Couple days late but here’s a shot from earlier today when I was showing Mogarita her winter habitat.

More or less going same route but with a hedge on long bomb:
Jakobsen, LaPorte, Ben Ike Turner
Kickassgreen, Stuyven

saw the release and figured
what size tire ?

Sagan, SK Andersen, Kwia
and...Taco, Ack

Up to 50mm tire on 700c wheel. I’ve ridden it with a ~43 and ~35 and it handles both nicely.

Turner out with broken elbow. :-(

KBK:

Philipsen, Jakobsen, Stuyven

Meeus, Penhoet

LaPorte, Philipsen, Kristoff
Taco Sunday, Magnus Sheffield

Dang, KBK is being shred to ribbons! JV even hurting themselves.

Signs of life from Sagan.

Ineos and Soudal QS competing for most disappointing start to a classics season. Just nothing. Though Fabio still lurking.

I am mystified by what the peloton is doing. Top shelf break up the road and all the teams with no one in the break are just watching one Lotto-Destiny guy work to pull it back. Ballerini at the front almost looks like he's blocking for the break. Does he know he's got no one up there?

meanwhile, the OTHER omloop is underway!

https://vimeo.com/event/2785270


the new generation is already flexing their muscle: puck pieterse in an 8-woman break with weibes and makaji, meanwhile zoe backstedt driving the chase back in the peloton!

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Had my eye on Nathan van Hooydonck as a sleeper. And there he it front.

I thought it was going to be block headwind (west wind). Didn’t expect it to shred like this.

ooohh la la very nice!

For anyone watching on Eurosport/GCN+, go to 1:43:50 for a few moments of pure Belgium.

So many teams sitting in for… what? And speaking of invisible starts, hello Trek, what are you waiting for??

looks like this might be the only point-earning entry for KBK

Let the shenaningans ensue.

Masterclass from the killer bees and Tiesj.

1-2-3! Incredible.

Perfectly played, J-V is scary good.

early but man Jumbo looking strong af

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The entire event (IM) is like "death by 1000 cuts" and the best race is minimizing all those cuts and losing less blood than the other guy. - Dev

They need this to heap pressure on MvdP

So many quality cards to play

DvB and LaPorte could win a few more races this spring.

DvB and LaPorte could win a few more races this spring.


Incredible form.

What an Opening Weekend for Jumbo Visma - 2 wins and 4 on the Podium?? In both Omloop and KBK, they played the team game absolutely perfectly. When you have multiple options to play like they did, with everyone else scrambling and in disarray - it really says something.

So much for the switch to SRAM sucking for them! :-)

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As far as I'm concerned, Freddie "Tenth Avenue" Frison won the weekend.

Gonna be a long spring on the Soudal-QS bus for the classics team, getting smoked on the race course and listening to Don blow smoke in between them.

 
well that was quite an opening weekend for jv. they really dismantle the pack and get their guys in the right places.

sidebar, ala looking good again and this year's tdf course looks like it was made for him. sure they are washed as a classics squad, but i wonder if qs has some good cards to play in july.