Velominati Super Prestige

Velominati Super Prestige: Tour de France 2015

Cobblestones make the race, I’m not ruining any fantasies telling you that. Wet cobblestones, well, those make a legend. Nibbles rose in my esteem considerably when he rode the wet cobbles as well as he rides any mountain descent or climb; that is a boy with some nerves and some mad bike handling skills.

Wet cobbles are scarier to ride that dry ones, but they aren’t really that much more difficult to ride; you’re still playing the lottery that your wheels keep pointing where your bike is trying to go. But wet stones are definitely more draining; the mud and silt you ride through make it like riding through molasses. Awesome molasses, but molasses nonetheless.

The cobbles are back this year, and hopefully so will the rain. Let us pray for rain, because last year’s stage made the race.

The Tour de France needs no introduction but the VSP prizes deserve a gentle reminder. This is a Grand Tour, people, lots of points at stake. And those points are going towards amazing prizes including a Jaegher frame and a Café Roubaix wheelset. There is plenty of time for you to Delgado this thing, too, if you wait around until the last minute. So my advice is that you avoid doing that.

Give yourself enough time to enter your picks so if something has gone amuck, you have time to hit “reload” or come back V minutes later to try again before the event closes. Remember, your procrastination in this matter will not result in our emergency to enter your picks for you. All that said, if you do encounter a problem, please be so kind as to take a screenshot and upload it because the descriptor “it didn’t work” or “hm, not working” doesn’t help us debug the problem. Also, Internet Explorer is not supported and apparently only shows one Pick Entry box, so use Chrome, Firefox, or Safari instead.

The scoring for the Grand Tours is a tad more involved than the one-day races and one-week Tours, so look the guidelines over before making your prognostications.

So get your picks in before the countdown clock goes to zero, hit the go button, and good luck.

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520 Replies to “Velominati Super Prestige: Tour de France 2015”

  1. I think it’s totally up in the air, I just hope Bertie doesn’t win…

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Quintana
    2. Contador
    3. Froome
    4. Nibali
    5. Pinot

  2. There are SO many ways this thing could go. I really want Quintana to win. I just love the way the guy rides and handles himself. I’m not quite sure it’s his time, but I’m hoping that enough of us pick him, we can will him to the maillot jaune!

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Quintana
    2. Froome
    3. Contador
    4. Nibali
    5. Van Garderen

  7. Surprised to see so many folks picking Froome. I don’t think he’ll ever return to that rare form he had. Then again, those pesky testers weren’t allowed up to his Italian hotel room, so maybe he’s right where he needs to be.

    Oh, and those OGE helmets in the lead photo. No fucking way those mushroom tops are aero! And even if they are, they’re fucking horrible looking.

  8. VSP PICKS:

    1. Nairo Quintana
    2. Alberto Contador
    3. Chris Froome
    4. Thibaut Pinot
    5. Vincenzo Nibali
    1. Quintana
    2. Contador
    3. Tejay Van Garderen
    4. Nibali
    5. Froome

    Goofed my first post. Maybe I should’ve stuck to lurking…

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Quintana

  15. @frank

    @PT

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Pinot
    2. Yeats
    3. Yeats
    4. ‘kenoath
    5. Bardot

    You’ll have to redo your picks; you can’t have the same rider in two positions. Piti Principle and all that.

    I’ assuming he meant Adam and Simon of Orica. Unless you can score points for DSs in which case I might add Sean Yates to my picks.

  16. VSP PICKS:

    1. Chris Froome
    2. Nairo Quintana
    3. Alberto Contador
    4. Vincenzo Nibali
    5. Thibaut Pinot

  17. @Ron

    Oh, and those OGE helmets in the lead photo. No fucking way those mushroom tops are aero! And even if they are, they’re fucking horrible looking.

    I think they are based on the Smurfs… ok on a cartoon figure but fugly on a bicycle racer. And certainly not Aero…

  18. Nibali takes time on cobbles but loses it to Quintana on summit finishes. Froome loses too much time in first week. Pinot takes the race by the scruff of the neck and makes things interesting. I’m sure I’m hopelessly wrong though. No fucking clue to be honest.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Quintana
    2. Nibali
    3. Pinot
    4. Froome
    5. Contador

  19. Pinot is the dark horse now that he has taken his stabilisers off for defending but not sure anyone will beat Froomedog if he manages to stay upright.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Vroom Vroom
    2. Dirty Bertie
    3. Kanga Roo
    4. Pinot Noir
    5. Adam Yates

  22. It’s Nairo’s time. Stage 17 baby. Can’t wait!

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Quintana
    2. Contador
    3. Froome
    4. Nibali
    5. Vangaderen

  23. Shifting to France from the USA

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Nairo
    2. Froomey
    3. Con-quis-tador
    4. Nibbles
    5. Pinot Noir

  24. Deluded I know.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. TJ Van Garderen
    2. Quintana
    3. Nibali
    4. Pinot
    5. Porte

  25. Quintana falls on the kasseien and takes Contador with him, you’ll see…

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Froome
    2. Nibali
    3. Van Garderen
    4. Contador
    5. Pinot

  27. VSP PICKS:

    1. Spanish Steak
    2. Vince Nibbles
    3. Froome
    4. Quintana
    5. TJ Van Hookeren

  28. Betting on a repeat for Vince.  The battle between Cont and Froome should cause one of the top 5 favorites to crack. I’m not sure why I’m even bothering, I haven’t done any VA picks all season. In it for the fun, not a chance in hell of winning overall.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Nibali
    2. Contador
    3. Quintana
    4. Froome
    5. VanGarderen

  29. VSP PICKS:

    1. QUINTANA, Nairo
    2. NIBALI, Vincenzo
    3. CONTADOR, Alberto
    4. VALVERDE, Alejandro
    5. VAN GARDEREN, Tejay

  32. As long as Contador doesn’t win, and I don’t think he will. And watching Froome race is about as exciting as watching water evaporate.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Quintana
    2. Nibbles
    3. Froome
    4. El Pistolero
    5. Van Garderen

  33. Impossible to call so here’s to hoping my luck in the VSP continues.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Nairo Quintana
    2. Vincenzo Nibali
    3. Chris Froome
    4. Alberto Contador
    5. Thibaut Pinot

  36. @JonnyG

    Impossible to call so here’s to hoping my luck in the VSP continues.

    This seems like a bunch of Velominati brooding over the VSP.

  37. VSP PICKS:

    1. Nairo Quintana
    2. Vincenzo Nibali
    3. Chris Froome
    4. Thibault Pinot
    5. Alberto Contadore

  38. @bob droege

    @bob droege

    VSP PICKS:

    1. van gardeen

    2 Pinot 3 Napoli 4 Cavendish 5 Teklehaimanot

    VSP PICKS:

    1. van gardeen

    Bob, for your reference, please see below, pasted from the VSP article above.

    Give yourself enough time to enter your picks so if something has gone amuck, you have time to hit “reload” or come back V minutes later to try again before the event closes. Remember, your procrastination in this matter will not result in our emergency to enter your picks for you. All that said, if you do encounter a problem, please be so kind as to take a screenshot and upload it because the descriptor “it didn’t work” or “hm, not working” doesn’t help us debug the problem. Also, Internet Explorer is not supported and apparently only shows one Pick Entry box, so use Chrome, Firefox, or Safari instead.

  39. @Chris

    @frank

    @PT

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Pinot
    2. Yeats
    3. Yeats
    4. ‘kenoath
    5. Bardot

    You’ll have to redo your picks; you can’t have the same rider in two positions. Piti Principle and all that.

    I’ assuming he meant Adam and Simon of Orica. Unless you can score points for DSs in which case I might add Sean Yates to my picks.

    How am I supposed to know which is in which position, pray tell.

  40. Stem-staring watt monkey doesn’t make it out of the first week.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Bertie Wooster
    2. Vincenzo Vega Nibali
    3. Nairo Nairo Quintana
    4. Pinot
    5. Van Garderen

  41. I know Contador is coming down off a busy May, but I can’t believe he rates as the underdog here.  I see an overwhelming number of picks with Bertie somewhere other than 1st.  Also I want to put Van Garderen higher, but he is the perennially overhyped favorite.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Contador
    2. Quintana
    3. Froome
    4. Nibali
    5. TJVG

  44. VSP PICKS:

    1. Alberto Contador
    2. Vincenzo Nibali
    3. Chris Froome
    4. Nairo Quintana
    5. Thibaut Pinot

  45. Anything can and will happen. Should be fun.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Quintana
    2. Froome
    3. Pinot
    4. Uran
    5. Talansky

  47. Heart for Froome, but head says Quintana is just too good a climber for the parcours. Contador to keep ahead of Pinot and Nibali to just not have the lasting power in the high mountains.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Quintana
    2. Froome
    3. Contador
    4. Pinot
    5. Nibali

  49. Thought I heard France is under an intense heat wave. Should have some effect on the bunch. Looking forward to a cracker of a Grand Boucle.

    1. Quintana

    2. Nibbles

    3. Contador

    4. TJV

    5. Froome

  50. VSP PICKS:

    1. Vincenzo Nibali
    2. Nairo Quintana
    3. Alberto Contador
    4. Ryder Hesjedal
    5. Romain Bardet

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