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ak-zaaf said:Flanders, Roubaix is just dessert
TRDean said:I like this answer...and it pretty well sums up my feelings too. Both are HUGE and outstanding for the fans!!
ak-zaaf said:I don't want to take anything from Roubaix, but the night before Flanders I feel like a kid who has his birthday coming up
auscyclefan94 said:i've only watched flanders live once before (because i never new about live feeds) but I found it a much more entertaining harder race. The uphill cobbled climbs entertain me more that just flat cobbled sections. Boonen just seems to ride them so easily and it feels like it's not a contest.
i have that feeling whenever evans races!
maikel said:Are the protour races not live on the telly @ Australia? Thank god that we in the Netherlands have belgium channels
auscyclefan94 said:if you have pay tv you get some.
Aus free to air tv gets live this year:
-3 stages of TDU
- Paris Roubaix
-Tour of California (probably because of lance)
-Tour de France
-World championships (which i will be at anyway)
We also get:
Evening 1/2 hour highlights of the giro
15 minute morning highlights of la vuelta
A month later we get some highlights of some european races
To top it all off to watch any big race in aus you usually have to stay up till 2am. It's hard work to be an australian cycling fan.
auscyclefan94 said:i've only watched flanders live once before (because i never new about live feeds) but I found it a much more entertaining harder race. The uphill cobbled climbs entertain me more that just flat cobbled sections. Boonen just seems to ride them so easily and it feels like it's not a contest.
auscyclefan94 said:i've only watched flanders live once before (because i never new about live feeds) but I found it a much more entertaining harder race. The uphill cobbled climbs entertain me more that just flat cobbled sections. Boonen just seems to ride them so easily and it feels like it's not a contest.
i have that feeling whenever evans races!
auscyclefan94 said:if you have pay tv you get some.
Aus free to air tv gets live this year:
-3 stages of TDU
- Paris Roubaix
-Tour of California (probably because of lance)
-Tour de France
-World championships (which i will be at anyway)
We also get:
Evening 1/2 hour highlights of the giro
15 minute morning highlights of la vuelta
A month later we get some highlights of some european races
To top it all off to watch any big race in aus you usually have to stay up till 2am. It's hard work to be an australian cycling fan.
Echoes said:But the flat cobbled sections are just what make the race so hard, ACF !
I'm a Belgian with Flemish roots and still I think Paris Roubaix is the hardest, the most dramatic, the most prestigious and the most entertaining one.
If you compare the two, you can notice that Flanders has climbs, with percentage, and not Roubaix but Flanders, which is as such a demanding race, also has many descent sections, in which you can recover, freewheeling. Paris-Roubaix being completely flat, has no descent between the cobbled sections - mostly in the last part of the race, which is really EXTREMELY hard -, which means that between those sections you still have to push.
ImmaculateKadence said:I keep wanting to say Roubaix, but then I think about RvVs past and the Koppenberg....can't compare.
il_fiammingo said:In your logic mountain stages should be the easiest then: long descents where you don't have to push.