Most Popular Race Threads

[Polish]

Sunday's Paris-Roubaix was the most "popular" CN Race Thread EVER with over 2000 posts and counting in the thread. Just FYI. CN, the place to discuss race day for sure. Anyway, here are the other race threads that have topped 1000 posts in the CN forum...

Can anyone name all 14 winners without looking them up?

1) 109th Paris-Roubaix. The Hell of the North...The Hitch...2001+posts
2) 95th Ronde van Vlaandere..luckyboy...1927 posts
3) TdFStage 8: Station des Rousses-Morzine-Avoriaz..The Hitch..1388 posts
4) TdFStage 17: Pau - Col du Tourmalet...The Hitch...1331 posts
5) Milan - San Remo 2011 298km...Tornadin...1288 posts
6) TdFStage 3 Wanze - Arenberg Porte du Hainaut..bobs ***..1272 posts
7) TDFStage 16 Bagnères-de-Luchon - Pau..The Hitch..1207 posts
8) 2010 Vuelta al Pais Vasco..craig1985..1108 posts
9) TDFStage 9 - Tuesday, July 13 2010, Morzine-Avoriaz - Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, The Hitch...1107 posts
10) Omloop Het (Volk) Nieuwsblad - Feb 26th 2011 Timmy-loves-Rabo 1050 posts
11) Giro d'Italia Stage 11: Lucera - L'Aquila...Moondance...1042 posts
12) Geelong 2010: Elite Men's Road Race...Ferminal...1029 posts
13) Giro d'Italia Stage 15: Mestre - Monte Zoncolan Moondance..1008 posts
14) TDF Stage 14, Revel - Ax-3 Domaines, The Hitch..1007 posts

 

[Christian]

Wow only a few more posts and P-R will overtake the General News Thread. Of course General News will catch up again in time.

This year's three monuments are in the Top 5, I think this is a sign that we will see a general increase in race threads in the future. At the same time they were all pretty good, so maybe a boring LBL will not gather that many posts.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

1) Vansummeren
2) Nuyens
3) Andy Schleck
4) Andy Schleck
5) Goss
6) Thor Hushovd?
7) pass
8) Chris Horner
9) ouch, pass
10) Sebastian Langeveld
11) damn, pass again
12) Thor Hushovd
13) Ivan Basso
14) Christophe Riblon

 

[Archibald]

11) damn, pass again

Nibali? the one with scarponi and evans chasing while basso just sat on them?

 

[Barrus]

Nibali? the one with scarponi and evans chasing while basso just sat on them?

Nope, the gigantic escape which meant that basso, scarponi, evans, vino and nibali and the like needed to chase themselves, winner was Petrov. Also I think the Pais Vasco thread needs to be disqualified, seeing as this was for multiple stages and was replaced this year with different threads for each stage

 

[Archibald]

Nope, the gigantic escape which meant that basso, scarponi, evans, vino and nibali and the like needed to chase themselves, winner was Petrov. Also I think the Pais Vasco thread needs to be disqualified, seeing as this was for multiple stages and was replaced this year with different threads for each stage

thought that was earlier than stage 11 - oops!

 

[Cobblestoned]

Well, actually half of P-R posts should say the same.

I would think:

50xBoonen puncture
80xBoonen crash
70xCancellara attack
another 75xCancellara attack
100xjust crash by ***
100xI don't know anything about cycling tactics, but anyway Thor is a sucking sucker who sucks
250xjust annoying and disgusting pistolero crap
200xDT discussing something he saw totally different

rest good posts and analysis

PS: You think it is a good idea to read that Morzine-thread ?
I can imagine it is total nightmare and like a ghost train, stuffed with disgusting and ridiculous posts, much malicious joy and satisfaction. I can imagine that party got on for some days.
Should I have a look ?

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Nope, the gigantic escape which meant that basso, scarponi, evans, vino and nibali and the like needed to chase themselves, winner was Petrov. Also I think the Pais Vasco thread needs to be disqualified, seeing as this was for multiple stages and was replaced this year with different threads for each stage

yeah i knew about the escape, just had no clue who actually won the stage... never would have thought petrov...

I always forget breakaway stage-winners... except if they are really memorable.. like Riblon, Voeckler multiple times, Boom in the Vuelta 09, etc

 

[Barrus]

yeah i knew about the escape, just had no clue who actually won the stage... never would have thought petrov...

I always forget breakaway stage-winners... except if they are really memorable.. like Riblon, Voeckler multiple times, Boom in the Vuelta 09, etc

I agree, I had to look the winner up myself too

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Oh well, we're still nowhere near as clueless as most tv-commentators are, except the Sporza guys, they know their ****.

 

[Anonymous]

I think paris roubaix was high because a) it was started pretty early but also there was just one thread as opposed to a pre race discussion and a race thread.

Personally I would have preffered a pre race thread, and then on race day a race thread. It got a bit much to dig through.

 

[The Hitch]

The irony is that even though half the race threads were started by yours truly, Paris roubaix has been the race thread i have participated in least out of all the big race threads since i joined.

I was barely there, and announced that before hand. Its possible that was the reason for the threads popularity.

I think paris roubaix was high because a) it was started pretty early but also there was just one thread as opposed to a pre race discussion and a race thread.

Personally I would have preffered a pre race thread, and then on race day a race thread. It got a bit much to dig through.

RVV thread was started around the same number of days before the the race as the PR thread.

 

[Parrulo]

Sunday's Paris-Roubaix was the most "popular" CN Race Thread EVER with over 2000 posts and counting in the thread. Just FYI. CN, the place to discuss race day for sure. Anyway, here are the other race threads that have topped 1000 posts in the CN forum...

Can anyone name all 14 winners without looking them up?

1) 109th Paris-Roubaix. The Hell of the North...The Hitch...2001+posts
2) 95th Ronde van Vlaandere..luckyboy...1927 posts
3) TdFStage 8: Station des Rousses-Morzine-Avoriaz..The Hitch..1388 posts
4) TdFStage 17: Pau - Col du Tourmalet...The Hitch...1331 posts
5) Milan - San Remo 2011 298km...Tornadin...1288 posts
6) TdFStage 3 Wanze - Arenberg Porte du Hainaut..bobs ***..1272 posts
7) TDFStage 16 Bagnères-de-Luchon - Pau..The Hitch..1207 posts
8) 2010 Vuelta al Pais Vasco..craig1985..1108 posts
9) TDFStage 9 - Tuesday, July 13 2010, Morzine-Avoriaz - Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, The Hitch...1107 posts
10) Omloop Het (Volk) Nieuwsblad - Feb 26th 2011 Timmy-loves-Rabo 1050 posts
11) Giro d'Italia Stage 11: Lucera - L'Aquila...Moondance...1042 posts
12) Geelong 2010: Elite Men's Road Race...Ferminal...1029 posts
13) Giro d'Italia Stage 15: Mestre - Monte Zoncolan Moondance..1008 posts
14) TDF Stage 14, Revel - Ax-3 Domaines, The Hitch..1007 posts

1) JVS
2) nuyens
3) andy
4)andy
5)goss
6)thor
7) don't remember
8)horner
9) casar (it was chain gate stage right?)
10) langevelde
11) petrov
12) thor
13) basso
14) don't remember

i have a feeling that the wins i don't remember are the french ones

p.s. now i have read the thread. i remember petrov because iirc one of the portuguese eurosport guys said something like " and here goes pozzato for the first italian win of this giro!!!! oh wait its petrov!!!!"

i thought it was lulzy

 

[Havetts]

1 - JvSummeren
2 - Nuyens
3 - A Schleck
4 - A Schleck
5 - Goss
6 - Hushovd
7 - Voeckler (Second guess is that stage that Fedrigo won?)
8 - Horner
9 - Sandy Casar
10 - Langeveld
11 - Scarponi
12 - Evans
13 - Basso
14 - Riblon


All from the top of my head without looking at other posts..

 

[jobiwan]

1) Van Summeren
2) Nuyens
3) A. Schleck
4) A. Schleck
5) Goss
6) Hushovd
7) Fedrigo
8) Horner
9) Casar
10) Sutton/Langeveld...forgot who won which
11) Ivanov
12) Hushovd
13) Basso
14) Riblon

Lot of good races among these threads.

 

[Ferminal]

Views is a better metric than posts.

This year's P-R and RvV are much closer (but still 1 and 2) to the others if you look at views.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

I'm honoured to make the top 10 (only one of two threads ive made)
My creativity in the thread is unquestionable.

I assume these records will continue to be broken.

PR may stand tall untill the tour tho. I say we aim for an epic giro thread tho.

 

[sublimit]

Oh well, we're still nowhere near as clueless as most tv-commentators are, except the Sporza guys, they know their ****.

I'm not exactly proud of what I said on the P-R thread,.. Seemed to get everything wrong but there you go -probably why I'm not a race director or DS.> I still think Thor was too passive but I've probably missed the point on that one.

If I knew what the Sporza commentators were on about it would be good but they cant be worse than Ligget or Carlton Kirby. Harmon was mixing Hayman and Stannard up but he didn't do that bad a job for Eurosport.