Velominati Super Prestige

Velominati Super Prestige: Ronde van Vlaanderen 2014

Eddie Boss
Eddie Boss

This needs no introduction. The Spring Classics are truly upon us. The course has been modified yet again, it is tougher? The riders make the race and the 2014 Ronde van Vlaanderen is loaded with racers who could win or make the Velominati VSP placings. Just to pick the winner will not be nearly as easy as it has been recently. There are small clouds hanging over Boonen and Cancellara, neither have had a dominant run up to this race, nor has Sagan. Boonen’s team is extremely strong, other teams would kill to have Quick Step’s plan B and plan C.

As always, the Ronde and Roubaix sort out who is the strongest. The final burn up Oude Kwaremont and the Paterburg will hopefully kill any chance for a sprint finish, but if it comes down to a sprint, it shall be awesome. As always, we shall be praying for rain on the Koppenberg and maybe a quick view of a friend drinking a Malteni on the Kwaremont. Here is a provisional start list. So do your Belgian beer shopping, make sure your counter-top frite deep fryer won’t burn down your home and then and only then, contemplate your VSP picks. If you Delgado this you may be cut off for the rest of 2014, because you suck.

The points from the Men’s RVV count towards the overall prizes plus the winner of this event also gets to post for the rest of the year in the  Lion of Flanders badge. So review the VSP Scoring Guidelines and get your picks in by the time the countdown clock goes to zero at midnight PDT on Sunday the 30th. If you think we mapped one of your picks wrong, use the dispute system and we’ll review it. Also remember to be precise enough in your description so we know which rider you mean; in other words, if you enter “Martin”, we will use our discretion (read: wild guess) to decide if you mean Tony or Dan – and that choice will not be negotiable once the the countdown clock goes to zero, so be sure to give yourself enough time.

Don’t forget we’ve got three major prizes for the season-long VSP:

  1. First place overall wins a Veloforma Strada iR Velominati Edition frame in addition to the customary VSP winner’s VVorkshop Apron
  2. Second place overall wins a set of hand built CR Wheelworks Arenberg wheelset in a custom Velominati paint scheme laced to orange Chris King hubs. (CR Wheelworks is Café Roubaix’s new wheel goods brand.)
  3. Third place overall wins a full Velominati V-Kit with accompanying custom orange Bont Vaypor+ road shoes.

Good luck, have fun with it, and don’t lose your Rule #43 spirit.

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307 Replies to “Velominati Super Prestige: Ronde van Vlaanderen 2014”

  1. VSP PICKS:

    1. T. Boonen
    2. F. Cancellara
    3. Z. Stybar
    4. S. Devolder
    5. P. Sagan

  2. VSP PICKS:

    1. T. Boonan
    2. P. Sagan
    3. Boasson Hagen
    4. Kristoff
    5. Cancellara

  3. VSP PICKS:

    1. Fabian Cancellara
    2. Peter Sagan
    3. Tom Boonen
    4. Stijn Devolder
    5. Niki Terpstra

  4. VSP PICKS:

    1. Cancellara
    2. Sagan
    3. Van marcke
    4. Boonen
    5. Stybar

  5. Sunday morning cannot come soon enough!

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Cancellara
    2. Boonen
    3. Sagan
    4. Paolini
    5. Vanmarcke

  6. VSP PICKS:

    1. Cancellara
    2. Terpstra
    3. Sagan
    4. Vanmarcke
    5. Degenkolb

  7. VSP PICKS:

    1. Cancellara
    2. Sagan
    3. Vanmarcke
    4. Boonen
    5. van Avermaet

  9. VSP PICKS:

    1. Fabio
    2. Sagan
    3. Sep
    4. Vandenbergh
    5. Dillier

  10. Used to be the best race of the year, probably still is but I’m still upset over them removing The Muur, fuckwits!

    I see some brave souls picking Wiggo, his race completion rate is as good as Abandony at the moment, he won’t make the 150k mark. The big guns mark each other out. Devolder rode like a beast last weekend and will slip away. Germany wins the sprint for second.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Devolder
    2. Degenkolb
    3. Cancellara
    4. Impey
    5. Kristoff

  11. Right, shit or bust…good luck everyone…

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Stybar
    2. Haussler
    3. Demare
    4. Boonen
    5. Devolder

  14. Faboo will go solo, Tommeke will take the bunch sprint for second place.

     

    “Right, shit, or bust… Good luck everyone!”

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Fabian Cancellara
    2. Tom Boonen
    3. Peter Sagan
    4. Niki Terpstra
    5. Greaint Thomas

  18. VSP PICKS:

    1. Sagan
    2. Vanmarcke
    3. Cancellara
    4. Boonen
    5. Van Avermaet

  19. VSP PICKS:

    1. cancellara
    2. sagan
    3. thomas
    4. terpstra
    5. degenkolb

  21. VSP PICKS:

    1. Boonen, T
    2. Cancellara, F
    3. Kristoff, A
    4. Sagan, P
    5. vanmarcke, S

  23. This has got to be the hardest one of the year to choose.  I’d love to see Wiggo do well but this isn’t a 245km ITT so I just don’t see it myself.  G will be in the front group and crash heavily on the final lap but will finish anyway.

    Half of OPQS could win this but I’m going with Terpstra to show the field a clean pair of heels a la Spartacus.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Nikki Terpstra
    2. Sep Vanmarcke
    3. Alexander Kristoff
    4. Peter Sagan
    5. Fabian Cancellara

  24. VSP PICKS:

    1. Sep Vanmarcke
    2. Stijn Devolder
    3. Tony Gallopin
    4. Niki Terpstra
    5. Luca Paolini

  25. VSP PICKS:

    1. Fabian Cancellara
    2. Niki Terpstra
    3. Geraint Thomas
    4. Peter Sagan
    5. Zdenek Stybar

  27. Started thinking about my picks last night then went to bed and had this weird dream that I was in Belgium. I was in a second hand furniture shop but somehow ended up buying a pair of rims, hubs, a handful of spokes and a spoke key. I then started to try and build the  wheels which is something that I’ve never done before. All I was thinking was that if I could look at wheel I could probably work out what to do, but obviously in the dream there were no wheels for me to look at. So I started trying to lace the wheel up without using a truing stand but the spokes were just bending like they were made of cooked spaghetti.

    Then I woke up.  As far as anxiety dreams go it was a pretty good one.

    Here are my picks:

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Cancellara
    2. Stybar
    3. Thomas G
    4. Sagan
    5. Terpstra

  29. I’m pretty sure this wasn’t on the Paris Roubaix routes that the Keepers Tours have covered but it take me back there instantly.

    What I’d give to be heading back there this weekend for another Keepers Tour…

  30. @Chris

    I’m pretty sure this wasn’t on the Paris Roubaix routes that the Keepers Tours have covered but it take me back there instantly.

    What I’d give to be heading back there this weekend for another Keepers Tour…

    That photo is breathtaking!

  32. @V-inden Not mine obviously, I found it here.

    It sums up the bleakness of the area and captures the colours perfectly. It’s only missing some wind, cold and an ache in your vastus medialis like you’ve never known.

  33. VSP PICKS:

    1. Tom Boonen
    2. Peter Sagan
    3. Sep Vanmarcke
    4. Fabian Cancellara
    5. Niki Terpstra

  34. VSP PICKS:

    1. Peter Sagan
    2. Fabian Cancellara
    3. Sep Vanmarke
    4. John Degenkolb
    5. Tom Boonen

  35. VSP PICKS:

    1. Sagan
    2. Cancellara
    3. Terpstra
    4. Boonen
    5. Roelandts

  36. I honestly have no real effing idea, could be anyones.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Vanmarcke
    2. Cancellara
    3. Sagan
    4. Terpstra
    5. Haussler

  37. Diary is cleared for the next two Sundays, can’t wait….

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Cancellara
    2. Sep Vanmarcke
    3. Sagan
    4. Stybar
    5. Thomas

  39. VSP PICKS:

    1. Boonen
    2. Van marcke
    3. Cancellara
    4. Stybar
    5. Sagan

  40. More wishful thinking, then anything else I’m afraid?!

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Niki Terpstra
    2. Sebastiaan Langeveld
    3. Stybar
    4. Devolder
    5. Vanmarcke

  41. Does this work like the infinite monkeys thing, if enough of us get involved then someone will be right!

  42. Unlikely, but at least I’m on time this week.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Sagan
    2. Tommeke
    3. Faboo
    4. Degenkolb
    5. Van Avermaet

  43. VSP PICKS:

    1. Sagan
    2. Cancellara
    3. Vanmarcke
    4. Terpstra
    5. Boonen

  44. Most race results this year I’m pretty ambivalent about, but I really want Boonen to do the double. The only problem is, I really like Cancellara as well and always like seeing him win too. If I can get my Boonen double this year, I’ll happily have a Fabs double next year.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Boonen
    2. Sagan
    3. Cancellara
    4. Terpstra
    5. Vanmarcke

  45. Sorry Bomtoonen, but you’ve been a bit off the last couple of weeks.  Going with The Mancellara who can simply ride away from everyone and win alone.  Gotta tip my hat to Sagan, Terpstra and Devloder who look great right now.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Cancellara
    2. Sagan
    3. Terpstra
    4. Devolder
    5. Vanmarcke

  46. @Chris

    I’m pretty sure this wasn’t on the Paris Roubaix routes that the Keepers Tours have covered but it take me back there instantly.

    What I’d give to be heading back there this weekend for another Keepers Tour…

    The ghosts that walk that field are many.  100 years out from WWI.  Hollowed ground for too many reasons right there.

  48. Two from Trek, two from OPQS. IMO, the two strongest teams in the race.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Cancellara
    2. Sagan
    3. Boonen
    4. Devolder
    5. Stybar

  50. VSP PICKS:

    1. Cancellara
    2. Boonen
    3. Sagan
    4. Vanmarke
    5. Van Avermaet

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