**spoiler** Paris - Roubaix 2018

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  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    do you reckon Soler is there as a recon for July?
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,200
    do you reckon Soler is there as a recon for July?

    I would imagine so.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,200
    Right, crashfest coming up as the position fight starts.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,200
    Mad Wurtz down :-(

    Big crash about 30-40 riders back. Some Sky were down as well, looked like Thomas.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,741
    edited April 2018
    Guess who else? Geraint Thomas of course.
    Magnus Cort too
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,200
    Thomas was down, but he got up. Not sure Mads Wurtz was getting back on a bike. Magnus Cort was also down.
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  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Just turned it on. 156 to go. Chute taken down naesen
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    i guess sep was on the floor and is chasing on now :)
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    DiDa racer on discs it looks like on the C3 or something.

    Edit can't be sure actually
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,137
    Today's PTP picks

    12 Gilbert
    6 Sagan, Stybar
    5 Terpstra
    3 Vanmarcke
    2 Van Avermaet, Demare
    1 Van Aert. Groenewegen, Stannard, Moscon, Pedersen
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,244
    Renaat surprised how bad the conditions are.

    Lampaert and GvA caught behind amongst many others.
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Tony Martin just rides off the front with kiesse also taking turns.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,200
    So split in the peloton, BMC trying to bring it back together for GVA.

    Wurz getting a stretcher & neck brace (though he was sitting earlier)

    Tony Martin leading a small group at the front
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,646
    oufff nasty injury...completely out cold no movement!
    "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
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,200
    GVA group 30" behind
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  • Dilier Swiss champ has had good form recently
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    GvA back on apparently.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,244
    Wind is picking up.


    Means it’s drier. But also tail cross ;)
  • Maybe he is expecting iNaesen long wait now. Bad luck for Oliver on the cobbles this week
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,200
    Thomas has abandoned.
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  • kingstonian
    kingstonian Posts: 2,847
    Terpstra bought all teammates a Rolex to say thanks


    Good on him. Shows he recognises their contribution and that he’s a team player
  • kingstonian
    kingstonian Posts: 2,847
    Thomas has abandoned.


    He’s an accident magnet. Shame, I would have liked to see him give it some beans today
  • Didn`t think conditions look too bad.

    Too ill to cycle , so it`s me and Amstel watching the whole thing.

    That last crash looked nasty.
    Trek,,,, too cool for school ,, apparently
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,196
    Just back from my now traditional (as of last year) pre-Roubaix Cheshire cobbles ride, mine were very muddy.

    Has anything exciting happened?
  • kingstonian
    kingstonian Posts: 2,847
    Break brought back to 3mins 45 secs, time gap dropping steadily
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,244
    Can’t help but notice all 7 QS boys in the first 15
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,200
    The lad Mads Pedersen doing a superb job so far of keeping up near the front
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,244
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    Just back from my now traditional (as of last year) pre-Roubaix Cheshire cobbles ride, mine were very muddy.

    Has anything exciting happened?

    Crash took Roelandts and a teammate of BMC out.

    GvA and Maes had a bit of a chase.

    Sky have been crash happy and Thomas is out.

    Olivera has a broken collarbone.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,200
    Mads Wurtz Schmidtt has nothing broken, after being taken away on a stretcher.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,244
    Mortadelo, proscuttio di Parma and ouwe Gouda for lunch today.