Velominati Super Prestige

Velominati Super Prestige: Men’s Ronde van Vlaanderen 2016

Everybody knows there are two kinds of cobbles. Big cobbles, little cobbles, grippy cobbles, and slippy cobbles. And when it comes to mastering the stones, no one is better than the undisputed King of the Cobbles, Kenny Van Vlaminck. And speaking of cobble legends, there is a great piece on our friend Johan Museeuw over on Rouleur today.

According to the weather reports, there is going to be wind and rain on Sunday. And if you watched the live coverage of Gent Wevelgem last week, the storm that blew in after the race was wicked intense. And, since I’ve decided not to visit Belgium this year, you can be pretty sure that the weather will finally be rubbish. You’re welcome.

We rode the RVV route (the classic route, not the crap new one) in the wind, rain, and hail a few years back, and it was striking how slippy the cobbles on the Paterberg and Koppenberg are in the wet. These climbs are borderline doable in the dry, and if you need to get out of the saddle for some extra juice, it is going to take some good bike handling to keep from spinning out.

And don’t forget we’ve got wicked prizes on offer; Don Walker is giving a free custom steel frame to the winner of the VSP overall, and Café Roubaix is awarding a set of their CR Wheelworks Arenberg wheelsets to the runner-up. Third place gets a free V-Kit. Boom. So get prognosticating and get your picks in before the clock goes to zero. Good luck!


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306 Replies to “Velominati Super Prestige: Men’s Ronde van Vlaanderen 2016”

  2. Why on earth am I picking EQS to win? Because I’m a fool, that’s why

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Boonen
    2. Spartacus
    3. GvA
    4. Chavanel
    5. Benoot

  3. Fuck’in love Kenny!  His stuff is so funny.

    But what’s with all the “wicked’s”, Frahnk???  Have you moved to my homeland, northern Vermont???

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Sagan
    2. Sparty
    3. Stybar
    4. Van Avermaet
    5. Tommeke

  4. Heres to hoping that Sagan keeps his form.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. sagan
    2. GVA
    3. cancellara
    4. kristoff
    5. boonen

  5. VSP PICKS:

    1. cancalarra
    2. tom boonen
    3. greg van avermeat
    4. sep van marcke
    5. peter sagan

  6. VSP PICKS:

    1. fabian cancelara
    2. tom boonen
    3. greg van avermeat
    4. sep van marcke
    5. peter sagan

  9. Kenny = king of the cobbles? My arse he is. King of the Belgian shrug? No doubt!

  10. VSP PICKS:

    1. BOOM Lars
    2. VAN AVERMAET Greg
    3. KRISTOFF Alexander
    4. SAGAN Peter
    5. CANCELLARA Fabian V

  11. happy guessing, everyone!

    VSP PICKS:

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

  17. VSP PICKS:

    1. Fabian Cancellara
    2. Peter Sagan
    3. Sep Vanmarcke
    4. Alexander Kristoff
    5. Zdenek Stybar

  19. VSP PICKS:

    1. Fabian Cancellara
    2. Peter Sagan
    3. Greg Van Avermaet
    4. Sep Vanmarcke
    5. Heinrich Haussler

  20. I could hang out with Kenny all day long. Frank tells me he is fun at the bar. Tour of Morocco indeed.

     

  21. VSP PICKS:

    1. Alexander Kristoff
    2. Fabien Cancellara
    3. Tiesj Benoot
    4. Sep Vanmarcke
    5. Geraint Thomas

  23. That Kenny Van Vlaminck video is hilarious. “The Tour if Morocco is a big race in the Morocco area!”

  24. Nah, Thomas is in it because he wants to win it.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Geraint Thomas
    2. Fabien Cancellara
    3. Alexander Kristoff
    4. Sep Vanmarcke
    5. Tiesj Benoot

  25. Go Faboo!

    I can’t see Tom do it this year. Etixx seem to be a basket case.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Fabian Cancellara
    2. Alexander Kristoff
    3. Peter Sagan
    4. Greg van Avermaet
    5. Michal Kwiatkowski

  26. Forgot Tiesj!

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Fabian Cancellara
    2. Peter Sagan
    3. Greg van Avermaet
    4. Michal Kwiatkowski
    5. Tiesj Benoot

  27. @Phillip Mercer

    Basket case. It makes reference in the form of a parabola to someone who has lost his mental health and has no cure. It is said that people without cure to a mental disease used to be sent to a mental health care facility for life where they would manufacture baskets for the rest of their lives.

    Basketcase. A basketcase is common word used to describe a social outcast in school. Some characteristics of a basketcase included emotional instability, weirdness, and constant isolation from mainstream society. A basketcase is often independent and isolationist, in other words, anti-social.

  28. VSP PICKS:

    1. Tom Boonen
    2. Faboo
    3. GVA
    4. former second place Sagan
    5. Geraint Thomas

  29. Does anti-social also include posting incongruous definitions with no real aim other than to be a douche?

    @universo

    basket case

     

    n

    1. a person who is suffering from extreme nervous strain; nervous wreck

  32. VSP PICKS:

    1. Fabian Cancellara
    2. Zdenek Stybar
    3. Tiesj Benoot
    4. Michal Kwiatkowski
    5. Peter Sagan

  34. Go ” the hairstyle” !!

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Tom Boonen
    2. Cancellara
    3. Sagan
    4. Haussler
    5. Kwiatkowski

  35. VSP PICKS:

    1. CANCELLARA, Fabian
    2. SAGAN, Peter
    3. VAN AVERMAET, Greg
    4. VANMARCKE, Sep
    5. BOOM, Lars

  37. VSP PICKS:

    1. Peter Sagan
    2. Greg Van Avermaet
    3. Zdenek Stybar
    4. Arnaud Demare
    5. Fabian Cancelara

  39. Lets see how this does

    VSP PICKS:

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

  42. VSP PICKS:

    1. Cancellara
    2. Sep Van Marke
    3. Greg van Avermaet
    4. Sagan
    5. Kwaitkowski

  43. I feel like Cancellara will make his own luck, and blast this way through to another Classics victory. Sagan to muck up another sprint situation, just when you thought he was past those tactical mistakes.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Spartacus
    2. Sagan
    3. GVA
    4. Boonen
    5. EBH

  45. Another Vber Break, Sags, Fabs and GVA duke it out, the Gorilla brings home the rest.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. SAGAN Peter
    2. VAN AVERMAET Greg
    3. CANCELLARA Fabian
    4. GREIPEL André
    5. DEMARE Arnaud

  46. In a battle of the new eternal seconds, the rainbows will win out.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. The Rainbow Samurai
    2. All the way with GVA
    3. Motorcus
    4. Sep Formica
    5. Tommeke

  47. Second place will not do

    , next sunday Sep will be victorious!

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Sep Vanmarcke
    2. Lars Boom
    3. Peter Sagan
    4. Michal Kwiatkowski
    5. Filippo Pozzato

  48. You know, the more I do this the more I realise that I really have no idea what I’m doing… I would be just as well letting my two year old pick…

    Best of luck, chaps and let’s hope for an injury free race.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Well’ard Stannard
    2. Pinchy Sagan
    3. Spartacus
    4. “Work Shy” Vanmarcke
    5. Pistoff the Viking

  50. All being well I’ll be at the roadside on Sunday drinking my own volume in Belgian ale and eating my own mass in frites so there is that prospect to dull the pain of disappointment.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Spartacus
    2. Sagan
    3. van Avermaet
    4. Kristoff
    5. Sep Vanmarcke

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