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. Cancellara
    2. Sagan
    3. Boonen
    4. Paolini
    5. Terpstra

  4. A roll of the dice…

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Fabian
    2. sagan
    3. van marke
    4. boonen
    5. stybar

  5. The usual guesswork and voodoo to get this lot, not original but hey, at least I didn’t Delgado. And I got 3rd at the Grand National by picking it out of a hat, so this system has some mileage.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Faboo
    2. Vanmarcke
    3. T-Boo
    4. Terpstra
    5. Sagan

  6. Gaaaah so tough I’m forced into some brilliantly unoriginal picks. Got some belgian brews lined up but might need to swap out the real chips for an onion ring stack….

    VSP PICKS:

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

  7. It only remains to be seen just how much I will regret not picking Spartacus to win. And leaving him out completely….

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Boonen, Tom
    2. Van Avermaet, Greg
    3. Sagan, Peter
    4. Stybar, Zdenik
    5. Roelandts, Jurgen

  9. Can’t seem to find the fantastic VSP karma from last year.  A roll of the dice, and here we go.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Peter Sagan
    2. Fabian Cancellara
    3. Tom Boonen
    4. Geraint Thomas
    5. Sep Vanmarcke

  10. VSP PICKS:

    1. Cancellara
    2. Vanmarcke
    3. Devolder
    4. Degenkolb
    5. Boonen

  11. VSP PICKS:

    1. Peter Sagan
    2. Tom Boonen
    3. John Degenkolb
    4. Fabian Cancellara
    5. Zdenek Stybar

  14. VSP PICKS:

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

  15. Well fuck.  Out on a limb here…

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Sep Vanmarcke
    2. Terpstra
    3. Geraint Thomas
    4. Boonen
    5. Sagan

  16. VSP PICKS:

    1. Boonen
    2. Cancellara
    3. Sagan
    4. Van Avermaet
    5. G. Thomas

  19. Can’t see anyone hanging with Cancellara over the top of the last couple climbs.  If he gets a meter it’s as good as a km.

    VSP PICKS:

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

  20. In no particular order, just playing the numbers…

    VSP PICKS:

    1. CANCELLARA Fabian
    2. SAGAN Peter
    3. BOONEN Tom
    4. POZZATO Filippo
    5. VANMARCKE Sep

  21. VSP PICKS:

    1. Cancellara
    2. Boonen
    3. Sagan
    4. Kristoff
    5. Van Avarmaet

  23. Once again, no magic but no Delgado either. Screw the prizes, I just want to play.

    VSP PICKS:

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

  25. Cobbles!

    VSP PICKS:

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

  26. Sagan kills himself chasing a curiously fading Faboo, with Tommeke glued to his wheel. The less thrashed Boonen punches out a tires width win while his faithful attack dog Niki brings up the rear, only to be just nipped at the line by the ever-close Chavanel.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. BOONEN Tom
    2. SAGAN Peter
    3. CANCELLARA Fabian
    4. CHAVANEL Sylvain
    5. TERPSTRA Niki

  27. VSP PICKS:

    1. cancellara
    2. sagan
    3. vanmarke
    4. boonen
    5. stybar

  28. VSP PICKS:

    1. sagan
    2. terpstra
    3. spartacus
    4. roelandts
    5. stybar

  30. VSP PICKS:

    1. Sagan
    2. Cancellara
    3. Sep Vanmarke
    4. Stybar
    5. Boonen

  31. Ronde baby!

    VSP PICKS:

    1. cancellara
    2. sagan
    3. boonen
    4. Sep van marke
    5. devolder

  32. Didn’t miss the count timer this time. I have no idea but here goes.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Sagan
    2. Cancellera
    3. Boonen
    4. Stybar
    5. Gilbert

  33. That long relative flat to the finish is the clincher for me – if Cancellara is in front nobody will catch him. If he isn’t then the bunch will catch whoever is out there.

    VSP PICKS:

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

  37. I’ve Degado’d the first two rounds already but a good result here and I’m back init…and thanks for featuring the original tall man of the classics Eddie “Bosberg”!

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Sagan
    2. Cancellara
    3. Stybar
    4. Sep Vanmarke
    5. Boonen

  40. guess not? its late here, its later elsewhere. diggin a deep hole, shit.

  41. Agghhhh, Delgaaaddooooo!!!!

    I did declare that Stybar was doing the double in the RVV and PR about a month ago, so expect a call from my legal team if he does so

    1. Stybar

    2. Stybar

    3. Stybar

    4. Stybar

    5. Stybar

  43. Who in the fuck is that woman with the ugly red leather jacket who nearly killed Popovych? What an arsehole. She knew her jacket took him out, he crashed hard just a few feet away, then she let other spectators tend to him, acting as if she’d done nothing. I can’t stand people who shirk responsibilities.

    Damn, so many crashes too. Roelandts is gone. van Summeren might have killed himself, killing someone’s gran. And Stijn Devolder went into that narrow stretch damn fast and went down damn hard. Now he’s chasing back on. HARDMAN.

    If Cancellara wins, Stijn deserves a new, fancy wristwatch. Fuck that, a new car.

  44. FUCK ME!!!  Here we go!!!  Will the teammates make the difference or is Sparty just too strong!?!?!?

  45. Stijn Vandenbergh is huge – when Avermaert was down on the bars you could see vandenbergh’s head and shoulders above him.

    I feel aerosympathetic for him.

  46. How painful for that group – to make it back to the leaders just in time for Oude Kwaremont.

    I hate that.

  49. Ahhhhh!  My live feed just crashed!!!  Sucks!!!  But Sparty!!!  Man, total power.  League of his own.

  50. Back up!!!  Sparty has to go from a distance, no???  He will not win the sprint from these four?

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