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Thanks for the kind words everyone! I had to be so final because otherwise I could never let go of the game. :D My "problem" now is mainly that I became too obsessed with winning and statistics (number of points and wins for each rider should fit his skills; I wanted to be the team with the highest ...

In the previous message I already announced that soon there would be some news about the year 2021 for Rapid Vitesse. And here it is: After 947 races, 341 wins and almost 6 years, Rapid Vitesse is going to leave the world of Cycling4Freaks. This post is going to present lots of statistics about the ...

It's the end of the year, so it's time for the yearly review for Rapid Vitesse. Not many memorable races from this year. The most memorable win was winning Dunkerque in an unexpected but in the end deserved way. That's why Alejandro Mansilla gets the "Rider of the year"-award this year. He won two s...

Agreed, race length might not be the main reason why people quit. However, for me the race length can be a reason not to join a race. If it's 2 hours, with just a few teams and it's pretty much clear what will happen and little possibilities to alter the outcome, why join? It might be that other peo...

Training 20.11.2020: Michael Kaltack Zeit: -1 Freddy Garae Berg: -1 Freddy Garae Flach: -1 Freddy Garae Zeit: -1 Vytautas Abromaitis Zeit: -1 Haralds Stibelis Sprint: +1 Emils Zilins Zeit: -1 Joshua Chilia Berg: +1 Manu Wilson Flach: +1 Stasys Kavaliauskas Abfahrt: +1 +4 and -6 (of which 4 useless ...

Second NC-day in a row where out of nowhere swatchepo, RC Sbrinz and SPO Wattwurm all magically appear on NC-day after being inactive for some time. swatchepo won Finland, Wattwurm participated in Bolivia and Sbrinz won Croatia and was active in Hungary. And maybe they were in Switzerland/Germany to...

Still, it's a 46 km mintact for the tour of Slovakia. With lots of flat kms in the end... So I would suggest to do it a bit later before the last hill, but that's just my opinion.

It was a really cool tour to watch, even today it was an interesting stage. Didn't expect that Moja would still get into trouble, but in the end he did fine.

Congrats to him and to JJ who was truly amazing this tour!

To bring back some life into this topic, here's the reason why I prefer always going in calm breakaways over having a sprinter.

So all important spring classics are over, let's recap: Omloop: 1. Mansilla, 7. Toloza Monte Paschi: 1. Browne, 10. Toloza Milano - San Remo: 13. Mansilla Harelbeke: 1. Mansilla, 9. Cleverley, 10. Abromaitis Wevelgem: 3. Abromaitis, 10. Mansilla Dwars door Vlaanderen: 4. Abromaitis, 5. Morris RVV, S...

Training 27.4.2020: Duncan Cleverley Sprint: -1 Isaiah Faingaanuku Flach: -1 Isaiah Faingaanuku Sprint: -1 Hunter Manu Berg: -1 Hunter Manu Abfahrt: -1 Alejandro Mansilla Abfahrt: -1 Freddy Garae Berg: +1 Vytautas Abromaitis Berg: +1 Romario Browne Berg: +1 Spencer Morris Flach: +1 Juris Rozitis Be...

I think we should not ride a fantasy Giro and ride the real Giro later. Just follow the policy of what we do for regular races: use the real profile now (if available, but for GTs that should not be a problem) and ignore if they ride it later in real life. How many people would really want to ride 4...

I keep my mind for all the following races : keep it as it is in the original UCI calendar. If we already have the design it is perfect, real drawing at the original date. If we don't have the profile or the roadmap of the race, let's us race and stage from previous years. Couldn't agree more. It's...

What better place is there to hold a fantasy race these days than in a country where there is no Corona? In Turkmenistan the virus does not exist, according to their president, so he invites all cyclists from RSF to ride a race there. A side note from the organisation: please instruct your riders to...

I am already preparing for this afternoon:

I do not want to go into this specific case because I'm not involved in the calendar discussion, but in general the volunteers who keep the game running (Luques for sure, but also Big Donkey for the calendar, the NC and the FPC) deserve a bit more respect from some users here. We should realize that...

I got inspired by Poke's World Tour statistics for 2020, so made a similar list for 2019. Like Poke, I gave points only the top 3 of classics and tours and to stage winners in tours. I gave no malus for small pelotons, but ignored results from races starting with less than 4 teams. Here are the top ...

Yeah, it was not really a win to be proud of, but what can you do if 15 minutes before the race starts you find out that you can't be online much? For a cat 1 race I might just go offline and not ride for the win, but for a monthly goal and as a co-favo with Freudenfeuer and Erkrath (who didn't ride...

That's not what I was saying, but if you checked it, it might be true. Would ride MSR in the morning or afternoon, or not at all. Normally I don't have the riders to win it, so I may skip it if I have better things to do that day.

Here’s the review of the first two months of 2020. Two relatively successful months, although there were not so many important races of course. Race results In the first months of the year the Tour Down Under was the most important race. The race was designed for a climber like our own Hunter Manu a...

Training 5.3.2020: Ivan Burkhanov Sprint: -1 Botir Riskiyev Berg: -1 Botir Riskiyev Abfahrt: -1 Botir Riskiyev Zeit: -1 Botir Riskiyev Sprint: -1 Isaiah Faingaanuku Zeit: -1 Hunter Manu Abfahrt: -1 Dainius Grabauskas Abfahrt: -1 Romario Browne Flach: +1 Bad training for me. But at least that stubbo...

I enjoy reading them too, glad to see I am not the only one who dislikes Duncan. But don't worry, I will probably sell him soon. :D And thanks for bringing up Fourmies again: my most memorable loss of the year... :( But you earned it, your endless attacking was the winning strategy. It's always cool...