2017 Flat Classics thread - will probs have spoilers

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  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613
    Cadel Evans all muddy and that in the WC JERSEY.

    GIMME MORE
    Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,821
    Genuinely just got a shiver down my spine remembering that stage with Cadel in the WC jersey.

    I enjoy Le Samyn a lot tbf, nice little race. Can't believe Paris NIce starts on Sunday!
  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613
    Samyn I always enjoy. Tirreno as well.....
    Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.
  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    I completely missed the early season stage races. How has Degenkolb been looking?
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Milton50 wrote:
    I completely missed the early season stage races. How has Degenkolb been looking?
    OK. Won a stage in Dubai (third overall)
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Did someone mention Le Samyn? Oh well, if you insist.....


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    Section 4 looks like this atm.

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    2-45pm Eurosport tomorrow.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    TakeTheHighRoad wrote:
    Genuinely just got a shiver down my spine remembering that stage with Cadel in the WC jersey.

    I enjoy Le Samyn a lot tbf, nice little race. Can't believe Paris NIce starts on Sunday!

    Vino was knocking lumps out of him all day wasn't he?
    "A cyclist has nothing to lose but his chain"

    PTP Runner Up 2015
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,821
    Yeah, Nibali and Basso had been dropped and were trying to salvage time
  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tkjSLKuqmmg
    Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    Gweeds wrote:
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tkjSLKuqmmg

    Che tappa.

    If it's like that on Saturday there won't be many finishers.
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    ShockedSoShocked wrote:
    TakeTheHighRoad wrote:
    Genuinely just got a shiver down my spine remembering that stage with Cadel in the WC jersey.

    I enjoy Le Samyn a lot tbf, nice little race. Can't believe Paris NIce starts on Sunday!

    Vino was knocking lumps out of him all day wasn't he?

    And lumps of crap out of his own eyes by the looks of it. I remember thinking "Christ, if even Vino looks (more) miserable (than usual)..."
    _
  • mechanism
    mechanism Posts: 891
    Is Le Samyn going to be as good as last year without Scott Thwaites?
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    Gweeds wrote:
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tkjSLKuqmmg

    Evans leading out with 1K to go and just rides them off his wheel. Class.
    http://cyclinganddesign.blogspot.fr/
  • imatfaal
    imatfaal Posts: 2,716
    SPaM02 wrote:
    imatfaal wrote:
    YorkshireRaw wrote:
    ...

    Great race - 10 years old, looks 100. More of this, less ball-cocks on F1 circuits.

    Exactly this.

    Wet and potentially windy on Saturday. I think this could be quite 'open'. Trying to engineer a situation so I can watch this whilst decorating

    Whilst worth a bit of ingenuity - not sure SB is worth going overdrawn in the marital harmony account; you need to be in good credit with PR RvV etc still come
  • yorkshireraw
    yorkshireraw Posts: 1,632
    Could lead to some inspired decorating - green walls with swooping white trails across them...
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Is it on Eurosport?
    _
  • spam02
    spam02 Posts: 178
    imatfaal wrote:
    SPaM02 wrote:
    imatfaal wrote:
    YorkshireRaw wrote:
    ...

    Great race - 10 years old, looks 100. More of this, less ball-cocks on F1 circuits.

    Exactly this.

    Wet and potentially windy on Saturday. I think this could be quite 'open'. Trying to engineer a situation so I can watch this whilst decorating

    Whilst worth a bit of ingenuity - not sure SB is worth going overdrawn in the marital harmony account; you need to be in good credit with PR RvV etc still come

    :D - Yep, such a busy time of year. 'TV negotiations' over the next 3 months could prove more tricky than Brexit!

    Rick, yes it's on Eurosport
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Le Samyn now live on VTM and the weather is foul.
    Very wet pave this afternoon. :)
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • imatfaal
    imatfaal Posts: 2,716
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Le Samyn now live on VTM and the weather is foul.
    Very wet pave this afternoon. :)

    Just tuned in on eurosport player - coverage started at 1445, first ad-break 1448. Looks disgusting out there
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Quietly epic.
    They have the conditions everybody wants for Saturday.
    The bunch breaking up every time they hit the mucky pave.
    No riding on the verges today!
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • imatfaal
    imatfaal Posts: 2,716
    Rue de Belle Vue is not a pretty sight
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  • yorkshireraw
    yorkshireraw Posts: 1,632
    Awesome - will be watching the highlights on ES later.

    Madness that a supposed WT event on Sunday had the same weather conditions and was an appalling advert for the sport.

    Move the same sport a few 1000km north-west and stick in it's heartland on a challenging course and its brilliant. And this is a '3rd level' event.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    imatfaal wrote:
    Rue de Belle Vue is not a pretty sight
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    Is LUC sponsored by Wanty now? Sell-out.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Better avoid a spoiler when the time comes...
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Better avoid a spoiler when the time comes...

    Set the thread up! I'll be watching tonight.
    _
  • dabber
    dabber Posts: 1,978
    I did enjoy that... a tough old day in the saddle.
    “You may think that; I couldn’t possibly comment!”

    Wilier Cento Uno SR/Wilier Mortirolo/Specialized Roubaix Comp/Kona Hei Hei/Calibre Bossnut
  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613
    Cor that was a bit grim for them eh. Loved it. The joys of working for yourself from home!
    Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.
  • yorkshireraw
    yorkshireraw Posts: 1,632
    Great stuff - the 2 Pro Conti boys sticking it to the big teams. Kirsch just wouldn't lay down.

    Quigly trips over his words occasionally but he's great on races like this - shows great enthusiasm for whats happening without resorting to Kirby's unnecessary histrionics.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Ooof enjoyable that one.

    Head and shoulders above the rest mind.
    _
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,821
    That did not disappoint. Grim riding, much like my trip in North Wales yesterday, (and, looking out the window, like my commute to work in the morning)

    CN described it best when they said "The final sprint played out almost in slow motion, as both men struggled to keep their gears turning on the uphill drag to the line."

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