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Spring is nearly here ...and Paris Nice is going very close to home on two days...slightly happy?...just a bit!.

toolonglegs wrote:Spring is nearly here

indeed!

in fact i was just looking through the racing calendar this morning...march/april is going to be huge!

06/03/2011 Paris - Nice France
09/03/2011 Tirreno-Adriatico
19/03/2011 Milan-San Remo
21/03/2011 Volta Ciclista a Catalunya
27/03/2011 Ghent - Wevelgem
03/04/2011 Ronde van Vlaanderen
04/04/2011 Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco
10/04/2011 Paris - Roubaix
17/04/2011 Amstel Gold Race
20/04/2011 La Flèche Wallonne
24/04/2011 Liège - Bastogne - Liège
24/04/2011 Tour of Turkey
26/04/2011 Tour de Romandie

Wonder how much cycling will be telecast on SBS this year ? Hopefully more than last year

JV911 wrote:

toolonglegs wrote:Spring is nearly here

indeed!

in fact i was just looking through the racing calendar this morning...march/april is going to be huge!

06/03/2011 Paris - Nice France
09/03/2011 Tirreno-Adriatico
19/03/2011 Milan-San Remo
21/03/2011 Volta Ciclista a Catalunya
27/03/2011 Ghent - Wevelgem
03/04/2011 Ronde van Vlaanderen
04/04/2011 Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco
10/04/2011 Paris - Roubaix
17/04/2011 Amstel Gold Race
20/04/2011 La Flèche Wallonne
24/04/2011 Liège - Bastogne - Liège
24/04/2011 Tour of Turkey
26/04/2011 Tour de Romandie

Great time of year

JV911 wrote:06/03/2011 Paris - Nice France

i thought it was a stage race

it is

2011 Paris-Nice stages:

March 6: Stage 1: Houdan – Houdan (154.5 km)
March 7: Stage 2: Montfort l’Amaury – Amilly (198.5 km)
March 8: Stage 3: Cosne-sur-Loire – Nuits-Saint-Georges (202.5 km)
March 9: Stage 4: Crêches-sur-Saône – Belleville (191 km)
March 10: Stage 5: Saint-Symphorien – Vernoux-en-Vivarais (194 km)
March 11: Stage 6: Rognes – Aix-en-Provence (27 km ITT)
March 12: Stage 7: Brignoles – Biot (215.5 km)
March 13: Stage 8: Nice – Nice (124 km).

MichaelB wrote:Wonder how much cycling will be telecast on SBS this year ? Hopefully more than last year

SBS showed quite a bit last year (and there were a few races on One HD) , but more is always better

they announced on cycling central yesterday that they'll be showing Ronde van Vlaanderen & Paris - Roubaix LIVE

JV911 wrote:they announced on cycling central yesterday that they'll be showing Ronde van Vlaanderen & Paris - Roubaix LIVE

Chuck wrote:

JV911 wrote:they announced on cycling central yesterday that they'll be showing Ronde van Vlaanderen & Paris - Roubaix LIVE

Saw that when watching Cycling Central last night.

Yee har !!!!!

Can't wait to see Boonen losing both of them again !!!!

MichaelB wrote:Can't wait to see Boonen losing both of them again !!!!

LOL

Big Fabs and his electric bike will be hard to beat

Not sure who Sky will be riding for, but it looks like the kind of course Mick Rogers could do well on.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/69th-paris-nice-his

JV911 wrote:10/04/2011 Paris - Roubaix

hmm. . that's my first wedding anniversary, i wonder if i'll be allow. . . .

Eurosport on foxtel gentlemen. 1hr of Paris-Nice repeated 20times so no excuse for missing it. Oh except if it is like the Tour of the Algarve which got canned and ruined the scheduling of the Tour of Oman.

No sign of Strade Bianchi though. That wet day on the Giro was unforgettable.

No one tipping a winner yet though? Kreuziger, Schleck, Porte (got to have an Aussie pick)

ft_critical wrote: No sign of Strade Bianchi though. That wet day on the Giro was unforgettable.

According to Velonation The three “Corse di Primavera”, consisting of Montepaschi Strade Bianche, Tirreno-Adriatico and Milano-Sanremo, with be live on Eurosport in Europe.

Livestreaming hopefully from RAI for me. That is how I watch the Giro last year, except for the few stages shown live by SBS

http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/7313/ ... works.aspx

ft_critical wrote:No one tipping a winner yet though? Kreuziger, Schleck, Porte (got to have an Aussie pick)

Given he has form, I'll tip Rogers.

“When I’m in good condition and there’s a week-long race with a time trial, I know I can win them all. I’d be crazy not to concentrate on that.”

This appears right up his alley. More from that article....

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/michael ... d-my-niche

ft_critical wrote:Eurosport on foxtel gentlemen. 1hr of Paris-Nice repeated 20times so no excuse for missing it. Oh except if it is like the Tour of the Algarve which got canned and ruined the scheduling of the Tour of Oman.

No sign of Strade Bianchi though. That wet day on the Giro was unforgettable.

No one tipping a winner yet though? Kreuziger, Schleck, Porte (got to have an Aussie pick)

is any of the Paris Nice live however?

According to the Foxtel guide it's live tonight from around 12:30.

Last night was a great race. The four man breakaway was: De Gendt, Jeremy Roy and Jens Voigt.

Yeah so I see... An hour of highlights of stage 1 at 12:15am (CST?) and then last 90mins of stage 2 live on eurosports1

Aussie 1-2 in the 3rd satge, and 1st & 3rd overall, and an Aussie in the Points jersey.

So far so good !!!!!

Congrats to Gossy for the stage win & leaders jersey, and HH for 2nd (on stage 3) and 3rd overall and Points jersey.

Aussie, aussie, aussie, Oi Oi Oi !!!!

MichaelB wrote:Aussie 1-2 in the 3rd satge, and 1st & 3rd overall, and an Aussie in the Points jersey.

So far so good !!!!!

Congrats to Gossy for the stage win & leaders jersey, and HH for 2nd (on stage 3) and 3rd overall and Points jersey.

Aussie, aussie, aussie, Oi Oi Oi !!!!

Good post except for the last line

It really has been a fantastic start to the year by Australian riders. Michael Matthews win in the first stage of the Vuelta Ciclista went unmentioned here also.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/31st-v ... -1/results

Hopefully an Aussie can pull off one of the big spring races.

Goss after his win.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/ambitio ... paris-nice

Interesting near the end of the article, the part about next weeks Milan-San Remo and Cavendish. "If" Cav is at the front he'll "probably" help him. Maybe I'm reading too much into it but I think he'd be happy to see Cav dropped on the Poggio

Gosssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey!!!!

MHG....ftw.....pwner