Stage of the year part 3 : One day races

[sublimit]

I havnt voted yet but K-B-K looked brutal but maybe not that entertaining. I'm minded to vote for the Worlds at the moment as my fave.

Edit: I voted K-B-K.

 

[CatsNK]

Liège–Bastogne–Liège

I know everyone here loved the Worlds but I was pretty bored - maybe because our TV reception was ridiculously bad that night but I just couldn't get into it.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Having just come back from vacation, I thought I had just watched the Worlds on catch up. Judging from this poll result, I must have been watching some other race/s.
IMO they were very ordinary. Not up to par with any of the past few editions.
LBL and KBK.

 

[The Hitch]

Having just come back from vacation, I thought I had just watched the Worlds on catch up. Judging from this poll result, I must have been watching some other race/s.
IMO they were very ordinary. Not up to par with any of the past few editions.
LBL and KBK.

Really? As i recall, people around here were saying that it was the Moltacino of 1 day racing.

 

[Ferminal]

I didn't watch KBK, but I remember reading on the forum as it was happening. Hopefully it's on cyclingtorrents and I'll take a look. Same goes for Montreal.

I voted LBL and AGR... I actually liked AGR at the time, but maybe not in hindsight. LBL is number one.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Having just come back from vacation, I thought I had just watched the Worlds on catch up. Judging from this poll result, I must have been watching some other race/s.
IMO they were very ordinary. Not up to par with any of the past few editions.
LBL and KBK.

Did you already know the result when you started watching? Because that really changes the way you feel during a race.

The race that gives me the most excited feeling as i am watching it is the race I like best. Obviously. I watched Lombardia in the rerun and already knowing the result makes it boring and dull.

 

[Kwibus]

Voted for Worlds and Montreal.

I really enjoyed the worlds from like 120k to go which is quite special if you ask me.
Montreal because my heart was in my throat. It was sooo tight. Great win by Gesink.

LBL was also great!

 

[The Hitch]

I watched Lombardia in the rerun and already knowing the result makes it boring and dull.

Rerun or live, we all knew the result of Lombardia when we watched it

 

[luckyboy]

KBK, LBL or Worlds. Best wins were AGR & Lombardia though

 

[Mellow Velo]

Did you already know the result when you started watching? Because that really changes the way you feel during a race.

Very true and I did.
However, I never felt the climbs were sufficient to make a small selection stick, with 6kms to the finish and so it proved in all 3 races.
The large group of favourites in a breakaway was rather surprising and unexpected. A big plus point.

 

[theyoungest]

Very true and I did.
However, I never felt the climbs were sufficient to make a small selection stick, with 6kms to the finish and so it proved in all 3 races.
The large group of favourites in a breakaway was rather surprising and unexpected. A big plus point.

The fact that the tv director didn't know what he was doing contributed to the awesomeness... the chase group with Evans, Breschel, Moerenhout etc. was suddenly sitting up, and I thought: huh, what's going on? Then the camera turned and there it was, the peloton approaching like a freight train. If you already know that's about to happen, yeah, I can imagine it's slightly less exciting

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Yeah the last time gap we got in the live transmission was 30 seconds. So nobody had an idea the peloton was coming...

 

[El Pistolero]

Rerun or live, we all knew the result of Lombardia when we watched it

The result of the Worlds was more obvious then Lombardia...

All the editions ended in a bunch sprint, so it was obvious the same was going to happen to the only edition that matters. And who could win a bunch sprint like that? Hushovd or Freire.

 

[Matthijs]

off course KBK was the best of this, but unfortunatly I couldn't see Lombardia live. Gilbert killing the rest, so strong! Normally it is impossible to get away downhill and stay away for 20km. And forcing Scarponi to make a mistake uphill is probably only possible after 250k of cold rain. Gilbert won the KBK of this autumn!