The Pro Road Cycling Thread

Shands said:
Certainly should, although I'm not sure how much I'm going to get to see of it, I'm going to need Sky+ to step up to the plate next week! Book-ended by Flanders and Roubaix too, a cracking week lies ahead.

Glad to see Andy Schleck showing a little bit of form and fight at Crit Int too, maybe just maybe he might make the Tour in good shape after all.... Cadel Evans on the other hand looks to have peaked for Oman!!
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Not sure if this will work mate, but this guy posts all the races on youtube

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/RandomSportVideos?feature=g-high-u" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.youtube.com/user/RandomSport ... e=g-high-u</a>

It was sad to see Cadel look so bad, as he comes across as a really likeable fella but teejay should be leader of BMC now even though i find him a little arrogant.

Looks like Porte is leading Sky in the Basque country and was thinking if Sky do well at the Giro and the Tour they may be looking at giving hi leadership at the Vuelta
 
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Its been some time since any Irish man won a major tour but well done to Daniel Martin on winning the Volta a Catalunya just gone. At the moment we have 2 very decent riders in Martin and Nicolas Roche and I just think in the major tours both will be competing for stage wins hopefully this year in the major tours.
 
leighton said:
Its been some time since any Irish man won a major tour but well done to Daniel Martin on winning the Volta a Catalunya just gone. At the moment we have 2 very decent riders in Martin and Nicolas Roche and I just think in the major tours both will be competing for stage wins hopefully this year in the major tours.
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Roche, at the stage he’s at now in his career, will probably be best served settling for being a very useful domestique in Grand Tours, and possibly a stage hunter if and when he’s given license to do so. Perhaps this move to Saxo will enable him to find an extra gear, but I’m not sure it will; he gives the impression of being a whole hearted rider who has already shown as much as he has to call on, and there are now more talented young guys emerging who will make any GC aspirations he has difficult.

Dan Martin though should be aiming higher than that. He’s not really shown in Grand Tours as of yet, and there’s plenty of competition for leadership at Garmin between him, Talansky and Ryder, but he appears to have the tools that would allow him to push for a top 5 spot on GC. It’s just that great unknown, can he convert what he does over one week, into a sustained effort for three.
 
I'm really looking forward to my favourite race of the year Paris - Roubaix 'The Hell of the North'.
The weather could have a major impact as usual, any heavy rain between now and April 7th could make the cobbled sections a nightmare given the winter we have had.

For anyone who is new to this race it was best summed up by the Dutch rider Theo de Rooij back in 1985.

“It's a bollocks, this race!” said de Rooij. “You're working like an animal, you don't have time to piss, you wet your pants. You're riding in mud like this, you're slipping ... it’s a pile of shit.”

When then asked if he would start the race again, de Rooij replied:

“Sure, it's the most beautiful race in the world!”
 
tornandfrayed said:
I'm really looking forward to my favourite race of the year Paris - Roubaix 'The Hell of the North'.
The weather could have a major impact as usual, any heavy rain between now and April 7th could make the cobbled sections a nightmare given the winter we have had.

For anyone who is new to this race it was best summed up by the Dutch rider Theo de Rooij back in 1985.

“It's a bollocks, this race!” said de Rooij. “You're working like an animal, you don't have time to piss, you wet your pants. You're riding in mud like this, you're slipping ... it’s a pile of shit.”

When then asked if he would start the race again, de Rooij replied:

“Sure, it's the most beautiful race in the world!”
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I'm very much looking forward to it too. In preperation I did my own cobbled classic yesterday; it must have been at least a good 50 yards of cobbles I tackled, all the time battling through extremely light snow drops - beat that stannard!
 
tornandfrayed said:
I'm really looking forward to my favourite race of the year Paris - Roubaix 'The Hell of the North'.
The weather could have a major impact as usual, any heavy rain between now and April 7th could make the cobbled sections a nightmare given the winter we have had.

For anyone who is new to this race it was best summed up by the Dutch rider Theo de Rooij back in 1985.

“It's a bollocks, this race!” said de Rooij. “You're working like an animal, you don't have time to piss, you wet your pants. You're riding in mud like this, you're slipping ... it’s a pile of shit.”

When then asked if he would start the race again, de Rooij replied:

“Sure, it's the most beautiful race in the world!”
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I have never watched one live before but will be making a point of watching this years.

Edvald Boasson Hagen, Bernhard Eisel, Mathew Hayman, Salvatore Puccio, Gabriel Rasch, Luke Rowe, Ian Stannard, Chris Sutton, Ben Swift, Geraint Thomas is Skys team.

But having watched Sagan of late if he races surely he will be favorite.
 
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