2014 Paris Roubaix
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Postby AUbicycles » Sun Apr 13, 2014 9:45 pm
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First question, no I am not "The" Chris Jones of United Health Care, call me Christopher, it makes it easier.
And I was amused to hear Mr Phil Liggett saying that most riders finish with bloodied hands. Really? If they fall perhaps, sore and bruised, sure... but bloodied... most of them?
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Postby AUbicycles » Mon Apr 14, 2014 12:08 am
Boonen is spending more time complaining than riding... riding hard but has to stop thinking of the help he wont get.
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Postby leighthebee » Mon Apr 14, 2014 6:55 am
We did Flanders last week and I thought that brutal but Roubaix is another league! Had one pinch flat over the two sportives and that was with 30k to go on Roubaix looking to get off the cobble onto the edge. Riding around the velodrome and having a shower in the famous Roubaix showers is surreal to say the least.
Goes without saying but if you get the chance, look at doing these couple of weeks as they are simply cycling heaven...
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Postby flashpixx » Mon Apr 14, 2014 10:53 am
very impressive breakaway. Agree, was half expecting him to blow up, but all credit he powered away. Thought Cancellara response was timid, but after 250 odd km and those cobbles...AUbicycles wrote:Good result - well done to Nikki Terpstra and shaking it up. I was surprised that the lead group didn't counter. It was a risky breakaway and the group could have moved or he could have blown up, but it worked.
Change of Topic: EuroSport coverage was average at best
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Postby elantra » Mon Apr 14, 2014 1:08 pm
How great that would be !!!leighthebee wrote:Just back from watching the Paris Roubaix. Rode the 170k sportive yesterday and then followed the race today. Saw the teams line up in Compiegne, the first cobbles at Inchey, ducked over to Arenberg and then onto the Velodrome for the finish. New appreciation for anyone riding Roubaix cobbles hard!
We did Flanders last week and I thought that brutal but Roubaix is another league! Had one pinch flat over the two sportives and that was with 30k to go on Roubaix looking to get off the cobble onto the edge. Riding around the velodrome and having a shower in the famous Roubaix showers is surreal to say the least.
Goes without saying but if you get the chance, look at doing these couple of weeks as they are simply cycling heaven...
With about 9km to go was the most formidable lineup of Euro cycling big guns you could imagine in one dozen riders.
S'pose it makes sense they were all so tired and so focused on watching each other that Terpstra got out in front and rode away with it.
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Re: 2014 Paris Roubaix
Postby Mr Squiggle » Mon Apr 14, 2014 1:26 pm
Did anyone else hear Boonen say after the race, "I'm obviously delighted for Niki but when you put in all that effort, it's to win for yourself." So if he were riding for someone else to win he wouldn't put in the same effort?? Does he expect teammates riding for him to put in all that effort, or since they are not trying to win for themselves is it OK to hold back and not give everything?? I'm a fan of his, but these comments kind of put me off a bit - and if I were a teammate of his who has given absolutely everything for him to win races in the past, I think I'd be a little ticked off too. I'd have thought he would be absolutely over the moon that his team had just won the race...
On another note, how many times did Paul S refer to the cobbled sectors as 'Napoleonic'?? I counted 6 and only watched from Arenberg onwards!!
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Postby joshnh » Mon Apr 14, 2014 2:43 pm
Really? Look at the names in that group!RonK wrote:When a bunch that big (including the sprinter Degenkolb) makes to the final, you begin to wonder if the race is becoming too easy on a dry course...
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Postby rogan » Mon Apr 14, 2014 3:45 pm
I don't think the cobbles are actually Napoleonic, they just think they are Napoleon...Mr Squiggle wrote: On another note, how many times did Paul S refer to the cobbled sectors as 'Napoleonic'?? I counted 6 and only watched from Arenberg onwards!!
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Postby RonK » Mon Apr 14, 2014 7:00 pm
It's one of the monuments - perhaps the monument. It always attracts riders of that calibre. But it is a long time since a group of 11 contested the final. Or do you think that Boonen, Cancellara et al - the recent winners had it easy, no competition?joshnh wrote:Really? Look at the names in that group!RonK wrote:When a bunch that big (including the sprinter Degenkolb) makes to the final, you begin to wonder if the race is becoming too easy on a dry course...
Personally I would prefer this plan to ensure that a hard, wet, muddy Paris-Roubaix is a certainty.
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Postby joshnh » Mon Apr 14, 2014 7:07 pm
In my humble opinion, a professional bike race that has a group of only 11 contesting the final is incredibly hard.RonK wrote:It's one of the monuments - perhaps the monument. It always attracts riders of that calibre. But it is a long time since a group of 11 contested the final. Or do you think that Boonen, Cancellara et al - the recent winners had it easy, no competition?joshnh wrote:Really? Look at the names in that group!RonK wrote:When a bunch that big (including the sprinter Degenkolb) makes to the final, you begin to wonder if the race is becoming too easy on a dry course...
Personally I would prefer this plan to ensure that a hard, wet, muddy Paris-Roubaix is a certainty.
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Re: 2014 Paris Roubaix
Postby Nikolai » Thu Apr 17, 2014 10:53 pm
I doubt very much any bike race at that level is easy. Certainly, racing on the cobbles is extremely hard regardless of the level. I would imagine racing Roubaix is the definition of all balls out racing regardless of the weather. Rain and mud add its own problems but to suggest a cobbled bike race is easy is ludicrous.RonK wrote:It's one of the monuments - perhaps the monument. It always attracts riders of that calibre. But it is a long time since a group of 11 contested the final. Or do you think that Boonen, Cancellara et al - the recent winners had it easy, no competition?joshnh wrote:Really? Look at the names in that group!RonK wrote:When a bunch that big (including the sprinter Degenkolb) makes to the final, you begin to wonder if the race is becoming too easy on a dry course...
Personally I would prefer this plan to ensure that a hard, wet, muddy Paris-Roubaix is a certainty.
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Postby RonK » Fri Apr 18, 2014 7:46 am
I guess some people just don't have a humour meter sensitive enough to detect a tongue in cheek comment. Did you make the effort to read the linked article - or did perhaps that go over your head too?Nikolai wrote:I doubt very much any bike race at that level is easy. Certainly, racing on the cobbles is extremely hard regardless of the level. I would imagine racing Roubaix is the definition of all balls out racing regardless of the weather. Rain and mud add its own problems but to suggest a cobbled bike race is easy is ludicrous.RonK wrote:It's one of the monuments - perhaps the monument. It always attracts riders of that calibre. But it is a long time since a group of 11 contested the final. Or do you think that Boonen, Cancellara et al - the recent winners had it easy, no competition?joshnh wrote: Really? Look at the names in that group!
Personally I would prefer this plan to ensure that a hard, wet, muddy Paris-Roubaix is a certainty.
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