***Official 2025 Pro Cycling Thread*** - This year a Grand Prize!!! (1 Viewer)

[BassNBrew]

Roll call for Brugge-De Panne

@Sand
@BobbyLayne
@DA RAIDERS
@cheeseypoof
@Nick Vermeil
@Jaysus
@brettdj

Race tomorrow morning in classicosixes, get your teams in.

@brettdj You will get the scores for the races you missed

 

[DA RAIDERS]

Roll call for Brugge-De Panne

@Sand
@BobbyLayne
@DA RAIDERS
@cheeseypoof
@Nick Vermeil
@Jaysus
@brettdj

Race tomorrow morning in classicosixes, get your teams in.

@brettdj You will get the scores for the races you missed

/in. Very little research done

 

[Nick Vermeil]

Roll call for Brugge-De Panne

@Sand
@BobbyLayne
@DA RAIDERS
@cheeseypoof
@Nick Vermeil
@Jaysus
@brettdj

Race tomorrow morning in classicosixes, get your teams in.

@brettdj You will get the scores for the races you missed

/in. Very little research done

See you on the podium.

 

[Tick]

Yawn - highlight reel for this one is 5 seconds long.

 

[Sand]

Locked and loaded.

 

[BassNBrew]

Looks like a straight sweep on the M&M boys with the being unanimous. It will be Da Raiders and me with Kooji vs. everyone's Phillipson. Raiders massively upgrarded his 4th rider to a stud, I upgraded my 5th rider from pack fodder to a prayer.

 

[Jaysus]

with so many sprinters, and a pancake flat finish, there is going to be carnage in the last km, right?

 

[BassNBrew]

20 KM to go at Brugge. Break now under a minute.

 

[BassNBrew]

Martinez down at Catalunya. Collided with teammate in feed zone on the climb. less than a k to the top so he should be able to catch up.

 

[BassNBrew]

What a pile of snow at the top of this climb.

 

[BassNBrew]

Big descent then a GC battle up a Cat1 at Catalunya. Race leader at the back putting on a jacket, suspect he's not going to attempted to defend.

 

[BassNBrew]

15 km decent. Got to be tough going hard up a climb sweating and then shivering for 15 minutes.

 

[Jaysus]

with so many sprinters, and a pancake flat finish, there is going to be carnage in the last km, right?

The carnage started at the 5K mark

 

[Jaysus]

with so many sprinters, and a pancake flat finish, there is going to be carnage in the last km, right?

The carnage started at the 5K mark

And continued at the 2K mark

 

[BassNBrew]

Brugge....

March 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
3km to go, De Vries is still 6 seconds ahead.
March 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Another crash now - three Intermarche riders are down, incuding their sprinter Gerben Thijssen.
March 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
As a result of that crash, there's been a split in the peloton.

March 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
One of Philipsen's lead-out men, Juri Hollmann, is among them. But none of the sprinters were spotted.
March 26, 2025 at 11:53 AM

CRASH​

There's a crash in the peloton, with a few riders down.

 

[Jaysus]

with so many sprinters, and a pancake flat finish, there is going to be carnage in the last km, right?

The carnage started at the 5K mark

And continued at the 2K mark

And one more at the 1K. Mark

 

[BassNBrew]

What a diaster. Phillipsen, Kooji, and Merlier all held up in crash.

 

[BassNBrew]

Brennan shelled at Catalunya.

 

[DA RAIDERS]

with so many sprinters, and a pancake flat finish, there is going to be carnage in the last km, right?

Gross. Last 3+ km

 

[Sand]

What a diaster. Phillipsen, Kooji, and Merlier all held up in crash.

They obviously know who I picked in the competition.

 

[Tick]

Catalunya was a lot of fun - breakaways, uphill sprint finish.

 

[Tick]

I had a weird day where I was on the company dime waiting for a ship to arrive in Antwerp, but it was delayed, so we had nothing to do... so we took a train up to Bruges for the day. What a charming town, it was pretty perfect.

 

[Tick]

I don't know how to solve it, but cycling is relying on riders to diagnose themselves for possible concussions in each crash. Not a great setup. Maybe a helmet sensor, where if it gets whacked this hard, they can't jump right back on the bike?

 

[Nick Vermeil]

Did @BobbyLayne get pinched like he predicted?

 

[Tick]

Man, Bruges is just carnage everywhere.

 

[BassNBrew]

Only seeing the top 10 at Brugge posted. One site had everyone else listed at 11th.

 

[BassNBrew]

FBGs​

• Stage 3
  OVERALL RACE | OVERALL STAGE RACE CHAMPIONSHIP
  Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Stage 3 | Stage 4 | Stage 5 | Stage 6 | Stage 7 | End-of-Tour Points
  

• 1
  
  465
  

  Sand`s Saddle Sores​

  BassNBrew
• 2
  
  323
  

  RB Brownwings WGUAFC​

  Jaysus
• 3
  
  310
  

  Squeaky Wheels​

  Cheeseypoof
• 4
  
  260
  

  Armstrong’s Needle​

  Da Raiders
• 5
  
  237
  

  Boerum Hill Big Ringing​

  BobbyLayne
• 6
  
  225
  

  One Excuse​

  Sand

 

[DA RAIDERS]

Catalunya was a lot of fun - breakaways, uphill sprint finish.

I was hoping for more on the HC or the final climb. I thought the 3 that broke away at the end were going to go for it, but they seemed to sit up after playing a bit of cat and mouse. Odd stage

 

[BassNBrew]

Congrats Cheesy on a big win today. Results are up if you drill down

 

[Jaysus]

Only seeing the top 10 at Brugge posted. One site had everyone else listed at 11th.

I think they had to wait to see who the UCI was relegating after that cluster#####. I am shocked that Milan appeared to get away with only a yellow card...

 

[cheeseypoof]

Congrats Cheesy on a big win today. Results are up if you drill down

Finally crafted a decent team for a one day race.

 

[Sammy3469]

Man, Bruges is just carnage everywhere.

Too many teams jockeying for limited space on a road. Someone made the comment that if you are going to have a flat sprint stage these days, the ending road better be very, very wide. Even then the biggest issue is what happens when the leadoff guys drop back. Everyone is going so hard and they are all spread across the entire width of the road, that there's no place for them to go safely. At least in a Grand Tour some percentage of the teams have some of their riders more or less disengage with 3km to go, that doesn't happen in these one day races where every team brings their spring lead out trains.

 

[cheeseypoof]

Spring Classics progress after Classic Brugge-De Panne

Philipsen 0 pts
Girmay 0 pts
Milan 230 pts
Kooij 0 pts
Van Poppel 70 pts
Mullen 0 pts
Wright 0 pts
Rex 130 pts
Pithie 0 pts
Canal 0 pts
Aular 40 pts
Gradek 0 pts

Total 470 points

Used 3 of my 23 remaining trasfers to replace:

Mads Peterson in for Jasper Philipsen
Michael Matthews in for Olav Kooij
Arnaud De Lie in for Johnathan Milan

Total score through 2 rounds: 1068 (#1869 of 2703). Not that great. Hoping trying to conserve transfer for later races will help me create better lineups.

 

[Jaysus]

Used 3 of my 23 remaining trasfers to replace:

There's a limit on transfers, huh? Well that is going to end poorly for me

 

[BassNBrew]

Used 3 of my 23 remaining trasfers to replace:

There's a limit on transfers, huh? Well that is going to end poorly for me

Only in the spring classics game. Unlimited transfers and super Clasico.

 

[Jaysus]

another exciting mountaintop sprint finish today!

 

[DA RAIDERS]

Not taking roglic is going to cost me..

 

[BassNBrew]

I think a third of my team dropped out today. I guess when you weigh a buck nothing you turn into a big kitty. Something must be making its way thru the peloton

 

[cheeseypoof]

Used 3 of my 23 remaining trasfers to replace:

There's a limit on transfers, huh? Well that is going to end poorly for me

Only for the Spring Classics contest I entered because I'm a glutton for punishment!!!!!

 

[Jaysus]

I think a third of my team dropped out today. I guess when you weigh a buck nothing you turn into a big kitty. Something must be making its way thru the peloton

pretty sure Alpecin lost more riders than they have left...

 

[DA RAIDERS]

Kaden…wait! Pooter…NOOOO!!

 

[DA RAIDERS]

All that work and steinhauser gets 10 points.

 

[BassNBrew]

Well I missed E3. Was in the top 300 for the series.

 

[DA RAIDERS]

Well I missed E3. Was in the top 300 for the series.

Me too

 

[Nick Vermeil]

Well I missed E3. Was in the top 300 for the series.

Me too

Oof. Me three.

 

[BassNBrew]

Well I missed E3. Was in the top 300 for the series.

Me too

Well I missed E3. Was in the top 300 for the series.

Me too

Oof. Me three.

Ashame because this was an easy one. My lineup from two races ago would have crushed

 

[BobbyLayne]

1-2-3 for @cheeseypoof & @Sand in E3 Saxo

I had 1-2-9

1-3 for @Jaysus & @Nick Vermeil

 

[BobbyLayne]

Should get points in E3 Saxo from everyone but Tarling. He didn’t have good legs today, fell back from group 2 with 30-35 km left. Picked the two Alpecin 4 point riders so 120 assist points. 135 breakaway points, 1059 for 1-2-9

1314 1194 points (I think?)

 

[BobbyLayne]

Sonuva….

3 days ago….

25/03	PRICE-PEJTERSEN Johan	Alpecin - Deceuninck
25/03	GAZE Samuel	Alpecin - Deceuninck

[td]added[/td] [td]added[/td]

Last night….

27/03	GAZE Samuel	Alpecin - Deceuninck
27/03	PRICE-PEJTERSEN Johan	Alpecin - Deceuninck

[td]removed[/td] [td]removed[/td]

sneaky bastards

 

[BobbyLayne]

Supercalsico Fantasy Sixes

Round 8 - | E3 Saxo Classic

• 1.) 1440 points
  

  45 Excuses​

  Sand
• 1.) 1440 points
  

  Squeaky's Wheels are Flat​

  Cheeseypoof
• 3.) 1259 points
  

  Boerum Hill Big Ringing​

  BobbyLayne
• 4.) 1234 points
  

  Spokes `n Tokes​

  Nick Vermeil
• 5. 1134 points
  

  RB Brownwings WGUAFC​

  Jaysus
• 6.) 0 points
  

  Late to the Party​

  BrettDJ
• 6.) 0 points
  

  Sand`s Saddle Sores​

  BassNBrew
• 6.) 0 points
  

  Armstrong’s Needle​

  Da Raiders

OVERALL CONTEST

• 1.) 7454 45 Excuses​

Sand​

• 2. 7316 points
  

  Squeaky Wheels​

  Cheeseypoof
• 3. 6995 points
  

  Sand`s Saddle Sores​

  BassNBrew
• 4.) 6916 points
  

  Boerum Hill Big Ringing​

  BobbyLayne
• 5.) 6832 points
  

  RB Brownwings WGUAFC​

  Jaysus
• 6.) 6437 points
  

  Spokes `n Tokes​

  Nick Vermeil
• 7.) 5943 points
  

  Armstrong’s Needle​

  Da Raiders
• 8.) 390 points
  

  Late to the Party​

  BrettDJ

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