Paris Roubaix

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How come tweeterman Lance,Contador,Cadel,Shlecks,Farrar,Levi Cavendish, Wiggens etc. do not ride Roubaix,Leige,Amstel other classics.

Back in the day all the top contenders rode GTs and classics. Not the other ones like Nevada City and Leadville.

 

[Tugboat]

Because they're all too soft and need to HTFU.

 

[maltiv]

How come tweeterman Lance,Contador,Cadel,Shlecks,Farrar,Levi Cavendish, Wiggens etc. do not ride Roubaix,Leige,Amstel other classics.

Back in the day all the top contenders rode GTs and classics. Not the other ones like Nevada City and Leadville.

Do you watch cycling at all?

 

[US Patent Exploding Cyclist]

How come tweeterman Lance,Contador,Cadel,Shlecks,Farrar,Levi Cavendish, Wiggens etc. do not ride Roubaix,Leige,Amstel other classics.

Back in the day all the top contenders rode GTs and classics. Not the other ones like Nevada City and Leadville.

Andy won LBL this past year and the talk this offseason has been to get Frank a Classics win in 2010.

 

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if the schlecks can ride leige/amstel why can not other gt contenders like contador etc. I mean coppi did it lemond sort of MOSER MERCKX and of course kelly andthe badge . I guess those other guysguys are to wimpy or its messing up their blood bagging and epoing. Not to mention tweeterman on his second go round.

 

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Will Frank be 100 percent after his surgery?

 

[Wallace]

Do you watch cycling at all?

+1

Aside from the Schlecks, who rule the Ardennes, Cadel races Amstel and has finished in the top 10 at LBL, his Lanceness hasn't raced the classics since his return, (other than a completely lame ride at last year's MSR), but do you really not remember/know his long history of attempts at Amstel and LBL, and a year when Boogerd rode Lance's wheel to his only classics win?

And Contador says he wants to ride LBL, and will, some year.

 

[US Patent Exploding Cyclist]

Will Frank be 100 percent after his surgery?

Someone posted an interview with the Shlecks the other week and he said he was feeling good.

 

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Lance in the classics is that like 200 years BC. I would like to see him mix it up now with the top fuelers. About Frank I saw the interview yes but it was serious injury.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Cadel and Schleck ride the classics.

If this thread is called "Paris Roubaix" then why don't we talk about who is going to win PR.

my pick is it will finally be hincapie's year. i hope flecha isn't in the main fav's groups as he completely wrecked the race for what was looking to be a very exciting race.

 

[zapata]

How come tweeterman Lance,Contador,Cadel,Shlecks,Farrar,Levi Cavendish, Wiggens etc. do not ride Roubaix,Leige,Amstel other classics.

Back in the day all the top contenders rode GTs and classics. Not the other ones like Nevada City and Leadville.

Farrar might do well in roubaix, next year, I think. Would very much like to see contador in the ardennes classics, but it seems it's just not a priority to him.

 

[maltiv]

How come tweeterman Lance,Contador,Cadel,Shlecks,Farrar,Levi Cavendish, Wiggens etc. do not ride Roubaix,Leige,Amstel other classics.

Back in the day all the top contenders rode GTs and classics. Not the other ones like Nevada City and Leadville.

To answer your question seriously:

- Lance doesn't race them anymore, but has raced most of them in the past.

- Contador focuses on dominating grand tours.

- Cadel does the hilly classics, and usually ends up in top 10.

- The Schleck brothers dominates the Ardennes classics

- Bradley Wiggins rode Roubaix this year, finished 25th

- Cavendish rides most of the spring classics that have potential to end up in a mass sprint.

So your question is just...wrong. If your question was "how come they don't focus more on the classics?" it would make a little more sense, though.

 

[zapata]

i hope flecha isn't in the main fav's groups as he completely wrecked the race for what was looking to be a very exciting race.

Flecha crashed, that happens in paris roubaix, and you will often take one or two people with you. (Hoste wouldn't have won it anyway.) Hushovd crashed entirely of his own accord. Boonen crashed once or twice himself, I think. Flecha will most likely be in the final group once again next year, and I hope he wins it. Him or boasson hagen.

 

[RDV4ROUBAIX]

If this thread is called "Paris Roubaix" then why don't we talk about who is going to win PR.

Nail-hitting-head! Thank you!

Heinrich Haussler is going to prevent Boonen from the equalizer this year.

 

[Feldy82]

Cadel and Schleck ride the classics.

If this thread is called "Paris Roubaix" then why don't we talk about who is going to win PR.

my pick is it will finally be hincapie's year. i hope flecha isn't in the main fav's groups as he completely wrecked the race for what was looking to be a very exciting race.

I hope BMC has a good showing. George or Ballan, It doesn't matter.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Flecha crashed, that happens in paris roubaix, and you will often take one or two people with you. (Hoste wouldn't have won it anyway.) Hushovd crashed entirely of his own accord. Boonen crashed once or twice himself, I think. Flecha will most likely be in the final group once again next year, and I hope he wins it. Him or boasson hagen.

That's not the point, the race was about to hit its climax and then Flecha crashes and wrecks the race. Even if Hoste wasn't going to win, he still would of animated and shaped the race.

 

[US Patent Exploding Cyclist]

To answer your question seriously:

- Lance doesn't race them anymore, but has raced most of them in the past.

- Contador focuses on dominating grand tours.

- Cadel does the hilly classics, and usually ends up in top 10.

- The Schleck brothers dominates the Ardennes classics

- Bradley Wiggins rode Roubaix this year, finished 25th

- Cavendish rides most of the spring classics that have potential to end up in a mass sprint.

So your question is just...wrong. If your question was "how come they don't focus more on the classics?" it would make a little more sense, though.

Just plain scary

 

[zapata]

I would have like to see it play out too, but you can't blame a guy for crashing. I'm sure he didn't to it on purpose.

 

[US Patent Exploding Cyclist]

To answer your question seriously:

- Lance doesn't race them anymore, but has raced most of them in the past.

- Contador focuses on dominating grand tours.

- Cadel does the hilly classics, and usually ends up in top 10.

- The Schleck brothers dominates the Ardennes classics

- Bradley Wiggins rode Roubaix this year, finished 25th

- Cavendish rides most of the spring classics that have potential to end up in a mass sprint.

So your question is just...wrong. If your question was "how come they don't focus more on the classics?" it would make a little more sense, though.

Posted before but yikes!

 

[RDV4ROUBAIX]

Could go back to the Italians who are always super motivated for Roubaix. Pozzato 2nd last time.

 

[RDV4ROUBAIX]

I'm always pulling for Leif though, he's one of the good 'ole boyz!

 

[franciep10]

boonen will win roubaix once again although I hope EBH can challenge him

 

[Anonymous]

Hushovd has had several months to boil over making his mistake on the Carrefour d'Labre. I'm thinking he and Haussler make a very good one-two punch.

Hushovd wins in a three-up sprint. No way does Boonen threepeat.

 

[auscyclefan94]

I would have like to see it play out too, but you can't blame a guy for crashing. I'm sure he didn't to it on purpose.

true, i was just annoyed as it was setting up to being an exciting finsh.

 

[Boeing]

And Peyton Manning should go snowboarding before the playoffs over Christmas vacation