Velominati Super Prestige: Paris-Roubaix 2015

The V rides with the Pros

No one can be happy about Sunday’s weather forecast (except for 95% of the riders and support staff). I am not. Now every Norwegian non-cobble riding specialists has a chance of winning this. I was hoping for day that would separate the Rule #9 riders from everybody else. Bah!

We can take some comfort in knowing our Keepers Tour brothers will be at three different cobbled secteurs, hydrating and yelling with the the locals. Keep an eye out for the V-flag.

There is not much to say about Paris-Roubaix that has not been said. It is the race of the season.

Consult your god. Go with your heart or your head on this. Enter your choices, prepare your frites deep-fryer, the beer selection, assure your family that drinking and swearing on a Sunday morning is part of your religion.

The VSP page has the details and in case anyone forgot, the end of the season could get you here:

First place– A custom Jaegher frame, handbuilt in Belgium.
Second Place– A Café Roubaix/Velominati wheelset, Chris King hubs, hand built by professional wheelsmith and Velominati Dan Richter.
Third Place– A Velominati kit: jersey, bibs, and cap.

[vsp_results id=”32609″/]

Gianni

Gianni has left the building.

Next Guest Article- When Is a Sticker Not a Sticker? »

Previous « Awesome German Guys- André Greipel

View Comments

Chris says:

Apr 10 2015 at 1:35 pm
VSP PICKS:
1. Stannard
2. Paolini
3. Stybar
4. Blackaert
5. Gaudin
Rigid says:

Apr 10 2015 at 1:37 pm
VSP PICKS:
1. Kristoff
2. Wiggins
3. Degenkolb
4. Stybar
5. Bauer
Harminator says:

Apr 10 2015 at 1:38 pm
Kristoff is the strongest but he will have unlucky.

VSP PICKS:
1. Vandenburg
2. Thomas
3. Hayman
4. Vanmarcke
5. Gaudin
wiscot says:

Apr 10 2015 at 1:38 pm
Ah hell, what do I know? Usual shitty picks. Wiggo for the "break down in tears" win. Thomas and Stybar being dutiful teammates and not chasing Sir B and Terpstra and Vanmarke in for third.

VSP PICKS:
1. Wiggins
2. Terpstra
3. Vanmarke
4. Thomas
5. Stybar
Chris says:

Apr 10 2015 at 1:42 pm

@wiscot

@Chris

@Geraint

@Chris

@Geraint

Shouldn’t you be betting on yourself?

I just didn’t have the legs last weekend, and have spent the week eating Welsh Cakes, drinking beer, and spending time with the missus. Hoping for better, but Brad really wants this one, you should see him…

Welsh cakes? Never had one but if it’s a bit like having one too many Eccles cakes at the tea stop on a Sunday club run I can see why you’re not too confident. I always get dropped after the stop.

I love me a nice Eccles cake. Mmmmmmm . . . Man , that word just conjures up all kinds of nostalgic 1930s club ride boys-own style imagery – the touring bikes with mudguards and saddlebags, the hedge-lined country roads, the wee cafe selling eccles cakes to be washed down with big mugs of hot tea. Then it rains on the way home and you put on your tent-like plastic cape and get a puncture. Then you wake up.

I'm not sure what's so '30s about all of that, sounds like some of the more modern clubs out Norfolk direction.

BTW, if you really do dream of touring bikes with mudguards and saddlebags, there are other websites for confessing to such predilections but here that definitely falls into masturbation principle territory.
chui says:

Apr 10 2015 at 1:48 pm
VSP PICKS:
1. Bradley
2. Stybar
3. Vanmarke
4. terpstra
5. boom
Dr C says:

Apr 10 2015 at 1:52 pm
I watched Me Me Me winning last years rumble again last night - nearly shed a tear - that said, I hope he doesn't repeat it, as it will be to the expense of my favourite gladiator Zdorro, who needs to be allowed to go on the rampage without Nikki running off home with the ball

That said, if Wiggo does it, I will drown myself in Brutges Zot and tears, because this is the sort of shit that makes sport a superior grade of religion

For that matter, anyone with a blue stripe down there back will reduce me to a quivering hulk

Merckx I love this race

VSP PICKS:
1. Sir Brad
2. Zdorro
3. G
4. .
JCM says:

Apr 10 2015 at 1:55 pm
VSP PICKS:
1. Kristoff, Alexander
2. Terpstra, Niki
3. Boom, Lars
4. Degenkolb, John
5. Stybar, Zdenek
wiscot says:

Apr 10 2015 at 2:00 pm

@Chris

@wiscot

@Chris

@Geraint

@Chris

@Geraint

Shouldn’t you be betting on yourself?

I just didn’t have the legs last weekend, and have spent the week eating Welsh Cakes, drinking beer, and spending time with the missus. Hoping for better, but Brad really wants this one, you should see him…

Welsh cakes? Never had one but if it’s a bit like having one too many Eccles cakes at the tea stop on a Sunday club run I can see why you’re not too confident. I always get dropped after the stop.

I love me a nice Eccles cake. Mmmmmmm . . . Man , that word just conjures up all kinds of nostalgic 1930s club ride boys-own style imagery – the touring bikes with mudguards and saddlebags, the hedge-lined country roads, the wee cafe selling eccles cakes to be washed down with big mugs of hot tea. Then it rains on the way home and you put on your tent-like plastic cape and get a puncture. Then you wake up.

I’m not sure what’s so ’30s about all of that, sounds like some of the more modern clubs out Norfolk direction.

BTW, if you really do dream of touring bikes with mudguards and saddlebags, there are other websites for confessing to such predilections but here that definitely falls into masturbation principle territory.

This bit of film is what came to mind when I heard Eccles Cake - an early Keepers Tour from 1955. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyz5d3entBw

And my one and only ride with the Cyclists Touring Club was a disaster - it pished down, I punctured, they fucked off. Joined the Johnstone Wheelers instead.
John says:

Apr 10 2015 at 2:07 pm
VSP PICKS:
1. Matteo Trentin
2. Jurgeon Roelandts
3. John Degenkolb
4. Daniel Oss
5. Geraint Thomas