Pro-cycling thread

Did smirk

this was on the Sky Twitter feed

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Hang on, the chain stays are laterally stiff and vertically compliant?!

Oo-er, certainly hope so

You could make balloon animals out of those FMBs and the marketing says the frame matters

Jaguar need to chill out. At this rate they'll have Wiggo in a sheepskin jacket, smoking cigars and voting UKIP.

Got my family to put bets on the RVV. Sunday should be fun!

My fear is the race turns into a standoff without the usual players to animate the race...hope I'm wrong but given there's so much at stake, race may turn into a stalemate rather than some of the topsy turvy racing we've seen so far in the Spring Classics

2014 race on Eurosport right now, within 22km if anyone's interested.

he will entertain the masses tomorrow, even though he's not riding

#fabianese

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@Jimmy_Fingers if Kristoff makes the selection I will be astonished. I'll go for one of Terpstra, Stybar or Thomas. Or Sagan might surprise us all.

Or Van Avermaet, or Vanmarcke, or Degenkolb..... Possibly an even more open race without the second-line favourites watching and waiting for Fab and Tommeke to make their move (I hope!).

Isn't it time Chavanel won something?

Might be worth a sneaky £5 of DeMare. Bet you'd get good odds.

Or Stannard. He could suck Wiggo and G's wheels all day and then punch it home from 3km out.

Today's Wiggins Watch, he's making himself popular with the locals;

http://sporza.be/cm/sporza/videozone/sporten/v-wielrennen/RondeVanVlaanderen/1.2292337

You realise Kristoff has finished 5th and 4th in the last two editions, yes? I'd say he's a 5 star favourite alongside Thomas and Vanmarcke.

Geraint Thomas will hopefully win this. If a sprint Degenkolb.

Didn't he win the bunch gallop for the minor placings both times? Unless it all comes back together I don't see him winning.

^I think it was in 2013 that Kristoff made a valiant, but doomed, lone attempt to jump across to the leaders, no bunch gallop there; he isn't just a sit-in sprinter.

How about the bets that matter: first Spaniard to climb off, distance in km to Stijn Devolder's first crash, km at which Kelly first says 'make the calculation'....

He chased alone from the Paterberg last year, and was this far back at the finish;

Foreshortening! ;)

yeah he crushed the recon today

No point burning oneself out before the race. Also better recon intelligence if going slower. And playing possum.

**** puts life's savings on the win ****

And Kristoff looks in even better form this year, and Paolini, who himself has a decent chance, will be punching for him.

Hope they changed their cleats afterwards...

Good old Wiggins, lying through his teeth...'it's mysterious' 'so it's like for us, a myth?'