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Did he get the KOM tho?

Fair, I don't twit and haven't seen it said where I've seen it

The chap, Saffa Brian, used to be a courier. I'm sure there was a Saffa Brian in London when I was couriering.

Not sure if this is the right place to post, but I am going to Omloop on Saturday, 1st time watching a live race outside of the UK. Is there a "watch live races" thread?

There's the odd one scattered around, but nothing definitive.

What kind of info are you after? It's a great race for your first live European race, as it's far more low key than many of the other spring races. I would recommend you go to the start in Ghent as you should be able to get up close to many of the riders.

It's a hard race to see multiple times as like a lot of the races in the area, it criss crosses itself as it goes over the same couple of ridges that many of the famous cobbled climbs are on. I'd definitely recommend you try and see it on the Muur in Geraardsbergen, as it'll be one of the definitive points of the race and you can leg it back down the hill to one of the cafes in the church square and watch the finish on tv.

The chap, Saffa Brian, used to be a courier. I'm sure there was a Saffa Brian in London when I was couriering.

Looks like there was Will

Brian worked as a bike messenger for the next 16 years, sometimes delivering as many as 90 packages in a day. It would take him all over the world, from Sydney to Melbourne to Perth, and then on to London and Glasgow before he crossed the Atlantic for New York and later headed down to Mexico City.

https://www.bicycling.com/culture/a36320897/safa-brian-cheats-death/

That's interesting. The guy following clearly knows the descent like the back of his hand. You can see Tom labouring some corners due to not knowing it well and the filmer is on the good line at the right speed. Should have filmed it the other way around.

Nothing better than descending on the limit.

We was robbed.

Missus could've stayed in Dubai an extra day and double the crowd at UAE Tour.

Here's the cameraman getting the Strava KOM on it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJSpgRIVw78

The guy following clearly knows the descent like the back of his hand

You could say that - he'd practised it 80 times according to that Bicycling link I posted (which is worth a read)!

And yes he got the KOM.

That road looks sketch as fuck - lumpy, riddled with potholes, dusty shoulders and that fucking barrier in the middle.

I love his "airbrake" while sitting on the top tube at 80kph.

Her indoors surely.

The road carved out the hill was epic viewing on tv I will say, about as much excitement I took from the day.

Don't call me Shirley.

The website is a really horrible reading experiance.

Cool guy though.

Blimey , grim old day in Galicia …

I almost died several times descending it on a rental bike with shit tyres and the brakes the opposite way to I'm used to.

Yeah, I wouldn't fancy that much. They'll neutralise the descent, won't they? That's a proper blizzard.

I hope he can win.

https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/andrii-ponomar-i-need-to-win-so-people-see-the-ukraine-national-jersey/

Gran Camino looks a bit mad. Seem tobe 3 riders still cracking on in the snow and everyone else has buggered off to the hotel.

Chaos in Galicia

Surely the race director would have had the weather info from that last climb and could have called it especially as it was a last circuit into the finish line - where it now looks dry and sunny ?
Chaos

"van Garderened"

https://youtu.be/CF3TECkW0m0?t=111

The commentator makes this finish even better

https://twitter.com/mundociclistico/status/1628736425804943363?t=x0YG0BC9vu6tWNY3jiEtHA&s=19

Where are we all getting pro news these days? Lot of paywalls blocking articles.
I only really want pro road news