Liège-Bastogne-Liège: April 28th, 2019

[Kwibus]

Go win this race, Bling!

I hope so, or someone from the break.

 

[Gigs_98]

Re: Re:

Abandon Redoute forever.

Bring back MvdP. He would have attacked already.

I doubt it. He is nowhere near as good a climber as many others Here while he would probably be the best sprinter

 

[Rollthedice]

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So dissapointing

Why does everyone always wait in this race. I dont get it. Specially not from some riders without punch/sprint.

Nibali is confident, he perfected his sprints in Tour of the Alps.

 

[rainman]

Soft pedalling Redoute, I quit.

 

[Salvarani]

Boring, how long until the next hill?

 

[Kwibus]

Oh crap bora doesnt have anyone upfront...

 

[Gigs_98]

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Soft pedalling Redoute, I quit.

Cote des forges comes pretty soon but that's not a hard climb. Still a pretty long way to go till RaF

 

[Laplaz]

Formolo should have been in the break with De Marchi & Co.

 

[Rollthedice]

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Boring, how long until the next hill?

7km to Forges, last one before the mass uphill sprint on RaF.

 

[Red Rick]

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Boring, how long until the next hill?

7km to Forges, last one before the mass uphill sprint on RaF.

It's basically 2013-2016 AGR now.

 

[Rollthedice]

This turns out into a MSR, just a bit shorter and with a few more hills.

 

[Danskebjerge]

Côte de La Redoute - so many possibilities, so little influence on the race. Same thing since the birth of Christ.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Dno who to solve Liege. Maybe ditch Roche or make a route that's not including Redoute in some way to mix things up.

 

[Kwibus]

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This turns out into a MSR, just a bit shorter and with a few more hills.

They have to find a bunch of hills in succesion between 20 - 40km and then all flat.

 

[Kwibus]

How does Fuglsang think he will drop Alaphil?

 

[Red Rick]

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Dno who to solve Liege. Maybe ditch Roche or make a route that's not including Redoute in some way to mix things up.

Ofcourse the solution is to ditch RaF.

I'd love to see the section before La Redoute be made harder. Maybe take a few of the early hills out.

 

[Gigs_98]

Konrad attacks. Now I've seen it all

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Gilbert done

 

[Brullnux]

There's this weird thing about people praying for rain every race but it does tend to turn into a race of attrition whenever it does actually rain. riders are less inclined to attack, and this isn't a one off, it's a recurring theme tbh

 

[Pharazon]

at least the scenery is nice in MSR

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Alaphilippe bad?

 

[Laplaz]

Ala way back

 

[sir fly]

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Dno who to solve Liege. Maybe ditch Roche or make a route that's not including Redoute in some way to mix things up.

Ofcourse the solution is to ditch RaF.

I'd love to see the section before La Redoute be made harder. Maybe take a few of the early hills out.

It's too early to dismiss the route.
Tough weather and premiere edition are affecting the racing.

It's getting more serious now.

 

[Gigs_98]

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Dno who to solve Liege. Maybe ditch Roche or make a route that's not including Redoute in some way to mix things up.

Ofcourse the solution is to ditch RaF.

I'd love to see the section before La Redoute be made harder. Maybe take a few of the early hills out.

The big Problem of this race is it's name. There are plenty hard climbs around La Redoute but because the race has to go all the way to bastogne and back they have to take a relatively straight forward route. Therefore the section before la redoute is way too easy and attacking there is suicide. Ditching RaF would clearly help but it's not as simple as that.

 

[Salvarani]

Ala took off his leg and arm warmers I think. He should have done that earlier...