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so......
here's the jerk's guess:
peter and nico and the boys dominate the race, pull a mapei and van petegem soft pedals the chase break containing boonen, tafi and someone else the jerk thought had already retired trying to let vogels and/or steels take it....but frank vandenbroucke will take it when he attacks and bridges up three gruppetos......
jerk
(this is a joke. vdb is secretly training to peak at belgian national championships...the only race that really matters.)
yeehawfactor
04-08-2005, 09:42 PM
just as long as axel merckx and ludo dierckxsens are on the podium i'll be happy.
dirtdigger88
04-08-2005, 09:43 PM
How do you think Lance will do?
jason
lance will do very well....as he is not participating in the race. the team management felt that ryder hesjedel and michael barry had a better chance for victory in this secondary back water race....
if dierckxsons wins or podiums or is at the front all damn day the jerk will never let anyone live it down. he is the man, kind, hard, fast and stronger than an ox....the jerk has been lucky enough to sit on that guy's wheels while he reeled in a 6 man break away that had ten-minutes on the pack himself....you will never meet tougher, better, nicer more honest people than those who have x's in their names....same goes for axel...although the jerk has never been able to get in a position to hold his wheel anytime they'd raced together.....
plus the jerk likes the other tall guys who actually were fast enough to make it.
jerk
Big Dan
04-08-2005, 10:16 PM
Go to pull for Henk on this one.....took a nasty spill a couple of years ago and made it back...
Big b*lls................. :D
Climb01742
04-09-2005, 06:00 AM
is the weather forecast still for nastiness? what makes it more epic for viewers makes it more hellish for riders.
you gotta feel for axel. the guys rides his heart out but with the last name merckx, the bar is just too high. don't ya HATE trickie rickie for what he did to axel on that stage last july...oh gee little rickie lied and was dishonest...what a surprise. :crap:
GoJavs
04-09-2005, 06:38 AM
Thor rides everyone off his wheel tomorrow and scores one for Norway! :banana:
Andreu
04-09-2005, 07:24 AM
I fancied my ex team mate Roger Hammond to do something again but he will be struggling as he is injured after a heavy fall in G-W and I am not sure the Discovery boys know how to protect a rider in P-R.
We'll see.
A
Dr. Doofus
04-09-2005, 01:50 PM
freddy (uh, wait, he's not in the flamish classics teams for lotto)
then....
favorite: boonen
podium: flecha
dark horse: tafi (old but not done yet)
BumbleBeeDave
04-09-2005, 03:27 PM
Jerk-issimo . . . I appreciate that he’s your good buddy and you made out with one of his bridesmaids in a closet while blasted on brown Belgian Liquor, but after all his previous hijinks I would be happy as hell if he podiumed, but I just don’t think it’s gonna happen . . . :(
BBDave
Not to drop the name because that's just obnoxious but Michael Barry spoke to his family today with the blaring sounds of the pre-race sign-in drowning out most of the details, so said Mike this morning. If the weather is foul or the pave dangerous---as both are predicted to be---don't look for a lot of finishers tomorrow. In 2000 when JM won in Velodrome pointing at his knee and wearing the famous Lion of Flanders bandana there were tons of finishers. As Aimee and I were wandering about Roubaix at the race's end looking for the subway, there were dozens of guys coming in long after the podium events were done, or so it seemed. But that day was dry, even dusty, the cloud that preceded the bright yellow Mavic lead car was the signal in front of the race even as you stood roadside waiting in silence for the peloton's impending arrivals. (We were driven by the Graham Baxter folks ahead of the race, sent to the roadsides, and told to wait...They came. I have pebbles from the Arenberg forest down in the cycle shrine, as it were.) Anyway, tomorrow it could be wet and not many who want a full season will risk more than is necessary for their leader if the roads are especially dangerous. To wit, we will see lots of riders quit while the going is good 'cause the race _onto_ the pave is so, so crazy. A pal of mine who has done this race more than once told me that being at the front as you enter a pave section is one of the scariest things in cycling. I believe him. Then add the danger of wet and "Where's Our Man?" because if He's not lookin' good then there is no good reason for a support rider to risk it all in April. Not that my analysis is worth a darn.
As for who's got the mojo? Hmmm. Boonen will be very, very tough but he's marked. He was marked at Flanders and he still won. That is quite telling. Boonen. But I'm rooting for the Belgians, and especially if he's a Vlaandriaan sort. (See avatar...) To describe their love of cycling, which will all know, is nothing like standing among them at these Classics. They love this sport, they love beer, they love fries with mayo, and they can almost make me actually care about professional cycling and even, dare I say it?, race bikes. I agreew with jerkpal too: Lance will have an _excellent_ day because not riding this one is indeed the choice I would make!
dbrk
Andreu
04-10-2005, 06:39 AM
a bit but the love of cycling in Belgium has to be experienced ...I went to the cyclocross worlds in Belgium about 10 years ago and the atmosphere was like a football match (that's soccer), incredible ...I would love to get back up there to see one of the classics.
A
"Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among the lost. Justice urged on my high artificer; My maker was divine authority, The highest wisdom, and the primal love. Before me nothing but eternal things were made, And I endure eternally. Abandon every hope, ye who enter here."
dbrk
Climb01742
04-10-2005, 07:56 AM
cyclingnews.com used part of that quote this morning. i thought it was dante. thanks for confirming. wasn't his full name dante gabriel rossetti, or am i confusing poets? my god, college was so long ago. :crap:
CalfeeFly
04-10-2005, 09:27 AM
After paying for a much higher cable package all year just for the cycling...one week after it started they changed the channel line-up and I don't get it any longer. I'm being held hostage by the "cable guy" for even more money. What a cruel world. :crap:
saab2000
04-10-2005, 09:59 AM
Calfeefly,
Do what I have done - get rid of cable. They are crooks and make billions mesmorising us with useless infomercials........
I will only get cable again when buy stock in the cable company where I subscribe. Then at least I get the feeling I am getting something back from it.
Get rid of your TV. You won't miss it. Except when there is pro cycle racing on it...... :D
Dr. Doofus
04-10-2005, 11:51 AM
freddy (uh, wait, he's not in the flamish classics teams for lotto)
then....
favorite: boonen
podium: flecha
dark horse: tafi (old but not done yet)
missed george, but did the doof call it, or what?
BumbleBeeDave
04-10-2005, 02:29 PM
I said my brain picked Boonen, but my heart picked Georgie.
What body parts did you use to make YOUR picks? . . . ;)
BBDave
hybridbellbaske
04-10-2005, 08:22 PM
Climb- I may be wrong but I think Dante Gabriel Rosetti was a Pre-Raphaelite painter- from the late 1800's- not the author of the Inferno.
Climb- I may be wrong but I think Dante Gabriel Rosetti was a Pre-Raphaelite painter- from the late 1800's- not the author of the Inferno.
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). I have a colleague here at the University who is very much the expert and once had the pleasure of a full year's seminar. Like the great steel builders, Dante has only peers among poets, no betters.
dbrk
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