RedheadDane's Cycling Christmas Calendar

[RedheadDane]

When they were still all friends.

 

[ice&fire]

You know the true highlight was a couple of days later

 

[RedheadDane]

You know the true highlight was a couple of days later

Yes... but that was not a win, quite the opposite, in fact.
Besides... it's hard to show highlights of a rider who disappeared.

 

[ice&fire]

Yes... but that was not a win, quite the opposite, in fact.
Besides... it's hard to show highlights of a rider who disappeared.

But we had G's crash as a highlight yesterday, or so I thought.
You're still in time to disguise it as a highlight for Champoussin

 

[tobydawq]

But we had G's crash as a highlight yesterday, or so I thought.
You're still in time to disguise it as a highlight for Champoussin

I think she has someone else slotted in for the 4th. #TheDanishChampIsTheKingOfFlanders

 

[RedheadDane]

I think today's choice was pretty much a given.

 

[ice&fire]

I think today's choice was pretty much a given.

So it is tomorrow's. MVDP fans won't be thrilled to see their pet rider featured twice in a row losing a sprint in a cobbled monument.

 

[RedheadDane]

Indeed, today's choice was a given too. But just to clarify, I would have picked it too if VDP had won; it's a Monument!
Unless, of course, he's won P-R too. Then I would probably have picked P-R over Flanders.

 

[RedheadDane]

His mother was watching!

 

[RedheadDane]

Beast mode: Activated!

 

[Pantani_lives]

Phenomenal win by MvdP. Strade was one of my favorite races this year (and other years). I had totally forgotten that Bernal finished third in a race that wasn't designed for his type.

 

[RedheadDane]

Another "while they were friends" situation.

 

[RedheadDane]

I like it when the unsung heroes gets a big win.

 

[ice&fire]

I like it when the unsung heroes gets a big win.

That's why you made the 29/11 a rest day ignoring Caruso stage win at the Giro

 

[RedheadDane]

That's why you made the 29/11 a rest day ignoring Caruso stage win at the Giro

29/11 is neither in December (obviously), nor one of the four Sundays in Advent.

 

[Armchair cyclist]

"The man who caused the crosswinds"
We should never underestimate just how powerful these riders are.

 

[RedheadDane]

"The man who caused the crosswinds"
We should never underestimate just how powerful these riders are.

Well... Chris Anker did use to frequently tell the story of that time when Riis told the riders to "just create some!" when they told him there weren't any crosswinds to utilise for his crosswind riding plans.

 

[RedheadDane]

A record matched. (Maybe next year I'll post an entrance called "A record broken".)

Fun fact: I had originally picked Honoré Basque Country stage win, and put Cavendish' - by comparisson - rather insignificant stage 6 win on the first as "his entrance" (Cav was one of the cases where I definitely wanted to include a certain rider), but in the end I decided that Cavendish sprinting to the win that saw him equal the TdF stage win tally with Merckx was definitely more important that Honoré not-sprinting to a Basque Country stage win.

 

[RedheadDane]

Taco time!

 

[RedheadDane]

No Roglstomping this time!

 

[RedheadDane]

He was victorious!

 

[RedheadDane]

Now, this is the closest I'll get to including a GC win, as this was the day he laid the foundation to his GC win.

 

[RedheadDane]

The day that showed, he's well and truly back!

 

[RedheadDane]

That was a close one.

 

[RedheadDane]

There was no way he wasn't ganna win this one.

And there was no way I was going to pass up the opportunity to make a good pun, or lame pun, guess that's a matter of perspective.