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It is THE time again! time for the Spring Classics! Races like Milano - San Remo, the Ronde van Vlaanderen, Paris - Roubaix and many more!

First race in this spectactular series will be Omloop Het Nieuwsblad at Saturday, February 26.

Of course Team FL - despite some time problems at the moment - will participate and try to repeat last year's victory (Guus Nederlof did it). Most probably Team FL will start either in the evening/night or in the morning and with the following Team FL cracks:

x1 Chuck Bass
x2 Ronny Beck
x3 Gilles Braas
x4 Pedro Garrido
x5 Frantz Granvorka
x6 Tim Hamberger
x7 Tony Longo
x8 Haruki Murakami
x9 William deWorde

Morning with apes? Probably, if not afternoon.

1 Berlogea
2 Duculescu
3 Duculescu
4 Haryono
5 Montandon
6 Mori
7 Qian
8 Sagyrbayuly
9 Uzielli

Or maybe Feng or Fouché comes in for Olimpiu, a bit more mountain maybe doesn't hurt here.

Team Franconia will also participate at Het Volk and K-B-K in the evening or late edition...maybe one of them in the morning if the team-manager is awake soon enough

Line-Up

Het Volk
Fix:
Jose Lastras
Pablo Sarabia
Iker Rico
Almog Cohen
Jesus Gallego
Esteban Arconada
Manuel Soldado
2 more riders tba

K-B-K
Fix:
Jose Lastras
Pablo Sarabia
Iker Rico
Gaston Rebry
Almog Cohen
Jesus Gallego
Esteban Arconada
Manuel Soldado
1 more rider tba

Franconia is a cheater. Only 8 for Het Volk but 10 for KBK?

yes, i payed some money to start with one rider more without paying more and the other race i'm allowed to start with one rider less and get some additional money

For sure i will start too. Time? No clue yet.

Team:
1. Dick
2. Jose Mondragon
3. Dick
4. Quentin Quirino
5. Victor Ramallo
6. Collin Caltapang
7. Adam Attapattu
8. Sam Bewley
9. Kevin Kaltapang

Line Up Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (Morning)
1 Lodewijk Brunswijk
2 Prince Caines
3 Park Dong Soo
4 Steven Dulac
5 Lev Litvinov
6 Mbele Mbaki
7 Fjodor Shovkovsky
8 Maarten Tjallingii
9 Natane Tuihalamaka

So i have to stay up early, to bother JotPeEs.

do this ^^

I think I will start in the morning. Other times are impossible.
Team is clear. Without Ryan, Jamie and Cal.

No clue when i will start but i definitely will

Team for Omloop Het Nieuwsblad:
-1- Slevin McGuigan
-2- Stephan Auge
-3- Adriano Perreira
-4- maybe Araujo(HN)/Callado(KBK)
-5- Tigre
-6- Sarrabal
-7- Geniez
-8- Walker
-9- Iguacu

My team for Omloop Het Blad :

McCallaghan (69/80 and 65 sprint) 72 pavé
Zagic (63/80/79) with 78 pavé
Kulukowski
Kalinichenko
Yung
Pereplotkins
Lapkovskis
Kolpatanen (50/72) with 74 pavé
Gardzijauskas

Line Up K-B-K
1 Ryder Hesjedal
2 Lodewijk Brunswijk
3 Steven Dulac
4 Mbele Mbaki
5 Vjeko Onishchenko
6 Fjodor Shovkovsky
7 Maarten Tjallingii
8 Natane Tuihalamaka
9 Bjarte Age Vik

Ok race at 15h, in a finally not overstrong group. Ciclistas clear favorite, basically before the race it seemed to me like I was the only team that could make the race hard against him. My biggest weakness, the lack of leader, IMO had 5 potential leaders, but all with clear weaknesses. Qian+Iordan the sprint, otherwise the 2 best, Fouché the horrible form, with his sprint and pavé, plus 50 mountains otherwise he could have been an option, although not a very convincing one, Olimpiu the mountain, and Bakhtiyar well, maybe the best leader in retrospect, but somehow not somebody who can beat the others, too similar to others, but with less sprint. So went for Iordan-Qian...Anyway, tried to make the race hard, but failed miserably, didn't really try hard enough, should have tried harder and earlier. Ciclistas with a very good race, attack early, didn't see it coming actually.. if I had, I probably would have blocked. Good I didn't see it, had no business blocking then anymore, even though Qian the hero arrived second in the peloton at the end, if it's for the win the sprint goes differently anyway. So fortunately no Singeblock, Ciclistas with an easy 1-2.

El Chupo!!!

Lizards will appear at Autour de Bruxelles 15h. Line-Up:

Peter de Vlamingh 48-56-52-51-89, 40 Reg
Tom van Amstel 73-80-74-50-65, 35 Reg
Eddy Eickendreyer 80-54-79-53-57, 58 Reg
Jamal Jemomo 61-78-56-49-56, 35 Reg
Michael Murphy 53-81-51-47-48, 46 Reg
Nico de Neeuw 49-68-53-47-48, 55 Reg
Ernie Oysters 61-78-61-49-56, 58 Reg
Mitchell Pique 46-77-80-54-45, 48 Reg
Vincent Soneau 49-82-75-52-48, 46 Reg

Milano - Sanremo the best classic race of the world

Leader Layadarma Pande
1 Free Lielen Zappa
2 Free Armando Cotoletta
3 Free Sante Pollastri
4 Free Pablo Morales
1 Help Bob Lennon
2 Help Alessandro Torino
3 Help Sherpa Zappa
4 Help ????

The ape and his team just arrived in Milan, some of the riders might get called to ride the WC tomorrow, but hopefully not too many, best of all, none of course. The team is ready, but still, some time for the whole team together, to prepare and finalize some details always can be used.

Petit Singe will participate, and win, the 14 h edition this year.


Let me introduce the team:

1 Septimiu Berlogea: No, number one doesn't mean I'm the leader. I'll be there to support Baoyu on his quest for 4 monuments this spring. We both feel well, I'm convinced on the Cipressa and Poggio nobody will be able to challenge Baoyu.
2 Fabrizio Conti I'm ready, the team is ready. Qian? I'm option 1, 2, 3 on saturday, Qian will do excellent work for my win, like the rest of the team.
3 Feng Ouyang Just first I would like to clarify that I have nothing, nothing at all against Japan and the Japanese. No problem with Mori, no problem with Uchigasaki. During Paris-Nice some of my team managers comments might have given a wrong impression, asked him to correct that, so far that hasn't happened unfortunately, so I take this opportunity to make my views clear! Now, the race, what? Time is up?
4 Pramoedya Haryono No, no problem, my absence at Paris-Nice wasn't due to health concerns. I'm ready. My role will be to stay with Conti til the end, my day making tempo should start only after the Cipressa
5 Frédéric Montandon It's always been my dream to help a sprinter win Milano Sanremo! Of course I hoped that it would be Cordero, Team Franconia always been my idol. But maybe I will still be there for his win. Aua, I was only joking Mr Ape! Ah!
6 Saburo Mori We're all very optimistic, we know it will be hard, but the whole team is united and will give all. My role? I will be responsible to keep things under control until the Cipressa, no not alone, with Ouyang and Fredi.
7 Qian Baoyu Yes, I'm the second option. If we realize that Fabulous doesn't feel well, or the pace is too hard for him, I will have to take my chance. Petit Singe will decide that during the race. Right now Conti is nr 1, but depending on how it goes it might be me. The important finally is that one of us wins
8 Bakhtiyar Sagyrbayuly: We had good training in the last days, we're all prepared. I know how to bring Conti to the last 500 meters, from there on he'll find his way to win. No doubt. No, I'm not more important than the rest of the team, we all will have our roles, mine just usually is in the last km, when the cameras are on, but that doesn't make it more important.
9 Stefano UzielliAn Italian sprinter winning Milano Sanremo, peferct, even though I'm not a big nationalist. But for Milano Sanremo.. you have to be. I'm really looking forward to my last 6 or so weeks as a pro, all the big classiques, after that I'll continue my bicycle trip around the world. My role Saturday? Me and Pramoedya will have similar roles, we'll be asked to try to cross the Cipressa with Conti, spend as little energy as possible before that. And then help the Bakthiyar and the others bring back Conti to the first group, then keep him in front.

Hehe...

Every year the same. The "big" teams wait. Looked at the teams that have already signed up for the different editions... pah.. barely a "favorite"... they wait... as usual for MSR, 5 editions, too many of course, realized it too late to complain, so most people have time on 2-3 maybe even more times... Hell, even I could start at 3 times. But not afraid to lose, rather lose with honour than win checking the possible groups and chose the one where the winning chances will be the biggest. 99% 14h. The 1% is real life.

I suppose the ICQ usage in Germany is soaring right now, all you little pussies talking with each other to figure out what time fits best.
-We'll have the classic edition, where most of the guys that hope for a classic win will all miraculously appear, which might then lead to some reshuffle from some gutless sprinters and hillsprinter teams that are not in the great ICQ talks, or in different ones, no chance, let's go somewhere else!
-A hill sprinter one, where the hill sprinters will participate, followed by the panic exodus of some other poor teams that feel the challenge of all those hill sprinters is too much!
-Then we'll have the sprinters edition, where all the sprint pussies will assemble,
-2 left, and the chances are big that those 2 will end up specialized as well. Let's hope not, let's hope some of the times get a normal nice mix. But with the pussification of RSF, an ongoing irreversible trend of course, that seems unlikely. No guts, no honour, not riding to fight, not riding to to win, just riding to get the the line in the palmares. Pussies. Just in case I hadn't mentioned that yet.

Some guys (and girls maybe too) know their time since a lot of weeks, but don't tell it here.

Yes, and still haven't signed up I guess. Waiting if maybe after all their group turns out to be too hard.

Pussies!

I'd like to know what kind of edition it is at 10h, the time seems ok for me, but if i'm chanceless, i'll go at 14h and suck conti's wheel.

1- Patrick Bruel the always-bluffing-but-losing mindtrick master
2- Jawad Azizi, the moral winner of the world championships, want to be the moral winner of MSR as well
3- Boris Bondarenko the handsome helper
4- John Casey the powerful puller
5- Anatoly Gouchenko, the downhill dasher
6- Wilco Kelderman, the best young cyclist ever and also our classic leader, he will be able to block a bit
7- Nasser Nosrati "le meilleur d'entre nous"
8- Matt Saracen the nontraining wannabe leader, who might be excluded but for the moment he stays in
9- Masoud Zandi, who doesnt like to talk to journalists


Bad bad franconia...

What a pussy!

Robyklebt wrote:Yes, and still haven't signed up I guess. Waiting if maybe after all their group turns out to be too hard.

Pussies!

No, waiting till the last minute because of not wanting to have all the parasites in the peloton.

by the way: Leis > Gorolev, Tiirik > Chugainov und Teeveer > Derevyagin+Sivakov - ha