Tag: Road Racing
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Shot: Paris-Roubaix 2019
Click or not: Shot: Paris-Roubaix 2019Throw out all the superlatives you want, there’s just not enough words to portray Paris-Roubaix to a level anywhere near its reverential status among its suitors. See, even when trying not to, it makes you. It’s best left to the camera and a denizen who knows where to point it to relate one of the… …
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Insider Rides: Peter Sagan’s Specialized Roubaix
Click or not: Insider Rides: Peter Sagan’s Specialized RoubaixIt says something about the status of a rider who can be in the mix at the biggest races of the Spring Classics and still be regarded as not on form. Peter Sagan has been there or thereabouts in the Monuments so far but many are not prepared to consider him a chance at Paris-Roubaix.… …
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Insider Rides: Jack Bauer’s Scott Foil
Click or not: Insider Rides: Jack Bauer’s Scott FoilYesterday Russell caught up with Craig Geater, the mechanic of the Mitchelton-Scott team, meeting them before the team recce of the Paris Roubaix. There Craig talked him through the tweaks they do for Jack Bauer’s bike and some of the prep for Sunday. “In the past years we used to do a lot of different… …
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The Badger And Paris-Roubaix
Click or not: The Badger And Paris-Roubaix“Paris-Roubaix is shit”. It’s a quote long attributed to Le Blaireau, The Badger, Bernard Hinault. His win in 1981 in the rainbow jersey is still one of the most remarkable. Punctures, crashes, and an errant poodle couldn’t stop the gritted determination Hinault always displayed, his sprint from the front from what seemed like a lap… …
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Insider Rides: Marta Bastianelli’s Storck Platinum F3
Click or not: Insider Rides: Marta Bastianelli’s Storck Platinum F3It may seem unusual for the biggest Flemish race of the year to be one suited to Italian riders. Looking back through the results over the 103 years of the Ronde Van Vlaanderen though reveals that the Italian job is more common than most other countries bar the home side. After all, the original Lion… …
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Worlds Kits: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Click or not: Worlds Kits: The Good, The Bad, The UglyThe Road World Championships are always a cavalcade of colour, with riders ditching their trade team allegiances and (supposedly) coming together under the colours of their home countries.A rider who may have been resplendent in their team kit all season can suddenly be reduced to looking like they shopped at K-Mart, all because of where… …
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When Team Cars Had Class
Click or not: When Team Cars Had ClassIn a time where style, class and character were in abundance, Bill Woodul captured these images of the Pro team cars, wagons and vans in the mid to late seventies. Opel, Peugeot, Citroen, Mercedes, Fiat and BMW and the iconic Merckx Volvo. Pure class without a mega-bus in sight. Hand-painted sponsorship decals by craftsmen with… …
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Style Icons: Gert-Jan Theunisse
Click or not: Style Icons: Gert-Jan TheunisseNowadays you would be hard pressed to find a mullet as sensational as the one Gert-Jan Theunisse rocked in the late 80s and early 90s, certainly not in the peloton and only slightly less likely in everyday life. Unless you’re from Rooty Hill, the Hutt, or maybe Shane Archbold, who gives it a pretty good… …