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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@Blah
They're just practising for the Football World Cup I guess.
@ChrisO
Yep, for some reason some local clubs don't understand the principle of echelons, at the club i got to when not a uni, wind formed from my side of a two abreast pack, so i moved up to protect the inside. Got screamed at for "Half-Wheeling". I don't have an issue with social riders but i ask they watch some racing to understand how moving as a pack works in changing conditions
Where do you live?!?!?! Man, I hope it is San Antonio as I am moving there this summer!
What the fuck is going on with that big ring on the inside? Oh gosh. I'm guessing that is a fixed conversion? Leave it to them...
Can't wait for the Spring Classics. My life feels like it will have meaning in a few weeks...
@Marcus
I apologize unreservedly, retract and withdraw. Those of you who aren't Mark Renshaw are all wonderful fellows.
@Buck Rogers
Dundas, Ontario. Sorry.
This is disappointing on two counts. First: see Rule 5 and stick to your guns. And, second: I thought all Australians were Mark Renshaws...
@G'phant
++1
@Steampunk
++1
Nicely done, team. FedEx is an urchin.
How about Cancellara and Flecha today in Oman? Man, looks like Cancellara is serious about L-B-L with his climbing. Those two are going to be a serious threat in Flanders again this year as well.
@Buck Rogers
Sorry, didn't even notice - I'm too busy being stoked for my boy Gesink!
@frank
Love that finish line photo. There has to be at LEAST 15 people there!
Looks like my citizen race finishes I used to do back in my first year of cycling in '87!
But, honestly, he's got some good form right now. Wonder if he'll hold the jersey through tomorrow's ITT?