Velominati Super Prestige: Clasica Ciclista San Sebastian 2017

GvA's race goes tits up

This week we are currently in is the most boring week of the year. After three weeks of non-stop Tour de France coverage, we slip, without any warning whatsoever, back into the doldrums of loving a sport that doesn’t get any television coverage. When, on Saturday morning, I tune into San Sebastian, it will be via a crappy, low-resolution feed snaked off Steephill.tv.

San Sebastian isn’t exactly my favorite race, but it’s a race and after enduring the post-Tour hangover for nearly a week, I’m ready to take anything resembling a bike race. It even has enough climbs to make it interesting, and enough race motos to keep us biting our nails right to the very end.

So, go get jiggy with the start list, get your picks in, and let’s party.

frank

The founder of Velominati and curator of The Rules, Frank was born in the Dutch colonies of Minnesota. His boundless physical talents are carefully canceled out by his equally boundless enthusiasm for drinking. Coffee, beer, wine, if it’s in a container, he will enjoy it, a lot of it. He currently lives in Seattle. He loves riding in the rain and scheduling visits with the Man with the Hammer just to be reminded of the privilege it is to feel completely depleted. He holds down a technology job the description of which no-one really understands and his interests outside of Cycling and drinking are Cycling and drinking. As devoted aesthete, the only thing more important to him than riding a bike well is looking good doing it. Frank is co-author along with the other Keepers of the Cog of the popular book, The Rules, The Way of the Cycling Disciple and also writes a monthly column for the magazine, Cyclist. He is also currently working on the first follow-up to The Rules, tentatively entitled The Hardmen. Email him directly at rouleur@velominati.com.

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Randy C says:

Jul 28 2017 at 6:34 pm
okay then… one more time because I'm not sure Luis Leon is in fact racing. And because I'm adding GVA then have to add Philippe too...

VSP PICKS:
1. Tom Dumoulin
2. Tony Gallopin
3. Philippe Gilbert
4. Mikel Landa
5. Greg Van Avermaet
Randy C says:

Jul 28 2017 at 6:44 pm

Truly a hardman yes ? "During the tour I didn't have any problems when racing, but off the bike I wasn't feeling very comfortable…", Dan describes racing TdF with a broken back.

Just to be straight here, "...I wasn't feeling very comfortable…" is how he describes having a broken back. Though he was fine when racing. Unbelievable. Reminds me of Thomas racing 20 stages, including the TTT, with a busted pelvis after getting injured on first stage a few years back.
dancollins says:

Jul 28 2017 at 7:04 pm
Frank: The race is live on Cycling TV in the USA. I think a 6 month subscription is $29. They do an internet broadcast of a number of fairly good races. For some reason, it doesn't show up on Steephill as a broadcaster of this race. I have subscribed for a couple of years.

VSP PICKS:
1. kwiatkowski
2. R. Uran
3. Van Aver Maet
4. Gilbert
5. Gallopin
MikeK says:

Jul 28 2017 at 8:06 pm
VSP PICKS:
1. Michal Kwiatowski
2. Greg Van Avermaet
3. Mikel Landa
4. Philippe Gilbert
5. Tony Gallopin
Clingon says:

Jul 28 2017 at 9:40 pm
VSP PICKS:
1. Mikel Landa
2. Greg Van Avermaet
3. Tony Gallopin
4. Philippe Gilbert
5. Simon Yates
David van Dijk says:

Jul 28 2017 at 11:03 pm
Dumoulin is not yet back in form so Mollema it is for us Dutchmen!

VSP PICKS:
1. Evermaet
2. Kwiatkovski
3. Mollema
4. Landa
5. Roglic
Harminator says:

Jul 28 2017 at 11:20 pm
NFA

VSP PICKS:
1. Kwiatkowski
2. GVA
3. Mollema
4. Gilbert
5. Yates S
ojhart says:

Jul 28 2017 at 11:39 pm
VSP PICKS:
1. van Avermaet
2. Kwiatkowski
3. Gilbert
4. Gallopin
5. Barguil
xyxax says:

Jul 29 2017 at 12:26 am
If I lose, I'm asking for video replay. Is that like TiVo?

VSP PICKS:
1. Landa
2. Uran
3. Gallopin
4. Baulke Mollema
5. Van Avermaet
mulebeatsdrums says:

Jul 29 2017 at 1:18 am
After a Tour of mixed feeling for me (when it was Good, it was Very Very Good, when it was Bad it was a snooze-fest), I'm hoping this'll be exciting! I'm at work, without a VPN, so not 100% sure I'll be able to even get a stream running...

@frank Could you update the results on the Tour VSP page? They're still showing provisional Week 1.

VSP PICKS:
1. KWIATKOWSKI, Michal
2. YATES, Simon
3. GILBERT, Phillippe
4. VAN AVERMAET, Greg
5. LANDA, Mikel