Brabantse Pijl - Fleche Brabanconne

[Nicoper]

Well Tour is coming, they are raising form

Only thing more strange than that would be a Lotto win.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Kroon is good, well that's a relief for BMC, at least one of their guys not failing.

Ironically, he had to be Dutch, just to annoy ACF94

 

[Mellow Velo]

Real quality group off the front of the peloton, but where are they going?

Yeah Kroon off the front and another BMC straight out the back!
Leukemans still going strong.......

 

[Moondance]

Glibert , Leukemans coming through big style.

Yep... With 30kms left to go. Quite some effort Gilbert is setting himself up for.

Also Kroon is alive, appartantly.... Who knew?

 

[Bala Verde]

The break will survive.... My prediction. Rosseler takes the win.

Looks like it... 30k and 3m, up from 3:30....

 

[Bala Verde]

The break will survive.... My prediction. Rosseler takes the win.

Looks like it... 30k and 3m, up from 2:30....

 

[Bala Verde]

Ooh, a small group of Kroon, Gilbert, Leukemans and Freire have put a small gap between them and the rest of the peloton.

Would be an interesting sprint between Freire and Gilbert

 

[trompe le monde]

Is that Voeckler trying to bridge with Freire to Leukemans and Gilbert?

 

[Moondance]

It's Martens, not Freire.

 

[trompe le monde]

Actually, it's not Freire but paul Martens of Rabo that is with Gilbert, Leukemans and Voeckler.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Well when Gilbert makes dumb attacks as that, then they are never going to catch them

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

2.50 at 23km. no chance of catching them.

 

[Mellow Velo]

2.50 at 23km. no chance of catching them.

That's why Kroon gave up. Keeping BMC's powder dry.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Well it's a hilly course, you can't count the same way as on the flat Timmy.

But it will be very hard. They will need a miracle

 

[Bala Verde]

When was the break established?

Freire not good enough, while being a clear favorite? Other teams forced RAB to control the race. They didn't and so no one really stepped up to the plate? Is that the scenario?

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

That's why Kroon gave up. Keeping BMC's powder dry.

Kroon has always been a one-shot guy. A second attack usually kills him off pretty good.

 

[trompe le monde]

When was the break established?

Freire not good enough, while being a clear favorite? Other teams forced RAB to control the race. They didn't and so no one really stepped up to the plate? Is that the scenario?

It was originally a break of 6 that was established before streaming began, so those three have been part of the break for over 70kms, if not more. The group of six had over 8 minutes on the peloton at one time.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Well it's a hilly course, you can't count the same way as on the flat Timmy.

But it will be very hard. They will need a miracle

I considered the profile, but they really aren't making a lot of progress to be fair...

 

[ak-zaaf]

Kroon has always been a one-shot guy. A second attack usually kills him off pretty good.

Now we just wait for his traditional "I had great legs, but..." comments.

 

[Nicoper]

Why is QuickStep pulling?

 

[Bala Verde]

It was originally a break of 6 that was established before streaming began, so those three have been part of the break for over 70kms, if not more. The group of six had over 8 minutes on the peloton at one time.

thanks for that!

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Why is QuickStep pulling?

Possibly to neutralize the little group and then just stop pulling. Thus kill any momentum those guys had, and cause a delay for a short time. Other then that... I dunno..

 

[ak-zaaf]

Time for a quick podium contest!
The winner will get a signed picture of Carlo Bomans (signed by me).

1. Walle
2. Rosseler
3. de Gendt

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Congrats to the 3 in front, well ridden. Peloton underestimated them and lost

 

[ak-zaaf]

Congrats to the 3 in front, well ridden. Peloton underestimated them and lost

Always cool to see a semi-classic end this way. 'Real' classics not so much.