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brilliant spoiling from quickstep
Another lesson from them in "how to win"..
Always been a fan of his.. quality.💥
An inspiring ride from Terpstra.
Good race, Quickstep doing the business again 🙂
Where can I get me one of those big beers?
Goddam Eurosport. Just sat down to watch the E3 (having learned the result already unfortunately) and it was only at the end when Terpstra was nowhere in sight that I realised I'd recorded the highlights of the 2017 edition! Eurosport likes to show them again but not tell you that it's last years!
Ah well, it was a good a finish last year at least. Going to have to record the various repeats of the highlights over the next couple of days in the hope that I get the 2018 one...
looks like they are enjoying the early spring sunshine, peloton is kicking up dust on the belgium back roads
fascinating racing, peloton is very "fluid" at the moment
now that is a select group ! 🙂 should be interesting finish
make the world champ work 🙂
some riders are completely allergic to the wind 🙂 Kristoff must have been on the front for 5 sec and thought **** that! 🙂
cracking race, there there vivianni (you had the wrong wheel) 🙂
Yes good sprint from Sagan, Van Art is strong but he was always stuffed with that group of talented riders, could bode well for Roubaix though
sky are having a spring classics mare so far !!!
Van Art is strong but he was always stuffed with that group of talented riders yep ! 1 SAGAN, Peter (BOH) 5:50:00 2 VIVIANI, Elia (QST) 3 DEMARE, Arnaud (GFC) 4 LAPORTE, Christophe (COF) 5 DEBUSSCHERE, Jens (LTS) 6 NAESEN, Oliver (ALM) 7 TRENTIN, Matteo (MTS) 8 ŠTYBAR, Zdenek (QST) 9 STUYVEN, Jasper (TFS) 10 VAN AERT, Wout (VWC) ffs what was wrong with the old forum this new one is so so so shit now it becoming a bad joke!
Best new format award goes to Klunk's last post there
Just watched the replay - great race
<b>Dwars door</b> Vlaanderen today
seems like Valverde and Quintana are using the race as cobbles practice for the TdF
some piccies from sundays race
Thanks for the pics again... they're ACE !
De Ronde this weekend 👍🤩
cold wet and grim today
blimey sky have decided to make an appearance in the form of luke rowe
some riders need to go on mechanics courses 🙂
gimme shelter 🙂
luke 
soloing from 75km out 🙂 brave or stupid ?
wout van aert rides into the hazard warning copper ! Don't think luke had the legs for it losing 30secs on the first climb.
grim looking peloton 🙂
hmmmm, Tony hasn't got his deep wheels on so I doubt he's going for a 60k solo but he's definitely testing them just now
he's, with help from bmc, smashed the peloton to bits! **** me that looked scarey!!! ;
lethal!!
this is getting brutal!
carnage out there, no one can stay upright
to busy looking over their shoulders 😉
no escaping qsf on the cobbles
nice weather !
Lol ! 🙂
what a bunch of muppets 🙂
another great race in atrocious conditions
Funny, I thought he'd been clever, going when only the sunweb guy was on his wheel (as I thought he looked the weakest). Actually I think they ended up 1 & 2, so either the others were all knackered anyway or they CBA racing for 2nd
*shrugs*
Not for the first time this season, there was a lot of 'after you' in the final today. I can't remember it being this cagey - Milan San Remo when Nibbles slipped off the front, E3 with Terpstra, Valgren at Omloop and today. It makes for unpredictable results and might - might be an indication of how even the top end of the peloton are. The days of the likes of Boonen or Cancellara just riding people off their wheel have gone.
Who's your money on for Sunday then? GVA seems to be lacking a little but could be a good bluffer, Sagan is coming into form, Naessens and Van Aert outside options for a Belgian win? Phil Gil seems strong but won't be allowed to go on the Kwaremont like he did last year. Or even Valverde for an outside bet. It'll be really open.
It was a sneaky move, switching across the road to eye up the opposition. I liked that!
Valverde for De Ronde..
Van Aert in the top ten, GVA third.. unknown in second..
Hoping that 20 flat km at the end will be too much for valverde
If the weather's bad, Van Aert might be a shout (though I reckon quite a few will be good enough at getting up slippy cobbled climbs and, again, 20km flat...)
Looks like weather will be relatively dry, wind "only" 10ish kmh. Pete then, unless quickstep can pull a stunt in a gusty crosswind
Quickstep have that many cards to play but they've screwed up in the past because they haven't committed to a leader. They've had 7 winners of Belgian races this spring already. I'm gonna stick a tenner of Phil Gilbert doing it again.
I would love to see van Wert win on Sunday but I'm going for the chap who beat him in Tuscany, Tiesj Benoot as my pick for the top spot. Having said that I would be very happy to see Sagan win after doing something bonkers as well.
They’ve had 7 winners of Belgian races this spring already. I’m gonna stick a tenner of Phil Gilbert doing it again.
Isn't Gilbert saving himself for Roubaix to help him win the five monuments?
what coming on sunday 🙂
more cobbled climbs
I've ridden the De Ronde course, it's actually a really beautiful course. The landscape isn't too dissimilar to the flatter lands of Lincolnshire then heading up North to the NYM's and cobbled sectors. The climbs aren't that hard, or long. Obvz that depends on what wattage you are pumping out at the time, but they only go on for about a couple of minutes or so if you attack them.
It's a lovely route, one that I recommend anyone riding for a "to do" trip.