Okay, I have dragged myself out of deep depression following yet another Hincapie mechanical failure at Roubaix. I am a hardcore Hincapie fan, but I am begining to have my doubts. Anyway, there was another race today, Scheldeprijs, a semi classic. Alessandro Petacchi won in a sprint finish that was marred by one of the more violent [...]
Archive for the ‘The Classics’ Category
Nasty Crash at Scheldeprijs in Belgium
Posted in Road Racing, The Classics, tagged bike crash, cycling, Road Racing on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ghent Wevelgem 2009
Posted in Road Racing, The Classics, tagged cycling, George hincapie, Ghent Wevelgem on April 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A long day at the office for Hincapie, even with his teamate winning.
The Ronde, Ghent and The Queen
Posted in Road Racing, The Classics, tagged cycling, George hincapie, paris roubaix, tour of flanders on April 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In case you’ve been living under a rock, this Sunday is The Tour of Flanders, or as the locals call it the Ronde van Vlaanderen. Flanders starts my favorite week of the racing calender which also includes Ghent Wevelgem and of course Paris-Roubaix, the queen of the classics. These races are especially fun for me [...]
Lovkvist Wins Eroica
Posted in Road Racing, The Classics, tagged cycling, George hincapie, Road Racing, team columbia on March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Team Columbia High Road continued its winning ways last Saturday when Thomas Lovkvist won the 3rd Monte Paschi Strade Bianche Toscana. It is only in its third year, but is already a Spring Classic, in Italy no less. This is another one I have to put on my list to see before I make my [...]
Paris Roubaix 2008-Results
Posted in Road Racing, The Classics, tagged cycling, hincapie, paris roubaix, Road Racing, roubaix on April 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here is my one sided view of the 2008 version of Paris-Roubaix:
Hincapie and his teammate Roger Hammond position themselves in the lead group
Things look, good Hincapie and Hammond appear to be driving the pace and seem to be as comfortable as possible
Hincapie flats @ 56k to go
The lead group senses this misfortune and drills it
36k [...]
Paris-Roubaix 2008
Posted in Road Racing, The Classics, tagged boonen, classics, hincapie, paris roubaix, roubaix on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Paris-Roubaix is my favorite single day race by far, it is truly the Queen of the Classics. If you know anything at all about Roubaix, you understand my excitement. The temperature on Sunday should be in the 40s with a 60% chance of rain, which should make for some exciting racing. The odds of George [...]
Hincapie-Flanders Dark Horse?
Posted in Road Racing, The Classics, tagged boonen, flanders, George hincapie, roubaix, team high road on April 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For anyone that knows me, or that has read this blog at one time or another, it is no secret that I am a Hincapie homer. For him to win Flanders or Roubaix would be a high point for me as a cycling fan, yes I know that I am a loser. With that being [...]
Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne 2008
Posted in Road Racing, The Classics, tagged cycling, dave zabriskie, Kuurne, quick step, Road Racing, steven cozza, The Classics on March 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Congratulations to Steven De Jongh from Quick Step for wining the 2008 edition of Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne. I checked in to cyclingnews.com’s live coverage late in the race and actually laughed out loud. I laughed because it was saying Quick Step had SEVEN riders in the break. I think the only one missing was Bettini, who crashed [...]
