Spring classics 2026

[team fl]

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 your bum!

So get yourself excited and enjoy the upcoming spring classics! First to come at 28 February. And it is... *drummroll* ... Omloop Het Niewsblad of course (still not designed yet!). Here's the schedule


28.02.2026: Omloop Het Niewsblad (Cat. 4)
10h - Seijuro Akashi (Pokemonogatari)
14h - Zhansultan Dosmagambetov (Tukhtahuaev)
18h - Akram Foustane (Elaska)
21h - Reynaldo Vera (RC Hachen)

07.03.2026: Strade Bianche (Cat. 5)
09h - Leonid Pavlenko (NoMoreLulz)
14h - Eusebius Mandyczewski (Wiener Zentralfriedhof RV)
18h - David Martinez (stevens)
21h - Sasuke Uchiha (Uomo Nero)

18.03.2026: Milano - Torino (Cat. 4)
10h Carlos Noriega (SV Furpach)
15h Michael Redrocks (Falcor)
19h Kamila Zuk (Schappy)
21h Santonio Holmes (RSV Gera)

21.03.2026: Milano - San Remo (Cat. 6)
10h Artem Palamarchuk (Tukhtahuaev)
15h Shaunae MillerUibo (Bugatti)
19h Mehmed Elmas (Uomo Nero)
22h Vince Vincente (Carrera Blue Jeans)

25.03.2026: Ronde Van Brugge (Cat. 4, former Brugge - De Panne)
10h Mioru Drugawa (Giotti Victoria)
15h Finje Goossens (Vikings Berlin)
19h EdwardLouis Vedder (Felsenland)
22h Tahar Sfar (Elaska)

27.03.2026: Harelbeke (Cat. 5)
08h Jacques Tilly (Alkworld)
14h Andrea Buccarini (Gipfelstuermer)
18h Zhansultan Dosmagambetov (Tukhtahuaev)
21h Seijuro Akashi (Pokemonogatari)

29.03.2026: Gent - Wevelgem (Cat. 5)
11h Nikita Viitanen (NoMoreLulz)
14h Domingo Cruz (Falcor)
18h Ricardo Rocha (Team FL)
22h Gianfranco Lolli (Medical Service)

01.04.2026: Dwars door Vlaanderen (Cat. 4)
08h Arman Orazbayev (SouthWest Packers)
10h Hákon Thórðarson (Bugatti)
14h Andrea Buccarini (Gipfelstuermer)
19h Myron Scholes (Radunion)
22h-1 Urs Unterberger (Ansach)
22h-2 Torsten Nyqvist (Team Australia)

05.04.2026: Ronde van Vlaanderen (Cat. 6)
10h Zhansultan Dosmagambetov (Tukhtahuaev)
14h Takashi Ryuuzaki (Uomo Nero)
18h Etienne Farron (Hansa)
22h-1 Osvaldo Romberg (Alkworld)
22h-2 Godfried DeVocht (Fraegg)

08.04.2026: Scheldeprijs (Cat. 4)
08h Avinash Rajbanshi (Jokers)
14h Takashi Ryuuzaki (Uomo Nero)
19h Vincent Verwimp (Team FL)
22h Luigi Fioravanti (Flolandria)

12.04.2026: Paris - Roubaix (Cat. 6)
09h Danil Skutin (SouthWest Packers)
14h Lars Feldmann (Chemnitz Pro Cycling Team)
18h Ray Gravell (bergwerk)
21h - 1 Tokuji Uchiyama (Seibu High School)
21h - 2 Ryan Gilchrist (Bearclaw Cycling)

17.04.2026: De Brabantse Pijl (Cat. 4)
09h Felix Kamnitz (Chemnitz Pro Cycling Team)
15h Magnus Jensen (Falcor)
19h Daisuke Komori (Seibu High School)
22h Bong JaeHyun (RC Hachen)

19.04.2026: Amstel Gold Race (Cat. 5)
11h - 1 Jorge Icaza (SouthWest Packers)
11h - 2 Arno Dewolf (Phoenix cycling)
15h - 1 Emil Elsner (Ansach)
15h - 2 Tvrtko Novakovic (Cupra Sports)
20h - 1 Magnus Jensen (Falcor)
20h - 2 Sajit Shrestha (Bahrain-Merida)
20h - 3 Guido Buchwald (Quickstep)
23h - 1 Carolina Navarro (Alpacas)

22.04.2026: La Fleche Wallonne (Cat. 5)
09h Rolf Wimpfheimer (r FSCL)
14h Alkmund Bierhals (RV Allagen)
18h Michael Redrocks (Falcor)
21h-1 Juan Miranda (Chemnitz Pro Cycling Team)
21h-2 Oswaldo Mosquera (God v Godess)

26.04.2026: Lüttich-Bastogne-Lüttich (Cat. 6)
11h-1 Zakhar Karaty (Tukhtahuaev)
11h-2 Bernard Lucas (Hardly Athletic)
15h-1 Junior Joma (Romoc Riders)
15h-2 TJ Crockett (Bahrain-Merida)
19h-1 Truby King (bergwerk)
19h-2 Nick Barns (KaibaCorp)
20h Remi VanVreckom (Fraegg)
22h Bronwyn Chesterfield (Medical Service)

01.05.2026: Eschborn - Frankfurt (Cat. 4)

[Robyklebt]

Setsubun!

[team fl]

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 Newspaper that has been sponsoring the event. Last year was the 80th edition of the race, now called Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, since 2009, when the two former rival newspapers merged (I am sure you may guess their names by now).

What hasn't changed is that it takes place in the end of February (well, last year is was March 1st) and is the beginning of the Belgian cycling season. But only since 2017, it's part of the UCI World Tour. The race starts in Ghent, Flanders and finishes in Ninove, Flanders. The race route covers the hills in the Flemish Ardennes, marking the start of the cobbled classics season in Europe. Despite annual changes, some of the regular climbs in the Omloop are the Leberg, Berendries, Taaienberg, Muur van Geraardsbergen, Eikenberg and Molenberg.

In C4F, the character is similar to the other Flanders races with cobbles, although the mountain skill does not play a role as important as RVV. Let's have a look at winners of the last 5 years:

2025: Tadej Pituch (r TAKA), Wakara Ganambarr (Big Donkey), Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (Lenny SnakeCycling), Zineddine Belaid (RV Allagen)
2024: Hugo Gil (Tukhtahuaev), Nathaniel Hawthorne (Alkworld), Shinji Inui (r TAKA), Tesfaye Tsegaye (Team FL)
2023: Sancho Ortega (free team), Cesare Camoranesi (r QUICK), Tim Roquette (Pokemonogatari), Mads Korneliussen (Bearclaw Cycling)
2022: Servulo Gutierrez (Alkworld), Greg Goossens (Bahrain-Merida), Andre Rascon (Rhodan Underdogs), Darren Berrecloth (Bearclaw Cycling)
2021: Venustiano Carranza (Alkworld), Jacob Wolfowitz (Alive And Dead), Waer Kiaby (waerl), Joel Robert (Bearclaw Cycling)

In 2021, Carranza won RVV as well, in 2023 Tim Roquette, in 2024 Shinji Inui the double Omloop and PR.

So who is favourite for 2026? is it a strong pavé rider with or without sprint? is it an allrounder like a 60-80 with good pavé and maybe some sprint? Well I guess it depends on the support, the opponents and of course some luck. But here a small subjective selection (not concluding) in no particular order. Feel free to jump in and do your own:

- Gereon Schiffbauer (Rsc spree): 58-88-76-50-64 with 86.2 pavé. Maybe the most stereotypical Omloop winner profile this year and certainly the one with the best pavé skill. And he has a good support cast.

- Seijuro Akashi (Pokemonogatari): 55-85-51-77-66 with 83.8 pavé. Not as prolific as Schiffbauer, but with more sprint and also a good support cast. And a manager who won Omloop before.

- Andrea Buccarini (Gipfelstuermer): 60-85-52-53-66 with 83.8 pavé. Or in other words: Akashi with a better mountain skill. And team mates that could even ride for their own chances without him in the team.

- Gerard Sweetman (bergwerk): 61-85-68-58-64 with 83.2 pavé. Although it's bergwerk and bergwerk and pavé.... But Sweetman looks good and so do his teammates.

As you can see, I have a certain type for rider in mind when thinking about Omloop

Of course there are many more riders with chances, buy in my opinion these riders stand out with their skills and/or their team. The other riders might have a better pavé skill, more sprint, more mountain, better flat. But on the other hand, they lack in one of these skills that might be important or simply a team to support them in such a race. And as the race this year will be 10 km longer than last year, the individual strength might be even more important than before.

But it is also important how a race is ridden. Very fast, hard race, where a late attack could also bring the win, or a slow and steady race in which these "not perfect" guys with more sprint might also have chance... Looking at the Team FL winners, we have the pavé guy with sprint (Tsegaye), the 60-80 with pavé and sprint (Franko and Garrido), the allrounder (King Küng) or the pure pavé specialist (Nederlof). Hence, a lot of types of riders are able to win this race, which makes it extra interesting, in my opinion.

Anway, I am looking forward to it. Finally again some race that mean something, where the excitement is a bit higher than usual. And races with hills and pavé .

[Bear]

Ups, didn't know I won it three in a row...

I would like to see Schiffbauer, Akashi, Buccarini and Sweetman in the same race. That would be electric. Would be nice to be in there too and crash the show. Although Schiffbauer looks like a monster and has some strong support, I think he wont win Omloop. I think one of the top mentioned riders will win the opening classic... I go for Buccarini.

Maybe a strange guess... let's see... what are your thoughts?

[Tukhtahuaev]

My favourite Belgian classic here most of the time. Only last year was very underwhelming. Hopefully the route changes make it more interesting, though with my current team I am not expecting too much either way

[Robyklebt]

+++++ for FL. Even if he didn't know that Setsubun means spring has started, so we are in spring already. It started with snow in Japan. Donkey freezing to death at home since the insulation here is not up to central european standards and because the Donkey of course shed his winter coat, since it's spring.

Omloop: The left wings answer to the right wing Ronde. Name was too close, that's why the change. Read that a few years back somewhere (probably Wikipedia, so not sure it's actually true) since then I like Omloop much more than before. Even if of course nowadays the owner is the same, Flanders classics or something.

The course, FL left out that the new finish, Mur, Bosberg, is the told finish of the Ronde. After they changed the Ronde to an Oudenaarde finish, the Mur and Bosberg were a bit orphaned, lost their mythical role... so got the Omloop as their new home. Just that it doesn't work the same, since what comes before is much easier than what it used to be in Ronde times, so it ends up being much less selective than the old Ronde finish, where many came to the Mur already struggling...

[team fl]

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, Urs Unternäherer, Zenobio Zalazar

Santiago himself could also be part of the pavé pack. I guess it depends on the opponents. Urs' and Zenobio's role is pretty clear though.

The hill henchmen: Lautaro Lucifero, Manfred "Manni" Matt

Both, Lautaro and Manni are there for the team to be as numerous as possible after splits at steep kms. And depending on the situation, who knows what else they're capable of.

The requisite rest: Either Raimo Rautsepp, Felikss Fokerots or Erasmus Erpelding.

Well, one of them has to bring the bottles, ride in the wind or does something else good helpers to in a race...

[Robyklebt]

FL seems excited about the 28th...

Donkey much less, has a pavé star that is highly unlikely to get over hills and the 2 guys that hopefully will, Aurélien and Ousland, but winning?

Even less excited since I discovered that I planned a bowling evening on the 28th. Either 70% off on mobile or 2am start...?

[flockmastoR]

Omloop - Pre-Race

So the dead guys from Simmering will also ride. Still unsure if morning or afternoon. Inscribed in morning for the moment, maybe I need the change starttime tool already on Saturday.

Lineup is quite easy, tactic is less straightforward as we don't really have a clear idea on how to ride Omloop usually. Won it once with Wolfowitz, so seems like Mandyczewski is the rider to go for us.

#1 Eusebius Mandyczewski, leader
#2 Vinzenz Chiavacci, support for hills
#3 JohnQuincy Adams, support for hills
#4 Jozef Petzval, 60-80
#5 Francesco Suppè, pave helper
#6 Paula Preradovic, pave helper
#7 Helmut Qualtinger, flat rider with some hill and some pave (ok our best pave rider actually but only 54 mountain)
#8 JosefMaria Stowasser, cheap helper
#9 Anna Maka, flat rider (not actually dead)

[Falcor CC]

Seb mentioned, so Falcor has to come on forum and say Seb has got nothing on Kerken again! Speaking of Kerken, our Omloop lineup is as good as done:

#1: Joseph Kawzyk, leader
#2: Thibault Kerken, leader
#3: Loïc Callard, flat/pavé helper
#4: Jack Napier, flat/pavé helper
#5: Jordan Henkey, flat/pavé helper
#6: Cesare Baddetti, flat helper/workhorse
#7: Domingo Cruz, hill helper
#8 and #9: 2 of Dave Barlington (flat helper), Antonio Diego (56-83 helper) and Magnus Jensen (wildcard)

2 leaders, will see how the race develops and decide during the race which card we're pulling. Unfortunately Seb won't get the honor of finishing behind Kerken, as we'll be riding in the 21h field (95% chance) or 10h field (5% chance).

[Bear]

Hyped for opening weekend. I try to get enough sleep so that I am not too tired at 21h. 21h clearly better for me as 22h. Big favorite for sure as all riders will be at 100/1000. Jesse should be the leader, but maybe it turns out different.

#1 CDN Jesse Melamed
#2 CDN Rhys Blair
#3 AUS Daniel Booker
#4 CDN Benny DeVall
#5 AUS Ryan Gilchrist
#6 CDN Elliot Jamieson
#7 NZ Charles Murray
#8 NZ Lachlan StevensMcNab
#9 CDN Steve Vanderhoek

[Elaska]

Not a single rider from the great Elaska team quoted in the list to watch... I m very disappointed by the FL analysis

[Bear]

Ups, didn't know I won it three in a row...

I would like to see Schiffbauer, Akashi, Buccarini and Sweetman in the same race. That would be electric. Would be nice to be in there too and crash the show. Although Schiffbauer looks like a monster and has some strong support, I think he wont win Omloop. I think one of the top mentioned riders will win the opening classic... I go for Buccarini.

Maybe a strange guess... let's see... what are your thoughts?

I was wrong on Buccarini, but right that just one of these four will win Omloop. But dont know if Spree was online.

Let's see what they will manage at RVV. This year we have lots of very good pavé riders with a decent mtn and sprint skill.

[flockmastoR]

Ups, didn't know I won it three in a row...

I would like to see Schiffbauer, Akashi, Buccarini and Sweetman in the same race. That would be electric. Would be nice to be in there too and crash the show. Although Schiffbauer looks like a monster and has some strong support, I think he wont win Omloop. I think one of the top mentioned riders will win the opening classic... I go for Buccarini.

Maybe a strange guess... let's see... what are your thoughts?

I was wrong on Buccarini, but right that just one of these four will win Omloop. But dont know if Spree was online.

Let's see what they will manage at RVV. This year we have lots of very good pavé riders with a decent mtn and sprint skill.

Spree was online but going for a very very early sieb + later attack too early

[Robyklebt]

Perfect race for the Donkey. Why what, he got 10th with Ousland.... yeah yeah, but everything went perfectly still.
1) Change of route, while normally Winzenried is a 0% chance there, with the easier route at the end, replaced one hill that we had at 6%+ with one at 5... Haaghoek, pavé!-Berendries 7%. 2 hills at 5, Muur and Bosberg. Here Winzenried gets a chance.
2) The race, mostly off, a bit on mobile, helpers in, helpers fairly ok I think, maybe not always perfect, but pretty good I guess. Didn't really bother checking the favorites either. Enough to do keeping track of my heroes. All nice, easy race, lots of helpers, Donkey happy.
3) Haaghoek sieb with WInzenried (by this time I was home, but not fully on c4f either, guest here too), ride with Kotibaruly (who got the helper ahead of Vigni, Vigni had form, flat, Kotibaruly neither, but well, pavé) get over the Berendries that normally would be the end of Winzenried, job done, perfect.
4) BW then kept going, excellent for me, countless classics behind, chances for Winzenried to survive the Muur and Bosberg increase, Bonjour helped a bit on the 5 thingies, rest all BW, nice. In the back many of these classics had other leaders in front, so not everybody was fully in, so in the end they didn't come back, not before the Berendries, first goal, but not even for the Muur, which I actually expected that they would. Can't work better for me.
5) Muur: Still there.
6) Bosberg: Gone.
Ousland stays in front, probably Bonjour if he was riding for himself could have done the same, but well... neither of them will win, so Ousland for some points seemed fine, didn't need too many to stay in D2, Winzenried drops, Bonjour still helping him too, but by this point he was not fit to stay anyway I think.

46-89 is just not enough here, I think with the Haaghoek sieb I put myself in the best position possible, BW then continuing, perfect. But well, Lukas 46 mountain. Probably was fairly close, Fleckenstein with 50-90, so 4 mountain and 1 flat better (flat counts on 6) but 1.1 less pavé stayed. Maybe if I was less pig-headed and gone for some mountain once Winzenried was 89 pavé.. but no no, he has to be "Hasler-like", no mountain! Actually still happy with that, for reasons that I don't really understand, because yeah, he most likely would have been in front with 50-89 here... but well, form can't have been better for Fleckenstein, energy probably a bit, my 1 km Haaghoek costs a little bit (not really much though, not that I checked) maybe not being here most of the time missed a few km here and there where help could have been better, but pfff. Little missing, and the Haaghoek km was necessary, since Kotibaruly isn't training as we hoped...

So all worked like a dream, just that Winzenried wasn't strong enough for the Bosberg. For the rest, can't complain, all went perfectly. Should do 80% off races more often!

Dosmagambetov won, as predicted, we didn't need to ride this, I knew that already on Friday. Ok, maybe because I didn't bother checking the others there and had chosen Dosmagambetov as my favorite on Friday, looks good, rides for Tukh who often wins, that's the guy. And it was!

Generally, read in the chat that the race was nothing like in reality (which of course I didn't see, but I object to dismiss c4f as not reality) but.... this year with Mathieu Van der Poel and probably weather it was very selective. Last year... not at all, a group of 50 riders, 24 a big group too, Tratnik managed to get sneak away in the final. Don't remember Van Baarle 23, but behind him another big group. Ballerini 21, big group sprint again. 20 Van Aert more like this year. 19 Stuyven, small differences, but looks more like the Van Aert/Van der POel year 18, the first year with the new finish, Muur+Bosberg huge group with Valgren a bit ahead. So... I actually think Omloop is maybe the race we manage to simulate best. It simply isn't that selective in that UCI series either most years. Yes, the way we come to the pretty accurate result is different from what happens there often, the helping, the importance of helpers is so much more important here than in the UCI series that unless we completely overhaul that, and make monsters real monsters (with the boredom that then comes with it when somebody like Winzenried just rides the last 50 km in PR and wins solo) that we really can't simulate it much better. For Omloop in general I think we do pretty well... yes, Van der Poel solo, we can't simulate that properly, not even if our Van der Poel had 78-85 with 84.1 pavé I fear, but at least in our afternoon group in the end a 11 man group... that's ok, if anything we almost made it more selective than Omloop often ends in reality (ok ok, I did it, got tired of writing UCI series) Because an edition like this one, like the Van Aert one there really is the exception, not the rule. Muur+Bosberg simply isn't enough to make a race very selective, it was in RVV because of the length and all the other climbs before. Add an Oude Kwaremont, a Taaienberg (which hasn't been in for a while I think, maybe not since they changed the route to the old RVV finale?) etc etc. and it's selective, like this much less. And it shows often in the "real" race too. So I think Omloop at c4f actually works well, the possibility to make it selective is there, but it's far from automatic. In our edition in the end it was, 11 guys in front, my sieb and Bergwerk's riding made it so. In the back not full on riding. So we ended with an almost over-selected group at the end, compared to the usual UCI-Omloop. Other groups, who cares, won't check. So yes, something like it probably was this year with Van der POel, early action, complete destruction on the Muur-Bosberg will never happen here but in general we're not too far off a realistic result. Unlike in most other Flanders races. Or Roubaix. x others races, not only pavé ones.

Anyway, next is STrade Bianche on Saturday, Donkey not going for Winzenried, Ousland 10th here, then 7th in the sprint race Kuurne, he's on fire, he's leader! Or I'll check my blue law book again for more details. Oh, have to add some anti-Strade stuff. Designed strangely on 3 levels, not even following the rule that is invoked to block every proposed adjustement, don't change anything, we have to keep it as it is to ensure it doesn't come close to the UCI Strade Bianche. Of course it's almost impossible to simulate that one realistically, but here we're actively trying not to do that at this point. Maybe should just not start.

[team fl]

Opening weekend is over, we get 4 new Omloop winners!

28.02.2026: Omloop Het Niewsblad (Cat. 4)
10h - Seijuro Akashi (Pokemonogatari)
14h - Zhansultan Dosmagambetov (Tukhtahuaev)
18h - Akram Foustane (Elaska)
21h - Reynaldo Vera (RC Hachen)

Let's see who we got there: Akashi was foretold, the rest not. Schiffbauer raced against Akashi and was to early with everything it seemed. Sweetman lost against a rider from the GT dominator 2025. The 18h edition was clearly the weakest with no massive favourite and Buccarini lost to Vera from RC Hachen with a bad sprint.

But all editions showed that either classics with sprint or the 55+ mountain pavé riders with sprint made it.

As Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne does not count as a "classic" in C4F, there is no room for it in this thread, although I think it should be counted as a spring classic.

[Tukhtahuaev]

What a lovely start to the classic season. Dosmagambetov was only an outsider in my mind, but I of course saw some chances to win. Race extremely boring until like 60km to go. Key part then was staying in the Kotibaruly group at km168 and thus joining the front group very soon after. Did not expect that and was more counting on coming back with the other classics later on. Like this I could just sit back and hope for luck in the final sprint.
Final sprint then with a big gamble. Thought the order would be Sweetman, Dosmagambetov, Viitanen, Igelmann. In that situation no real way to win. If I go from 150m, Viitanen simply wins, waiting longer would give it to Sweetman or Viitanen if he goes early. So went on Viitanen instead of Sweetman. With Igelmann on my wheel, I can just risk it early and don't really lose much. Got very lucky with bergwerk not going from 150m then and got the win to secure Div 1 too.

[team fl]

Next classic to come: Strade Bianche ("White Roads"). The name stems from the historic white gravel roads in the Crete Senesi, which are a defining feature of the race. It's one of the younger classics in spring, if not the youngest. First held in 2007 (as a professional race, before that, it was created in 1997 as a recreational bike race), Strade Bianche has quickly gained prestige, and renewed interest in road racing on gravel and dirt roads as a specific skill and discipline, according to the internet at least.

Now part of the World Tour, this race formerly know as Monte Paschi Eroica takes place in Tuscany and starts and ends in Siena, twisting through the hills and vineyards of the Chianti region. The race favours strong classics that are hill proof, incl. the dominator of the last two editions, Tadej Pogacar. But let's see who won the race in C4F in 2025:

2025: Rafael Trujillo (Marlhou), Kenzo Tenma (stevens), Clayton Cleverly (bergwerk), Bronislav Karbauskis (Medical Service)

So it's a mix of strong classic riders, 80-70 or even climbers with some pavé. Hence, it's pretty hard to tell, who the main favourites are. Too many too count, so I leave it up to.... you

[team fl]

The Team FL line-up (most likely) for Saturday (don't know if 9h or 21h yes):

The unholy trinity:

The Fürst and the Devil will be leading the team. But be aware, in their shadow, firestarter Manni Matt is waiting for his chances.

The acquiescent acolytes:

Felikss Fokerots, Ricardo Rocha and Santiago Souberbielle will be there for their leaders and serve them during the latter parts of the stage. Hopefully.

The disciplined disciples:

Rik Ribbens, Urs Unternährer and Zenobio Zalazar might be the ones down low in the hacking order. But they will make up for it with their faith and obedience, trying to work through the ranks above them.

[Falcor CC]

We are ready for Strade and very curious who will be second behind Kerken!

Lineup:
#1 Thibault Kerken, leader
#2 Magnus Jensen, co-leader
#3 Domingo Cruz, helper
#4 Joseph Kawzyk, helper
#5 Antonio Diego, helper
#6 Loïc Callard, helper
#7 Cesare Baddetti, helper
#8 Dave Barlington, helper
#9 Drury Walker, helper

See you Saturday!

[flockmastoR]

Omloop - Pre-Race

So the dead guys from Simmering will also ride. Still unsure if morning or afternoon. Inscribed in morning for the moment, maybe I need the change starttime tool already on Saturday.

Lineup is quite easy, tactic is less straightforward as we don't really have a clear idea on how to ride Omloop usually. Won it once with Wolfowitz, so seems like Mandyczewski is the rider to go for us.

#1 Eusebius Mandyczewski, leader
#2 Vinzenz Chiavacci, support for hills
#3 JohnQuincy Adams, support for hills
#4 Jozef Petzval, 60-80
#5 Francesco Suppè, pave helper
#6 Paula Preradovic, pave helper
#7 Helmut Qualtinger, flat rider with some hill and some pave (ok our best pave rider actually but only 54 mountain)
#8 JosefMaria Stowasser, cheap helper
#9 Anna Maka, flat rider (not actually dead)

Omloop was a bit disappointing. We never actually had a plan what we want to do. In the end we found ourself chasing the super strong pave riders, resulting in a very early hard sieb by Rsc spree. We somehow hoped to get them back and be in the deciding group with a fitter Eusebius, which totally failed. Group all came togehter with the 66+ sprinters there and no chance at all. Maybe better to try fighting earlier and having Qualtinger not drop there, Qualtinger and Seb in the group, maybe I dont know. In the end Seb finished 7th, which is ok in that group

[flockmastoR]

Strade Bianche - Pre race

We will start at 9h or 14h. 9h a bit too early for a Saturday, but 14h will clash with other activities, so I might risk missing the start.

Lineup will be something like:

#1 Eusebius Mandyczewski
#2 Vinzenz Chiavacci
#3 JohnQuincy Adams
#4 Jozef Petzval
#5 Francesco Suppè
#6 Paula Preradovic
#7 Helmut Qualtinger
#8 JosefMaria Stowasser
#9 Wilhelm Exner

so a good mix of mountain approved pave riders.

[team fl]

We are ready for Strade and very curious who will be second behind Kerken!

Lineup:
#1 Thibault Kerken, leader
#2 Magnus Jensen, co-leader
#3 Domingo Cruz, helper
#4 Joseph Kawzyk, helper
#5 Antonio Diego, helper
#6 Loïc Callard, helper
#7 Cesare Baddetti, helper
#8 Dave Barlington, helper
#9 Drury Walker, helper

See you Saturday!

No Harry P.?!

[Falcor CC]

We are ready for Strade and very curious who will be second behind Kerken!

Lineup:
#1 Thibault Kerken, leader
#2 Magnus Jensen, co-leader
#3 Domingo Cruz, helper
#4 Joseph Kawzyk, helper
#5 Antonio Diego, helper
#6 Loïc Callard, helper
#7 Cesare Baddetti, helper
#8 Dave Barlington, helper
#9 Drury Walker, helper

See you Saturday!

No Harry P.?!

At his age??? He's too old for that sh**

[drei.zehn]

We are ready for Strade and very curious who will be second behind Kerken!

Lineup:
#1 Thibault Kerken, leader
#2 Magnus Jensen, co-leader
#3 Domingo Cruz, helper
#4 Joseph Kawzyk, helper
#5 Antonio Diego, helper
#6 Loïc Callard, helper
#7 Cesare Baddetti, helper
#8 Dave Barlington, helper
#9 Drury Walker, helper

See you Saturday!

No Harry P.?!

At his age??? He's too old for that sh**

Great Nickname!