51st Brabantse Pijl - 204km

[Dekker_Tifosi]

No not at all. I just think it would have been a walk in the park for someone like Cunego as well who, bye the way, beat an abundance of Androni riders with ease in Appenino. Equally as impressive, I'd say.

Still won't put him together with Gilbert, because Gilbert has simply shown more over the past 2 years than Cunego ever did.

 

[Michielveedeebee]

No not at all. I just think it would have been a walk in the park for someone like Cunego as well who, bye the way, beat an abundance of Androni riders with ease in Appenino. Equally as impressive, I'd say.

Still won't put him together with Gilbert, because Gilbert has simply shown more over the past 2 years than Cunego ever did.

More impressive I daresay..

 

[The Hitch]

....and if that happens he will be professional as always and won't whinge and cry unlike a certain swiss miss

Didnt Gilbert cry that Pozzato was on his wheel

The Belgian population on these boards is still in uproar over it.

 

[Michielveedeebee]

Didnt Gilbert cry that Pozzato was on his wheel

The Belgian population on these boards is still in uproar over it.

now why would that be? But I'm as much in uproar over Thor's wheelsucking. Wheelsuckers suck

 

[hrotha]

You guys have an ancient barbarian mentality. Charge right in and be inevitably slaughtered by the superior foe, so that you can be buried with your sword and your silly notions of an "honorable fight".

 

[RedheadDane]

Does anyone know what happened to that guy who crashed fairly early in the race and was taken away to the hospital? The way he was lying in the footage they showed on Danish tv sort of indicated a broken collarbone. It looked really bad!

Yeah... I'm such a girl, being worried for some random person...

 

[Buffalo Soldier]

Severe concussion, i think...

 

[Michielveedeebee]

You guys have an ancient barbarian mentality. Charge right in and be inevitably slaughtered by the superior foe, so that you can be buried with your sword and your silly notions of an "honorable fight".

And bloody proud of it! This song expresses our Barbarian mentality http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ0sW7KOFhU
Well you can actually pick any Manowar song you like, they're all about battling honorable

 

[Carl0880]

I agree with D-T. The kind of riders who can beat Gilbert will beat him by riding and will want to win that way, rather than the more negative (but clearly effective overall) tactics against Cancellara the last two weekends.

The other differencees between the tactics of the two kinds of classics is those that know they can compete. There is a big difference between thinking you can win, and knowing you can win. Those that know they can win usually will work because they have confidence in past experience to know they can win. In the cobbled classics in the previous 6 years (2005) , you have only had 5 different winners (Boonen, Cancellara and O-Grady for PR, Boonen, Cancellara, Ballan, Devolder for ToF).

The Ardennes since 2005 you have had 12 different winners. So more riders have had the taste of victory there.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

You guys have an ancient barbarian mentality. Charge right in and be inevitably slaughtered by the superior foe, so that you can be buried with your sword and your silly notions of an "honorable fight".

You say it like it's a bad thing.

 

[hrotha]

You say it like it's a bad thing.

It's not bad - it makes it that much easier for us civilized southerners!

 

[search]

Does anyone know what happened to that guy who crashed fairly early in the race and was taken away to the hospital? The way he was lying in the footage they showed on Danish tv sort of indicated a broken collarbone. It looked really bad!

Yeah... I'm such a girl, being worried for some random person...

no fractures surprisingly, he had a brain concussion and has to stay in hospital for one night.

the name of that random guy is "Pieter Vanspeybrouck" btw (no boasting, had to look that up myself)

 

[boomcie]

It's not bad - it makes it that much easier for us civilized southerners!

With the home-ground advantage we still manage quite will I dare say.

 

[Descender]

With the home-ground advantage we still manage quite will I dare say.

Yeah but we manage bitter.





Cheap shot sorry lol.

 

[Michielveedeebee]

It's not bad - it makes it that much easier for us civilized southerners!

You mean Texasstyle southerners or Walloon southerners ?

 

[hrotha]

You mean Texasstyle southerners or Walloon southerners ?

I meant Roman southerners

 

[Michielveedeebee]

I meant Roman southerners

Oh so you're like a Pozzato all fancy and stuff

 

[El Pistolero]

It's not bad - it makes it that much easier for us civilized southerners!

How is that one painting of Picasso called again?

Spain is so easy to troll with this kind of stuff

 

[RedheadDane]

no fractures surprisingly, he had a brain concussion and has to stay in hospital for one night.

the name of that random guy is "Pieter Vanspeybrouck" btw (no boasting, had to look that up myself)

Ok... someone has flexible shoulders?

And... that was one helluva name!

 

[Michielveedeebee]

How is that one painting of Picasso called again?

Spain is so easy to troll with this kind of stuff

You mean the one with woman with the weird eyes?

 

[El Pistolero]

You mean the one with woman with the weird eyes?

 

[Michielveedeebee]

What happened at Guernica was horrible

 

[greenedge]

I think Ben Hermans could do well in this race.

Agree fully with that. He's strong on the flats and good up steep hills. However he might not be explosive enough.

 

[hrotha]

The Basque town bombed by German aviators?

 

[El Pistolero]

The Basque town bombed by German aviators?

Yeah(Guernica), not really civilized now is it

It was just a joke though.