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The Team FL line up for Omloop is starting to form: The pavé pack: Ricardo Rocha, Rik Ribbens and Wim Wijkstra I guess one of these will be captain, although Wim looks more like a pavé key helper than the rider that is able to survive the flanders hills. The fast "flatties": Santiago Souberbielle, U...

So, Omloop. To reduce the waiting time a bit, here are some infos about the race, the copy cat race in Belgium and the real, ingame race: Originally, the race was called Omloop van Vlaanderen, when it was founded in 1945, changing the name two years later to Omloop Het Volk, representing the Newspap...

Technically, it's still winter. But who cares! The sun is shining, it has two digit temperatures. At least in Liechtenstein, where the sun shines out the people's arses. And as they say in Australia: I wish I was a glowworm a glowworm's never glum 'cos how can you be grumpy when the sun shines out y...

Es ist eine sehr starke Beleidigung So I guess thats pretty serious? If it really means "vaffanculo", it is an insult or at least offensive language, but is it that serious or such a strong insult? I wouldn't say it is as serious as "Wichser" for example, but who am I to judge. In German, I would r...

As it has not been designed yet: Omloop has some minor changes and is around 10 km longer. Infos available here: - https://www.omloophetnieuwsblad.be/en/race/elite-men/race-info and a good overview about the changes here: - https://www.cyclingnews.com/pro-cycling/races/omloop-het-nieuwsblad-2026-rou...

A conundrum. Either we give the power to the people (voting) or have a dictator (The Fürst). Liechtenstein solved the issue by having two sovereigns: the people and the Fürst. Don't know if that's better, but I agree, Alex would have been a worthy Team FL rider of the year. I guess sometimes the peo...

We're coming for The Fürst! But reports said, the team will be working hard to hire Fürchtegott Fürst to be part of the technical team after he retires. "Should not be a problem to convince the poor Liechtenstein team to let him go, in case they still want him after retirement." said Fabrizio. I ca...

flockmastoR wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 13, 2026 3:29 pm

Not sure why somebody living in a monarchy would think asking the people is a good idea.

Just to let them think they have a say in it too, somehow... you know... that they feel included. The result would have been "correct" anyway *looksaroundifthefürstisbehindme*.

The Fürst rider of the year 2025 It was a vote among The Fürst and Alex Alailefaleula. Still active, Fürchtegott won the duel with more than 3/4 of all votes. The Team FL headquarters stayed quiet for some time when the vote for Team FL rider of the year 2025 started. Everybody was in fear that the...

Happy Birthday! As I've never experienced Anton Hasler myself, only heared the legends, I've chosen the following riders: - Edgar Schmalztorus: "The Joggeli Rapper! This motherfucker just can't be denied in this decision!" - Raffael Kämpfer - Yuri Gamov: "GAM OVer ;)" - unkown source from Liechtenst...

Tukhtahuaev wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 07, 2026 1:23 pm

Fürst is the one who is scared. He even avoided a duel with you at the January Tour

You mean Taka fled to Australia to avoid the Fürst in the January races

2025 Review 2025 is dead, long live 2026. But before we bury 2025 for good, let's have a short review in numbers: In 2025, Team FL... ... rode 167 races ... gathered 27'600 points (around 165 per race) ... won 34 races (around 20% winning quota) - 6 Tour stages: 4 - Alex, 2 - The Fürst - 3 Giro sta...

The ending is not jero but ero indicating a profession/occupation (like panadero from pan for baker), a place/container (like salero for salt shaker), or sometimes personality traits/characteristics (like callejero for a street-dwarter/wanderer), or even types of trees/plants. It transforms nouns in...

I guess what you mean is Pajero, which is used as an insult in certain spanish speaking countries. That's why there is no Mitsubishi Pajero in some countries, but a Montero. Anyway, the literal translation is far away from insulting. And so is Maljero. If you ask me, although it might not exist as a...

Robyklebt wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 20, 2025 3:32 pm

But do we support animal cruelty?

No Donkeys were harmed in the process, physically.

2025-12-20 Yossi Youshimatz Downhill -1 2025-12-20 Karl Knöppel Climbing -1 2025-12-20 Ricardo Rocha TimeTrial -1 2025-12-20 Ricardo Rocha Flat +1 2025-12-20 Erasmus Erpelding Sprint +1 2025-12-20 Erasmus Erpelding Flat +1 Yossi still going strong, I like that. Ricardo as well, like that even more....

I designed the Hallelujah Trail as a tour – and you just take one stage and turn it into a one-day race? Without asking me? I find that absolutely unacceptable, even if you don't like the other stages. Undo it, please! :lol: :lol: I guess he just saw the profile and didn't know that... So, I am OK ...

Robyklebt wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 11, 2025 10:53 am

Well, but when there is no choice...
The race early this month, Trofeo Presa Allende, was a c4f off season classic, so can't really be used as Pavés de Noël.
Solution was to ask Takashi for some designs

I still have a bone to pick with that lazy bastard anyway...

for Pavés de Noel, after checking the races since 2018, I decided this one is ok, it's better for pavés riders than the races offered in 2018/2020/2021/2022. so maybe it was never meant to be a pure pavés race. that's one reason, but the main reason is I couldn't find any race besides this one. Was...

What is this Pavés de Noel? That's no pavé race, that's a race with some pavé. Why not take a race like that Mexican one from 8 December for that? The Pavés de Noel should be something special, but not this...

Haven't read all posts here, just want to add my biggest issue with the current sprint system: It's an own mini game after a race, that has its own rules. Of course, you can have little things adjusted like energy loss, ass covering, influence of flat, following rules when the rider your following s...

2025-11-12 Quincy Qinnuayuak Flat -1 2025-11-12 Santiago Souberbielle TimeTrial -1 2025-11-12 Rik Ribbens TimeTrial -1 2025-11-12 Ricardo Rocha Flat +1 2025-11-12 Urs Unternährer Flat +1 2025-11-12 Wim Wijkstra Sprint +1 2025-11-12 Wim Wijkstra Flat +1 Again some valuable TT downtrainings, while Qu...

2025-11-05 Quincy Qinnuayuak Sprint -1 2025-11-05 Quincy Qinnuayuak Downhill -1 2025-11-05 Calcedonio Cantagalli Flat -1 2025-11-05 Fürchtegott Fürst Sprint +1 2025-11-05 Fürchtegott Fürst TimeTrial -1 2025-11-05 Lautaro Lucifero Downhill +1 2025-11-05 Ricardo Rocha Flat +1 2025-11-05 Urs Unternähr...

I would really like to have my nationality back. Just give the driver a random female first name. That would be fine with me. I hope Gipfel/Alk can do that in the database. we noticed a problem with surnames of some countries that are specific to the sex of a person which i wasnt aware of when i co...

First things first: Thanks Schnuggeritos for your thoughts. Always interesting to discuss this kind of stuff with the community. I am getting a bit theoretical here: The goal of a penatly is prevention and retribution . Prevention: - The penalty should lead to a change of behaviour towards abiding t...