Ronde van Vlaanderen 2023 *Spoilers* thread

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,907
    ddraver said:

    A second group of misfits - but misfits from all the big teams - has gone off the front and has a few seconds

    ("only" 110 to go...)

    Going to fly by at this rate
    "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
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,692
    Sagan out 😥
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Mads very active early on. Seems like he doesn’t trust himself to hang with the big guys.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,907
    Stealth move by pog
    "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
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,692
    Strings out but closes back up again
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,907
    ddraver said:

    Sagan out 😥

    End of an era ... Covid hammered him
    "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: 18,907
    Go on Kasper
    "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
  • Quickstep remember that they’re racing on cobbles in Belgium and are meant to be at the front.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,907
    Where's WvA ?
    "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
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Punchy chase group
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,907
    Kung could drag this a long way
    "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
  • phreak
    phreak Posts: 2,951
    Big gap between the favourites and that break.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,692
    First 15s of Carlton in 2023 and already I can't....
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • phreak
    phreak Posts: 2,951
    90 seconds is a big old gap to a group with this pedigree.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,907
    WvA has he got 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
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,692
    Mid race lull musing...

    I am not a skilled guitarist, I was the student cliche with long hair who "played" at playing guitar. When I pick one up after, no joke, a year or so I can play the same few bits that I learned (e.g. Nothing else matters and stairway, I told you I was a cliche) pretty much perfectly...

    How does the human body do this???
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,907
    Muscle memory
    "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: 18,907
    Lot of bluffing
    "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
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,692

    Muscle memory

    Yeah but...what really is that man...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,692
    Meanwhile, the attacking group have ridden across to the break and have 2 mins on the rest. Some interesting names there and the race distance continues to drop rather fast...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,430
    Where are we at here.

    1 group in front and the peloton with the big 3 2 mins back.

    ?

    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,692
    edited April 2023
    yup...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,430
    Fuck that's a bad crash
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,430
    ddraver said:

    yup...

    Ta.

    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,692
    edited April 2023
    I thoroughly recommend the french comms by the way...

    another crash...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • phreak
    phreak Posts: 2,951
    So many crashes today!
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,907
    CRASH
    "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
  • gregster04
    gregster04 Posts: 1,756
    Yeah that was a real nasty one - some big riders down too
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,907
    Jumbo hitting the front
    "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
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,430
    edited April 2023
    Girmay will be out
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!