Velominati Super Prestige: Women’s Ronde van Vlaanderen 2012

Oenone Wood rocks up the Kapelmuur

The Velominati Super-Prestige continues with our second Women’s event of 2012, the Women’s Ronde van Vlaanderen. This one is made even more exciting for me by the fact that I now have some small connection to the Women’s Tibco Racing Team, as I watched with envy as they each pulled their bikes off the oversized baggage carrousel in Schiphol. Classy girls, each of them; they were really having a good time laughing in the giggly kind of way you can only understand if you’ve ever been jet lagged.

Sadly, this gives me no insight whatsoever into who might or might not be within a chance of winning the event, or placing in the top V. But be that as it may, get your VSP picks in by the time the countdown counter drops to zero for a chance to win the Women’s VSP. Winner of this VSP event will earn the right to comment all year with the Leeuw van Vlaanderen commenting badge. We will also forgo the usual Symbol Pack prize awarded to a Monument and award the winner a copy of the local newspaper the day after the race.

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The founder of Velominati and curator of The Rules, Frank was born in the Dutch colonies of Minnesota. His boundless physical talents are carefully canceled out by his equally boundless enthusiasm for drinking. Coffee, beer, wine, if it’s in a container, he will enjoy it, a lot of it. He currently lives in Seattle. He loves riding in the rain and scheduling visits with the Man with the Hammer just to be reminded of the privilege it is to feel completely depleted. He holds down a technology job the description of which no-one really understands and his interests outside of Cycling and drinking are Cycling and drinking. As devoted aesthete, the only thing more important to him than riding a bike well is looking good doing it. Frank is co-author along with the other Keepers of the Cog of the popular book, The Rules, The Way of the Cycling Disciple and also writes a monthly column for the magazine, Cyclist. He is also currently working on the first follow-up to The Rules, tentatively entitled The Hardmen. Email him directly at rouleur@velominati.com.

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  • Who do I talk to about my missing 1 point from the women's race? I need all the help I can get.

  • @el gato

    Me! I'm a bleedin' expert now.

    Look at your picks above this box where you post. Click on the little upside down black triangle. You will see the dispute option in red. Click it. The rest you can figure out.

    You now owe me Ten Shillings. I want it in old pennies in a bag...send me a picture of the cash so I know that you're real. Dan R...you owe me a picture of five quid!

    Sleep deprivation is weird eh? I worked all weekend, slept for two hours this am then did 105K...I feel odd. Elated and altered.

  • @tomb

    Dispute it proper fashion like...no comments. Frank won't take diputes in comments form! Follow the steps in my previous post.

  • @paolo

    Who actually reads this stuff?

    Actually on my iPad the new mobile profile makes it a bit dicky to read the threads well. See it now and disputed correctly.

  • @paolo
    done and done, thanks @paolo. I believe I'm a bit short but i may be able to dig up some other random European monies to satisfy my debt.

  • @el gato

    Dude thats fucking awesome, we are square in my book or we will be when I buy you a beer on a cogal one day. Good job bruv!

  • @paolo
    Thanks for that. Had no idea dispute existed for that reason.
    I thought dispute was for when you state your pick as something stupid like "Squeaky Voiced Tiny Jockey Manchild" meaning Gerrans and the system thinks you meant Evans.

  • @Blah

    Course you could just simplify the whole process by saing Evans..or Gerrans.

    But next weekend if I were you as my # 1 pick I'd say Hushovd coz if you don't your gonna be crying in your fosters.

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