Isolated? Bored? These are some of the races you should re-watch...

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    This weekend is the 5th anniversary (Friday) of Geraint Thomas's E3 Prijs Harelbeke win.
    Last kms.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO-fMYzX4UY&list=WL&index=3&t=11s

    But that was just a little amuse bouche before Sunday's Gent Wevelgem for the the ages.
    The full Sporza coverage.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBSmb1Qul8E&list=WL&index=17&t=20s

    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    cruff said:

    2016 Paris-Roubaix
    2017 Strade Bianche

    Links!
    _
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    Watched the Orica backstage pass again for 2016 Roubaix... still makes me a bit emotional. Great race that.
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,823
    rick_chasey said:

    cruff said:

    2016 Paris-Roubaix
    2017 Strade Bianche

    Links!
    I watched 2016 PR on Tiz Cycling the other day. They have the full Eurosport coverage (https://tiz-cycling.io/video/paris-roubaix-2016-full-race/)
  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,317
    Apologies if already recommended elsewhere on here, but this is fabulous...
    https://youtu.be/BpiFLhmMFNk
    Yet another reminder of what we’ve been robbed of this season - and in particular with MVDP...
    I haven’t watched the others yet but have no reason to doubt they’re equally superb.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited April 2020
    Yes you lot are in for a treat.

    Have been watching the others over the years but looks like you've got a nice translation now!
    _
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,575
    ocdupalais said:


    I haven’t watched the others yet but have no reason to doubt they’re equally superb.

    They really are. Enjoy them.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,717
    https://cyclingtips.com/2020/04/come-watch-vintage-amstel-gold-with-us/

    First time I've been ahead of these. Makes for quite nice evening viewing on EU time...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    Apparently GCN have a new show on Eurosport starting this weekend where they are going to show 21 of the best Giro stages and the story behind them etc.. Could be worth a watch.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    bobmcstuff said:

    Apparently GCN have a new show on Eurosport starting this weekend where they are going to show 21 of the best Giro stages and the story behind them etc.. Could be worth a watch.

    Starting in half an hour.
    Looks like it's 3 stages per Giro: 2013-19.
    90 minutes each.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,823
    I watched the 2011 Tour de France recently, and it's one of the better ones of recent years. The thing that stood out to me was the number of "epic rides" in it.

    Hushovd to Lourdes was one that I'd completely forgotten
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    OK, GCN have blown it by having RCS's contracted English commentator.
    I'm not that desperate...................yet.
    Back to lockdown in my mortgage free prison cell.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    takethehighroad said:

    I watched the 2011 Tour de France recently, and it's one of the better ones of recent years. The thing that stood out to me was the number of "epic rides" in it.

    Hushovd to Lourdes was one that I'd completely forgotten

    Outstanding Tour that.
    _
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    blazing_saddles said:

    OK, GCN have blown it by having RCS's contracted English commentator.
    I'm not that desperate...................yet.
    Back to lockdown in my mortgage free prison cell.

    Whosat? I was considering paying the 99p to watch it.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,575
    This relatively new Twitter account is great for seeing some older races, i.e. a lot of content from the 80s and 90s, but some older and newer stuff too.

    https://twitter.com/ClipsCycling
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    bobmcstuff said:

    blazing_saddles said:

    OK, GCN have blown it by having RCS's contracted English commentator.
    I'm not that desperate...................yet.
    Back to lockdown in my mortgage free prison cell.

    Whosat? I was considering paying the 99p to watch it.
    Was Hatch today. Wasnt bad. I wasn't really watching races that weren't the Tour in 2013 so its all good for me! I think I was by 2014 though, can't really remember.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    Watching that Giro stage today showed that cycling can be very good without much of a crowd.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    edited May 2020
    Not convinced by their classic Giro stage tag though.
    I remember that stage as being pretty much a dud, with Hatch filling in for eons while the peloton toodled their way up the Col du Mont Cenis and the hard part of the Galibier chopped off, which resulted in almost zero GC racing.

    I would have picked Uran's win on stage 10.



    Yesterday's I would have had Hansen's win amongst the wet chaos to Pescara.







    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    I'm guessing their picks were according to whom they could get for an interview as much as anything else.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    Carlton Kirby going on about it was "race on" on a descent that was neutralised by the organisers, despite the footage clearly showing them riding down quite sedately.

    Good to remind yourself that he was always a cretin.
  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,127
    Pantani vs Ulrich in the 1998 Tdf on the Galibier

    https://youtu.be/h2FQqHF8x5I
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  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,823
    bobmcstuff said:

    Carlton Kirby going on about it was "race on" on a descent that was neutralised by the organisers, despite the footage clearly showing them riding down quite sedately.

    Good to remind yourself that he was always a cretin.

    Hearing his commentary from back then shows he has actually improved, which demonstrates how bad he used to be
  • 50x11
    50x11 Posts: 408
    TDG on the Stelvio.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Just been pointed out on CN, that it's 10 years ago to the day since the Giro met the (wet) Strade Bianche and delivered one of those "epic" stages.

    https://youtu.be/__WabDQY4Gc?t=11
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • sherer
    sherer Posts: 2,460
    Thanks, I remember that stage at the time. Looks like my youtube watch list is getting longer again
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    Poogate on the GCN app thingy today. Good stage that was.
  • sherer
    sherer Posts: 2,460
    ive been enjoying these replays on eurosport. Adding in the video calls really adds something new to the old clips
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    The next 3 days is the 2018 Giro - Stage 6 to Etna today. Stage 18 on Thursday.
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,823
    I'm rewatching the 2016 Tour through Tiz Cycling at the minute. Tell you what, 2016 was a great year for cycling. Maybe James Acaster should do a podcast about that too
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,823
    Has the commentary been re-recorded for these GCN episodes? As I remember (and have rewatched several times) it was Carlton and Brian Smith commentating on the Fenestre, but they've got Rob Hatch with commentary here. Hatch was on Eurosport later on while they were going over Sestriere

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