Tom Boonen took Paris-Roubaix this morning in a three up sprint, with Fabian Cancellara Alessandro Ballan rounding out the rest of the podium spots. Boom Boom is the man.
Perennial American hopefully Gorgeous George Hincapie had another top ten finish, taking the group sprint for ninth nearly six minutes back.
You can read all about it at cyclingnews.com and velonews.com.
North American “fuck you fans” tape delay now calibrated at 300 hours. Yes, I’ll get to actually see this one play out two weeks from today on April 20th. (update: Yes, it is only one week. Thanks for pointing that one out.)
I’ve simply got to invest in cycling.tv in the future. This is killing me.
April 13th, 2008 at 11:14 am
Still, it’s better than years ago when you’d have to wait even longer for the results in Velonews.
April 13th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Through the magic of the interweb i was able to watch Danish TV full live broadcast as a stream using link from here
http://www3.myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=9897&part=sports
even the Eurosport coverage in the UK was editted and on a delay
April 13th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Thanks for letting us know Steve, you fucker!
April 13th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
cycling.tv came through again with awesome live coverage… after waiting to login for 15 minutes. Nothing like having 4 guys sitting around at 4:30am PST staring at a white screen in anticipation but thankfully worth it in the end!
April 13th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Fuck versus, and fuck cycling.tv. i have tried to watch the 2006 and 2007 giro as well as the 2006 vuelta and none worked worth a shit. too much traffic they said.
April 13th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
I’ve resigned myself to the crappy text scroll from Velonews or Cyclingnews. I’m too cheap to spend cash on Cycling.TV or cable tv.
I hope something like they had for the Tour of California happens with other races. That was awesome live and free video coverage thanks to Adobe!!
April 13th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Unfortunately cycling has done such a great job of marginalizing itself that the ROI for better coverage isn’t likely to be there for the foreseeable future.
April 13th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
alt.binaries.multimedia.sports
all you base belong to us
you’re welcome beeches
April 13th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
what does that even mean?
April 13th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us
Wikipedia is your friend.
April 13th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
interent noobs don’t know about newsgroups.
I had my dvr set to record, I didn’t fucking noticed the airing was weeks away. There was no way I could make it through my daily net blogs without finding out so I broke down and read the results this morning.
On the other hand, I did see this year’s Little 500 on HDNet yesteday. Well, at least the first 150 of 200 laps.
April 13th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
I stopped into a new bike/coffe shop that had cycling.tv playing. Saw Cadel, Stijn, Fabian, and Tornado Tom go at it. Delivered a season-best ride afterwards from all the adrenelin. Cycling.tv just got another viewer.
Vs.–I love you. Two weeks ago.
April 13th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
sucks totally, but i did look at it at cyclingnews.com, man Boonen
shot the the of the track and droped down. thats the ticket!!
I watched the text reports, and was on the edge of me fuckin seat.
dudes, the ITA dude has a driveway made of cobbles from that area
thats pure. fuck!!!! hincapie caught in a tangle. dude hang in you
will get a classic :) i have faith in you man.
outie!
Joe toe clips.
April 13th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Last time I checked, April 20th is this next Sunday … i.e. ONE week from today; not two.
Still sucks that it wasn’t on Vs. though.
I watched it for free on cycling.tv this morning … dunno how I got past the subscription requirement, but there it was.
April 13th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
fla it was free man, dude i forgot the link. i know it was a free
steam. whats with the USA not air’n our sport? come on people.
April 13th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
I got a free stream this am…good shit O’grady is the shit.Hincapie should hang it up on Roubaix, can’t get a break. and FYI there weren’t no Cadel in Roubaix buddeh…
Big Johnny, Gotta bring back the Tom Poonen pic….classic.
April 13th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
we need more flat races in the big-time for the big men, and pave is the fucking best!
There is nothing like the big men going full throttle on the flat. It’s fucking smash-mouth.
April 13th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Like it’s been already said, it’s a week away. Not two.
And cycling.tv sucks. It’s possibly the slowest site on the ‘ole intertubes.
Hooray for Tom!
April 14th, 2008 at 1:23 am
huhuh
april
heheh
20th
heh
not on any calender.
heh heh
april 20th is when you feel like it.
heh
April 14th, 2008 at 4:42 am
http://www.cyclingfans.com
all free feed info…check out the googles on the internets next times noobs
April 14th, 2008 at 7:55 am
lol noobs. thanks mate, thats the link. i just had too many brew hahas yesterday!
apr
20th
mark
it
:)
April 14th, 2008 at 11:21 am
If it was or is going to be on VS, count on the docudrama on Levi’s life and anyone else riding a Trek or Specialized.
they cover cycling like Jim Nance covered the Olympcis…more sensational life story than sport…if you are going to give us the drama give us ‘He was born a poor child of color with out a father in a world not typical to a cyclist…he had a paper route is the streets run by gang lords and pimps…he was teased for wearing tights and shaving his legs, the a courier then one day he dropped the local coffee crew cats on his single speed when he venture into the white part of town…..today on the cobbles he gets his strength from the memory out sprinting a 9MM…’ Give that one to Troutwig so he slips with the N bomb so they can fire his ass
April 14th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Hincape will never win a classic because you have to attack to win a classic
April 14th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Agreed and why Cadel will never win the TDF…
April 14th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Hincapie had the fucking chance of a lifetime to follow devolder in flaunders but as usual he looked around for “someone else” to chase. He was right on devolders fucking wheel when he attacked. What a fucking moron, he just let him ride to victory. Not surprising, hincapie’s a good bike racer but will never be a “great” one. Too afraid.
April 14th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
wait!! please dont dis hincapie man.. unless u put yourself in someones shoes, im going out on a limb here but i have watched him
race before in SF and he really tries, BUT we all know LUCK is a huge fucking factor in cycle racing. HUGE!! flame me if u will
have u ever been in race with a number on your back? meaning
marked? maybe if some dudes worked togther in races and not
always throw in a towel when your off.. i know from one of my
and I did say MY races learned this. oh wait work togther shit
by bad we are always one up’n eachother.. LOL
top 10 is super great stop the hate!
Joe
April 14th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Tom Boonen, Tom Sch-moonen.
I took 89th out of 109 riders at the OBC (that’s the Ottawa Bicycle Club for all you not keeping up on the going-ons in the bicycle world) Paris Roubaix race this weekend. And I did it on my mtn bike. Cyclocross, schmike-locross. Showed those skinny, hairless roadies a thing or two about riding on dirt.
Whoot!
April 14th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
One more reason why Australia is better than the US. We even get Giro highlights daily this year.
It was a sweet Roubaix. My ten year old niece was falling asleep and waking up evry 15 minutes to ask if Pozatto had caught up with the leaders yet.
April 14th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Ok, I just watched PR. After crashing Hincapie is going ape shit because some no-name won’t pull him up to boonans group. This guy was Matthé Pronk (Cycle Collstrop) who was in the fucking break all day and had no reason to help George at all. George=douche.
Joe: Luck is where experience meets opportunity
Hincapie’s got experience but he’s too big a pussy to lay it on the line. He’s actually a dumb shit if you’ve ever heard him speak.
April 14th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
OK I put myself in his shoes for a second and indeed he is a pussy
April 14th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Cycling news does not have one picture of George
BTW when will George out
April 15th, 2008 at 12:07 am
For the guy defending Hincapie, I don’t think anyone here thinks he’s a bad bike racer, he’s just not the “right” kind of bike racer. As someone else said, he doesn’t attack, he follows. As long as he does this, he won’t win a monument.
And yes, I’m willing to bet that most, if not all of the folks writing comments on here have raced a bike. Hell, I’ve raced bikes against Hincapie, in a local turd crit, and he STILL didn’t attack. 9th sucks. The only thing that matters is winning. Nobody remembers who got 9th place. Sorry…
April 15th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
WHO CARES !!!!!!!!
April 16th, 2008 at 5:53 am
Another reason to celebrate 4-20!
April 16th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Tug boat my man, are you say’n Georgie is in the closet?
thaq is some funny shit there boy
word
April 16th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Hincape 5’12 out. can you say smoked?
April 16th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
WHO CARES !!!!!!!! thanks man, i would buy you a sixer of whatever
you like if u were close.
peace,
Joe
April 16th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
THIS IS NOT A PERSONAL MESSAGE CENTER JOE.
April 17th, 2008 at 5:53 am
HEY BUTTHEAD EAT ME!!!! dude,, tee hee
April 17th, 2008 at 8:51 am
I choke on string
April 24th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Look there’s that singlespeed we passed like 20 min ago
Single Speeds are gay.