Pro-cycling thread

Without looking it up, name the last five winners of the BinckBank Tour.

I only got two out of five, btw.

Haha I have been working with strong chemicals daily since 2006 there is no way I can remember anything.
But big names have won in the past.

last five binckbanks were won by bernal iirc

I think it’s a safer bet to say the last five were won by Tim Wellens.

I expect him to win both Fleche Wallonne and Binck Bank Tour this week, should be fun to watch!

In an update to my previous comment a few days ago about UK showing of the Giro, it looks like Quest has an hour show on it's schedule now: https://www.dplay.co.uk/live/quest/2020-10-03

"only the best riders win 260km races. we can observe that this is true because the same riders consistently win these races, therefore they are the best in the world"

I couldn't tell you who won this year's Tour without about 5mins of head scratching.

I would've watched the last 5 BonkBonk Tours though.

In which Mario Cipollini reigned supreme for years, until the inevitable Viagra scandal.

Eneco was a much better name. I assume they mince children for fertilizer or something?

Despite what I said earlier about not cutting races short, I’d gladly see the Giro cut to two weeks this year.

Ludicrous having a grand tour clashing with Flanders and (almost) Roubaix.

Correct, but only as a byproduct of the baby oil industry.

Fun fact: After Eneco stopped sponsoring the Eneco Tour their sponsoring budget went to the student team I was in back then.

MVDP in black bibs shocker #binckbanktour

shame I liked his videos more than Lanterne Rouge

eurosport should give him a full time job but not sure what their finances are like

LR is crap.

i quite like him

What do you like about him? I can't see anything but bland race reviews and badly pronounced Flemish names.

Don't know! I guess I like the reviews of old races. He seems to have some decent insight too from my perspective

About the biggest crash you will ever see in Binck Bank Bonk at 4km to go

It was something like 5th wheel that went down with whole peloton behind him

Wow, what a crash in the Binky Banky. one rider slide and with a ditch either side of the road everyone just piled into the back. 3.3km to go too so it'll be interesting to see what the commissionaires do here as there are a lot of GC riders in there.

Half the peloton involved in a nasty pile-up 4k from the finish... this will mess up the GC :-( #binckbanktour

https://twitter.com/wcsbike/status/1310953646235017217