Watching the peloton - Professional Road Racing thread 2026

That was a great watch, thanks. Ename is an incredible Belgian ale. Big fan. There is also a cycling museum in Oudenaarde. Less bikes, more pictures.

I owned a Klein Criterium, the second generation of the bike he showed, the Quantum Pro. I crashed it at a race, and it had to be sent back to Klein to have a new derailleur hanger welded on. I sold it when I got it back and was given a Fuji by the team.
 
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stompandgo said:
That was a great watch, thanks. Ename is an incredible Belgian ale. Big fan. There is also a cycling museum in Oudenaarde. Less bikes, more pictures.

I owned a Klein Criterium, the second generation of the bike he showed, the Quantum Pro. I crashed it at a race, and it had to be sent back to Klein to have a new derailleur hanger welded on. I sold it when I got it back and was given a Fuji by the team.
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Lovely looking bike. He made very attractive bikes as well as being such an innovator.
 
Seixas laid low in Stage 3 with a little more than a minute on GC 2nd place Roglic. Easy to understand why he'd take the day to recover after his phenomenal output in Stage 2. But guessing he won't do that again in Stage 4.
 
Weather forecast for Roubaix is dry sunny 19C so another dusty edition rather than a muddy one. Less and less rainy ones it seems. This is now a dry time of year.
Jeremy McCreary said:
Seixas laid low in Stage 3 with a little more than a minute on GC 2nd place Roglic. Easy to understand why he'd take the day to recover after his phenomenal output in Stage 2. But guessing he won't do that again in Stage 4.
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He's got the lead, up to the others to dethrone him. Let them waste energy and his team mark them.
 
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Jeremy McCreary said:
Seixas laid low in Stage 3 with a little more than a minute on GC 2nd place Roglic. Easy to understand why he'd take the day to recover after his phenomenal output in Stage 2. But guessing he won't do that again in Stage 4.
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Decathlon and Red Bull were at the front for a little bit, but nobody was going to work with them to bring the break back.
 
So I found a fairly acceptable YT version of the incredible Paris Roubaix documentary "A Sunday night Hell" from 1976. Shot on 16mm by Danish documentary filmmaker Jorgen Leth, it covers the whole race in almost real time, following the riders, team cars, people watching, on the streets, in the bars, protestors disrupting, mechanics riding on the roof racks through the choking dust, motos kicking up yet more dust, it's all there, close up bloody and painful as the crashes happen and as the contest gets tighter and tighter between the favourites. It's an extraordinarily poetic film (1h 45m).

If you have time Jeremy it's well worth a full watch before next Sunday (in the next Hell of the North).

It captures what makes Roubaix such a crazy historic race.


Going to check if there is a remastered blu ray version as it's something I'd love to have a decent copy of - have an old VHS tape somewhere.
 
Rás Cnoic said:
So I found a fairly acceptable YT version of the incredible Paris Roubaix documentary "A Sunday night Hell" from 1976. Shot on 16mm by Danish documentary filmmaker Jorgen Leth, it covers the whole race in almost real time, following the riders, team cars, people watching, on the streets, in the bars, protestors disrupting, mechanics riding on the roof racks through the choking dust, motos kicking up yet more dust, it's all there, close up bloody and painful as the crashes happen and as the contest gets tighter and tighter between the favourites. It's an extraordinarily poetic film (1h 45m).

If you have time Jeremy it's well worth a full watch before next Sunday (in the next Hell of the North).

It captures what makes Roubaix such a crazy historic race.


Going to check if there is a remastered blu ray version as it's something I'd love to have a decent copy of - have an old VHS tape somewhere.
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Thanks! What utter chaos swirling around the riders from start to finish — especially the motorcycles. And OMG, all the dust they're breathing!

At least today's riders don't have to give shower room interviews.
 
Jeremy McCreary said:
Thanks! What utter chaos swirling around the riders from start to finish — especially the motorcycles. And OMG, all the dust they're breathing!

At least today's riders don't have to give shower room interviews.
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The same if not worse dust will be there on Sunday.

It's the skinny tyres that now gets me. Riding at those speeds over those cobbles in that visibility on 20 or 23mm tubulars. And who needs helmets eh?
 
Rás Cnoic said:
So I found a fairly acceptable YT version of the incredible Paris Roubaix documentary "A Sunday night Hell" from 1976. Shot on 16mm by Danish documentary filmmaker Jorgen Leth, it covers the whole race in almost real time, following the riders, team cars, people watching, on the streets, in the bars, protestors disrupting, mechanics riding on the roof racks through the choking dust, motos kicking up yet more dust, it's all there, close up bloody and painful as the crashes happen and as the contest gets tighter and tighter between the favourites. It's an extraordinarily poetic film (1h 45m).

If you have time Jeremy it's well worth a full watch before next Sunday (in the next Hell of the North).

It captures what makes Roubaix such a crazy historic race.


Going to check if there is a remastered blu ray version as it's something I'd love to have a decent copy of - have an old VHS tape somewhere.
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This was a great watch. It opens with a mechanic cleaning up a Benotto. OK, nice bike. Campy SR/NR. You get to look at it for about 5 minutes. Then the context switches to a guy loading one of my Holy Grail bikes, a Gios, onto a trunk rack. Then he loads another. And another. Closeup after closeup. I was in heaven.

The rest of the show was great, except for Merckx losing. It was absolutely crazy how close the vehicles were to the riders back then.
 
stompandgo said:
This was a great watch. It opens with a mechanic cleaning up a Benotto. OK, nice bike. Campy SR/NR. You get to look at it for about 5 minutes. Then the context switches to a guy loading one of my Holy Grail bikes, a Gios, onto a trunk rack. Then he loads another. And another. Closeup after closeup. I was in heaven.

The rest of the show was great, except for Merckx losing. It was absolutely crazy how close the vehicles were to the riders back then.
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Great seeing all the doc footage of Merckx near the start; in his swanky rockstar 70s civilian clothes and shades, giving the mechanics a hard time, obsessive about saddle position. And then midst that printers demonstration, tyres of cars being slashed, police with bolt action rifles looking mean, it all about to kick off, race possibly cancelled, violence; And Merckx calmly going up to rival's team car "buddy lend me a spanner would you, just want to check my saddle." Hilarious.
 
Romo could have been a Stage 5 contender if he hadn't fallen. Hope they make a big example of the fan who pushed him. Also hope the other fans taught him a lesson he'll never forget on the spot.

Wonder if Romo or his team could sue the fan — for personal injury and lost opportunity if nothing else.
 
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