Your favourite Spring Classic

[will10]

Wait for the poll....

Alright, let's do this. No contest for me. I heart de Ronde. That is all.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Nothing beats a muddy P-R, but otherwise its RVV.

 

[Lanark]

I voted Ronde van Vlaanderen, I love the big build up to that race, and the route with a great diversity in flat cobblestones, cobbled hills and tarmac hills.

Still, it usually depends on the year. All classics have their history, their critical points, their prestige.

 

[Roude Leiw]

There is nothing like Paris Roubaix

 

[ILovecycling]

1.Ronde 2.Roubaix 3.Liege but it depends on year

 

[King Boonen]

MSR. Always throws up a suprise, almost the perfect balance between a sprinters race and a rouleurs race and it's the first real race of the season in my eyes. I just love it. Perfect chance to see peoples form as well.

Very difficult to choose between MSR, RVV and P-R though.

 

[Jancouver]

Roubaix > Ronde > Liege > Lombardy (not spring) > San Remo > Strada Bianche > Amstel > Omloop > Fleche

 

[Roderick]

There are two races that I never, ever, ever miss. The World championship and RvV

 

[RedheadDane]

YOU CANNOT ASK ME TO CHOOSE!

Love how Vino seems to be the default for other around here. Even when it makes absolutely no sense...

 

[the asian]

1. PR 2. LBL 3. Ronde 4. Strade Bianche 5. MSR

 

[pastronef]

the old RVV was a great race

this new parcours is... meh...

remember the old finish in Meerbeke after the Muur and the Bosberg?

 

[Pentacycle]

Omloop, it's the one you've been waiting for all winter, and it always delivers.

 

[brilleaben]

Scheldeprijs.

 

[will10]

the old RVV was a great race

this new parcours is... meh...

remember the old finish in Meerbeke after the Muur and the Bosberg?

I really, really miss the fixed cameras (no motos) on the Muur. That for me is (was ) the best 5 minutes of the season.

 

[Afrank]

Tough choice between RVV and PR, but I'll go with RVV. It's got hills, cobbles, breakaways, sprints; it's got it all.
MSR 3d, LBL 4th.

 

[Carols]

1- PR
2- RvV
3- LBL
4- Strade Bianchi - quickly becoming a great race!

 

[The Hitch]

Alright, let's do this. No contest for me. I heart de Ronde. That is all.

Same here.

It has by far the greatest crowds, which produces the best atmosphere. Lunatics who do all nighters just to get a 30 cm spot.

Huge in the home country. Go to Flanders for the Ronde, every newspaper will be all about it. Boonen and Cancellara on the front page, even if ww3 has just been declared. Certainly wont get that in France.

Get to see superslow motion up the steepest climbs (unlike Roubaix)

Theres a whole Flanders series leading up, as if specifically prepared to make everyone excited for the Ronde.

And finally unlike Roubaix, when it comes, you dont feel like the cobbles are all over and youve got to wait a whole year for them. No, the biggest week in cycling is only beginning, and there are still chances for revenge.

 

[gooner]

Scheldeprijs.

It's like watching the grass grow in my back garden.

 

[ElChingon]

I pick them all equally, sure some years some are better than others but winning anyone of them is pure ecstasy. Picking between them is like picking my favorite eye.

 

[Pippo_San]

The feelings some people have for the RVV, well I have the same for LBL.
Curiously it's the first race I really loved as a kid, and the race I'll always love the most.

I have still in my eyes how Bartoli went away in 1997 and 1998, the great, incredible year of VDB (miss you Frank!), the perfect race by Bettini and Garzelli in the 2002 edition...some of the fondest memories I have about cycling...

 

[RHRH19861986]

I also like LBL most, it´s the route, the region, the riders it´s suited to, the time of the year, the link between spring classics and Romandie/Giro/stage race season.
Just a perfect race.

 

[Papa Kel]

Paris Roubaix to me, is cycling. So dramatic, so much history, so many great champions.

 

[Ferminal]

E3 or Brabantse Pijl.

 

[Giuseppe Magnetico]

Roubaix all the way! Sorry, but the Ronde isn't the same anymore without the Muur, that is a total shame.

 

[42x16ss]

Too close to call

P-R, RvV and L-B-L have little between them IMO, all tremendous races with their own unique personality. I'll have to vote for Liege though as it's so dramatic, almost always a tactical race with such a variety of challengers.

Strade Bianche is also great, a brilliant race getting a worthy reputation in a very short time.