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nice storyVino attacks everyone said:
Afrank said:Glad to hear he's okay and he wants to start the Vuelta. Good commitment there.
Bushman said:On his way to Flanders and Roubaix double
ILovecycling said:I wonder why he never had a really good result at de ronde...despite that he has better abilities for rvv than PR imho
ILovecycling said:I wonder why he never had a really good result at de ronde...despite that he has better abilities for rvv than PR imho
Kokoso said:Because Lefevere never made him leader maybe.
And because he is no Boonen, or no Belgian you can say. And he rode it just twice.
Sasquatch said:Yeah, if he was on a different team he'd win Flanders and Roubaix.
nepetalactone said:...Then there was the year he was looking strong in the winning move ('13 if I recall, with Fabian and Sep) and a spectator took him out. Oddly, I think the same thing happened to Terpstra a few km later.
He thinks the same about his own abilities.ILovecycling said:I wonder why he never had a really good result at de ronde...despite that he has better abilities for rvv than PR imho
Buffalo Soldier said:Roubaix is a much 'easier' race in terms of tactics.
18-Valve. (pithy) said:Not anymore, it isn't. The route change made Flanders much more predictable than it used to be.
scholar said:It was indeed '13. But it was Vandenbergh, not Terpstra -- and ?tybar's incident was the second, not the first.
That's true18-Valve. (pithy) said:Not anymore, it isn't. The route change made Flanders much more predictable than it used to be.