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pog down
meant to be rain early afternoon. Going to be miserable out there 🙁
Bloody Carlton - want some chips (& a beer) now
pog down
Oh I missed that. I assume he's OK cos the team are up the front and riding.
It's not warm out there is it, plenty of them riding in legwarmers, big gloves, jackets/gilets...
Edit - yes, he's fine, camera has just picked him out.
They showed him stretching out a knee shortly after the fall but yeh, seems OK
Big Tim looks great up the front of a bunch, doesn't he? Not sure he can make the difference here but it's good to see
Cobbles are now happening.
Look at the crowds on the Kwaremont!!
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I can confirm it's quite busy on the kwaremont!
grown-ups seem to have woken up to the danger and a chase is kicking off
wow!
pog looks disturbingly fit
Fred Wright off the front - I remember when he won the Junior Tour of Wales in 2016! He started his cycling riding as a Youth at Herne Hill.
fascinating race.
Some great cable cam work along the Kwaremont! They've really gone to town on that climb,
tense, this !
Battle of the giants. Tom P can't be happy, I thought he'd be in the mix.
They won't close it down before the finish but Groups 2 and 3 are very slowly dragging it back. Gonna be close for the final step on the podium.
This is nailbiting!!
Ooft, that nearly went sideways for both of them!
meh, pog can bang his bars all he likes; he had a gap before DVB arrived and couldn't take it
I 😍 MVdP
Too think that Pog is a tour winning climber AND can drop all bar MVdP like that is quite frightening.....at least his sprinting isn't stellar too.
Pog showing some tactical naivety there - towing VdP was never a good tactic, but then playing cat and mouse and letting the chasers catch them to finish off the podium. He should have gone at about 5km, there’s a slight rise and enough of a dig and you can drop someone and it’s a long and exposed run-in to the finish - I’ve grovelled my way back along that road a few times and it feels like a flippin’ long way.
Last 30km of the Women's race now.
Anna Henderson the lone British rider in the lead group.
He should have gone at about 5km, there’s a slight rise and enough of a dig and you can drop someone and it’s a long and exposed run-in to the finish
if he's not dropping him on the patterberg, he's not dropping him on a slight rise, come on now
He should have gone at about 5km, there’s a slight rise and enough of a dig and you can drop someone and it’s a long and exposed run-in to the finish – I’ve grovelled my way back along that road a few times and it feels like a flippin’ long way.
With the greatest of respect you are not MvDP. Pogs only real chance once MvDP had followed him up the climbs was to jump early in the sprint, or sit up early and make MVdP work too much in the final few km. Although I expect MVdP knew he could out sprint those behind too so once POG failed to drop him it was a done deal.
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Battle of the giants. Tom P can’t be happy, I thought he’d be in the mix.
Me too. The sorting was early though and no one else was getting in. Good race. Really enjoyed it though quite cold this year
Can't help but think Pidcock is not the right size to have the power to be a northern classics type rider. He's sub 60kg isn't he?
Wiki says 58kg and it also says Pog 66kg, Van alert 78kg, MVdP 75kg. Doubt they are that accurate but it does paint a picture.
Toms not as fit as last year, but last years results are pretty impressive I would say especially for someone his size -
2021
1st Brabantse Pijl
2nd Amstel Gold Race
3rd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
5th Strade Bianche
6th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
6th La Flèche Wallonne
2022
3rd Dwars door Vlaanderen
I rode the 179km route yesterday and was spectating on the Kwaremont today. Really amazing to watch and great atmosphere. The Belgians really love thier biking eh?
Anyone see Jumbo-Vismas automatic disc brake bedder -inner jig? Like a motorised wheel on turbo trainer, slot bike in, press foot pedal, drag brake.
Every shop should have one, you can sit and sip a coffee whilst your rotors get a fresh bedding in after you've spent a few rides being naughty and feathering them gently into corners and laying down all sorts of irregular brake track on your rotor... 🙄
I rode the 179km route yesterday and was spectating on the Kwaremont today. Really amazing to watch and great atmosphere. The Belgians really love thier biking eh?
Yes they really really do. Was massively impressed with them a week or so back.
Next up, Scheldeprijs on Wednesday then Amstel Gold on Sunday (both have Men's & Women's races).
I rode the 179km route yesterday and was spectating on the Kwaremont today. Really amazing to watch and great atmosphere. The Belgians really love thier biking eh?
It's been a while since I was out there but I've ridden most of the climbs in and around Oudenaarde, visited the museum there and so on. Most of the villages in and around that area have little crits on regularly during the summer and they're amazing. Whole town turns out, roads are just completely closed down and riders descend on the town from all over. The prize money is very good - decent riders can actually make a living off it - and they're wildly popular. Huge fields, loads of spectators and then afterwards, the town returns to its sleepy little self as if nothing had happened! Just always seems to be a welcoming attitude to cycling and cyclists out there.
Interesting edition of Scheldeprijs today. Cross winds decimating the field and a very reduced group of 13 well clear with 23km to go. Quickstep and Jumbo both missed the bus!
Looks like it's operation "try and break mvdp" @ amstel
Wow! It's like déjà vu all over again
good race that!
Sad for Cosnefroy but great to see Kwiato get it after a few leaner years.
Got back and turned it on with 2km to go great finish!
Was out riding all day yesterday so missed everything about Amstel Gold!
Anyway, final race of the Spring Classics this weekend - Paris-Roubaix!
Have to say, a couple of years ago when the cycling press was fwapping away at any and all "innovation" to conquer the cobbles and combining it with all sorts of prose about the iconic iconicness of the iconic event it almost turned me off it completely. Couldn't move for some ex-pro or other banging on incessantly about cobbles so I'm hoping to avoid all that this year and just watch the race without any of the "who's on form?!" build up.
Anyway, final race of the Spring Classics this weekend – Paris-Roubaix!
La Fleche Wallonne?
Liege - Baston - Liege??
Still some great racing to come 😎
La Fleche Wallonne?
Liege – Baston – Liege??Still some great racing to come 😎
I think of those as the Ardennes Classics but yes, it's a fairly loose definition! The racing so far has been good, it's nice to see the crowds back.