Paris Roubaix 2014

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  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    knedlicky wrote:
    Detail:
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    Like! :D
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    nocobbles.jpg

    There is nothing better in the one day races then the real big guns making these cobbles shake.
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    Contador is the Greatest
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
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    Contador is the Greatest
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Just watched the Arenberg form 2013. Kelly was commentating. Joy.

    Kelly after winning 1986 Roubaix:
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    28. Troisvilles (km 97.5 – 2,200 m) +++
    27. Viesly (km 104 – 1,800 m) +++
    26. Quiévy (km 106.5 – 3,700 m) ++++
    25. Saint-Python (km 111 – 1,500 m) ++
    24. Solesmes (km 119.5 - 800 m) ++
    23. Saulzoir (km 126 - 1,200 m) ++
    22. Verchain-Maugré (km 130.5 - 1,600 m) +++
    21. Quérénaing - Famars (km 135 - 1,200 m) ++
    20. Monchaux-sur-Ecaillon (km 140.5 – 1,600 m) +++
    19. Haveluy (km 153 - 2,500 m) ++++
    18. Trouée d’Arenberg (km 161.5 – 2,400 m) +++++
    17. Wallers - Hélesmes, aka “Pont Gibus” (km 167.5 – 1,600 m)
    16 Hornaing (km 174.5 - 3,700 m) ++++
    15. Warlaing - Brillon (km 182 – 2,400 m) +++
    14. Tilloy - Sars-et-Rosières (km 185 - 2,400 m) ++++
    13. Beuvry-la-Forêt - Orchies (km 191.5 – 1,400m) +++
    12. Orchies (km 196.5 - 1,700 m) +++
    11. Auchy-lez-Orchies - Bersée (km 202.5 - 2,700 m) ++++
    10. Mons-en-Pévèle (km 208 – 3,000 m) +++++
    9. Mérignies - Avelin (km 214 – 700 m) ++
    8. Pont-Thibaut (km 217.5 – 1,400 m) +++
    7. Templeuve - Moulin de Vertain (km 223.5 – 500 m) ++
    6. Cysoing - Bourghelles (km 230 – 1,300 m) ++++
    Bourghelles - Wannehain (km 232.5 – 1,100 m) +++
    5. Camphin-en-Pévèle (km 237 – 1,800 m) ++++
    4. Le Carrefour de l’Arbre (km 240 – 2,100 m) +++++
    3. Gruson (km 242 – 1,100 m) ++
    2. Hem (km 249 – 1,400 m) ++
    1. Roubaix (km 256 – 300 m) +
    Contador is the Greatest
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    frenchfighter wrote:
    There is nothing better in the one day races then the real big guns making these cobbles shake.

    Think it's the other way round! :D
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Inner Ring's at it again:

    If early breaks are often futile, it’s often an effective tactic in this race because even if a rider is reeled in, they serve as a relay for team mates and in crueller terms, equate to a spare pair of wheels up the road.

    Sacrificial breakaway merchants = spare parts depot. Nice.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Boonen's asking fans to respect the riders.

    http://www.sporza.be/cm/sporza/videozon ... st=7.39499
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  • argyllflyer
    argyllflyer Posts: 893
    Milton50 wrote:
    Great. So if having Kirby wasn't annoying enough we get Matt Stephens instead of Kelly?

    Who's going to let us know about all the calcyeeelaaashions?

    Yeah don't know what's happened to SK as he was in the box for Flanders and was due to do Roubaix as well. Matt Stephens seems highly excited about the prospect of doing it though going by what he was saying during Pais Vasco the other day. Kirby's first Roubaix comms too I think.
  • skylla
    skylla Posts: 758
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    knedlicky wrote:
    Detail:
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    Like! :D

    Great post. Here he is:

    http://www.sporza.be/cm/sporza/videozon ... ol_schotte
  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,031
    Watched the repeat of the 2013 race, made me realise just how poor Kirby is compared to Harmon and while Matt Stephens isn't bad for me he's not as good as Kelly especially for a race like this.
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  • skylla
    skylla Posts: 758
    and another beauty:

    http://www.sporza.be/cm/sporza/videozon ... js-Roubaix


    edit:

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    http://www.sporza.be/cm/sporza/videozon ... Koppenberg
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    DeVlaeminck wrote:
    Watched the repeat of the 2013 race, made me realise just how poor Kirby is compared to Harmon and while Matt Stephens isn't bad for me he's not as good as Kelly especially for a race like this.

    It's a travesty, given the depth of cycling insight available. He calls it like motorsport; with all the subtlety of a Robbie Savage, and less original thought. Utterly unforgivable insult to the sport.
    ...a rare 100% loyal Pro Race poster. A poster boy for the community.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Steephill and cycling fans on the mac, HD muted Eurosport on the TV it is then.

    As per usual...
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,661
    Must be able to find a Sporza feed to satisfy your commentary needs Rick..?
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
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    Contador is the Greatest
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Weather man says fine, temp in the mid teens.

    Hope I can find a decent wifi tomorrow for the race. To paraphrase Withnail, I appear to be in Cornwall by mistake!
  • andy_wrx
    andy_wrx Posts: 3,396
    Kirby & Kenny Van Vlaminck doing the commentary would be interesting

    COBBLESH !!
  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,570
    Is this live on sky sports ala Flanders last week? they had the ott pronunciation guy and Magnus B on commentary
    "Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago
  • mooro
    mooro Posts: 483
    RichN95 wrote:
    andy_wrx wrote:
    Mooro wrote:
    I watched the first half of RVV live whilst checking out the web, and the comments here which was ace. The second half after watching the young'un play football and you do miss a few things not being able catch up on updates, get views on events etc. Can't wait for this Sunday!
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    Are you a New Man ?

    Sitting on the sofa with your beer while the wifey does the ironing
    - love it ! :lol:
    And he's still got the same carpet from 1974.

    get off the carpet Rich, its actually recent, rather than my year of birth you guessed!

    not that much of new man, but i do my own shirts*




    * its a quality thing!
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,661
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRyqPVvV_II

    If, like me, you re a newbie to PR, have a look at what a wet race looks like (spin past the aussie stuff at the start)
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    I think my options are stream on my phone in my empty house because I'm still waiting on Telenet to come round and my telly is in the UK, watch in the local bar which is like the island of Dr Moreau, head to Gent for a bar with wifi or hope the guy I'm riding with this morning takes me where he's watching...
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

    @gietvangent
  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    I quite liked watching the Omloop on Sporza because it forced me to think about how the race was developing myself, rather than just listening to what the commentators thought.

    I'm seriously thinking about watching a Sporza stream rather than Eurosport (which I'm paying £3 a month for).
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    I think my options are stream on my phone in my empty house because I'm still waiting on Telenet to come round and my telly is in the UK, watch in the local bar which is like the island of Dr Moreau, head to Gent for a bar with wifi or hope the guy I'm riding with this morning takes me where he's watching...

    The latter is obviously the best idea.

    Just head to the town square - it'll be on somewhere there.
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  • Norfolk Hill Champ
    Norfolk Hill Champ Posts: 206
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Steephill and cycling fans on the mac, HD muted Eurosport on the TV it is then.

    As per usual...

    I was going to give Carlton the benefit of the doubt before his efforts in yesterdays Basque time trial. Screaming at the television because the commentator can't work out the basic properties of time does tend to spoil my enjoyment somewhat.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    One year I will be able to appreciate the classic's season uninterrupted/disturbed. I have totally been off the grid and so have no idea about any of the gossip for today's race but by god am I looking forward to it, even though it looks like its going to be dry. Now I just have to put my faith in my parent's dodgy rural wifi network...
    Correlation is not causation.
  • Give me more
    Give me more Posts: 487
    It's almost here!

    Team Sky are ready to roll

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  • thegibdog
    thegibdog Posts: 2,106
    Carlton is acceptable until you start actually listening to what he's saying, at which point he becomes unbearable. As mentioned, re-watching last years race makes you realise the sport is poorer without Harmon commentating. But there are others that are infinitely better than Kirby: Hatch, Brotherton, Harris-Bass, Quigley...

    Hopefully the Eurosport coverage will be redeemed by LeMond's post race analysis.
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  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,382
    Radio commentary on 5 live extra from (I think) Rob Hatch and Dan Lloyd. Could be an option. Starts 1pm.
  • thegibdog
    thegibdog Posts: 2,106
    r0bh wrote:
    Radio commentary on 5 live extra from (I think) Rob Hatch and Dan Lloyd. Could be an option. Starts 1pm.
    Cheers, will definitely give that a go.
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  • Squaggles
    Squaggles Posts: 875
    No Sean Kelly on Eurosport ??
    The UCI are Clowns and Fools

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