2011 Pro-cycling season thread

There are warm up races through January and February, but the real racing starts with Het Volk (now renamed Het Nieuwsblad) at the end of February. Then the proper racing starts with Paris-Nice, Tirreno-Adriatico, Milan-San Remo (the first truely big race of the season - one of the five one day Classics known as 'the monuments'), quickly followed by Ghent-Welvegem, Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix (both monuments), Tour of the Basque Country, Amstel Gold, Fleche-Wallone, Liege-Bastogne-Liege (another monument) then were into the stage race season with the Tour of Romandie, followed by the Giro d'Italia, the Dauphine Libere, the Tour of Switzerland then the Tour de France. [URL="http://www.cyclingfans.com"][/URL]

I read that, and suddenly found myself salivating.

love Het Volk, even though it's NEVER televised (humph), but I really got involved with Paris Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico last year. Totally absorbing racing.