Recent content by jrolaf

The Worlds in Bergen will be a disaster, for several reasons: 1. The weather - anything other than pouring rain would be a huge surprise... 2. Travel - Bergen is a ***** to travel to, how many Italians, Spaniards etc will make the trip? 3. Prices - this goes for Norway in general - reports...

Boring? Not from where I was standing...the Cauberg! There were no more than 30 riders left going into the Cauberg on the final lap, that may be considered a pack, albeit a small one... All in all a great Championships, and a great Champion! Next year in Firenze will be even better - Hope...

It looks like we're in for a brilliant race on sunday, where only the strongest will survive. The Italians have got to make this a selective race, and Bettini has admitted this. Spain requires some of the same tactic, although they have Freire up their sleeve. This is a "medium" parcourse...

Of course we have already booked, planning is essential. Firenze is going to be spectacular!

I think Ponferrada will work out - these things normally do. Hey, they even managed to stage the Olympics in Athens.... You're welcome to join us in Firenze. Hotel is already booked, but there is always room for more Tifosi :)

Look for us on the Cauberg mate! You've seen the jersey, we'll be wearing that all weekend. Stop by for a drink, we're always generous with the Fernet...it's made for shearing you know :)

No - unfortunately we didn't. Typically - the one year we miss out, we end up winning... So far we hav only travelled in Europe. We're talking about Richmond - but we'll have to wait and see. In 2014 we're planning on riding our bikes down to Ponferrada from Norway - should be an epic...

I'm going, along with 10 other Scandinavians. We go to the worlds every year. It's by far the best race to watch - beats the Tour by a mile. Look out for Team Fernet on the Cauberg. Hopefully the Belgians are doing the "Villa Belgica" this year as well. It was brilliant last year in Copenhagen.

Gilbert is the big favourite with Sagan as the biggest challenger. The Worlds is always a difficult race to predict (apart from last year). The lenght of the race, size of teams, late in the season etc... a lot of things to consider. But it's also the best race of the season! See you on the...

No incentive for a breakaway or punishing pace???? That's the only way 90% of the teams stand a chance of winning... So I'd say there's plenty of incentive!

I was led to understand that it is 50k to London, but that the first part is on narrow, bumpy and quite technical roads. Which isn't ideal for a chasing peloton, and the wide fast roads is only from the 15-20k mark. Is this wrong? Also, a long race against the top classics riders is different...

As easy as the route for the Olympics may be, it is still waaay harder than the pancake route from Copenhagen. So the same tactics do not apply here. Let's just hope the classics riders bring their fighting legs on saturday, and it will get interesting....I hope...

I'd throw a Spaniard in the mix. Both LLS and Valverde seemed to be in good shape the last week of the tour...

Hope you are wrong, but fear you are right....

I bet Team Spartacus plans to induce some serious pain as well...