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  • yorkshireraw
    yorkshireraw Posts: 1,628
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    r0bh wrote:
    Geraint Thomas to ride Paris-Roubaix (but not Flanders it seems)

    https://www.teamsky.com/article/thomas- ... to-roubaix

    TdF prep innit.

    meh, not sure GT needs to experience the cobbles prior to the TDF - he's done them plenty. Aru / Dan Martin types, then yes.

    Mind you, GT would likely finish higher in P-R than he will on the TdF GC.
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,786
    ddraver wrote:
    E3 poster - https://twitter.com/WestemeyerSusan/sta ... 8944574464

    (Don't see the fuss myself, dancing cowgirl I suppose...)
    And guns. At best it's naff. I thought it was a tribute to Armstrong at first.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,388
    Naff is what E3 do with their posters innit...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,786
    We're all still cool with this??!!

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    http://cyclinganddesign.blogspot.fr/
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,388
    First one - fine
    Second one - ...
    Third one - hmmm, yeah ok

    (I had assumed it was about the guns with regard to the recent shooting, but I ve got to the point with those now where I just think, "sorry America, that's your own problem" now...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812
    For gawd sake you lot, give it a rest.
    It's Belgian and the wrong sport, so nothing the BBC can do about that.

    Far more important things just around the corner, to think about, such as this:-

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    Is this the first showing on Eurosport?
    A pity they have only scheduled half the coverage, so only half the hellingen.
    But the finale of this year's Omloop Het Nieuwsblad looks more like past Ronde van Vlaanderen, scaling the Muur and the Bosberg and finishing in Meerbeke.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,564
    Quickstep putting out a rubbish team as usual:

    Dries Devenyns (BEL)
    Fernando Gaviria Rendon (COL)
    Philippe Gilbert (BEL)
    Iljo Keisse (BEL)
    Yves Lampaert (BEL)
    Zdenek Stybar (CZE)
    Niki Terpstra (NED)
    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: 6,641
    Seems they're putting a lot on the Muur Bosberg finish.

    Molenberg will still be key even in Tommeke's abscence
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812
    The weekends profiles:-
    The big semis...
    omloop-het-nieuwsblad-2018.png

    kuurne-brussel-kuurne-2018-new.png


    ....and the semi semis.

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    royal-bernard-drome-classic-2018.png
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    inseine wrote:
    We're all still cool with this??!!

    DWd91zLVoAEp5vV.jpg

    Im cool with all that :) is this to do with E3 too?
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    The weekends profiles:-
    The big semis...
    omloop-het-nieuwsblad-2018.png

    kuurne-brussel-kuurne-2018-new.png


    ....and the semi semis.

    classic-de-lardeche-2018.png

    royal-bernard-drome-classic-2018.png

    Cant wait :)
  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,231
    Erm.... Stannard? Anyone...?
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812
    OCDuPalais wrote:
    Erm.... Stannard? Anyone...?

    You have to wonder.....

    I have everything crossed that the UCI don't have to bring their severe weather protocol into play.
    Sunday especially looks a bit nippy, to say the least.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    OCDuPalais wrote:
    Erm.... Stannard? Anyone...?

    You have to wonder.....

    I have everything crossed that the UCI don't have to bring their severe weather protocol into play.
    Sunday especially looks a bit nippy, to say the least.

    It looks Dry at least, no rain for a few days so shouldnt be any ice or snow. BUT BRRRRRRRRRRRRR. proper suffering
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,196
    Vino'sGhost wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    OCDuPalais wrote:
    Erm.... Stannard? Anyone...?

    You have to wonder.....

    I have everything crossed that the UCI don't have to bring their severe weather protocol into play.
    Sunday especially looks a bit nippy, to say the least.

    It looks Dry at least, no rain for a few days so shouldnt be any ice or snow. BUT BRRRRRRRRRRRRR. proper suffering

    Great news :D
  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    Watching people try to race with a load of extra kit on compared to usual makes me feel a bit uncomfortable. Or at least brings back some rather painful memories of early season (and occasionally late April) racing
  • ducknumber1
    ducknumber1 Posts: 1,158
    Shot in the dark- anyone any idea if KBK is shown on tv in India? Better still a bar/cafe in Pune?

    Suspect I'll be in the hotel on Steephill
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,104
    OCDuPalais wrote:
    Erm.... Stannard? Anyone...?

    He's a bit heavy for the Muur/Bosberg double I'd think.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,310
    andyp wrote:
    OCDuPalais wrote:
    Erm.... Stannard? Anyone...?

    He's a bit heavy for the Muur/Bosberg double I'd think.

    He's not racing it either, which is probably a bigger impediment.
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  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    andyp wrote:
    OCDuPalais wrote:
    Erm.... Stannard? Anyone...?

    He's a bit heavy for the Muur/Bosberg double I'd think.

    He's not racing it either, which is probably a bigger impediment.

    So he wants to win a monument this year then! Interesting stuff
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812
    Next up, tomorrow afternoon and weather permitting, we have arguably the best cobbles race of last season: Le Samyn
    Wind and rain wore down the peloton, with echelons a plenty, before the muddy and slick paveleft just final duel between Guillaume van Keirsbulck and newcomer Alex Kirsch to be played out to the point of total exhaustion.
    This year, Quick Step are sending a very strong team that includes Gilbert, Terpstra and Stybar. There are plenty of other cobbles specialists among the remaining teams.
    Eurosport have live coverage from 2-30pm GMT.

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    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZqQy7WNCFs

    Just reliving last years edition. Proper day out, Belgian toothpaste for all
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,196
    Looks like I picked the right day to work from home!
  • yorkshireraw
    yorkshireraw Posts: 1,628
    ShutupJens wrote:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZqQy7WNCFs

    Just reliving last years edition. Proper day out, Belgian toothpaste for all

    I randomly caught this on the day last year - twas indeed great stuff. Proper hammer & tongs.
  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    Striking lecturers and snow have combined in a perfect storm to give me the day off too. Hallelujiah
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    A very good race. Conditions will be horrible for the poor b*ggers riding today.
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812
    Timoid. wrote:
    A very good race. Conditions will be horrible for the poor b*ggers riding today.

    Organisers confirm that both races will go ahead, despite sub zero temperatures all day and a biting 30kph blast from the NE.

    https://twitter.com/laflammerouge16/sta ... 0213784576

    Have fun, guys and gals. 8)
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,196
    Arggghhh Kirby.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,196
    It's pretty good - Gilbert and Terpstra (and Gaudin) up the road, with a group consisting of van kirsbuilck and kirsch, van der sande etc chasing.

    Gaudin is getting savaged, Gilbert and Terpstra taking it in turns to do him over.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812
    Done and dusted early this year.
    Gaudin done by the QS 1-2 and the rest left chasing minor placings.

    Meanwhile, Kirby has talked an awful lot, but commentated very little, as per.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.

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