105th Ronde van Vlaanderen: April 4th, 2021

[Breezy1985]

Happy Easter Ronde everybody.
Beautiful day ahead, enjoy it.

Happy Ronde day

 

[Brumdog66]

Not sure I'd be so comfortable with the break just having 12 minutes here.

Bissegger especially would worry me

 

[Laplaz]

Sep doing Sep-things

 

[Volderke]

Bissegger especially would worry me

Bissegger, Wallays, and maybe 1-2 other guys in that group could go a long way.

 

[sir fly]

Not sure I'd be so comfortable with the break just having 12 minutes here.

Kwaremont#1 should calibrate the effort.

 

[Orbit501]

Bissegger especially would worry me

Yep, big engine. You'd think Norsgaard would have a good engine on him as well.

Wallays is pretty smart too and has results to back it up.

 

[Roku]

Wallays even won DDV like 5 years ago. Houle, Bisseger and Denz are good riders. It looks like a couple of riders from the break could make a deep run.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Probably why the poor kid looks embarrassed, revealed after being kept secret all these years.

GVA, the Francois Mitterand of cycling

The break has a lot of double letters in it

 

[vladimir]

So the TV coverage from the very start raises an important issue: Antwerp is a bit too early to start drinking my Belgian beers, so where do I break out the Leffe: first cobbles? first hill? first Kwaremont?

For me it has to be: no beer before Kortekeer...

 

[sir fly]

Earlier on the anticipation's been pointed out as the name of the game for many.
Anticipating whether Elegant - Quick Step will play the zone or man may shape the race.
They have both the man and zone, but are they assigned to mark riders or sectors was something I've been thinking about after E3.

The kid's awesome!

 

[Volderke]

For me it has to be: no beer before Kortekeer...

cheers!
ps: don't forget to drink the Paris-Roubaix beers as well!

 

[titan31]

Wonder did Schar have another mechanical there or did he forget the bottle rule for a second and just gave up after he threw that away to fans

 

[Volderke]

Burghardt enjoying his ride on a flat clincher.

 

[Keram]

Speaking about beers. Can I drink Starobrno during Ronde if I have no belgian beers?

 

[Broccolidwarf]

7 DQ in the first 10 - they may be trying to pull something now.

 

[titan31]

Wonder did Schar have another mechanical there or did he forget the bottle rule for a second and just gave up after he threw that away to fans

Still trying to get back anyway. Fair chance he's getting dqed for the bottle throw though.

 

[Volderke]

Schar DSQ for throwing a bottle.
A fan immediately dived to the bottle, but it's seen as littering.

Only allowed to throw them away in feed zones. So no bottles for the fans anymore...

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Michael Schär DQF for littering

 

[Bonimenier]

This is ridiculous

 

[titan31]

Stupid rule of course. Also that was way too long to do it anyway. DQ immediately, not leave him ride hard to get back and then do it

 

[Wvv]

The UCI is utterly insane. Riders and teams need to strike. Without them, the sport is nothing.

 

[titan31]

Michael Schär DQF for littering

Logic was clearly not his friend.

 

[Red Rick]

150km from the finish at a pace of 0.1leffe/km

Too hungover to drink about thinking too much.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

The UCI really is doing its damnedest to strangle the humanity in the sport.

 

[Bonimenier]

I wonder how many riders will finish the GTs with these insane rules.