I don’t enjoy the races in February on the Arabian Peninsula because I like watching other people ride in the sun while I spend my afternoons looking for a sliver of daylight that coincides with some fragment of my day where I don’t also need to work or engage in some other activity. I also don’t enjoy them because I think corners are overrated, nor because I like watching stock-bike time trials, nor because I believe wind is a suitable substitute for mountains.
No, I enjoy the February races on the Arabian Peninsula because it’s the first sign of life we get from the hardmen who will be bending, breaking, and smashing their way over the cobblestones this Spring in snow, rain, or suffocating dust.
Not a bad way to start things, Tomeke.
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@Buck Rogers
He's firmly in the Aussie camp now.
HA!, maybe Spartacus should have stopped everything and let Blownen catch up.
@Marko
With Haussler and Boonen returning healthily to the fold, this is going to make the spring VSP that much more difficult. Great to see so many good riders rolling healthy and into form.
Know what you mean, but speaking as someone who has to contend with those winds all year round it does me good to see that even the pros find them tough.
Probably only half our club group is competent at through-and-off so trying to organise them into a f**king echelon is a lost cause. At least you appreciate the days when the right half breaks away though.
I am so sick of this deadshit place.
Went to the ToQ prologue - me, my family and a friend were about it for spectators apart from the circus that travels with a big (!) race. There are trials guys doing amazing trially stuff to entertain... not sure who, really... One of the trials guys is in WC rainbow bands; nobody is really watching, 'cos there's nobody really there.
Yes Cav fell because of a big metal speedhump - deadshit race organisers didn't remove it, despite it being a temporary one. Fuck it; I could have traced 2.5km through the place without hitting a speedhump, but it's been done in the same dumbarse way everything is done here.
So glad I'm moving in June.
Blah in Doha, Qatar.
@frank
maybe because of his hairpiece?
@Steampunk
Sauceler may be returning to form, but seems to be trying to change nationality again to Spain, to judge by his Pistolero antics on the line. I liked it better when he just had a good old manly cry. But maybe he's saving the weeping for the Classics.
@Geoffrey Grosenbach
That's as retarded as a polish straight block: 12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,&12!
@G'phant
Your anti-australianism is almost becoming embarrassing - bad g'phant!
@Marko
Appears that way given his last three stage placings.
@Buck Rogers
2008 Ghent Wevelgem today.