Velominati Super Prestige: Clasica San Sebastian

Jalabert takes the win in 2001

The inaugural Velominati Super Prestige continues with its the first Summer Classic, Clasica Ciclista San Sebastian, on Saturday, July 31. This will be the first post-Tour event in the series and with the unpredictability of how riders are recovering, it makes this race a tough one to predict.

The route of this Basque road race is a difficult one, and this year’s new route makes it more suited to the strong climbers who can finish well like Damiano Can-he-go. Defending champ Carlos Barredo showed good form at the Tour; will he be able to defend? Peer deep into the race preview, and then deep into your heart, and divine your selections.

This winner of this Super Prestige edition will again earn an “Obey the Rules” bumper sticker and all reader’s points qualify towards the final prize of the free Velominati Shop Apron. As always, if you are inclined to enter, simply post your predictions for the top five placings in the comment section. Make your picks for by the time tomorrow’s stage starts, regular VSP Rules apply. Good luck!

Rules and results are posted Velominati Super Prestige page.

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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Brett says:

Aug 3 2010 at 12:37 am

@ all

I was all set to do a new post this arvo, but a couple of bottles of Epic Mayhem and the fact that I'm going to see a little band called the Pixies kinda got in the way...

Could take a couple of days to recover, bear with me... Gouge Away!
frank says:

Aug 3 2010 at 12:48 pm

@all
I missed some good stuff, it looks like. I will try to get to tallying up the results of the VSP and declaring the winner just as soon as I can.

@Joe

Congrats, mate.
Good Geofelephant says:

Aug 3 2010 at 1:38 pm

@frank
Can you do an elephant with Cadel's face?
frank says:

Aug 3 2010 at 7:17 pm

@Good Geofelephant

A bit creepy, actually.
Good Geofelephant says:

Aug 3 2010 at 8:26 pm

@frank
A++1.

That's genius-level shit, that is.
Brett says:

Aug 3 2010 at 11:10 pm

Needs a cleft trunk...
frank says:

Aug 4 2010 at 1:07 pm

@Brett

Favorite detail is the fact that I put Nigel Tunfnel's chin on there.
frank says:

Aug 6 2010 at 11:49 am

@all
Completely forgot to score this...we all did pretty awful. I got 2 points, and the aside from that, only a handful of people scored a point. There was an 8-way tie for second with 1 point, and since I'm not eligible, I had to find a tie-breaker for the bumpersticker. It goes to Marcus, who was the first one to enter his picks.

Well done, mate.
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