Brabantse Pijl 2025, April 18

[Salvarani]

I'm tellin' ya, trading pulls with Remco is a losing proposition. Just no relief from the wind behind him, while he coasts as if behind a semi truck when riders like Wout are pulling. Someone said some years ago Remco just squeezes the life out of you doing that.

I still didn't think he'd win the sprint, but dayum.

Only Sonny B showed him!

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Congrats Remco. Clearly the best today! And I'm now curious to see how good can he be in RVV. Never believed in him, specially because he doesn't like cobbles but now there is a chance of being competitive there.

You didn't see the 2021 WCC to realise the potential to be good on these roads was there?

 

[red_flanders]

Only Sonny B showed him!

I don't get the reference!

 

[Salvarani]

I don't get the reference!

EC that he won against Remco

 

[Cycling111]

OMG. I just realized that Powless hasn't beaten 37-year Prades in sprint.

5	PRADES Eduard	Caja Rural - Seguros RGA	85	45	,,
6	CHRISTEN Fabio	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	70	40	,,
7	POWLESS Neilson	EF Education - EasyPost	60	35	,,
8	SILVA Guillermo Thomas	Caja Rural - Seguros RGA	50	30

 

[Salvarani]

OMG. I just realized that Powless hasn't beaten 37-year Prades in sprint.

5	PRADES Eduard	Caja Rural - Seguros RGA	85	45	,,
6	CHRISTEN Fabio	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	70	40	,,
7	POWLESS Neilson	EF Education - EasyPost	60	35	,,
8	SILVA Guillermo Thomas	Caja Rural - Seguros RGA	50	30

Looking at the top 20 for this race…

 

[Unchained]

Didn't see the post if it's here..recently hospitalized Italian race monster, Elisa Longo Borghini won women's version today, shooting ahead of the pack..her second win in a row!! Impressive return to racing after injury.

 

[CyclistAbi]

It was a nice race and sprint in between two champions.

 

[Sciatic]

Blackmore rode like he belonged there, so chapeau to him. He was never beating either of his companions. It wasn't stupidity, it was a guy racing like he deserved to be racing, and the bridge he made to get to them was impressive. It's not a loss to him.

Great point

 

[Sciatic]

How exciting it must have been for the Belgian cycling fans at the roadside, who have endured a lousy (for them) classics season, when they saw that the lead riders coming up the road were Remco and Wout.

 

[Oldman]

Wout is at his best. A sprint after such a race is not a normal sprint. It’s just the legs, who got something left. And Wout looked cooked the last 10km. Remco was just better in the end.

He just said Remco was killing him slowly the last hour.

....one of them just raced PR.

 

[Oldman]

His sprint has gone.

That's what doing PR after trying to recover from injury again and again. Having said that; Remco knew that from doing a few hard pulls in the last km. Wout gave in. That doesn't mean he can't regain it but he's now headed to labor to bring Vindegaard to whatever GT fate awaits them both. I hope Remco continues to improve but this is not a bellweather performance to equate him with Pogacar and MvP for classics.

 

[Andre]

Today I saw Van Aert struggling in the final kilometers.
And they've cut the race to 160 kilometers.
The feeling is that if the distance had been 200 kilometers today, Van Aert wouldn't have arrive with Remco and he'd explode.

Yes but the way Remco was riding started to affect its way into Wout's legs. If you try to stay with Remco when he's flying, you will eventually pay the price. Wout was cooked...his lips were hanging down. I don't think the distance had much to do with anything. The pace that Remco had destroyed the whole field..except Wout who hung on. Plus Remco's explosive sprint was phenomenal

 

[Sciatic]

That's what doing PR after trying to recover from injury again and again. Having said that; Remco knew that from doing a few hard pulls in the last km. Wout gave in. That doesn't mean he can't regain it but he's now headed to labor to bring Vindegaard to whatever GT fate awaits them both. I hope Remco continues to improve but this is not a bellweather performance to equate him with Pogacar and MvP for classics.

Weirdly, Wout seemed to be better AFTER the 200 km mark in RvV and Roubaix this year.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Didn't see the post if it's here..recently hospitalized Italian race monster, Elisa Longo Borghini won women's version today, shooting ahead of the pack..her second win in a row!! Impressive return to racing after injury.

See the lesser known womens races thread for the discussion

 

[red_flanders]

Gotta say, that was a cool race. The Belgian fans got their two biggest stars to battle it out on home roads, and I thought the course was great. I love that some relatively important races are more local circuits. Really good for the fans, and looked super fun to be there live. And the hills were enough. Great to see the young British kid out front, seeing if he could hang with the big boys. I would imagine he learned a lot about how long he needs to sustain that level of power to compete. Seems like he's got the class to have a chance to be at the front end in the years to come. Good race.

 

[proffate]

Weirdly, Wout seemed to be better AFTER the 200 km mark in RvV and Roubaix this year.

Belgian Almeida the way he waxes and wanes

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Weirdly, Wout seemed to be better AFTER the 200 km mark in RvV and Roubaix this year.

UCI needs to start running 24 hour races, Wout would absolutely smash.

 

[Oldman]

Weirdly, Wout seemed to be better AFTER the 200 km mark in RvV and Roubaix this year.

Didn't see full coverage of either race but saw last 60km of PR. At least he had a group to spell him there. He had 30km of shared work with Remco with little to no draft to follow. That's gotta hurt.

 

[rghysens]

UCI needs to start running 24 hour races, Wout would absolutely smash.

Bring back Bordeaux-Paris, or even better: Rome-Naples-Rome.

 

[E_F_]

Bring back Bordeaux-Paris, or even better: Rome-Naples-Rome.

Paris-Brest-Paris?

 

[hayneplane]

I'm tellin' ya, trading pulls with Remco is a losing proposition. Just no relief from the wind behind him, while he coasts as if behind a semi truck when riders like Wout are pulling. Someone said some years ago Remco just squeezes the life out of you doing that.

I still didn't think he'd win the sprint, but dayum.

Think it was Campanaerts and he also ended up crashing due to fatigue

 

[Ripper]

Gotta say, that was a cool race. The Belgian fans got their two biggest stars to battle it out on home roads, and I thought the course was great. I love that some relatively important races are more local circuits. Really good for the fans, and looked super fun to be there live. And the hills were enough. Great to see the young British kid out front, seeing if he could hang with the big boys. I would imagine he learned a lot about how long he needs to sustain that level of power to compete. Seems like he's got the class to have a chance to be at the front end in the years to come. Good race.

+1000