Cycling thread

[Black Belt Jones]

WvA seems to be a long way from Pog and MvdP these days.

He really does - feel bad for the guy as he has half of Belgium crawling up his ringpiece about it, playing psychologist. Yesterday's finale was figuratively three guys past the keeper and an open goal, passing the ball between themselves. Then blasting it into rowZ.

He still is relentlessly strong, but it's been a while since we've seen a really dominant move from him in a major race - of course two serious crashes last year is a big thing to come back from.

He did make a killing move in Roubaix in 23 at the crux point, only to flat on carrefour de l'arbre - would love to see him animate the race like that next week.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

He really does - feel bad for the guy as he has half of Belgium crawling up his ringpiece about it, playing psychologist. Yesterday's finale was figuratively three guys past the keeper and an open goal, passing the ball between themselves. Then blasting it into rowZ.

He still is relentlessly strong, but it's been a while since we've seen a really dominant move from him in a major race - of course two serious crashes last year is a big thing to come back from.

He did make a killing move in Roubaix in 23 at the crux point, only to flat on carrefour de l'arbre - would love to see him animate the race like that next week.

I saw a stat the other day that of the Classics over the past 4 years or so, Pog, MvDP, or Remco have won about 80% of them. You'd ordinarily have put WvA in that company, but the reality is that he's just not.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

What odds he wins Roubaix now

 

[Bruce Wayne]

8 Monuments now and he's only 26. You'd surely put him among the favourites for Liege and Lombardy, so he has to have a good chance of not only surpassing Boonen and Cancellara but also Kelly and Coppi this season

 

[FrenchDarrenBent]

And Paris Roubaix also.
Fastest tour of Flanders in history. Didn't even seem tired after the race

 

[TheWinslowBoy]

What odds he wins Roubaix now

He'll probably win it one year, I just think its too flat for him to break the likes of MVDP, Pedersen, Ganna and he'll lose a sprint to all of them.

The chat is in the next few years he wants to refocus from the TDF to the classics, he'll bulk up a bit and god help the rest of them.

But I wouldn't rule out posting on here next Sunday after he does something ridiculous again

 

[TheWinslowBoy]

Well, I say refocus.
He's only won eight monuments, like

 

[Bruce Wayne]

He'll probably win it one year, I just think its too flat for him to break the likes of MVDP, Pedersen, Ganna and he'll lose a sprint to all of them.

The chat is in the next few years he wants to refocus from the TDF to the classics, he'll bulk up a bit and god help the rest of them.

But I wouldn't rule out posting on here next Sunday after he does something ridiculous again

Well, I say refocus.
He's only won eight monuments, like

I was gonna say. He's already something like the 5th most successful classics rider ever. As for Roubaix, you'd think so, but then he pulled out a huge gap today on the flat, so if he gets away and the chase behind isn't working together. It would be a bit absurd if he did win it, but I wouldn't be surprised either.