Paris - Roubaix 2023 **spoiler thread**

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,907
    Dusty road surface on the tarmac surface is taking a fair few riders out
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,058
    Here's the sectors with km to go - it always seems difficult to find.



  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,058
    KM To go
    129.4 *** Verchain-Maugré à Quérénaing
    126.7 *** Quérénaing à Maing
    123.6 *** Maing à Monchaux-sur-Écaillon
    117 *** Haspres à Thiant
    103.5 **** Haveluy à Wallers
    95.3 ***** Trouée d'Arenberg
    89.2 *** Wallers à Hélesmes
    82.5 **** Hornaing à Wandignies
    75 *** Warlaing à Brillon
    71.5 **** Tilloy à Sars-et-Rosières
    65.2 *** Beuvry-la-Forêt à Orchies
    60.1 *** Orchies
    54 **** Auchy-lez-Orchies à Bersée
    48.6 ***** Mons-en-Pévèle
    42.6 ** Mérignies à Avelin
    39.2 *** Pont-Thibault à Ennevelin
    33.8 * Templeuve (l’Épinette)
    33.3 ** Templeuve (Moulin-de-Vertain)
    26.8 *** Cysoing à Bourghelles
    24.3 *** Bourghelles à Wannehain
    19.9 **** Camphin-en-Pévèle
    17.1 ***** Carrefour de l'Arbre
    14.8 ** Gruson
    8.2 ** Willems à Hem
    1.4 * Roubaix
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,691
    edited April 2023
    Stefan Kung giving a perfect illustration of the randomness of this race with a slipping seat post...

    AdK have taken over and chilled everyone out for a sec...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,907
    Looking to be pretty structured race from here ....see what happens at the trench
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Alpecin really keeping a lid on it all.

    As ever there’s pre Arenberg and post Arenberg
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Very jealous. Have had the sh!ts for 3 weeks so I’m eating so little 🫤
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,907
    Cool.bottle pass to the kid on trainer
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,691
    Has anyone else's hayfever hit like a tonne of bricks today..?

    Can hardly see through my itchy eyes
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Second row riders beginning to make a move in anticipation of the Arenberg
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,691
    Big bunch still. A lot of the fallers are making it back up.
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • jimmyjams
    jimmyjams Posts: 780

    KM To go
    19.9 **** Camphin-en-Pévèle

    The Camphin-en-Pévèle sector is nowadays called Secteur Eddy Merckx, it was announced on Friday.
    There are other sectors named after riders but I don't know their other/traditional names – after Degenkolb, Madiot, Duclos-Lassalle, Hinault and Guesdon (despite mididoctors' opinion!)
    I wonder how they choose who to name a sector after, since obvious candidates like Boonen and De Vlaeminck are still without.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    edited April 2023
    Flicked to sporza. when the Eurosport commentators ignored the rider going up the road in favour for tyre technology chat.

    Dear reader, they’re in the velodrome so we have the atmospheric bell 🔔 ringing in the background
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Here we go. Run into Arenberg.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Terribly timed mechanical for WvA
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,645
    edited April 2023

    Very jealous. Have had the sh!ts for 3 weeks so I’m eating so little 🫤
    Damn, you been checked for bowel disease, colitis etc? 3 weeks is not normal
    Warning No formatter is installed for the format
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661

    Very jealous. Have had the sh!ts for 3 weeks so I’m eating so little 🫤
    Damn, you been checked for bowel disease, colitis etc? 3 weeks is not normal
    Yeah won’t bore you / put you off your food with the details
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    WvA back in the tail of the peloton. Picked up by teammates
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    107km to go
  • mrb123
    mrb123 Posts: 4,809
    JV gunning it.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    JV making a move with WvA and tram on the 5* section ahead of Arenberg.

    Degenkolb joins Laporte and WvA
  • mrb123
    mrb123 Posts: 4,809
    Ineos need to react
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    MvdP catches up

    101km to go lol
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,907
    WvA taking porte up the road
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Degenkolb looking good 100km to go

    Peloton is in pieces already
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,907
    Big gap
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • mrb123
    mrb123 Posts: 4,809
    Race smashed to bits in an instant.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,907
    Ineos caught out
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,907
    They have gone !
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm