Boonen farewell thread

mm1

yourpaceormine wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Kwiakowski is the worst offender.

Bit harsh. He's only a little fella, and everyone knows that turnups don't work with shorts

...Unless you're Sean Yates.

rick_chasey

So.

4 Paris Roubaix
3 Tour of Flanders
1 World Championship
2 National championships
Green Jersey and 4 stages in the Tour.
3 Gent Wevelgem
5 E3 Prijs
and a sh!t load of other, smaller wins.

r0bh

bobmcstuff wrote:

Got a nice 55km with about 6km of Cheshire cobbles planned for tomorrow morning. Then to Rapha in time for the Arenburg

Hope you did the Bradford Lane/Hocker Lane cobbles, they are the most Roubaix like of the Alderley Edge cobbles:

https://www.strava.com/segments/5569789

I added a segment for all the Alderley cobbled sectors which is quite good fun; Swiss Hill after Woodbrook Road with minimum recovery is tough! https://www.strava.com/segments/14501450

bobmcstuff

r0bh wrote:

bobmcstuff wrote:

Got a nice 55km with about 6km of Cheshire cobbles planned for tomorrow morning. Then to Rapha in time for the Arenburg

Hope you did the Bradford Lane/Hocker Lane cobbles, they are the most Roubaix like of the Alderley Edge cobbles:

https://www.strava.com/activities/92544 ... 2595123162

I added a segment for all the Alderley cobbled sectors which is quite good fun; Swiss Hill after Woodbrook Road with minimum recovery is tough! https://www.strava.com/activities/92544 ... 2614569357

I did Bradford Lane but I think I messed up the route making cos my route went left at the fork and I ended up going up a bridleway, which wasn't really road bike appropriate... and missed out Hocker Lane. It was still good fun though.

I liked the one in Poynton/Adlington, https://www.strava.com/segments/3592381 - but would have been better going the opposite way as I think they're generally better when they're a slight climb.

r0bh

bobmcstuff wrote:

I did Bradford Lane but I think I messed up the route making cos my route went left at the fork and I ended up going up a bridleway, which wasn't really road bike appropriate... and missed out Hocker Lane. It was still good fun though.

I liked the one in Poynton/Adlington, https://www.strava.com/segments/3592381 - but would have been better going the opposite way as I think they're generally better when they're a slight climb.

Right at the fork onto Hocker Lane is a dirt road for a mile or two but fine for a road bike, brings you out at the top of Birtles. I didn't know about that Poynton/Adlington sector, will have to check it out sometime 8)

ridgerider

Rick Chasey wrote:

So.

4 Paris Roubaix
3 Tour of Flanders
1 World Championship
2 National championships
Green Jersey and 4 stages in the Tour.
3 Gent Wevelgem
5 E3 Prijs
and a sh!t load of other, smaller wins.

Surprised by only 4 tour stages, how about GT stage wins as a whole? He must have got his sprinters spurs by winning big race stages surely?

bobmcstuff

r0bh wrote:

bobmcstuff wrote:

I did Bradford Lane but I think I messed up the route making cos my route went left at the fork and I ended up going up a bridleway, which wasn't really road bike appropriate... and missed out Hocker Lane. It was still good fun though.

I liked the one in Poynton/Adlington, https://www.strava.com/segments/3592381 - but would have been better going the opposite way as I think they're generally better when they're a slight climb.

Right at the fork onto Hocker Lane is a dirt road for a mile or two but fine for a road bike, brings you out at the top of Birtles. I didn't know about that Poynton/Adlington sector, will have to check it out sometime 8)

In that case yes, I think that Poynton sector is nearly as good (but I liked the way the Bradford Lane sector has a proper crown etc., felt so proper...)



(sorry this is quite OT...)

pinno

...but somehow apt.

rick_chasey

https://twitter.com/AlePetacchi/status/ ... 7583288320

It was an honor @tomboonen1 fight you first from rival and later by teammate good luck for all

rick_chasey

phil s

Thought some of you might be interested in the Boonen farewell film I produced and shot for this week's inCycle, as told by his teammates for Roubaix. https://youtu.be/UHTMKMT8pGM?t=11m44s

pinno

phil s wrote:

Thought some of you might be interested in the Boonen farewell film I produced and shot for this week's inCycle, as told by his teammates for Roubaix. https://youtu.be/UHTMKMT8pGM?t=11m44s

Nice one Phil.

johnnymcg259

Good little film that - thanks.
And.......... Thank You Mr Boonen!

rick_chasey

Some things are best unseen.

https://twitter.com/laura_meseguer/stat ... 2172546048

Crampeur

Rick Chasey wrote:

Some things are best unseen.

https://twitter.com/laura_meseguer/stat ... 2172546048

Surely we have reached peak Euro?

pinno

I was expecting Antoine de Caunes to pop out at any moment in a mini episode of Euro Trash.