Pro-cycling thread

I'm thinking somewhere between 21,857 seconds and 22,950 seconds, which gives me a 1093 second range. Not exactly narrowing it down.

"keeping his profile as low as possible"

err... contesting the final sprint in G-W, E3s chase back (http://www.treksegafredo.com/news/trek-segafredo-shows-grit-team-spirit-huge-chase-after-cancellara-mechanical), he was up front at MSR and avoided the Gaviria crash. If that's his low profile, his showboating must be epic.

Sagan for Flanders. Fabs mechanical in the later stages. Kwiato can't match Sagan's final attack. Rowe crashes around the 140k mark, Martin fails to make winning break move and spends final stages of race getting his group to chase with little success.

Rowe crashes around the 140k mark, 110k after the Geraint Thomas crash.

Poor G.

G is actually short for 'Ground' not 'Gerraint'.

Is John Degenkolb injured after that Giant crash pre-season?

yes

The training crash? Yeah.

Astana - lol

Ha, that was entertaining. EQS aren't the only team that can fuck that up.

Spartacus obviously really wants to win Flanders, he's even got his bike custom painted with cobbles and a list of his previous wins.

3DDPK: Lutsenko effectively fucking up (a fair bit of) Westra's GC lead (which he created all by himself) by believing he would win the sprint against Kristoff. Westra should have just kept on pulling, the only realistic option imho.

I think Mads Pederson (who finished 4th today in same time as Luke Rowe) is the kid who beat Tao in P-R juniors a few years back.

Harsh.

Anyone see the dodgy overtake in the last 2 kms of Three days of DePanne?
(1 36 in)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhuF14Jz9rw

Looked very close from my armchair.

It is epic.

But my point was that I think he's even stronger than he's showing right now.

Well dodgy indeed, same thought when I saw that

I don't think Tony Martin has much of a chance in Paris-Roubaix. I hope I eat my words, but even though he's physically strong, I don't think he has the ability to make the right decisions at the right time like some of the more tactically astute riders.

"Martin fails to make winning break move and spends final stages of race getting his group to chase with little success"

Probably. Fortunately, there's no chance he'll be the main go-to guy in his team.

You calling Martin stupid?

Of course not. Making complex tactical decisions on the fly is not his thing, though.

Isn't it more about experience of how cobbled classics are raced and detailed knowledge of the local roads? It seems to take years to build that up.

You worse then Angela Merkel. And very rude to Tony Martin.