In our never ending quest for ways to make you do our work for us, we present our latest weekly feature – Hopeful Fridays, the good twin of the Monday Hangover. Because hope springs eternal on Friday, before we’ve had our hats handed to us over the weekend.

Post your predictions for the weekend, talk some ill-advised smack, tell us where you’re racing, and most importantly, anonymously tell us who’s getting dropped.

“Stop riding those rollers by yourself! Go out and make some friends! You’ll go blind if you don’t stop that!”

Battenkill-Roubaix

Rumor has it the unpaved sections were just grated, so they’re EVEN ROUGHER! Will this favor big strong guys who can handle?

Pro 123

Lots of strong locals, but with Mike Jones and Josh Dillon in the field, will it matter? First Jason Beerman sighting of the year.

3’s

Blue Ribbon’s well represented with Lubeley, Della Monica, and Espitia. ML has Liuzzi and Orcutt. Sakonnet has Kelly and Perez.

35+

Badger, Alden, Carbonara, Montsopoulos, who’s the best climber? Alden? Mike Norton’s in this field.

45+

Tony Settel Tony Settel Tony Settel.

4’s

Lots of New Yorkers here. Will Riffelmacher could be the class of the field. Hungry Wolfe’s a good climber, but is he too light to handle the rough roads? Or is this a course more suited to big strong guys like Chris Shaw, Chris Loudon, Kenny King?

Women

Uh…. Help us out here. We’re rooting for Lise Dupuis, ’cause she sent us photos before.

Once upon a time, in a land far far away, people would race bikes for results instead of photo ops.

Kings County Circuit Race

P123

So far half the field is VB, so… I say Ricky will Smash. Jeff King will be there too, if he can find Brooklyn on a map.

35+

Hmm, defending champ HoF Carbonara’s registered here as well. Rumor has it that Mihael will put a leg over a bike, and not just to step over it to get to his smokes.

4

Hmmm.

Spring Series Central Park

Any Nav’s coming this week?

Best prediction gets a race bag.