Strade Bianche 2024 ***Spoilers***

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  • amrushton
    amrushton Posts: 1,313

    2.22 Already? Is no one working to bring him back.

  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912

    Someone choose Tim wellens ....smart pick if it comes back together

    "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: 22,730

    Ben Healy trying to get out of the chase group

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660

    That EF helmet is a disgrace

  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730

    3 and a quarter minutes lead. Could be 5 minutes, come the square in Siena.

    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912

    It's pretty impressive

    "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: 18,912

    This chase group looks dejected

    "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: 75,660

    You do really need at least 2 of the 3 classics amigos to turn up to make a race of it

  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660

    Lol Voigt not on “it’s still a race” message

    ”will Pogacar lap some of the riders?!”

  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,620

    They were racing for 2nd from the moment he announced he was starting the race.

    "Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago
  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613

    That was mental

    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.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912

    I thought he was going to win solo...just not quite that far out .

    "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
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,226

    Crazy. The team just destroyed everyone else, but he was just getting started.

  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730

    A spectacular attack, but it resulted in a pretty dull race.

    Leaves one kind of conflicted.

    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912

    Well not sure how to.process that

    "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: 10,575

    We're all living in Tadej Pogacar's world, he just shapes it to his will.

  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,823

    I've not seen 1 rider trounce a field like that since Boonen in PR 2012

  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,458

    A mile ahead of everyone else.

    Literally

    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • mrb123
    mrb123 Posts: 4,832

    Well I thought I'd got back from my long run in perfect time to watch the action. Switched on with 78km to go 😧

  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,024
    edited March 2

    The good news is that he isn't taking it easy for the classics.

  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660

    You do really need MvdP and to a lesser extent WvA to make these competitive

  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,458

    I can get my head round how much better he is than everyone else here, and then gets beat relatively handily by Vingegaard in July.

    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,458

    Lesser extent WVA?

    You've changed man, you've changed

    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • carbonclem
    carbonclem Posts: 1,798

    I organised my day to watch this and now feel like I wasted some time. Impressive ride but , …

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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,479

    This is precisely when catch-up comes into play. 😉

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited March 2

    He would probably keep it together by riding on the front for 80km, and then sprinting for 2nd tbf

  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444

    I thought that this was tomorrow, not today... sad.

  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444

    OK now I've watched the 1hr highlights and I'm not really sad I thought it was tomorrow now. Much less exciting than previous editions. Will be hard to follow cycling this year if it's all like this, finding it hard enough as it is.