The Hell of the North 2022 ***Spoilers***

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  • seanoconn
    seanoconn Posts: 11,677
    Any reasons given yet as to why MvdP didn’t seem at his best? I hope it wasn’t his back again.
    Pinno, מלך אידיוט וחרא מכונאי
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    mididoctors said:

    rick_chasey said:

    NGL feeling pretty rough today so was dozing in and out of this.

    I wonder if WvA had not had such bad luck he’d have been there with DvB

    WvA was the strongest guy in the race
    Rubbish.

    If we are to argue that the strongest guy wasn’t the winner, then the strongest guy was unquestionably Mohoric.

    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    edited April 2022
    RichN95. said:

    mididoctors said:

    rick_chasey said:

    NGL feeling pretty rough today so was dozing in and out of this.

    I wonder if WvA had not had such bad luck he’d have been there with DvB

    WvA was the strongest guy in the race

    How do you know that van Baarle didn't have plenty more to give?

    Van Baarle attacked froma group Van Aert was in, bridged up to the Mohoric group, rode away from them and won by nearly two minutes. How was Van Aert stronger? Did he do bench presses at the sign on?
    WvA was caught out at pretty intense moment on the trench .VB's bad luck saw him get demoted to a group that then brought him up to the front of the race again .

    WvA made a lot of covering accelerations . No doubt too many
    "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
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    blazing_saddles said:

    mididoctors said:

    rick_chasey said:

    NGL feeling pretty rough today so was dozing in and out of this.

    I wonder if WvA had not had such bad luck he’d have been there with DvB

    WvA was the strongest guy in the race
    Rubbish.

    If we are to argue that the strongest guy wasn’t the winner, then the strongest guy was unquestionably Mohoric.

    That's a possibility I must agree but I am sticking to my guns for the sake of promoting minor drama fuelled debate
    "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
  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,124
    edited April 2022





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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    davidof said:






    Awesome
    "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
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    mididoctors said:

    blazing_saddles said:

    Ineos's dominance is boring..................................

    Fair play to them tbh .. they are winning races without having the top tier favourites. Oddly there GT challenges are likely to falter this year with pog and Rog out muscling everyone else
    I don't think it is a coincidence. It feels like they know they are outsiders for the GTs at present and have switched focus.

    It was noticeable how the impetus went out of the first big group once Ineos had a few issues. As someone else said, the only fair winners today would have been Mohoric or an Ineos rider.

    Thought it was one of the best editions I've seen today. Never quite sure until the last 10k what would happen and wasn't a case of favourites marking each other out of it.
  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,601
    Ineos are in a similar position to how they've always been. But their current batch of good but not favourites are less scared.
    "Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    rick_chasey said:

    Lampaert pretty cheesed at the finish “if you don’t understand bike racing stay at home”

    If he'd been on the cobbles like he should have been it wouldn't have happened
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    mididoctors said:

    blazing_saddles said:

    mididoctors said:

    rick_chasey said:

    NGL feeling pretty rough today so was dozing in and out of this.

    I wonder if WvA had not had such bad luck he’d have been there with DvB

    WvA was the strongest guy in the race
    Rubbish.

    If we are to argue that the strongest guy wasn’t the winner, then the strongest guy was unquestionably Mohoric.

    That's a possibility I must agree but I am sticking to my guns for the sake of promoting minor drama fuelled debate
    Certainly a better efforts than my earlier attempt.
    Not so much as a nibble.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,698
    😁😁😁

    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Askey did well to finish, he was in a right mess
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Fair enough.

    I just figured the Arenberg effort for WvA was pretty major and his chase post puncture seemed to result him him having to chase harder then VB, but then I drifted in and out so I may have missed some stuff
    _
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    edited April 2022
    Pross said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Lampaert pretty cheesed at the finish “if you don’t understand bike racing stay at home”

    If he'd been on the cobbles like he should have been it wouldn't have happened
    Also called him some names in the interview which I clearly missed, hence the *English* apology



    Anyway it is part of the route. He’s right
    _
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Not sure if it was down to different camera angles or watching on my phone but the racing on the cobbles just looked so much faster than I've ever noticed previously. I know it was a fast race but there were corners today where I just didn't think the riders would make it at the pace they were going.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,698
    Taking one for the team...

    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,233
    What's 'kalf'? Translate says 'calf' but is there some colloquialism?
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,233
    Btw, had I had that off suffered by Lampaert I would not have got back up and on to the service bike. That was effing scary to see.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    ddraver said:

    Taking one for the team...

    Never seen that before ..
    "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: 22,726
    That's what I call an impressive rear flat.

    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,183
    ddraver said:

    Taking one for the team...

    Lucky to escape without breaking his elbow there
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    There was a lot of impact punctures ... Especially Front tubeless tyres becoming unseated?
    "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
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,553
    edited April 2022
    mididoctors said:

    rick_chasey said:

    NGL feeling pretty rough today so was dozing in and out of this.

    I wonder if WvA had not had such bad luck he’d have been there with DvB

    WvA was the strongest guy in the race
    I think if you have an approx 30 second gap on the WvA group going into the Carrefour de l'Arbre and arrive at the finish with a 1:47 gap, then you can justifiably be called the strongest rider in the race.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,698
    Taking one for the team...

    mididoctors said:

    There was a lot of impact punctures ... Especially Front tubeless tyres becoming unseated?

    I struggle to see how tubeless tyres are any worse in that respect. I don't think I've ever burped a front wheel on the MTB.

    Front punctures are a bit of a mystery really...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • mrb123
    mrb123 Posts: 4,819
    DVB also had a fairly substantial attack trying to catch the leaders which got reeled in, before he tried again and ultimately caught and dropped them.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Pross said:

    Van Baarle odds of 30/1 seems generous

    Wish I was a gambler
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,698
    edited April 2022
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    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,698
    edited April 2022
    Were we really saying this guy has no chance of winning this morning..?



    62 Monuments! Sixty Two!!



    ...and I suppose this one too...

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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    edited April 2022
    This photo. Everyone looking at the camera celebrating, except one. Ben Turner looking at the cobble like Gollum looking at the Ring. He's going win his own one day.


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  • bm5
    bm5 Posts: 586
    Shame Devriendt did not make the podium. That was a great day for him.

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