Ronde van Vlaanderen April 5th 2015 **warning: contains unmasked spoilers**

neris

Must be nice to be able to feck ur expensive bike to the ground and be able to hop on a new one.

Brian?

Inquitus wrote: »

I think he has a good chance at Roubaix if his form is good and his head is in the right place, I am not sure about either though tbh.

He's pure class on a bike when his head is right. The problem is his head goes way too easily.

neris

Dont think his heads been right since the 2013 giro

Darkglasses

ThisRegard wrote: »

I think so too, you can see it in his body language that he's not happy.

The guy is never happy!

iwillhtfu

What was that lad in the service car thinking ffs..

ThisRegard

It was nuts, there was never space to get though there. I wonder will the police be having words as a result.

iwillhtfu

ThisRegard wrote: »

I was nuts, there was never space to get though there. I wonder will the police be having words as a result.

Broken collar bone so someone better be having a word with the driver.

happytramp

I wonder if that's true about Brammier targeting the intermediate sprint in order to win 34 liters of beer!

Lusk_Doyle

happytramp wrote: »

I wonder if that's true about Brammier targeting the intermediate sprint in order to win 34 liters of beer!

73 litres.

Darkglasses

happytramp wrote: »

I wonder if that's true about Brammier targeting the intermediate sprint in order to win 34 liters of beer!

Its 100% true, he was tweeting about it days ago!

Lusk_Doyle

Darkglasses wrote: »

Its 100% true, he was tweeting about it days ago!

All true except the quantity!

pelevin

Looks all very sedate racing so far. You'd imagine Sky would want it to be a bit harder to try ditch the Kristoff, Sagan, Degenkolb types.

Lusk_Doyle

pelevin wrote: »

Looks all very sedate racing so far. You'd imagine Sky would want it to be a bit harder to try ditch the Kristoff, Sagan, Degenkolb types.

Plenty of time. It will start to get ever quicker from now on after that last attack by TS.

Pudsy33

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

All true except the quantity!

How much did he win?

C3PO

Wow .... that's mad Ted!

pelevin

Neutral car's been lighting up the race.

Inquitus

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/matt-brammeier-wins-his-weight-in-beer-at-tour-of-flanders-165195

Sprint after 34km for your weight in beer.

blobbie

FFS # 2

Lusk_Doyle

Pudsy33 wrote: »

How much did he win?

73 1,000mls.

godtabh

Pudsy33 wrote: »

How much did he win?

76l

Lusk_Doyle

godtabh wrote: »

76l

You saying he is fat?

pelevin

Impressive in terms of character how much of a team man a top sprinter like Greipel is prepared to be in races like this & Paris Roubaix.

Inquitus

Kirby is awful today, would he ever stop going on about the Sky bike.

Brian?

Inquitus wrote: »

Kirby is awful today, would he ever stop going on about the Sky bike.

He's driving me nuts!!

godtabh

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

You saying he is fat?

Cuddley

dastardly00

Geraint Thomas looks like he is going well.

Brian?

dastardly00 wrote: »

Geraint Thomas looks like he is going well.

He is indeed. Paolini is looking good too

blobbie

Some folk on Twitter claiming it was the same car in both accidents.

Brian?

blobbie wrote: »

Some folk on Twitter claiming it was the same car in both accidents.

It wasn't. The first can was ordered off the course after the incident.

dastardly00

Things are starting to heat up now.

Brian?

Greipel is doing savage work, has to be for Roelandts.

pelevin

Scorn though I may be heaping on myself, I think Kirby & Kelly are an excellent pair!

pelevin

Super ride from Greipel all right.

Inquitus

pelevin wrote: »

Scorn though I may be heaping on myself, I think Kirby & Kelly are an excellent pair!

I like Kirby, but he can be an awful bollox sometimes, he never stopped yapping about the Sky bike for the first 3 hours of coverage!

NamelessPhil

My 5 year old keeps parroting "Alpescin caffeine shampoo".

dastardly00

I don't think Sep VanMarcke is in that lead group?

Edit: Cameras are on him now. He's trying to get back into the group.

neris

NamelessPhil wrote: »

My 5 year old keeps parroting "Alpescein caffeine shampoo".

Wait till the "visit israel" ads start

dastardly00

How ze fcuk is Greipel still hanging on in there?!

pelevin

Inquitus wrote: »

I like Kirby, but he can be an awful bollox sometimes, he never stopped yapping about the Sky bike for the first 3 hours of coverage!

I think the thing with him is you just agree to put up with the bad in order to enjoy the cycling. Used to hate him but once I relaxed about his foibles, found I could get along fine. Think being with Kelly puts the brakes on his excesses a bit too.

Inquitus

Looks like Terpstra and Kristoff might have this, whats left of the bunch appear happy to look at each other and féck around. Thomas looks cooked.

neris

Wheres the 4 million euro man?

dastardly00

I don't think Terpstra and Kristoff are going to be caught.

pelevin

Kristoff proves he's by a distance the best man in the world at the moment in these races. Wins in a 2 man breakaway, would probably have won a large sprint if it had gone that way.

Brian?

Apparently I'm a genius! I had a fiver on Kristoff at 8/1, thought I backed Terpstra!

C3PO

Great win for Kristoff - Comes across as a nice bloke too!

Snowchaser

Sagan sat in all day and didn't do a tap. Even with 20km to go he didn't do a tap to chase down the break. Then he attacks . Delighted he didn't make it across.

Also a note on Wiggins. This guy is apparently 12kg heavier than when he won the tour. Did a few turns at the front but then tailed of the back. Massive ego. Yet another strange chapter in this fella career.

pelevin

Snowchaser wrote: »

Sagan sat in all day and didn't do a tap. Even with 20km to go he didn't do a tap to chase down the break. Then he attacks . Delighted he didn't make it across.

Also a note on Wiggins. This guy is apparently 12kg heavier than when he won the tour. Did a few turns at the front but then tailed of the back. Massive ego. Yet another strange chapter in this fella career.

Practically all the big favourites "sat in all day not doing a tap" - though I'd say for most people getting over those climbs & cobbles would be one of the more difficult ways of spending a day not doing a tap. Pretty impressive effort by him I thought for giving all he had to come fourth. Should he have put in big efforts earlier instead to come in 40th?

JK.BMC

Greipel should be awarded his weight in bananas- superb ride by the big man.

dastardly00

FDJ didn't have a good day at the office.

Some quotes from the team manager Marc Madiot (link).

“So first we puncture. We stop 500 meters down the road, go to get out the spare wheel … and we realize we don’t have a wrench. Lotto-Soudal have to lend us a wrench! We change the wheel, finally get back into the race, then Chavanel calls with a puncture. I pull over by Chavanel, then, pang! Shimano whack us up the backside & push the car 15, 20 meters,” he said.

“But, anyway, we pull off the back bumper, get back in the race again. I’m thinking, ‘Okay, we can ride our race now.’ We’ve got five riders at the bottom of the Koppenberg. Then I hear, ‘Démare, bike change needed.’ And then we’re f*cked. Up the arse! Ladagnous crashes, Delage is caught up with him, Démare’s gone, and we’re finished.”

:pac: :pac: :pac:

dastardly00

https://vine.co/v/OlxAFLWxjVh