2013 97th Ronde van Vlaanderen, 257km, Sunday 31th March

[the asian]

Looks like Breschel or Bennati has had a problem and Saxo are bringing him back.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

I wonder how those guys feel that get dropped with 150km to go.. damn must be tough

 

[aspire]

Looks like a road bike (with caliper brake) with extra brake levers.

Ah, thanks

 

[ILovecycling]

Pretty bad positioning by Cannondale so far,just one guy in first third of the bunch

 

[Magnus]

Ah, thanks

But there are usually a few riders who have cross bikes set up for RVV and PR, in case it gets muddy (I believe Boom used a cross bike for PR last year as well).

 

[burning]

Europcar riding at the front, Voeckler or Turgot will probably try something later

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Wow Europcar are really going for it.... Nice

 

[roundabout]

lulz at europcar. who did they drop apart from Gilbert the lesser?

 

[will10]

Cross bikes are pretty unusual for the Ronde, more common in Roubaix

 

[l.Harm]

Wtf are they doing. Gaudin training for next week? They're probably all dropped if it really begins.

 

[will10]

lulz at europcar. who did they drop apart from Gilbert the lesser?

Looks like they want a hard race...but I agree, a tad too early.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Lol what are they doing? They look like they're trying to catch the break or something

 

[brilleaben]

They want to catch Mørkøv. He is too lethal.

 

[bubblegum]

Looks like they want a hard race...but I agree, a tad too early.

missed the move and want to bring it back and get a man up there?

 

[maltiv]

Typical Europcar, they have so much energy they don't know what to do with it, so they burn their matches far too early

 

[Ferminal]

Green Monsters

 

[will10]

Who knows, maybe Europcar know something we don't about the next few km. But it looks pretty daft at the minute.

 

[sankaa]

Hopefully the ronde teaches you something you can apply to your exam.

I think turgot got be the surprise here, hes much better already than 2012, and he was in bunch last year.

Its an exam in radiology, so maybe if we get to see some x-ray photos of Boonen.

 

[will10]

In the gutter with 120km to go! How can anyone not love de Ronde.

 

[Peccio89]

wtf are they doing? a real waste of energy

 

[l.Harm]

Andréé Nice move.

 

[will10]

lol Greipel

 

[will10]

Did you see how easily Kwiatkowski crossed that gap? Geez.

 

[roundabout]

Ok, I take it back. Still a bit too much effort for an uncertain gain

 

[brilleaben]

Seems like they just wanted to be in the break.