Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne 2019 *Spoilers*

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Stannard ridden out of the wheels ouch.
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  • Crampeur
    Crampeur Posts: 1,065
    Creds to Lampaert too for his blocking at the end, Doull, Terpstra and Keukeleire looked quite a strong combination.
  • fleshtuxedo
    fleshtuxedo Posts: 1,858
    Alejandrosdog wrote:
    FleshTuxedo wrote:
    Impemressive from Jungels and a great ride by Doull, but why could nobody other than Drucker do a turn on the chase? Terpstra looked far too comfortable. Lazy git.

    Because they couldn’t get past quickstep who were sitting on Drucker. Plus there wasn’t much of the peloton left by that point.[/quote

    Jungels went with 16km to go. Too long to just leave Drucker and the QS blockers to it.

    You're right of course, but it was a frustrating watch.
  • Alejandrosdog
    Alejandrosdog Posts: 1,975
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Stannard ridden out of the wheels ouch.

    second time that day...
  • graeme_s-2
    graeme_s-2 Posts: 3,382
    From cycling news
    Matteo Trentin did not finish the race, but his Mitchelton-Scott team have confirmed that he was not disqualified.
    So why did he sit up? He was in the bunch, even if he was too knackered to contest the sprint you’d think he’d have finished. Maybe a mechanical or he hurt himself in his crash?
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Graeme_S wrote:
    From cycling news
    Matteo Trentin did not finish the race, but his Mitchelton-Scott team have confirmed that he was not disqualified.
    So why did he sit up? He was in the bunch, even if he was too knackered to contest the sprint you’d think he’d have finished. Maybe a mechanical or he hurt himself in his crash?

    PCS has Nils Politt as the only rider booted off the race.
    Meanwhile, Trentin was caught red handed on camera, taking a clear pavement short cut.
    Once again the arbitrary application of the rules imo.
    Luke Rowe's DQF was ridiculous in comparison to some of the curb crawling that went on during Flanders, last year.
    His visit to the pavement was unavoidable, while others were deliberate.

    In other news, Michael "Bag of Spanners" Valgren went one better than yesterday and was a DNF.
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    ShutupJens wrote:
    Good effort by Doull to get another effort out to take 2nd. Absolutely loved seeing Terpstra get Wolfpacked, must be pretty disheartening for him to know so intimately what's going on in the final KMs

    Just watched the final KM. That was a very strong attack from far out by Doull
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    underlayunderlay wrote:
    Crampeur wrote:
    underlayunderlay wrote:
    Hilarious moment when Drucker finally ran out of gas, flicked his elbow and four DQS riders immediately spread across the front to block anyone coming through. Gotta love the dark arts.

    Don't forget the motioning for everyone to stay back, as if they were going to start the chase :lol:

    "Don't worry, lads, we've got this..."

    :lol:

    I thought that bit was a bit of a cheap move.

    Just watched the end of this then the last hour or so of Omloop on the turbo, both decent wins for QS in their own right but if this is a precursor to the rest of the classics season it'll be a bit dull.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Absolutelty monster ride that.

    Not getting enough praise.
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  • smithy21
    smithy21 Posts: 2,204
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Absolutelty monster ride that.

    Not getting enough praise.

    It’s only KBK. The definition of a chipper.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Absolutelty monster ride that.

    Not getting enough praise.

    Agreed - that was quite something.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Bridges to a big move on the Kluisberv following carnage on the oude kwarmepnt and then forces the break split at over 50km to go on the Varent and then basically drives the break so hard on his own he keeps off a 60 man peloton, drops a decent WT rider on the flat just in the wheels before stringing them out so hard that when he attacked off the front at 16km to go they couldn’t just not follow, they were so pooped they got caught by the peloton.

    With a majority headwind, that’s a ridiculous effort.
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  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Bridges to a big move on the Kluisberv following carnage on the oude kwarmepnt and then forces the break split at over 50km to go on the Varent and then basically drives the break so hard on his own he keeps off a 60 man peloton, drops a decent WT rider on the flat just in the wheels before stringing them out so hard that when he attacked off the front at 16km to go they couldn’t just not follow, they were so pooped they got caught by the peloton.

    With a majority headwind, that’s a ridiculous effort.

    More impressive than his Liege ride? He had to properly drill it as you say and then when the other riders were cooked, he pulled out more time on his own. Monument or chipper, there was nothing easy about that and it shows what a class all round rider he is
  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Bridges to a big move on the Kluisberv following carnage on the oude kwarmepnt and then forces the break split at over 50km to go on the Varent and then basically drives the break so hard on his own he keeps off a 60 man peloton, drops a decent WT rider on the flat just in the wheels before stringing them out so hard that when he attacked off the front at 16km to go they couldn’t just not follow, they were so pooped they got caught by the peloton.

    With a majority headwind, that’s a ridiculous effort.
    I’d love to see what his power numbers were for that lot.

    Was superb to watch.
  • Alejandrosdog
    Alejandrosdog Posts: 1,975
    lettingthedaysgoby wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Bridges to a big move on the Kluisberv following carnage on the oude kwarmepnt and then forces the break split at over 50km to go on the Varent and then basically drives the break so hard on his own he keeps off a 60 man peloton, drops a decent WT rider on the flat just in the wheels before stringing them out so hard that when he attacked off the front at 16km to go they couldn’t just not follow, they were so pooped they got caught by the peloton.

    With a majority headwind, that’s a ridiculous effort.
    I’d love to see what his power numbers were for that lot.

    Was superb to watch.

    Yes brilliant, his smooth style was torn away at the end, fighting himself and the bike. That’s properly going deep
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    There’s something extra exciting about a rider dropping others *on the flat*.

    No greater show of strength in the sport.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Bridges to a big move on the Kluisberv following carnage on the oude kwarmepnt and then forces the break split at over 50km to go on the Varent and then basically drives the break so hard on his own he keeps off a 60 man peloton, drops a decent WT rider on the flat just in the wheels before stringing them out so hard that when he attacked off the front at 16km to go they couldn’t just not follow, they were so pooped they got caught by the peloton.

    With a majority headwind, that’s a ridiculous effort.


    Methinks you are getting a bit carried away.
    A number of riders bridged after the Kwaermont and for much of his solo effort he was being chase solo, by a Bora domestique, with his ridiculously strong team able to run interference at will.
    For me what was most impressive was that a total cobbles novice managed to ride Ian Stannard off his wheel. I doubt he would have managed that, a few years back.

    So, it was good, but not that good and not that different from his last Spring classic effort.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Disagree was a very concerted effort from multiple teams untill around 10km to go inc lotto & Mitchelton untill their boy crashed.

    Bob was the guy driving the break the whole time.
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  • Alejandrosdog
    Alejandrosdog Posts: 1,975
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Disagree was a very concerted effort from multiple teams untill around 10km to go inc lotto & Mitchelton untill their boy crashed.

    Bob was the guy driving the break the whole time.

    I thought the ef education rider was doing quite a bit too. Non the less when it came time he did the biz .

    Particularly awesome riding Stannard off his wheel as well.
  • philbar72
    philbar72 Posts: 2,229
    ShutupJens wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Bridges to a big move on the Kluisberv following carnage on the oude kwarmepnt and then forces the break split at over 50km to go on the Varent and then basically drives the break so hard on his own he keeps off a 60 man peloton, drops a decent WT rider on the flat just in the wheels before stringing them out so hard that when he attacked off the front at 16km to go they couldn’t just not follow, they were so pooped they got caught by the peloton.

    With a majority headwind, that’s a ridiculous effort.

    More impressive than his Liege ride? He had to properly drill it as you say and then when the other riders were cooked, he pulled out more time on his own. Monument or chipper, there was nothing easy about that and it shows what a class all round rider he is

    absolutely. if that group were to have stayed together Magnus cort Neilsen would have been favourite, but Jungels did it all right. he was by far the strongest in that group and timed his move away and his subsequent solo effort to perfection.

    deserves a huge amount of credit for this.

    also Doull looked like he could be a decent outside bet for a hard cobbled race this year, his finishing surge was really something else. Terpstra was canny, he's never going to win a sprint, but is smart enough to get away at the right time.

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