This thread is already becoming a refuge for those jaded by the crass hijacking of the original Addiction thread started by Pcad nearly a decade ago by crass fredly commercial interests. They yearn for a more pure Velo bull**** experience, a return to the values that fueled the growth of Addiction and eventually destroyed it for those of us in the True Forty One.

Gather round my little fredlings. You are in the wilderness no more. You were lost but now you're found. You were dropped but you worked the team cars just right, avoided the commissar's 200 Euro fine and have regained the peloton before depleted main field starts winding it up for that suicide sprint with the roundabout and the 110º right hander over the cobbles @400 meters.

In short, you've made it back just in time for the massive crash.