108th Liège-Bastogne-Liège: 24 April, 2022

[Big Doopie]

I think you should go back to the primary cycling school. "Nowadays is all about Roche aux faucons". "I don't see Remco winning.. "and Remco will be dropped".

For sure, predict a race is not that easy. But not attribute any chance to someone (Evenepoel), while that race is made for him, shows little cycling knowledge.

Btw, @Ilmaestro99 has written several posts about how he was wrong and giving full credit to Remco’s ride. No need to come down on someone who breaks forum standards by showing humility and admitting they may have been mistaken in something as “earth-shattering” as a race prediction.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Btw, @Ilmaestro99 has written several posts about how he was wrong and giving full credit to Remco’s ride. No need to come down on someone who breaks forum standards by showing humility and admitting they may have been mistaken in something as “earth-shattering” as a race prediction.

Thank you.

I think my pre race predictions were a combination of underestimating remco, because of my bias against him and him not having done a good monument performance before, and not predicting the bunch being so small when they hit la Redoute

For sure the race situation and startlist played into remcos hands. But him and his team did a great job exploiting them and he honored cycling with his attack and solo effort, whilst the chasers did the usual BS.

I thought a peloton of 80 riders would control la redoute and hit RoF together. The crash at 60km produced a small group of possibly tactically inept climbers, which remco took full advantage of.

 

[Extinction]

Thank you.

I think my pre race predictions were a combination of underestimating remco, because of my bias against him and him not having done a good monument performance before, and not predicting the bunch being so small when they hit la Redoute

For sure the race situation and startlist played into remcos hands. But him and his team did a great job exploiting them and he honored cycling with his attack and solo effort, whilst the chasers did the usual BS.

I thought a peloton of 80 riders would control la redoute and hit RoF together. The crash at 60km produced a small group of possibly tactically inept climbers, which remco took full advantage of.

The only thing that 80 strong on the Redoute means is that 40 or so get dropped. Thus we arrive at the same force against the other. And so he attacks on the next climb with potentially the same result or maybe someone is able to get hitched on, but who amongst those in the race? Valverde? Rodriguez? Vlasof? Van Aert?

The only monument he had ridden was Lombardia, once in the fight to win, the other coming back from injury without the Tour or Vuelta in his legs.

 

[Carrick-On-Seine]

Dammit, I'm missing the classics season already. Roll on San Sebastián.

 

[RedheadDane]

I believe I can flyyyyyyyyyyy

 

[OlavEH]

Dammit, I'm missing the classics season already. Roll on San Sebastián.

That is no way the same as the spring classic. The cycling calendar needs a reboot after the Tour with more focus on better fall classics. SS, Bretagne, Hamburg, Quebec, Montreal and Paris-Tours is nowhere near good enough. And now they even moved and castraded Milano - Torino.

 

[Carrick-On-Seine]

That is no way the same as the spring classic. The cycling calendar needs a reboot after the Tour with more focus on better fall classics. SS, Bretagne, Hamburg, Quebec, Montreal and Paris-Tours is nowhere near good enough. And now they even moved and castraded Milano - Torino.

It's a decent and prestigious one day race. I can't get very excited about tours unless there are echelons.

 

[gavia88]

That is no way the same as the spring classic. The cycling calendar needs a reboot after the Tour with more focus on better fall classics. SS, Bretagne, Hamburg, Quebec, Montreal and Paris-Tours is nowhere near good enough. And now they even moved and castraded Milano - Torino.

well, indeed, the spring classics are really a period in the year you look forward to as a cycling fan, while in autumn there are still some nice classics, but the period as a whole is not really getting fans thrilled like the spring. Although I think it would be difficult to copy the kind of build up the spring classics have now , first some semi-classics with a lot of history, paris-nice, Tireno to build up tension to the big races. Later in the season people already had there first goals of the year, and more injuries and how much energy is left is deciding for what races the riders are still peaking. However, it would be cool to create a kind of sequence of big races in the weekend and on Wednesdays in September and October, like now in March and April. It would be interestin in my opinion if there would be some (small) block with really (cobbled) classic kind of races. As those riders not really have a second chance in the season after spring is over.

Fantasy mode on: It would be cool if they could create some new races, like for example a kind of mixture of Flanders and Liege in Yorkshire, should be possible to add an excellent hilly cobble classic there. As well as e real flat cobble classic in Eastern Germany/Western Poland. If you add World Championship, Torino + Emilia + Lombardia, San Sebestian, and upgrade the courses of Brussel Cyclassic (South of Brussel there a quite some unknown cobbled hills) and bring back distance to Paris - Tours and Plouay and you could have a really nice sequence of interesting races, with great possibilities to race on.