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

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Five man break with a quite big lead:
Armirail
Vanhoucke
Moniquet
Doubey
Hindsgaul

 

[KZD]

He was in great shape and an important rider for WVA. Less excuses to attack before RaF.

Jumbo has been so unlucky lately, its incredible.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Why does anybody think that will happen?

Agree, he should go earlier. Already at Col du Rosier.

 

[Red Rick]

Jumbo has been so unlucky lately, its incredible.

Was there any news about why Vingegaard was so bad in Fleche?

 

[Velolover2]

Redoute is perhaps the most mythologized hill of them all but as a climb it's in the worst spot:

Too long for an explosive attack and too short to be selective for pace-setting.

Maybe it suits Remco tho.

 

[Red Rick]

Redoute is perhaps the most mythologized hill of them all but as a climb it's in the worst spot:

Too long for an explosive attack and too short to be selective for pace-setting.

Maybe it suits Remco tho.

Redoute is the only place in monuments more overrated than the Cipressa.

 

[RedheadDane]

About half the Bingoal team on the attack.

 

[Velolover2]

Redoute as Cipressa and Faucons as Poggio is a good analogy. The finish is also kinda similar:

MSR:

LBL:

 

[topcat]

Is this a real monument?
I think it is.

 

[Panda Claws]

Evenepoel looking strong

 

[AlfaLum]

Evenepoel looking strong

I think he deserves to win after what he has shown already today.

 

[gregrowlerson]

Redoute as Cipressa and Faucons as Poggio is a good analogy. The finish is also kinda similar:

MSR:

LBL:

Interesting hole.

But what about the other 17?

 

[Rollthedice]

Maybe there is a slim chance as this year it's around 5km less from La Redoute to beginning of RaF.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Was there any news about why Vingegaard was so bad in Fleche?

Nobody wanted to ride next to him, so he lost all will to carry on. A day not crashed another, is a day not lived.

 

[meat puppet]

Expecting an open race, but rabofail is a metaphysical certainty.

 

[Velolover2]

The flattest course is the most selective.

 

[yaco]

Also Matthews DNF

The most disappointing aspect about Matthews withdrawal was he was to ride Romandie and could have won a stage.

 

[StryderHells]

The most disappointing aspect about Matthews withdrawal was he was to ride Romandie and could have won a stage.

Yeah that is disappointing, he would of had plenty of opportunities at Romandie.

 

[Tim Cahill]

That image of Roglic doing a Steve Bradbury will never get old

 

[Eclipse]

The flattest course is the most selective.

This is clearly fake news.

If we presume that there are approx 55km of cobbles, that each honourable rider takes a straight line and each cobble is approx 10cm wide that gives us 550,000 cobbles that a rider should cross in PR. If each cobble has an average elevation of only .5cm that clearly gives us 2,5000 metres of total elevation over the whole race.

Meanwhile MSR only offers 2096 and is evidently far flatter ¬_¬

 

[gregrowlerson]

That image of Roglic doing a Steve Bradbury will never get old

Arguably greatest moment in cycling history (at least recent).

And the winner was completely irrelevant to its greatness!

 

[Netserk]

Bad news for TJV:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1518132926600388608

View: https://twitter.com/JumboVismaRoad/status/1518132926600388608

Damn, I thought Benoot would be the strongest uphill on the team.

 

[gregrowlerson]

Simon Gerrans just commenting how LBL was the proudest victory of his career.

The forum feels exactly the same way Simon.

Oh wait.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

This is clearly fake news.

If we presume that there are approx 55km of cobbles, that each honourable rider takes a straight line and each cobble is approx 10cm wide that gives us 550,000 cobbles that a rider should cross in PR. If each cobble has an average elevation of only .5cm that clearly gives us 2,5000 metres of total elevation over the whole race.

Meanwhile MSR only offers 2096 and is evidently far flatter ¬_¬

That's why Boonen was so good at Paris Roubaix. He simply had a superior recovery after every cobble, while he wasn't as good recovering from somewhat longer climbs.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Ineos have lost two gregarios already. Fraile and Rodriguez have anbondoned. They would be important in the finale for Martinez