Everybody knows there are two kinds of cobbles. Big cobbles, little cobbles, grippy cobbles, and slippy cobbles. And when it comes to mastering the stones, no one is better than the undisputed King of the Cobbles, Kenny Van Vlaminck. And speaking of cobble legends, there is a great piece on our friend Johan Museeuw over on Rouleur today.
According to the weather reports, there is going to be wind and rain on Sunday. And if you watched the live coverage of Gent Wevelgem last week, the storm that blew in after the race was wicked intense. And, since I’ve decided not to visit Belgium this year, you can be pretty sure that the weather will finally be rubbish. You’re welcome.
We rode the RVV route (the classic route, not the crap new one) in the wind, rain, and hail a few years back, and it was striking how slippy the cobbles on the Paterberg and Koppenberg are in the wet. These climbs are borderline doable in the dry, and if you need to get out of the saddle for some extra juice, it is going to take some good bike handling to keep from spinning out.
And don’t forget we’ve got wicked prizes on offer; Don Walker is giving a free custom steel frame to the winner of the VSP overall, and Café Roubaix is awarding a set of their CR Wheelworks Arenberg wheelsets to the runner-up. Third place gets a free V-Kit. Boom. So get prognosticating and get your picks in before the clock goes to zero. Good luck!
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Sparty goes all in but overdraws on his massive testosterone account like the compulsive gambler he is, thereby proving his awesomeness and also losing gloriously. The beneficiaries are Sagmeister and Vanmarcke, the latter of whom better positions himself than he did in Ghent-V and also, for about the first time ever, does not have a bunch of flats. The others sprint in a dispirited bunch. Kristoff earns the second F in his name,and Geraint Thomas shows that the Welsh should subjugate England, righting an historical wrong. In this alternate reality I also get to ride 80 miles tomorrow and don't have to change any diapers.
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