Here comes sickness.
Can you feel that? That itchy, twitchy feeling… that’s anticipation, it’s expectation, it’s Belgian fucking racing fever! You know you’ve got it, and you can’t fight it, you don’t want to fight it, you need it bad because it’s been way too long. Some may call it Spring Fever, Cobblebone, or Kassientitis. It manifests itself deep in the bones, chilling your very core, while simultaneously warming your heart. This is the best time of the racing season, and it’s affecting me more than ever, because I won’t be attending the clinic this year. And that makes me sick.
While the VSP doesn’t kick off until some 300k Italian sprint bores us to death in a couple of weeks, we all know that the real start to the season is this weekend on the bergen of Flanders, and we want the worst possible weather for it. As we bathe in sunshine in the bottom half of the planet, those of us inflicted with the sickness really long to be wrapped in our Flandrien Best and getting dumped on by cold rain and icy crosswinds on some shit-covered road, just waiting to get to the next sector of stones, the next steep and slippery climb, where once on it you curse with all your deep-seated hatred until it is crested, and a strange sense of joy briefly appears, not giving itself up fully until the first Malteni is opened hours later. It’s the medicine that doesn’t cure anything except a lack of Flahute in the system, and that’s just how we like it.
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@wilburrox
Yes! Right there with you! Dude's a fucking STUD! I am also following live ticker. Need to find a live feed, though!!!
He attacks again, catches the break and blows right through them! Man, he is Vive La Vie!!!
Finally found a link on Cyclingfans. Of course, my computer is now glowing with pop-ups for Russian whores and on-line casinos but hell, it's worth it, right???
The VMH looks over from across the room and asks what porn site I am looking at in the middle of the kitchen?!?!?! I told her that it is a porn site for old men, illegal cycling feed from Europe!!! Go SAGAN!!!
Jasper Stuyven with style and class! Chapeau to him! Only 23 yo!
@Buck Rogers
VMH was trying to sleep in, she didn't appreciate my cheering him on. But, she knew what she was getting into when she married me.
Every spring I think it's high time I learn Dutch, since that's the crappy pirate feed I tend to watch on...
@Blah
Isn't there some sort of rule that stipulates hairy legs if you can rip other peoples' shaved legs right off? Missing the sprint against GVA notwithstanding.
Yeah, Sagan gets the rule 33 exemption: "If, for some reason, your legs are to be left hairy, make sure you can dish out plenty of hurt to shaved riders..."
Besides, he's still just in training mode for the Big Races.
@Buck Rogers
Result! Was dreading a boring old bunch sprint finish. Very impressive break by Stuyven. Sagan was phenomenal though, and the epitome of casually deliberate.
@LeBelge
Well that was a great weekend. Not only for the racing, but I got back on the bike, without major pain, and without suffering like a dog. A nice easy 50km roll in the sun with @rigid, but with @LeBelge's advice in the back of my head. I fucking love Cycling.
@Owen
I hope he leaves them hairy all season! I'm thinking of a series of articles breaking a key Rule a month, this being one of them...