Velominati Super Prestige: Men’s La Fleche Wallonne 2016

The bunch climbs the Mur de Huy

Don’t these race organizers understand how confusing it is when races are held mid-week? It means we have to have to manage against unrealistic expectations like realizing what day of the week it is and then do the sums on how much lead time we want to give on the VSP.

Which is obviously too much to expect. Of me, anyway. I have a lot of big deals cooking, you see. Its very complicated and important. I could tell you about it but you probably wouldn’t be able to handle it all.

So. That leaves us with about 20 hours for VSP picks entry. Sorry about that. Hopefully you’ve already been prognosticating on the start list and have your game together already. If not, I hope you do well under pressure. Don’t forget there are awesome prizes on offer: Don Walker is giving away a free custom steel frame, Café Roubaix is giving away a carbon wheelset, and we are giving away a free V-Kit.

Good luck!

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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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Barracuda says:

Apr 19 2016 at 6:43 pm
Surely Bling, maybe not

VSP PICKS:
1. Valverde
2. Matthews
3. Alaphilipe
4. Dan Martin
5. Henao
MikeK says:

Apr 19 2016 at 6:48 pm
VSP PICKS:
1. Martin
2. Alaphilippe
3. Valverde
4. Wellens
5. Matthews
GoldenGorilla says:

Apr 19 2016 at 6:48 pm
VSP PICKS:
1. Henao
2. Alaphillipe
3. Matthews
4. ERVITI Imanol
5. GALLOPIN Tony
Nicholas says:

Apr 19 2016 at 6:56 pm
VSP PICKS:
1. Henao
2. Valverde
3. Alaphilippe
4. Moreno
5. Martin
Nicholas says:

Apr 19 2016 at 6:57 pm
VSP PICKS:
1. Henao
2. Valverde
3. Alaphilippe
4. Moreno
5. Dan Martin
Two Ball Billy says:

Apr 19 2016 at 6:58 pm
VSP PICKS:
1. Alejandro Valverde
2. Joaquim Rodriguez
3. Tim Wellens
4. Dan Martin
5. Julian Alaphillippe
seemunkee says:

Apr 19 2016 at 7:20 pm
VSP PICKS:
1. Dan Marin
2. Valverde
3. Henao
4. PhilGil
5. J-rod
bea says:

Apr 19 2016 at 7:20 pm
Why am I doing this at 4AM?

VSP PICKS:
1. Wellens
2. Henao
3. Alaphilippe
4. Rodriguez
5. Albasini
LawnCzar says:

Apr 19 2016 at 7:22 pm
VSP PICKS:
1. Alejandro Valverde
2. Sergio Henao
3. Daniel Martin
4. Joaquim Rodríguez
5. Tim Wellens
Mikael Liddy says:

Apr 19 2016 at 7:32 pm
This race is generally when my VSP tilt first falters every year, mainly through my steadfast refusal to put Malmerde anywhere near my picks. He's been pretty quiet this year though

, so I'll likely only have my shit prognostication skills to blame!

VSP PICKS:
1. Oh Danny Boy
2. Don't Dream It's Over
3. J-Rod from the Rokkit Skwad
4. Albasini
5. Galloping Tony