Paris - Roubaix *spoiler*

frenchfighter

Short video from Blanco of before and after faces from their Roubaix team
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0LFuGH5ghI

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greasedscotsman

OCDuPalais wrote:

Anyone who does Paris-Roubaix on a Penny Farthing is a cretin and shouldn't be celebrated.

Wouldn't it be better? No danger of catching your handlebars on a spectator as they would be so much higher!

frenchfighter

Après coup, ne regrettez-vous pas d'en avoir trop fait ?
On peut toujours regretter. Mais c'est tout de même bien d'attaquer, on n'est pas beaucoup à l'avoir fait. Tout le monde disait qu'il fallait anticiper pour battre Cancellara, mais il n'y en a pas beaucoup qui l'ont fait. Je me suis dépassé. C'est ma dernière course avant un peu de repos. Il faut tout donner sur cette course pour ne rien regretter. Certains vont dire que j'ai trop attaqué, mais c'est ça le vélo ! Il ne faut pas rester dans les roues. Je suis vraiment satisfait de ma course, j'ai tenté. C'est une belle récompense que de terminer 5ème de Paris-Roubaix.

-Gaudin. Damn right.

Crozza

any chance of a translation?

I was looking after the kids on Sunday so my race viewing was very interrupted, but everytime I tuned in Gaudin seemed to be churning off the front of some group or other at 60rpm. not pretty to watch but an impressive performance. plus the fact that he seems "normal" sized made me warm to him!

alihisgreat

Crozza wrote:

any chance of a translation?

I was looking after the kids on Sunday so my race viewing was very interrupted, but everytime I tuned in Gaudin seemed to be churning off the front of some group or other at 60rpm. not pretty to watch but an impressive performance. plus the fact that he seems "normal" sized made me warm to him!

There is a little thing called 'google-translate'

Afterwards, do you regret not having done too much?
You can always regret. But it is still good to attack, there is not much to be done. Everyone said he was anticipating to beat Cancellara, but there are not many who did. I am overwhelmed. This is my last race before a little rest. We must give everything to this race no regrets. Some will say that I too attacked, but that's the bike! Should not remain in the wheels. I'm really happy with my race, I tried. It is a reward that finished fifth in Paris-Roubaix.

salsiccia1

frenchfighter wrote:

Après coup, ne regrettez-vous pas d'en avoir trop fait ?
On peut toujours regretter. Mais c'est tout de même bien d'attaquer, on n'est pas beaucoup à l'avoir fait. Tout le monde disait qu'il fallait anticiper pour battre Cancellara, mais il n'y en a pas beaucoup qui l'ont fait. Je me suis dépassé. C'est ma dernière course avant un peu de repos. Il faut tout donner sur cette course pour ne rien regretter. Certains vont dire que j'ai trop attaqué, mais c'est ça le vélo ! Il ne faut pas rester dans les roues. Je suis vraiment satisfait de ma course, j'ai tenté. C'est une belle récompense que de terminer 5ème de Paris-Roubaix.

-Gaudin. Damn right.

He had a great ride. Even more impressive as it looked like he was using square chain rings.

DeadCalm

ALIHISGREAT wrote:

Crozza wrote:

any chance of a translation?

I was looking after the kids on Sunday so my race viewing was very interrupted, but everytime I tuned in Gaudin seemed to be churning off the front of some group or other at 60rpm. not pretty to watch but an impressive performance. plus the fact that he seems "normal" sized made me warm to him!

There is a little thing called 'google-translate'

Afterwards, do you regret not having done too much?
You can always regret. But it is still good to attack, there is not much to be done. Everyone said he was anticipating to beat Cancellara, but there are not many who did. I am overwhelmed. This is my last race before a little rest. We must give everything to this race no regrets. Some will say that I too attacked, but that's the bike! Should not remain in the wheels. I'm really happy with my race, I tried. It is a reward that finished fifth in Paris-Roubaix.

That;s a dreadful translation but you get the gist. There's more (in English) here: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/aggressive-gaudin-surprises-at-paris-roubaix

I thought Gaudin was magnificent. He rode the way I had hoped that Stannard would. In fact, if Stannard had ridden the race that way just imagine the reaction he'd have got on here.

frenchfighter

The translation is fine. A few parts need changing but it is more or less accurate.

disgruntledgoat

Really enjoyed the Sven Nys interview. I like the "Stybar is a maniac" bit too.

A few of my friends met him in a bar at Flanders, in a Santini produced white hoody with WC hoops. Legend.

knedlicky

DeadCalm wrote:

There's more (in English) here: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/aggressive-gaudin-surprises-at-paris-roubaix
I thought Gaudin was magnificent.

The link says Gaudin “had never won a race before this season”.
So his U-23/Espoir Paris-Roubaix win in 2007 doesn’t count?

I liked Gaudin’s performance too but Van Avermaet sort of blamed him for being dropped by Cancellara and Stybar 25 km out. Van Avermaet said something like:
“Gaudin was between me and them and he took a curve really badly and we were suddenly 2 metres farther back again from them. I tried to catch them alone and halved the gap but couldn’t properly close up, what with no wheel to follow and the wind”

Pross

So he lost 2m and halved the gap but couldn't get back as he didn't have a wheel to follow in the wind? Allowing for Gaudin's bike length he would have only been about 2 or 3m back, plenty of shelter there. It sounds like he just didn't have the legs and is looking to blame someone else.

danlikesbikes

knedlicky wrote:

The link says Gaudin “had never won a race before this season”.
So his U-23/Espoir Paris-Roubaix win in 2007 doesn’t count?

TBF the link does mention his win in 2007 & perhaps assumes that readers would not count as a junior race, but could have been phrased a bit better.

Liked his sprit to go off from the pack but think I'd have to say that must have taken it out of him.

DeadCalm

knedlicky wrote:

DeadCalm wrote:

There's more (in English) here: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/aggressive-gaudin-surprises-at-paris-roubaix
I thought Gaudin was magnificent.

The link says Gaudin “had never won a race before this season”.
So his U-23/Espoir Paris-Roubaix win in 2007 doesn’t count?

I guess they meant at the elite level.

Looking back at Gaudin's previous performances at PR, I guess Sunday's ride shouldn't have been a major surprise. He has ridden the elite race three times previously, coming 24th at his first attempt in 2009 when only 22. He was 16th in 2011 (only 47 seconds down on Vansummeren) and 25th last year. He can clearly ride on the cobbles.

Mad_Malx

frenchfighter wrote:

Short video from Blanco of before and after faces from their Roubaix team
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0LFuGH5ghI

They look like they aged 20 years in a day.

frenchfighter wrote:

That's an interesting graphic. Second placed Shack rider was in the 50s - rest of them just out for a sportive?

FJS

Pross wrote:

So he lost 2m and halved the gap but couldn't get back as he didn't have a wheel to follow in the wind? Allowing for Gaudin's bike length he would have only been about 2 or 3m back, plenty of shelter there. It sounds like he just didn't have the legs and is looking to blame someone else.

If someone in front of you leaves a gap, especially when taking a bend badly, that tends to be more than a bike length before you've gone past him. But yeah, doesnt sound like there was heaps left in the tank

FJS

Nice little video by Dutch NOS television of the rear end of the peloton
http://nos.nl/video/493569-de-achterkan ... e-hel.html

DeadCalm

FJS wrote:

Nice little video by Dutch NOS television of the rear end of the peloton
http://nos.nl/video/493569-de-achterkan ... e-hel.html

That is brilliant. Thanks for posting.

Who is the Saxo guy? " Do I look alright? ......I'm f^^^ed...... The classics are hard, man."

And the footage of Cousin is priceless.

RichN95.

DeadCalm wrote:

Who is the Saxo guy? " Do I look alright? ......I'm f^^^ed...... The classics are hard, man."

Chris Juul Jensen. He was the final finisher I believe.

Richmond Racer

DeadCalm wrote:

FJS wrote:

Nice little video by Dutch NOS television of the rear end of the peloton
http://nos.nl/video/493569-de-achterkan ... e-hel.html

That is brilliant. Thanks for posting.

Who is the Saxo guy? " Do I look alright? ......I'm f^^^ed...... The classics are hard, man."

And the footage of Cousin is priceless.

I THINK it's Chris Juul Jensen, who Andy McGrath interviewed for his Last Man Home feature on the Rouleur site

FJS

DeadCalm wrote:

And the footage of Cousin is priceless.

I particularly enjoyed that just before he abandons, still a pro rider in a world tour race, he's holding a whole baguette in his hand, like someone riding to a summer picknick

mididoctors

FJS wrote:

DeadCalm wrote:

And the footage of Cousin is priceless.

I particularly enjoyed that just before he abandons, still a pro rider in a world tour race, he's holding a whole baguette in his hand, like someone riding to a summer picknick

the whole thing is very 1960's

DeadCalm

Thanks Rich and RR for the ID of Chris Juul Jensen.

FJS wrote:

DeadCalm wrote:

And the footage of Cousin is priceless.

I particularly enjoyed that just before he abandons, still a pro rider in a world tour race, he's holding a whole baguette in his hand, like someone riding to a summer picknick

Ha ha. I'd missed that. Awesome.

DeadCalm

Good interview with Sebastien Piquet, the voice of Race Radio here:

http://www.ridemedia.com.au/?p=9293

Riding on the pavement to be banned next year, Offredo's crash and more...

alihisgreat

FJS wrote:

Nice little video by Dutch NOS television of the rear end of the peloton
http://nos.nl/video/493569-de-achterkan ... e-hel.html

haha that's such a cruel video! Thanks for posting.

ellerslierd

FJS wrote:

Nice little video by Dutch NOS television of the rear end of the peloton
http://nos.nl/video/493569-de-achterkan ... e-hel.html

Really good video, "Belleville Rendezvous"-esque

chrisday

frenchfighter wrote:

Graeme_S wrote:

Have you got the link to the original Flickr page for that cobbles pic Frenchie?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/smashred/s ... 176696991/

*tips hat*

Beautiful shots in there, thanks, FF!

EKIMIKE

DeadCalm wrote:

I thought Gaudin was magnificent. He rode the way I had hoped that Stannard would. In fact, if Stannard had ridden the race that way just imagine the reaction he'd have got on here.

It was an entertaining ride but did he even have a strategy other than attack, attack, attack? Clearly he was strong. I get the impression he was the battering ram for Turgot but when he dropped out of contention with a mechanical it just made Gaudin look a little tactically inept - a little bit Johnny Hoogerland.

alihisgreat

EKIMIKE wrote:

DeadCalm wrote:

I thought Gaudin was magnificent. He rode the way I had hoped that Stannard would. In fact, if Stannard had ridden the race that way just imagine the reaction he'd have got on here.

It was an entertaining ride but did he even have a strategy other than attack, attack, attack? Clearly he was strong. I get the impression he was the battering ram for Turgot but when he dropped out of contention with a mechanical it just made Gaudin look a little tactically inept - a little bit Johnny Hoogerland.

I especially liked the bit where he caught the leading group after mashing it on his own for 30mins or so - then straight away hit the front and cracked on with the pace despite the fact they were obviously going to get caught, and the only reason he had caught the leading group was because they had slowed up due to this fact :roll:

DeadCalm

EKIMIKE wrote:

DeadCalm wrote:

I thought Gaudin was magnificent. He rode the way I had hoped that Stannard would. In fact, if Stannard had ridden the race that way just imagine the reaction he'd have got on here.

It was an entertaining ride but did he even have a strategy other than attack, attack, attack? Clearly he was strong. I get the impression he was the battering ram for Turgot but when he dropped out of contention with a mechanical it just made Gaudin look a little tactically inept - a little bit Johnny Hoogerland.

I agree that Gaudin did at times appear to be somewhat akin to a bull in a china shop but I will always have a soft spot in my heart for tactically inept, Johnny Hoogerland style attacks.

However, a reasonable interpretation of the interview somewhere up-thread would suggest that his strategy was to try and get as far ahead of Cancellara as possible and then hang on when the inevitable charge came. He may have executed it rather clumsily and failed in the vital 'hanging on' part but, as he said himself, at least he tried. His apparent momentary disorientation when Turgot disappeared from the group suggested that Europcar did indeed have a plan to use the two of them in tandem somehow.

danlikesbikes

ALIHISGREAT wrote:

I especially liked the bit where he caught the leading group after mashing it on his own for 30mins or so - then straight away hit the front and cracked on with the pace despite the fact they were obviously going to get caught, and the only reason he had caught the leading group was because they had slowed up due to this fact :roll:

I was shouting at the TV at the time to get everyone to come and watch this man who had just bridged the gap & looked like he was on one and going to go straight past. TBF it went over everyones head & they returned to playing with their smart phones something about a peed off bird.