Velominati Super Prestige: Paris-Tours 2014

Ramunas “Honey Badger” Navardauskas is a contender. photo by Team Garmin-Sharp

Attention, this is the final event on the Men’s VSP calendar for 2014. There is one more Women’s event to come. We may already have a winner of this years over-all but the rest of the podium could be up for grabs. @il muro di manayunk has broken away and I’m not sure @steampunk is going to chase him down. Has everyone noticed how @xyxax is always up there, every year? His mojo is also good this year.

Paris-Tours is billed as a sprinter’s classic but recent wins by Phil Gil and Greg Van Avermaet let one know it can be won by a tough one day rider too. It’s long, 237 km but relatively flat. And it’s not the Tour of Beijing, is that a reward or punishment to miss Paris-Tours and fly to China for a few days?

Who still has any form in October? What non-climber finished well last weekend? There are a lot of dark horses in this start list but only the masseurs have a clue who is going to climb into the team car at the first feed and who is not. Is this finally when Heinrich Haussler pulls the trigger and wins something again? No, probably not.

All right VSP players, one more chance for Men’s Elite glory here. Pray to your god and don’t delgado. Good luck.

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  • @VeloVita

    I love Philly actually....My derogatory comments were entirely tongue in cheek.

    Ha, I figured. I wish I could say the same regarding my comments about the municipal corruption and broken school district...

    You seem pretty familiar with the city. Are you from the area?

  • @frank

    @xyxax

    @frank

    yes, thanks, I could use the bonus points about now. My recruitment campaign slogan -

    "Ebola Fever-Catch It!"

    hasn't been very popular with the millenials and so now updating my resumé.

    I read The Hot Zone in high school and then watched Outbreak. Been more or less obsessed with this disease ever since...would prefer to keep it at a more comfortable distance however, as in on another continent.

    Well, Ebola seems to be settling in down in Texas which, you have to admit, is close to being another continent, if not another planet.

  • @il muro di manayunk

    @VeloVita

    @il muro di manayunk

    @VeloVita Unless I am missing something, which is also entirely possible.

    Have you taken into account the 10pt deduction you automatically get for being from Philadelphia?

    Shit! And I thought the municipal corruption, crumbling infrastructure, and broken public education system were punishments enough for being a Philadelphian.

    All that for being in Philly? And there was me thinking that kinda shit just happened in Milwaukee . . . who knew?

  • @frank

    Personally, I haven't been outside in weeks.  Good to have a little bit in Eurmerica to tighten the cremasterics and spur some action over there.

    @Rob

    @xyxax

    @Rob

    My hazmat suit is Speedplay-compatible only. Sucks.

    So that means, since I'm look, that I can't borrow it?

    Users of Look pedal systems are naturally immune. Decades of hanging around fruit bats, I suppose.

  • @xyxax

    @frank

    Personally, I haven't been outside in weeks. Good to have a little bit in Eurmerica to tighten the cremasterics and spur some action over there.

    @Rob

    @xyxax

    @Rob

    My hazmat suit is Speedplay-compatible only. Sucks.

    So that means, since I'm look, that I can't borrow it?

    Users of Look pedal systems are naturally immune. Decades of hanging around fruit bats, I suppose.

    Yes, until it touches our shores we don't really pay attention but that is a bit touchy feely bout the cremasterics? I mean is it just men who need the slap and tickle to wake up?

    In all seriousness, are you involved and will you have to head over?

    Back to velotrashing, are you calling me fruity and batty?

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