Velominati Super Prestige: La Fleche Wallonne 2015

Merckx help us if this tool wins again.

Who doesn’t like a nice, steep, uphill finish after getting your head kicked in for six hours? Not me, assuming I’m not racing. The key feature on this little doozy of a race is the 1.3km long Mur de Huy; doing a wind sprint up this thing has made the world’s best climbers shift into reverse and reduces the winner to a blubbering baboon at the finish line.

We’re looking at some seriously short notice here, folks, so I won’t waste your time writing a witty but rambling scenario of what might happen and how totes amazeballs the prizes for the VSP GC are (*cough* Jaegher *cough* Café Roubaix). Just check out the start list and put your damn picks in already!

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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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Chris says:

Apr 22 2015 at 3:42 am
@frank

...how totes amazeballs...

Jesus wept. You'll be taking selfies, using emoticons and blogging about Kardashians and wrecking balls next.

Oh, hang on, your profile picture is a selfie.

VSP PICKS:
1. Kwiatkowski
2. Valverde
3. Costa
4. Mathews
5. Henao
ojhart says:

Apr 22 2015 at 3:51 am
VSP PICKS:
1. Valverde
2. Froome
3. Kwiatkowski
4. Gilbert
5. Nibali
Alex says:

Apr 22 2015 at 3:54 am
Still going with Gilbert...

VSP PICKS:
1. Gilbert
2. Kwiatkowski
3. Valverde
4. Rui Costa
5. Froome
CyclingPT says:

Apr 22 2015 at 3:55 am
VSP PICKS:
1. Alejandro Valverde
2. Vincenzo Nibali
3. Chris Froome
4. Daniel Martin
5. Philippe Gilbert
brendan kane says:

Apr 22 2015 at 3:56 am
VSP PICKS:
1. valverde
2. kwiatkowski
3. martin
4. moreno
5. gilbert
ChrisO says:

Apr 22 2015 at 3:57 am
VSP PICKS:
1. Mathews
2. Valverde
3. Martin
4. Kwiatkowski
5. Gilbert
xyxax says:

Apr 22 2015 at 4:38 am

@Gianni

Come on Danny Boy. I know I say I was going to copy @xyxax but I just can’t.

That's the sign of at least one remaining functional brain cell, my friend. Treat it with the care it deserves!
xyxax says:

Apr 22 2015 at 4:41 am

@unversio

@xyxax

Joaquim ‘Purito’ Rodriguez wants redemption and DNF restitution — Liége-Bastogne-Liége !!!

Ha, though my immediate thought is that he is telling the medics that he hurt his wee-wee.
CanuckChuck says:

Apr 22 2015 at 5:07 am

Annnnnnnnnd Delgado #2. Fuck me.
wiscot says:

Apr 22 2015 at 5:15 am

@xyxax

@unversio

@xyxax

Joaquim ‘Purito’ Rodriguez wants redemption and DNF restitution — Liége-Bastogne-Liége !!!

Ha, though my immediate thought is that he is telling the medics that he hurt his wee-wee.

Either that medic is a giant or Purito is much, much smaller than I thought.