2018 Paris - Roubaix

[Velolover2]

This is a pure elimination race.

 

[silvergrenade]

Chaotic race...Crashes, punctures. Everything!

 

[MartinGT]

Cort Nielsen DNF

 

[Finn84]

Geraint Thomas DNF

 

[MuskyOurSaviour]

Imagine having Thomas lead a Grand Tour. Every day would be heart attack praying he doesnt crash

 

[rick james]

Re:

Geraint Thomas DNF

crashed on the first cobbled sector, he must have asked himself what the hell he was doing here

 

[Strawberry_Jams]

Re:

Geraint Thomas DNF

I don't understand how Geraint came 7th in 2014. The impossibility!

 

[silvergrenade]

Re: Re:

Geraint Thomas DNF

I don't understand how Geraint came 7th in 2014. The impossibility!

What impossibility?
He's a talented rider...ASAT.

 

[Gigs_98]

Demare still not back. Where are his teammates?

 

[Bot. Sky_Bot]

Re: Re:

Geraint Thomas DNF

crashed on the first cobbled sector, he must have asked himself what the hell he was doing here

Sky really dissapointing on the coobles this season.

 

[rick james]

Quick step Bots

 

[mosh1992]

Re: Re:

Geraint Thomas DNF

I don't understand how Geraint came 7th in 2014. The impossibility!

What impossibility?
He's a talented rider...ASAT.

Its just..He crashes so much...so much

 

[Netserk]

I woke up excited to see rain outside the window 90 minutes ago in Champhin-en-Pevele. It's already drying up though, and it is cloudy still but sun is forecast for the rest of the day, so it doesn't look like the wet will play a factor.

Hi, skids. Lovely weather, as a spectator. Where will you stand?

I am not sure yet - the juniors pass in 45 minutes, I will try watching at the turn on sector 5, and will see how that works. It is a puzzle to balance being in a place that something may happen to being close to a TV to see what does happen in the end.

I just rode sector 5 and 4... cobbles are dry, except for a small section at the end of Carrefour that is shaded by trees, but it is only about 30m long and the sun will be in a position to dry it by the time the race passes, I think. Sector 5 (Champhin) is very wet and muddy in the gutters in the first and last part and that won't dry, that is the only part I could see being quite iffy during the race (the gutters on Carrefour are narrow and mud packed). The middle part of sector 5 is so muddy and packed in between the cobbles that it didn't even feel like being on cobbled roads, so that is a bit disappointing, but the start of Champhin is muddy and difficult. All in all those sectors look like they should be mostly 'normal'.

Thanks a lot for the report!

 

[Strawberry_Jams]

Re: Re:

Geraint Thomas DNF

I don't understand how Geraint came 7th in 2014. The impossibility!

What impossibility?
He's a talented rider...ASAT.

I didn't say he wasn't?! There is just too many variables. Crashes, punchers, being unlucky.

 

[Akuryo]

QS train ...

 

[silvergrenade]

Demare still not back. Where are his teammates?

I think he latched onto the Sky train of Doull, Moscon and then got dropped somehow.

 

[MuskyOurSaviour]

Re: Re:

Geraint Thomas DNF

I don't understand how Geraint came 7th in 2014. The impossibility!

What impossibility?
He's a talented rider...ASAT.

I think it's more to do with the fact there is barely a race that he doesn't crash in

 

[silvergrenade]

Re: Re:

Geraint Thomas DNF

I don't understand how Geraint came 7th in 2014. The impossibility!

What impossibility?
He's a talented rider...ASAT.

I think it's more to do with the fact there is barely a race that he doesn't crash in

True that...

 

[Flamin]

Stybar flat. Team mates did not get the message yet..

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Canyon ad featuring Kittel angry because his Canyon bike has failed him.

 

[DNP-Old]

Goolaerts is fighting for his life after a heart attack. He was the Crelan rider laying on his back.

 

[Max Rockatansky]

Re: Re:

What happened, one Movi rider flat on the back?

Thought it was anwillians guy?

Crelan Michale Goolaerts

French TV saying that a defibrillator was used on Goolaerts and he had to be intubated. Still waiting on news from the team.

Seems very serious.

 

[silvergrenade]

Shouldnt QS be slowing down?

 

[Bot. Sky_Bot]

Moscon

 

[Gigs_98]

Re:

Goolaerts is fighting for his life after a heart attack. He was the Crelan rider laying on his back.

Oh my god