Paris Roubaix

so who's going to this then?

not many I'm guessing, Bill you'll be out in the far north east grovelling on the clubrun

any found a reliable (free) place to watch online

not in london to watch at cafe

there will be a few westies there - fatboy ralph, big daddy wayne, rickymundo, hippy, Mouse

I may see you there, then.

i'll tell my butler to put another whisky tumbler in the hamper

how very kind, sir.

I'm going. Few laps of RP in the morning, then maybe ride off a few kerbs on the way home to get in the mood. Should be excellent.

i'll throw some mud and gravel at you on lower richmond road if that helps get you in the mood for PR

I'll empty my water bottle over the cobbles on the corner by the richmond gate roundabout and you can ride over them

Thanks guys. Can someone also break loads of bottles at random intervals so I get plenty of punctures.

more news... here's the order of the team cars after a lottery (usually this order is decided by the protour ranking of the teams but since P-R is not a protour race this year, it was decided by lottery):

• Saunier Duval
  
• Tinkoff
  
• Française des Jeux
  
• Barloworld
  
• Quick.Step
  
• Slipstream
  
• Cofidis
  
• CSC
  
• Cycle Collstrop
  
• Agritubel
  
• Milram
  
• Crédit Agricole
  
• Caisse d'Epargne
  
• Rabobank
  
• Euskaltel
  
• Bouygues Telecom
  
• AG2R
  
• Gerolsteiner
  
• Lampre
  
• Landbouwkrediet
  
• Liquigas
  
• Silence-Lotto
  
• Skil
  
• High Road
  
• Topsport Vlaanderen
  So basically, in case of a puncture, George Hincapie (24) and Leif Hoste (22) are potentially fucked as it might take minutes for the team cars to get to them.
  

And for those who understand dutch/flemish, here's a page with a video about the specially developped paris-roubaix bike of the Silence-Lotto team. It 's basically a cross between a cyclocross bike and a road bike. Cross brakes in the rear, road brake in the front, longer wheelbase (+3cm) for a more comfortable ride over the cobblestones, of course the higher BB height of a cross bike which allows pedalling in the corners, a road fork and road fork angle for the same aggressive steering feel of a road bike and last but not least specially developped 25mm Vredenstein tubes.

http://www.lotto.be/pages/show.aspx?culture=nl&pageid=magazine/lottocyclingproject

which all goes to show how obsessed belgian teams are about P-R.

or more readable for the less flandrian inclined.

'mericans and eye tai's love it too.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/tech/2008/probikes/?id=hincapie_highroad_giantprspecial08
http://www.cyclingnews.com/tech/2008/probikes/?id=ballan_lampre_wilierpr08

you going then bill? see you there if so, beats fighting italianson charlotte street.

Online stream:
http://www3.myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=9897&part=sports

or more readable for the less flandrian inclined.

'mericans and eye tai's love it too.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/tech/2008/probikes/?id=hincapie_highroad_giantprspecial08
http://www.cyclingnews.com/tech/2008/probikes/?id=ballan_lampre_wilierpr08

you going then bill? see you there if so, beats fighting italianson charlotte street.

Thanks!
Interesting to see that they are all kind of thinking along the same route.
Now imagine a rider on a 'standard' bike winning this year ;)

I'll empty my water bottle over the cobbles on the corner by the richmond gate roundabout and you can ride over them

and i'll make a really dull 2 hour documentary about it

Is it on the telly box today? Muchos.

depends which telly box you're watching.

eurosport apparently

Eurosport 3.30 pm , ideal.

http://www.cyclingfans.com/

sputnik one on there is working for me, shame i dont understand comentry

Yeah, I'm watching Sputnik too:
mms://80.160.76.117/tv2sputnik3

The quality is good enough to go onto a large widescreen telly.
Haven't found an English audio feed though.

I thought you'd be at the Rapha thing? I was going but 1) knackered 2) Friend's birthday bbq or something is on.

Nah, I was thinking about it... but it would be crammed and I'm a bit anti-social at times.

vb i watched that, and then went back to check eurosport live audio feed again
working but slightly out from the video

If any one cares - and I'm allowed to post this (vb?) - there is a torrent on the PB right now with A Sunday in Hell, Hell on Wheels, and Overcoming. Pretty sweet I thinks.