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Velominati Super Prestige: Liege-Bastogne-Liege

The inaugural Velominati Super Prestige continues with its last installment of the Spring Classics, Liége-Bastogne-Liége, on Sunday, April 25. This will be the fourth race in the season-long series and with the unpredictability of the Ardennes classics continuing as it has, the competition is doing nothing to open up but is instead closer now than ever.

Thankfully, the eruption of EyjafjallajÃ¶kull has mellowed out and travel seems to be opening up across Europe, so we are not expecting a lot of uncertainly about the start list at this stage – especially since most riders who have Liege on their race program have already managed make the journey to Belgium.

Of all the classics, La Doyenne is the most likely to yield a successful breakaway, which lends even more excitement to the possible race predictions. Rob continues to hold the lead which he took at Roubaix; but much like Contador’s performance on the Mur de Huy corroborated the notion that perhaps he’s off the sauce, Rob’s lackluster performance at La Fleche eases our minds that he isn’t working within any illegal sooth-saying rings.

This winner of this Super Prestige edition will again earn an “Obey the Rules” bumper sticker and all reader’s points qualify towards the final prize of the free Velominati Shop Apron. As always, if you are inclined to enter, simply post your predictions for the top five placings in the comment section. Check back here or on the Super-Prestige main page for updated rules as we will be introducing a bonus-point program for this edition.

Good luck.

Rules and results are posted Velominati Super Prestige page.

frank

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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Rob says:

Apr 24 2010 at 4:00 pm

@john
To steal a phrase, "good on ya boyo." Nice one, when you wake up out there in them pineapple fields you can really pickem. And I think were calm now... certainly I feel that I did no wrong unless stoopid is wrong? But if I am missing some arcane twist in the rules of the competition please, anyone, clue me in! Good luck everybody!!
frank says:

Apr 24 2010 at 6:53 pm

@all
Remember you can run over to SteepHill.tv and catch the race live: http://www.steephill.tv/classics/liege-bastogne-liege/
frank says:

Apr 24 2010 at 6:54 pm

@Rob
You're good, laddie! No worries.
Marko says:

Apr 24 2010 at 6:57 pm

So this picking the "what I'd like to see" list is a new development. It's like fantasy-fantasy cycling I think. I don't know how that fantasy football shit works, nor do I care, because football is not a hardman sport. But I digress. What I'd like to see in my fantasy-fantasy:
1. De Vlameanck
2. Merckx
3. De Wolf
4. Ballerini
5. Hampsten

as long as were dreaming right?
But for real tomorrow fantasy
1. Jens
2. Kloden
3. Horner
4. A. Grimpeur
5. F. Grimpeur
Marko says:

Apr 24 2010 at 7:00 pm

@frank
For Fleche there was a sweet link to some south African channel that worked well
Geof says:

Apr 24 2010 at 11:08 pm

@Rob
No, Rob, you're right. I was wrong to suggest that you had received dispensation and that you may have inadvertently overlooked Rule 5. I apologise. By way of (modest) atonement, in the extremely unlikely event that any of my lists prove the most successful, I think you should have the bumper sticker. Unless that's inconsistent with the Rules.
brett says:

Apr 24 2010 at 11:28 pm

Ok, no more fantasy shit... keep it REAL!

I'm revising my list here... we can do that, right?

Valverde
Evans
Vino
Cunego
LL Cool Sanchez
brett says:

Apr 24 2010 at 11:30 pm

Oh, and Geof, it's delayed telecast on Sky from 9am to 12.30 Monday morning... oh yeah, my day off!
john says:

Apr 24 2010 at 11:33 pm

@Rob
Dinna fasch yerself laddie, it made for good reading. Third time is the charm.

@frank
And thanks for the URL Frank, I will get up at 0 dark-30 and see if the race is still going. I hope it's in Dutch. As long as Vino doesn't win, that would be awful.

Good luck all.
Rob says:

Apr 25 2010 at 5:28 am

@Geof
No biggie, it sort of felt like I was transgressing something, but maybe that was because I was in such a state? No attonement needed - the folks here are having trouble wrapping their tiny minds around one bumper sticker 2 would just plain freak them out...

@brett
"Ok, no more fantasy shit... keep it REAL!"
Thank you, another time and place, you know top 5 hard man list, world champions, all time best ever list that could be fun... in a dorky sort of way but here and now "fantasy" is just using your left hand too much, if you know what I mean.