The following video is from Road to Roubaix. Simply beautiful. You must watch this before the race:
Honestly, there’s nothing I can say about Sunday’s Paris-Roubaix that hasn’t already been written. So here’s a smattering of coverage from across the interwebs to set you up for the big show.
- Cycling News presents it’s top contenders.
- Tom Boonen believes there will be an early selection rather than late heroics
- Fabian Cancellara weighs in on his favorites and believes the Forest of Arenberg will again be a key moment.
- World’s fastest sprinter, Mark Cavendish, feels like a little kid before his first Paris-Roubaix.
- Velonews covers each cobbled section with rankings.
- Come to find out, Taylor Phinney will not make his P-R debut because of nagging injuries.
- Daily Peloton shares it’s P-R preview.
- Included in Euro Peloton’s Roubaix preview is one of his favorite parts of the race: watching the mountain goats from Euskatel Euskadi get shelled and dropped off the back in the first 50k.
- Pez Cycling News gets you up close and personal with the Pave.
- Red Kite Prayer reminds us Flanders proved that the actual winner may not be a pre-race favorite.
- Velominati invites you to participate in the V Super Prestige and pick your own top five. Join the party.
Here are my top five:
- Spartacus
- Tommeke
- Hincapie
- Hushovd
- Flecha
Going with the favorites but hoping I’m wrong and Big George finally gets his cobblestone.
Who’s in your Top Five? Please leave a comment and let us know.
Ride on…
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I had my own mini Paris-Roubaix today: 3 hours out on the frost-heaved, winter trashed roads of NH. Awesome! Certainly not pave, but boy are the roads bad after this brutal winter. Got the DVR set for Paris-Roubaix, can’t wait!
Awesome!! Way to get out there – I bet it felt pretty epic. Guessing you were one of the few hardcore riders out today? Anyone else rolling around?
Today was a beautiful 60 degree spring day, so every rider should have been out there! I saw a few riders out on the road, but I’m riding very rural back roads, so I don’t see much. I road solo as all the guys in the riding group I’m trying to form blew me off. I think when I posted the 3 hour ride, it might have been too much for most of them this early in the season.
Great early season miles. Way to get ‘em in! We didn’t break 60deg out here Saturday. Sounds like things are warming up.