Welcome back to SpinCycle, everybody.

I'm Kaylee Fretz.

Today on the show, Wout is out again.

But opening weekend is in, and Karen Thomas may be the politest man in the whole world if that wasn't

obvious already let's get to it welcome back to spin cycle dain cash hello kaley good to have you back

yeah thanks uh johnny long as well welcome back i'm always here here. You're always here, though. I try to start with either date or kit, right? Because they're the ones that are smart. Yeah, they're coming in and out. Guys, I'm Lupus this weekend. Congrats, everyone. We did it. We made it. We made it. We made it. I do feel like our podcast is particularly well suited for the offseason, to be honest. Like, I wouldn't want to have to run some of these other podcasts in the off season where there's like, you're, you know, you're doing a tactical analysis of whatever.

Some of those podcasts just don't run during the office. That's true. I mean, that, maybe that would be nice, actually. We'd take a little break. No, we like that part. Yeah. We like that part. Yeah. But I think now we're getting into an excellent part of the year where we do have the, we have the season ramping up. We've got Omloup this weekend. We've got the traditional opener to the spring classics happening this weekend. And also then the sort of the start of the narrative through the whole spring, which is nice, right? Like, well, we're going to talk about WAP and Art being out of the race this weekend. Like that now ties into things that are going to be happening for the next sort of six, eight weeks all the way up through Roubaix and Flanders.

So it's a good time to be a bike racing fan.

It's a good time to be a bike racing fan.

So why don't we start with Bunnart?

So this broke, was it like Thursday, Thursday midday, Euro time, Thursday morning for me.

So shortly before we record this podcast, while Vanart is going to be out, or is out,

of Omloup Hett Newsblat on Saturday. The poor man cannot catch a break. I mean,

Dan, you're a big, you're a big Faustian bargain guy, right? So like what did he, what did he do?

What did he promise? I don't know. I feel like it doesn't he didn't get the good side of the

Falsy bargain, right? Like he's just he's just getting the bad all over and over and over again.

He had a great you know run of results before like two years ago or so when things really got bad.

But still nothing like UAE level of last year.

And yeah, he's just had one thing after another injury, injury, injury, over and over again.

And then, you know, this year coming into the year, breaks his ankle at exact cross mole in January.

And then it seems like he's made this amazing recovery in time to race,

and now he's not going to make the Omloop start line because of, as you wrote today,

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