Paris - Roubaix 2021 (03.10)

[Skijumper Roglic fan]

The one rider that everyone could recognize was Demare, the French NC at the time, so nothing happened...

Ok, thanks... Makes sense...

 

[yaco]

Doubt wet conditions are ideal for this year's edition when you consider the women are riding the course on Saturday - It could make for a sloppy Sunday.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Unless sectors are under water, there's no reason to cancel them. With equipment nowadays, muddy sectors shouldn't be too much of a problem. Stick on suitable tyres....It'd be pretty poor to pull sectors because they're muddy.

This message is approved by Wout van Aert.

 

[sir fly]

The classic, Ronde - PR, succession would've been a better predictor for the Sunday than the Worlds road race is.
Partly 'cause of the teams' compositions and partly due to the racing itself.
The fittest prevailed in Leuven and, although being the ultimate endurance test, PR is inseparable from luck.

 

[search]

Remco is riding for Almeida in Emilia.

on Saturday. That surely shouldn't be an issue for him?!

 

[Leinster]

If he's not badly injured, surely the last rider would want to finish. They won't close the doors to the velodrome, before someone has actually crossed the line, right?

Who was the Russian/Kazakh/something else I can’t remember rider a couple years ago who got to Roubaix to find the velodrome had actually been closed, and had to find someone to unlock it so he could go around.

He finished top 10 the following year.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Who was the Russian/Kazakh/something else I can’t remember rider a couple years ago who got to Roubaix to find the velodrome had actually been closed, and had to find someone to unlock it so he could go around.

He finished top 10 the following year.

That would be Delko's Evaldas Siskevicius, from Lithuania.

His top-10 was actually in the most recent edition!

 

[Leinster]

That would be Delko's Evaldas Siskevicius, from Lithuania.

His top-10 was actually in the most recent edition!

I keep having to remind myself that Philippe Gilbert is the reigning Roubaix champion. It feels like forever ago.

 

[RedheadDane]

I keep having to remind myself that Philippe Gilbert is the reigning Roubaix champion. It feels like forever ago.

It was forever ago.

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

Had no idea that Imanol Erviti has ridden every edition since 2005. This year will be his 16th Paris-Roubaix. 2 DNFs.
On the startlist are also Haussler and Sieberg, they have raced it 13 times, Lemoine and Langeveld 12 and Terpstra 11.
Raymond Impanis, Servais Knaven and Matthew Hayman hold the record. They did the race 16 times and completed all of them. According to Wikipedia at least.

 

[Pantani_lives]

What if nobody makes it to the finish? Will the winner then be the last rider to climb off? A Last Man Standing situation?

And I know, not gonna happen.

My guess is that Fumiyuki Beppu would get back on his bike, reach the finish on Monday morning and become the first Japanese winner of Paris-Roubaix.

 

[sir fly]

Had no idea that Imanol Erviti has ridden every edition since 2005. This year will be his 16th Paris-Roubaix. 2 DNFs.
On the startlist are also Haussler and Sieberg, they have raced it 13 times, Lemoine and Langeveld 12 and Terpstra 11.
Raymond Impanis, Servais Knaven and Matthew Hayman hold the record. They did the race 16 times and completed all of them. According to Wikipedia at least.

Who are the debutants?

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

Who are the debutants?

When, this year? Too many to list. There's Gleb Brussenskiy. There's Laurenz Rex. Tim Merlier even.

 

[RedheadDane]

Who are the debutants?

Debutants Paris-Roubaix 2021 (procyclingstats.com)

Interesting that both the youngest, and the oldest, debutant is a rider from the US, riding on Trek-Segafredo.

 

[sir fly]

Debutants Paris-Roubaix 2021 (procyclingstats.com)

Interesting that both the youngest, and the oldest, debutant is a rider from the US, riding on Trek-Segafredo.

Kwiatkowski, Colbrelli, Valgren... would never assume.

 

[Anderis]

Debutants Paris-Roubaix 2021 (procyclingstats.com)

1. Van der Poel
2. Colbrelli
3. Valgren
4. Simmons
5. Stewart
6. Campenaerts
7. Kwiatkowski
8. G. Vermeersch
9. Van Gestel
10. Rutsch

I've made a semi- realistic top10 out of debutants only.

 

[Volderke]

If you watched the series on Belgian television about Yves Lampaert (Lampi), called "the road to Roubaix", you cannot do anything else than hope he wins this.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIGGVXysjeKPWNIEtuK-PjGXS3FBYR-uc

 

[Sciatic]

I keep having to remind myself that Philippe Gilbert is the reigning Roubaix champion. It feels like forever ago.

2 1/2 years is forever!

 

[Carrick-On-Seine]

If you watched the series on Belgian television about Yves Lampaert (Lampi), called "the road to Roubaix", you cannot do anything else than hope he wins this.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIGGVXysjeKPWNIEtuK-PjGXS3FBYR-uc

Yeah that would be emotional but Stybar is 35 and running our of chances so this year Stybar and next year Lampaert

 

[RedheadDane]

Yeah that would be emotional but Stybar is 35 and running our of chances so this year Stybar and next year Lampaert

Hayman was 37 when he won, so Stybar has a few more years.

 

[Leinster]

2 1/2 years is forever!

Only 4 riders have had longer reigns as Roubaix champion; Octave Lapize and Moser both won 3 in a row, and Charles Crupelandt and Emile Masson, who won before the 2 World Wars.

 

[Leinster]

Hayman was 37 when he won, so Stybar has a few more years.

Duclos was 37 when he won THE FIRST TIME.

 

[SHAD0W93]

Honestly Kristoff could be underrated. Rides well in bad weather and keeps his sprint after a long day.

 

[Pantani_lives]

Van Aert, Stybar
Politt, Lampaert
Van der Poel, Vanmarcke, Sénéchal
Van Baarle, Stuyven, Küng, Asgreen
Campenaerts, Colbrelli, Pedersen, Sagan, Gilbert, Van Avermaet, Declercq

DQSt has a guy in the back of each group. It might be like that on Sunday too.

 

[Red Rick]

Honestly Kristoff could be underrated. Rides well in bad weather and keeps his sprint after a long day.

Kristoff somehow never makes the first two groups though.