Gent-Wevelgem 2015 (contains spoilers)

lennymc · 29-03-2015 9:27pm

was pretty exciting racing alright. I might move to Belgium!

Lusk_Doyle · 29-03-2015 9:31pm

lennymc wrote: »

was pretty exciting racing alright. I might move to Belgium!

Proper hard man bike racing at its finest.

ROK ON · 29-03-2015 9:45pm

lennymc wrote: »

was pretty exciting racing alright. I might move to Belgium!

Good win by you today. Chapeau.

ThisRegard · 29-03-2015 9:56pm

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

Proper hard man bike racing at its finest.

Proper tantrums too when your musette strap gets caught in your wheel. None of this unravelling nonsense, picking the bike up and fecking it across the ditch is the only solution to that problem.

lennymc · 29-03-2015 9:58pm

ROK ON wrote: »

Good win by you today. Chapeau.

Grazie mille

buffalo · 29-03-2015 10:03pm

TheBlaaMan wrote: »

Aul Oleg must be busting a gasket at this stage.....:P

Oleg? What about Lefévère!?

pprendeville · 29-03-2015 10:49pm

lennymc wrote: »

was pretty exciting racing alright. I might move to Belgium!

Make sure you get to know the local Superintendent first just in case you need some pull.

neris · 29-03-2015 11:11pm

someones determined that I dont see the end of this. I had to go out to the poxy shops with 35km left then, i couldnt get internet connection in the shopping centre and now when I go to watch it on the eurosport player they dont have it up coz of site maintenance

MPFG · 29-03-2015 11:29pm

neris wrote: »

someones determined that I dont see the end of this. I had to go out to the poxy shops with 35km left then, i couldnt get internet connection in the shopping centre and now when I go to watch it on the eurosport player they dont have it up coz of site maintenance

Full in Dutch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4Porovf9gY&feature=youtu.be

or final 40km In English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XebtB1rScw

Pudsy33 · 29-03-2015 11:43pm

neris wrote: »

someones determined that I dont see the end of this. I had to go out to the poxy shops with 35km left then, i couldnt get internet connection in the shopping centre and now when I go to watch it on the eurosport player they dont have it up coz of site maintenance

Sent you a pm, although it appears MPFG has you covered

Lusk_Doyle · 30-03-2015 8:36am

I see that GT was trying his hand at the new craze that is cyclo-fly! Some wind out there yesterday.

manwithaplan · 30-03-2015 10:00am

Managed to avoid the result and watched this before going to bed last night. Fantastic race - I have rarely seen a group of riders so individually and collectively bollixed. I don't agree that the main reason Etixx lost was tactical failure. Paolini was the only one left with any legs and, despite his playacting, was well able to cover any moves. Terpstra and Vandebergh had very little left.

Hail 2 Da Thief · 30-03-2015 11:29am

Christ that looked like a hard day in the saddle!

Inquitus · 30-03-2015 11:53am

manwithaplan wrote: »

Managed to avoid the result and watched this before going to bed last night. Fantastic race - I have rarely seen a group of riders so individually and collectively bollixed. I don't agree that the main reason Etixx lost was tactical failure. Paolini was the only one left with any legs and, despite his playacting, was well able to cover any moves. Terpstra and Vandebergh had very little left.

I think Geriant was perhaps the strongest, he shut down everything by himself pretty much and still had legs at the end, they just gifted it to Paolini with their messing and to be fair to Geriant he had to call Etixx bluff like he did, but Paolini's attack was perfectly timed. I agree the Etixx pair looked bolloxed though.

neris · 30-03-2015 11:55am

Great finish. Some man Paolini and well deserved especially after breaking his nuts last week for kristoff. Was one of the etixx lads in the final group think it was steinbar. Looked like a feckin giant compared to the rest of them

Brian? · 30-03-2015 12:07pm

manwithaplan wrote: »

Managed to avoid the result and watched this before going to bed last night. Fantastic race - I have rarely seen a group of riders so individually and collectively bollixed. I don't agree that the main reason Etixx lost was tactical failure. Paolini was the only one left with any legs and, despite his playacting, was well able to cover any moves. Terpstra and Vandebergh had very little left.

I agree, 2 men in the break is no good when they're wrecked. They tried a couple of counter punch attacks, exactly the way they should have, but neither had the legs to get a gap going.

You know it's a hard day when Terpstra has no legs at the end.

JK.BMC · 30-03-2015 12:28pm

neris wrote: »

Great finish. Some man Paolini and well deserved especially after breaking his nuts last week for kristoff. Was one of the etixx lads in the final group think it was steinbar. Looked like a feckin giant compared to the rest of them

Stijn 'dont touch my stuff' Vandenberg
6ft 6in Belgian Flahute
Former Tour of Ireland Winner (2007)
Savage rider
Maybe not the sharpest tool at times...

godtabh · 30-03-2015 5:03pm

Looking at some photos from yesterday. A lot of the riders look like they have no bike computers. Did they all fall off in the wind?

pprendeville · 30-03-2015 5:24pm

manwithaplan wrote: »

Managed to avoid the result and watched this before going to bed last night. Fantastic race - I have rarely seen a group of riders so individually and collectively bollixed. I don't agree that the main reason Etixx lost was tactical failure. Paolini was the only one left with any legs and, despite his playacting, was well able to cover any moves. Terpstra and Vandebergh had very little left.

think you're spot on there. if you look at cosmo catalanos video, Paolini had his wits about him especially when Terpstra got back on after his puncture near the end. fresh mind is sign of someone still with energy and he seemed to be conserving his better than the others.

pprendeville · 30-03-2015 5:28pm

JK.BMC wrote: »

Stijn 'dont touch my stuff' Vandenberg
6ft 6in Belgian Flahute
Former Tour of Ireland Winner (2007)
Savage rider
Maybe not the sharpest tool at times...

the poor man doesn't get much praise from his boss either.

“We had Stijn in front but he never won a race [Vandenbergh won a stage and the overall in the Tour of Ireland in 2007]. In the next group we had Trentin, Stybar, Terpstra and Nikolas [Maes]. With Stijn we were chanceless. With Terpstra in the group our situation improved.

ROK ON · 30-03-2015 6:24pm

That's two races the SVDB has scupper end for QuickStep in a month.

MPFG · 30-03-2015 6:50pm

ROK ON wrote: »

That's two races the SVDB has scupper end for QuickStep in a month.

That's abit hard...at least he was there ...where were the others who are so great then...His boss is an oaf

ROK ON · 30-03-2015 7:14pm

MPFG wrote: »

That's abit hard...at least he was there ...where were the others who are so great then...His boss is an oaf

I never said he was weak - he attacked his own men in two races this year
Omloop and yesterday. The guys that he attacked have the credibility to win. In my opinion he doesn't - he is a strong rider and can be a good Domestique but not good enough to win - he seems to be the only one who doesn't know this.

JK.BMC · 30-03-2015 7:59pm

ROK ON wrote: »

I never said he was weak - he attacked his own men in two races this year
Omloop and yesterday. The guys that he attacked have the credibility to win. In my opinion he doesn't - he is a strong rider and can be a good Domestique but not good enough to win - he seems to be the only one who doesn't know this.

He is liable to win Roubaix, in spite of Lefevre more or less saying he is fairly brainless. I wouldnt begrudge him it to him actually, though he would need a lot of trouble behind him to scupper the others. It could happen.

Lusk_Doyle · 30-03-2015 9:54pm

JK.BMC wrote: »

He is liable to win Roubaix, in spite of Lefevre more or less saying he is fairly brainless. I wouldnt begrudge him it to him actually, though he would need a lot of trouble behind him to scupper the others. It could happen.

I can see Van Marke being in good shape for this. He has been very close in Strade Bianche and now Ghent. Building nicely for either Flanders or Roubaix. Him or Terpstra to take these next two monuments.

buffalo · 31-03-2015 8:58am

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lennymc · 31-03-2015 10:10am

^^^^ I did something similar after crashing in the lucan gp a few years ago when i realised my frame was broken

neris · 31-03-2015 10:54am

I like this one. The two bikes just floating off down the river. The lad in the red lotto helmet looks about 70 though

Gent-Wevelgem 2015 (contains spoilers)

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