Better late than never, it’s an appropriately titled new thread.
Eurosport coverage of the Hell of the North gets underway at 12:30 and Sir Bradley says he’s going to win.
Wiggins is probably one of the worst humans to throw his leg over a bike in anger and I dearly hope he crashes on a nice dusty section of cobbles and is then run over.
Great call @Thrawneen . Kristoff looked very strong winning Flanders last week. Thomas was well up there for a while too. I don’t think there is a lot of quality around at the moment.
SBW, you’d have to laugh at him. No chance today.
I fancy Stybar from here
Going well though.
Wiggo should’ve spent the day working for Luke Rowe.
Degenkolb takes it on the line from Stybar and Van Avermaet. Etixx fucked that one up, Lampaert left Stybar out too soon
Utterly bizarre scenes here as the peloton is split by the gates of a level crossing closing to let a TGV train through.
The quality is as ever. Just not as juiced as traditionally.
[QUOTE=“Sidney, post: 1122410, member: 183”]Utterly bizarre scenes here as the peloton is split by the gates of a level crossing closing to let a TGV train through.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=35&v=nA-84SIFnSo[/QUOTE]
The guys that went through the crossing when it was down broke the laws of cycling.
Great win for Degenkolb. Also won Milan-San Remo this year. He was interviewed by Greg Lemond on his Eurosport programme this week. Seems like an alright sort.
PP have Dani at 9/1 for LBL next weekend. I think he’s timed everything perfectly and he was 15th yesterday in Amstel coming in the same time as Kwiatkowski.
Definitely worth a few quid,imo
I’ve a few quid on e/w at 25/1 (I think those are the odds)
He’s 10/1 now. I got 12/1 earlier.
He’ll probably break his collar bone warming up.
Froome had another nasty looking fall.
Valverde won the Fleche Wallone yesterday. Kwiatkowski was impressive winning Amstel Gold last Sunday. Nibali was prominent, might be worth a punt on Sunday.
Another win for Sam Bennett and he re-takes the leader’s jersey at Bayern Rundfahrt.
If Cavendish and Greipel weren’t in such good form, the 5/1 about him winning a Tour stage would be tempting. That being said, he beat Bouhanni today. So, maybe one of the days he might get a bit of luck.
Very refreshing to see Johan Bruyneel cheering on Wiggins as he broke the mile record today. Looking forward to David Walsh writing about it.
I have no doubt but @flattythehurdler will bump into Sir Brad at a dry cleaners during the week and will hear all about it.
If I do, tfk will be the first to know. He was busy cementing the halo today.