer to catching but that's not really a criticism of the race. Also would have preferred if it was more than just me and some random middle aged guy who were getting properly into it, but hey ho.

    I'm 19 and my name is Natasha

    ...and into cycling :D Fancy a shag?
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  • Crampeur
    Crampeur Posts: 1,065
    Dimi Claeys in 9th...nice work.

    I hate working Sundays.

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