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Cheers ey, happy to know it gets appreciated ;-)

Ey buddy, glad you found the channel, be careful though, because this my 2023 Il Lombardia preview, and at that time he had only won it twice 😉

My pleasure Frederik, enjoy the race and till the next one!

Yep, just, not feeling it, since the olympics, the best he did was a P12 in Montréal in a much weaker starting field, ... as usual, I hope he proves me wrong ;-)

@@CyclingGuy If cycling guy says it, it must be true

@@MateoVarela-wy2rm occasionally I do get it right 🤪

Cheers ey, you're the second person checking in for CX - I may do a try-out, to see whether those are getting some traction - have a good one!

Doing them all would take me too much time - I've checked in the community tab before and at that time there wasn't too much interest - yet I'll check again and depending on the outcome, I may do a try-out

@@CyclingGuy you could do the ones where the MVDP vs WVA vs Pidcock fight is

@@Lion-wd1px did you see my poll on the community tab, or you read my mind? 😄

@@CyclingGuy now I saw it lol. Yea only following cyclocross because of these guys and mainly everything where MVDP is (fanboy alert) 😂

@@Lion-wd1px Thibaut Nys is another one who makes it interesting IMO ;-)

Yep, I'm with you, who's brave enough to send it though, ...

I agree it can impact the race - yet according to the current predictions it looks relatively OK ey, 10 - 18°C partly cloudy, with a 25% chance of rain

He certainly does, it will be interesting to see how he plans next season

@@CyclingGuy Think we also need to re-evaluate if Pogi is a master descender like Pidcock or Nibali. We will see. No rain is expected. Difficult decent as usual.

@@Stefan_W. IMO, he's not at that level, yet he is a good descender and with the gaps he manages to create on the climbs, it's hard to make up for them in the descents

⚠️Ganda climb might be replaced by Selvino (10,9km 5,5%) due to a landslide⚠️

@@greniermatteo2905 hadn't heard that yet, given its location in the first half of the race, I expect the impact of this potential change to be relatively limited! Thanks for posting!

Thanks Henno, I like the trust you're putting in the community ;-)

Thanks Patrick!

Glad you're enjoying ey!

My pleasure! Enjoy

Great stuff, thanks!

My pleasure Mike, and I agree with you, no value in - I may place a few wild bets at low stakes

Cheers Ahmed, he's an amazing rider with a massive fanbase all around the world, really nice to see and looking forward to see him race again in next year's spring classics!!!

@@jbuzza00 cheers ey

Hirschi is a very good pick IMO, even though after having seen what we saw in the women's race: it's easy to make this a hard race, yet it's very hard to drop the other favorites, and even when you manage, there's time for them to come back (as Kopecky did today) - this does not play into Hirschi's advantage in my book - it shows to me that MVDP will be a real contender here, and that there's plenty of in between rolling slightly uphill stretches where Remco can try and surprise. Enjoy the race!

@@CyclingGuy Tx for the response. I should have checked his sprint points on PCS before putting in my 10$. See you at the charity homeless canteen next week😅. I watched part of the women's race too. I agree it's hard to stay away. Looks like they spend a lot of energy getting to the crest of the hill, thinking they've got it made. Then they chill a few seconds, but it starts rolling again and they can never recover from the initial effort. So chasers gradually roll them back over the next kms, on a plateau that looks like a saw, with more attacks all over the place. It's a great course for tv. Marc will have to hold his fire, save his legs and attack on one of the very last upswings. Let Pog, Remco, and Mathieu do the work. He did well in Bretagne, it's all up and down. I think it's a good pick, for some reason Betway have him at 21.

@@Mike-rm1lb 🤪 cheers ey and 🤞🤞🤞 enjoy the race tomorrow!

Hoi Hans, more than welcome to the community! And even better to hear that the word is spreading, thanks for that Swiss!!! And for sure, we can disagree, as long as the discussion stays constructive and positive, I'm all ears 😉 - really like your 2 picks who find a course here that suit them. I did not go with Onley, because it's hard for young riders to impress on first participations at the Worlds and I've been going with Bagioli in the past, yet he has always disappointed me (never doing better than 39th in the Worlds, out of 4 participations), here again, I'd love both of them to prove me wrong - enjoy the race ey!

@@Lion-wd1px I havn’t seen it, yet very interesting indeed, also Segaert who came in 3rd is a ‘big’ bloke - it’s why I’m not ruling out MVDP and Bling, and it may may prove me wrong on Pedersen and Girmay, then again, they’re doing a 100 k and 2000m of elevation gain extra, which is a big difference - thanks for sharing your thoughts - Enjoy

@@CyclingGuy probably yeah but I would love to see him defending it as fanboy haha, especially since next year he has no Chance with 5,5k elevation gain

@@Lion-wd1px after 270k, anything is possible ;-)

Very good point to consider. 1m95 is 5 cm taller than Wout Van Aert!

@@Mike-rm1lb sorry to who did you respond friend?

Yo!

Great stuff, thanks for sharing you podium here, hard to disagree with it, Hirschi is on fire and how cool would it be to see Alaphilippe back on the podium

I like Healy too, yet didn't pick him because he's @50/1, talking about dark horses, just decided to chuck a Euro at Gee who's at 400/1

@@CyclingGuy Good luck with it! Gee would be a cool story!

Jorgenson and Gee are both great picks IMO, yet I keep on feeling that people underestimate MVDP - that steep ramp is punchy and should suit him and I’ll not so sure they’ll drop him on the 5 to 6% incline afterwards - he can gamble and follow wheels behind for it to come back together OR he can send it from far out, let’s see ey, I’d love to see him disrupt the race - enjoy

@@CyclingGuy, yeah, I underestimated MVP. I thought it was too hard for him. I did actually pick Oconnor for my team, and I didn't choose Jorgenson. You got two out of three.

@@johnnewman4985 what a ride by and MVDP & SKUIJNS

Not unlikely ey! Question is, will it be in the chase of Evenepoel, who will go in round 5 or not 🤪 - enjoy the race

@@CyclingGuy I would call Pog Attacks on the 4 Round and then still 10 Riders will be in the Group. On the Round 5 MVDP Attacks and Only Roglic Pogacar and Remco can follow

@@alessio4236 nice, nice, nice, I like, that would be a dream scenario for POG ey, having a team mate up there

Agreed! POG remains the main favorite, yet there’s plenty of options to turn the race onto its head

😝sorry about raising the dark horse hopes too much - the bookies definitely underrate Powless @101 Powless is amazing value!!! Thanks for your thoughts here, much appreciated! Enjoy!

Planning to upload on Wednesday or Thursday

he only focuses on the road race

Check, full focus on the road race, he wants to wear the 🌈 next season!!!

no point he can't win it

He’s been added to the selection after I recorded my prediction, so it will be Ganna and Affini for Italy, Ganna’s been feeling seriously off though and hence his preparation has been far from ideal, should still be up for a top 10 though - I’ll leave a note in the video description later today

Groetjes!

Cheers ey, glad you enjoyed, stay tuned, there's more to come!

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Great stuff, glad you enjoy these, thanks a lot ey!

My pleasure Jelle! Have a good day

Cheers ey, thanks for being part of the journey!

I didn't do on super detailed analysis there, yet I'd estimate the average speed of the winning rider will be somewhere around the 52 km/h

Cheers Jesse, it used to be a weakness for him, yet he worked on it and now has a decent ITT

My pleasure ey and glad you like them - unless he's really completely off (no reason to believe so, based on what we saw yesterday), he should be OK

and nothing for Campenaerts ? he finished last in the last 3 stages : was he preparing or is he finished ? He is a big outsider for the victory !

I agree Skjelmose will need to push and has a good chance of being in the Top 10

@@1972ced I may have been misguided by his Stage 1 performance, where he blew up completely, which is very unlike Campenaerts, so you could argue it's unlikely he'll make the mistake again, ...

Hi there, enjoy!

Yes, personally I also like the attacking riders a lot, those willing to push the disruptor button, and Carapaz is certainly one of them!

I absolutely loved it, it's been pretty open for quite some time, with Mas looking like he could potentially drop Roglic, that combined with the need for Roglic to claw back time, made it interesting to me, combined with the great breakaway battles, I loved it!

Cheers, glad you like them, time to catch up some sleep now on my end 😅

Cheers ey!

My pleasure ey, next up, I'll be covering the world championship races