2018 Ronde van Vlaanderen 1UWT. Antwerpen › Oudenaarde (266.5k) *Spoilers*

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 73,787
    Next stop koppenberg.

    Tough threesome eh?
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 17,655
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Sagan looks chiiiiiilz

    hides well too these days despite the rainbow stripes
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,238
    Magnus Cort putting in a great ride
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,188
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Luke Rowe chucked out of the race for riding on the pavement
    Have they told him yet? It looks like he’s still there.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,591
    BMC & Sky forcing the pace in the thinned group.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,591
    Mads Pedersen catches the front two. Magnus Cort just behind them.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 73,787
    Expect some riders to make a move ahead of the koppenberg to get a head start.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,968
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Luke Rowe chucked out of the race for riding on the pavement

    How ironic, given he was the only guy riding the pave, while the entire peloton took to the path, last year
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 73,787
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Luke Rowe chucked out of the race for riding on the pavement

    How ironic, given he was the only guy riding the pave, while the entire peloton took to the path, last year

    He did almost smash into about 20 spectators.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,591
    Langefeldt, Cort and van Barle catch the front three. That's a handy little break.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 17,655
    bit harsh...was kinda railroaded into it.
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    Not really, he was trying to move up. Not a great decision
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Rowe's little naughty is like my daily commute dodging the tourists through the Negen Straatjes and Spui.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,493
    RichN95 wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Luke Rowe chucked out of the race for riding on the pavement
    Have they told him yet? It looks like he’s still there.

    That's a joke. Making an example of someone. I bet a quick step riding doing that wouldn't be kicked out.
    "Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 17,655
    ShutupJens wrote:
    Not really, he was trying to move up. Not a great decision


    mmmm mmmmm maybe
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    UK commentators saying wayward spectators funnelled him off the road and that it was unfair given other rides had deliberately ridden off the main road and on pavement.

    Oh well.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,238
    Surprised nobody hit those barriers at the bottom of the Koppenberg, they seem to be designed to be extra-sticky-outy
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 73,787
    Shirley Basso wrote:
    UK commentators saying wayward spectators funnelled him off the road and that it was unfair given other rides had deliberately ridden off the main road and on pavement.

    Oh well.

    Funny that.
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Confiture de fiesters.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 73,787
    Terpstra attack.
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  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Lots of unclipping
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 17,655
    terpstra
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,968
    I believe that the real race has just started. :)
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,271
    They haven’t dislodged Nibali yet... worries!
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,188
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Luke Rowe chucked out of the race for riding on the pavement

    How ironic, given he was the only guy riding the pave, while the entire peloton took to the path, last year

    He did almost smash into about 20 spectators.
    But as they pointed out on Eurosport, he never actually rode on the pavement. The crowd were in the road.

    He’s still riding along though.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 73,787
    steenbeekdries next.

    Then the Taaienberg with the hollestraat too.

    Nasty.
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  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Break's chances?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 73,787
    RichN95 wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Luke Rowe chucked out of the race for riding on the pavement

    How ironic, given he was the only guy riding the pave, while the entire peloton took to the path, last year

    He did almost smash into about 20 spectators.
    But as they pointed out on Eurosport, he never actually rode on the pavement. The crowd were in the road.

    He’s still riding along though.

    Eurosport < Sporza.

    Brits think rulez are all about the black & white.

    Rather than, y’know the spirit.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,591
    Selective on Koppenberg.

    Front three of Van Barle, Pedersen and EF bloke.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 73,787
    Shirley Basso wrote:
    Break's chances?

    They’re there to survive the next big favourite acceleration if they can, by having a head start.
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