Tag: Roubaix Week
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Roubaix Week: The Final Pump Up
Click or not: Roubaix Week: The Final Pump UpCome on, you’re not excited about Sunday yet? What are you, a mountain biker? Hell is about to heat up! There’s so much to love about tonight’s race, not the least that Tom Boonen is retiring and could become the outright record holder with a 5th win. That’s worth watching for alone. There’ll be crashes,… …
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Roubaix Week: The Greatest Cycling Movie Ever Made
Click or not: Roubaix Week: The Greatest Cycling Movie Ever MadeIf the title of this post made you think “is it American Flyers?”, get the fuck outa here right now. Sure, Kevin Costner did a great job of playing a dying dufus on a bike, some other guy rode around in a cowboy hat and Eddy Merckx put in a memorable performance firing a gun,… …
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Roubaix Week: Badger Style
Click or not: Roubaix Week: Badger Style”Paris Roubaix est une connerie!” (“Paris Roubaix is bullshit!”). So said Le Blaireau, The Badger, Bernard Hinault about the race he won in 1981. In typical Badger style, he wore the rainbow stripes, ran over a dog, chased back on, did all the work and then led out the sprint and let no-one have the… …
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Roubaix Week: The 2001 Mudfest
Click or not: Roubaix Week: The 2001 MudfestEvery year the most sadistic of road racing fans hope for one thing; a wet Paris-Roubaix. We want the most epic of races to be even harder for the riders, the punishment of the pavé amplified by a decent coating of precipitation, the ancient farm tracks made more treacherous by adding to the already slick… …
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Roubaix Week: The Many Faces Of Hell
Click or not: Roubaix Week: The Many Faces Of HellThere’s good reason Paris-Roubaix is referred to as ‘hell’. A day out on the cobbles, no matter the weather, will leave the body and the mind in disarray, broken, reduced to shells of their former selves. The emptiness is the most joyous feeling you’ll ever have at the end of any bike ride. The faces… …
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Roubaix Week: Millar On The Rivet In The Forest
Click or not: Roubaix Week: Millar On The Rivet In The ForestIf you happen to be unfortunate enough to be listening to Phil Liggett calling Sunday’s race, you’re odds on to hear him utter the phrase “You can’t win the race here, but you can lose it here” as the riders tackle the brutal pavé of the Troueé d’Arenberg secteur. And he’s right on this one;… …
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Roubaix Week: Believing In Boonen
Click or not: Roubaix Week: Believing In BoonenThe final curtain of any storied career inevitably falls some time, and for Tom Boonen that times comes on Sunday. One last lap and a half around the velodrome, how will it be taken, in a sprint, solo, ahead or behind. This will be something special, whichever way it plays out. …
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Roubaix Week: Hayman’s Zwift Recovery
Click or not: Roubaix Week: Hayman’s Zwift RecoveryIt’s the most exciting week in professional road cycling… the Spring Classics bookended with the two greatest monuments, the Ronde van Vlaanderen (Tour of Flanders) and the Queen of the Classics, Paris-Roubaix. Last year’s edition of the Hell of the North was a true fairytale story, with the King of Belgium Tom Boonen going for… …