Velominati Super Prestige

Velominati Super Prestige: Paris-Roubaix 2015

No one can be happy about Sunday’s weather forecast (except for 95% of the riders and support staff). I am not. Now every Norwegian non-cobble riding specialists has a chance of winning this. I was hoping for day that would separate the Rule #9 riders from everybody else. Bah!

We can take some comfort in knowing our Keepers Tour brothers will be at three different cobbled secteurs, hydrating and yelling with the the locals. Keep an eye out for the V-flag.

There is not much to say about Paris-Roubaix that has not been said. It is the race of the season.

Consult your god. Go with your heart or your head on this. Enter your choices, prepare your frites deep-fryer, the beer selection, assure your family that drinking and swearing on a Sunday morning is part of your religion.

The VSP page has the details and in case anyone forgot, the end of the season could get you here:

  • First place– A custom Jaegher frame, handbuilt in Belgium.
  • Second Place– A Café Roubaix/Velominati wheelset, Chris King hubs, hand built by professional wheelsmith and Velominati Dan Richter.
  • Third Place– A Velominati kit: jersey, bibs, and cap.

 

 

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266 Replies to “Velominati Super Prestige: Paris-Roubaix 2015”

  2. Wiggo, Kristoff, er fuck?! what to do? I’ll have to give this some liquid reconsideration whilst watching classic Roubaix films

  3. VSP PICKS:

    1. john Degenkolb
    2. Arnaud DEMARE
    3. Alexander KRISTOFF
    4. Zdenek STYBAR
    5. Lars BOOM

  5. “We know Bradley when he focusses on things he normally somehow achieves it.” – Fabian Cancellara.

    Haters, cynics, piss-takers, foreigners – form an orderly queue here.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. WIGGINS Bradley
    2. TERPSTRA Niki
    3. KRISTOFF Alexander
    4. VAN AVERMAET Greg
    5. THOMAS Geraint

  8. @Chris

    @Geraint

    Shouldn’t you be betting on yourself?

    I just didn’t have the legs last weekend, and have spent the week eating Welsh Cakes, drinking beer, and spending time with the missus. Hoping for better, but Brad really wants this one, you should see him…

  13. @Geraint

    @Chris

    @Geraint

    Shouldn’t you be betting on yourself?

    I just didn’t have the legs last weekend, and have spent the week eating Welsh Cakes, drinking beer, and spending time with the missus. Hoping for better, but Brad really wants this one, you should see him…

    Welsh cakes? Never had one but if it’s a bit like having one too many Eccles cakes at the tea stop on a Sunday club run I can see why you’re not too confident. I always get dropped after the stop.

  14. @Chris

    @Geraint

    @Chris

    @Geraint

    Shouldn’t you be betting on yourself?

    I just didn’t have the legs last weekend, and have spent the week eating Welsh Cakes, drinking beer, and spending time with the missus. Hoping for better, but Brad really wants this one, you should see him…

    Welsh cakes? Never had one but if it’s a bit like having one too many Eccles cakes at the tea stop on a Sunday club run I can see why you’re not too confident. I always get dropped after the stop.

    Eccles cakes? Never had one. But we’re probably talking about the same sort of thing.

  15. VSP PICKS:

    1. Bradley Wiggins
    2. Lars Boom
    3. Greg Van Avermaet
    4. Sep Vanmarcke
    5. Niki Terpstra

  17. Wiggins wants, but doesn’t receive. There will be bike throwing involved. Welsh cakes even.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Vanmarcke
    2. Terpstra
    3. Van Avermaet
    4. Boom
    5. Degenkolb

  19. VSP PICKS:

    1. Kristoff, A.
    2. Degenkolb, J.
    3. Stybar, Z.
    4. Vanmarcke, S.
    5. Van Avermaet, G.

  20. I’m a little partial to moonpies myself.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Z. Stybar
    2. A. Kristoff
    3. G. Van Amermaet
    4. S. Vanmarcke
    5. N. Terstra

  23. When Wiggo focuses, he usually achieves his goal. I cannot ignore him in his last UCI race. Focus and hunger will be off the charts. Van Avermaet will be alone in hot pursuit and King Kristoff will win a reduced sprint for third

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Bradley Wiggins
    2. Greg Van Avermaet
    3. Alexander Kristoff
    4. Zdenek Stybar
    5. Niki Terpstra

  25. What the Merckx? I hit “tab” to change fields an the V-9000 posts my two picks?

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Sir Brad
    2. Stybar
    3. Van Avermaet
    4. Kristoff
    5. Terpstra

  30. @Chris

    @Geraint

    @Chris

    @Geraint

    Shouldn’t you be betting on yourself?

    I just didn’t have the legs last weekend, and have spent the week eating Welsh Cakes, drinking beer, and spending time with the missus. Hoping for better, but Brad really wants this one, you should see him…

    Welsh cakes? Never had one but if it’s a bit like having one too many Eccles cakes at the tea stop on a Sunday club run I can see why you’re not too confident. I always get dropped after the stop.

    I love me a nice Eccles cake. Mmmmmmm . . . Man , that word just conjures up all kinds of nostalgic 1930s club ride boys-own style imagery – the touring bikes with mudguards and saddlebags, the hedge-lined country roads, the wee cafe selling eccles cakes to be washed down with big mugs of hot tea. Then it rains on the way home and you put on your tent-like plastic cape and get a puncture. Then you wake up.

  33. Kristoff is the strongest but he will have unlucky.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Vandenburg
    2. Thomas
    3. Hayman
    4. Vanmarcke
    5. Gaudin

  34. Ah hell, what do I know? Usual shitty picks. Wiggo for the “break down in tears” win. Thomas and Stybar being dutiful teammates and not chasing Sir B and Terpstra and Vanmarke in for third.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Wiggins
    2. Terpstra
    3. Vanmarke
    4. Thomas
    5. Stybar

  35. @wiscot

    @Chris

    @Geraint

    @Chris

    @Geraint

    Shouldn’t you be betting on yourself?

    I just didn’t have the legs last weekend, and have spent the week eating Welsh Cakes, drinking beer, and spending time with the missus. Hoping for better, but Brad really wants this one, you should see him…

    Welsh cakes? Never had one but if it’s a bit like having one too many Eccles cakes at the tea stop on a Sunday club run I can see why you’re not too confident. I always get dropped after the stop.

    I love me a nice Eccles cake. Mmmmmmm . . . Man , that word just conjures up all kinds of nostalgic 1930s club ride boys-own style imagery – the touring bikes with mudguards and saddlebags, the hedge-lined country roads, the wee cafe selling eccles cakes to be washed down with big mugs of hot tea. Then it rains on the way home and you put on your tent-like plastic cape and get a puncture. Then you wake up.

    I’m not sure what’s so ’30s about all of that, sounds like some of the more modern clubs out Norfolk direction.

    BTW, if you really do dream of touring bikes with mudguards and saddlebags, there are other websites for confessing to such predilections but here that definitely falls into masturbation principle territory.   

  37. I watched Me Me Me winning last years rumble again last night – nearly shed a tear – that said, I hope he doesn’t repeat it, as it will be to the expense of my favourite gladiator Zdorro, who needs to be allowed to go on the rampage without Nikki running off home with the ball

    That said, if Wiggo does it, I will drown myself in Brutges Zot and tears, because this is the sort of shit that makes sport a superior grade of religion

    For that matter, anyone with a blue stripe down there back will reduce me to a quivering hulk

    Merckx I love this race

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Sir Brad
    2. Zdorro
    3. G
    4. .

  38. VSP PICKS:

    1. Kristoff, Alexander
    2. Terpstra, Niki
    3. Boom, Lars
    4. Degenkolb, John
    5. Stybar, Zdenek

  39. @Chris

    @wiscot

    @Chris

    @Geraint

    @Chris

    @Geraint

    Shouldn’t you be betting on yourself?

    I just didn’t have the legs last weekend, and have spent the week eating Welsh Cakes, drinking beer, and spending time with the missus. Hoping for better, but Brad really wants this one, you should see him…

    Welsh cakes? Never had one but if it’s a bit like having one too many Eccles cakes at the tea stop on a Sunday club run I can see why you’re not too confident. I always get dropped after the stop.

    I love me a nice Eccles cake. Mmmmmmm . . . Man , that word just conjures up all kinds of nostalgic 1930s club ride boys-own style imagery – the touring bikes with mudguards and saddlebags, the hedge-lined country roads, the wee cafe selling eccles cakes to be washed down with big mugs of hot tea. Then it rains on the way home and you put on your tent-like plastic cape and get a puncture. Then you wake up.

    I’m not sure what’s so ’30s about all of that, sounds like some of the more modern clubs out Norfolk direction.

    BTW, if you really do dream of touring bikes with mudguards and saddlebags, there are other websites for confessing to such predilections but here that definitely falls into masturbation principle territory.

    This bit of film is what came to mind when I heard Eccles Cake – an early Keepers Tour from 1955. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyz5d3entBw

    And my one and only ride with the Cyclists Touring Club was a disaster – it pished down, I punctured, they fucked off. Joined the Johnstone Wheelers instead.

  40. VSP PICKS:

    1. Matteo Trentin
    2. Jurgeon Roelandts
    3. John Degenkolb
    4. Daniel Oss
    5. Geraint Thomas

  41. Haha, I remember seeing that ages ago.

    The bit at 40ish seconds cracks me up “…from who is any cyclist in his right wind  going to accept a lift from…” as the two too-posh-to-use-the-stairs chaps arrive on the platform via the lift. Deeply subversive reporting ’50s style.

  42. VSP PICKS:

    1. TERPSTRA Niki
    2. DEGENKOLB John
    3. SAGAN Peter
    4. STYBAR Zdenek
    5. VAN AVERMAET Greg

  45. Welsh Cakes and Eccles cakes are totally different.  Welsh cakes are like a dryer version of Scotch cakes.  Eccles cakes a package of currents bound in a filo pastry bundle.  Great post ride treat.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. avermaet
    2. terpstra
    3. boom
    4. thomas
    5. sagan

  46. @Chris

    Haha, I remember seeing that ages ago.

    The bit at 40ish seconds cracks me up “…from who is any cyclist in his right wind  going to accept a lift from…” as the two too-posh-to-use-the-stairs chaps arrive on the platform via the lift. Deeply subversive reporting ’50s style.

    I believe the groups were sorted, not by letter category or distance, but by what newspaper one read on the train: The Daily Telegraph group, the Daily Mail group and the Daily Express group. News of the World readers were shunned.

  47. I am over thinking this far too much.  As a result, I don’t expect much from these picks.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Geraint Thomas
    2. Pozzato
    3. Kirstoff
    4. Boom
    5. Wiggo

  48. Part research, part obvious associations from media and last year, part wtf. Watch Sagan go and win it now I have dropped him!

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Kristoff
    2. Wiggo
    3. Stybar
    4. Vanmarcke
    5. Terpstra

  50. Team depth and/or desperation meets inevitability. I give Stybar the edge over Terpstra because he has the option of dropping weight by spitting out his bridge if things get desperate.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Kristoff
    2. Vanmarcke
    3. Stybar
    4. Terpstra
    5. VanAvermaet

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