Long Live Cosmo!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rem9MV69cU

pretty good photos of the mens race:
http://cyclingtips.com/2016/04/photo-gallery-2016-mens-tour-of-flanders/


and the women's race:
http://cyclingtips.com/2016/04/photo-gallery-lizzie-armitstead-takes-the-win-in-dream-race-flanders/


including this video from team wigglehigh5. It gets good at the 4:00 mark.

Been a fan of Emma johansson her full career, and will definitely miss her once she retires:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DbpGq_aXNw

Emily gets into some really great tips for training and riding off road.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-5MJ-XoV5g

^Emily dropped us on a road riding uphill on her MNT bike in CA a couple of years ago. It was surreal.

moar emily here:

it gets good at the 2:21 mark

https://player.vimeo.com/video/161802760

Bike NYC's bike expo is coming up later this month - anyone been to that? Is it worth checking out?

https://youtu.be/7mhWkLHa5MA

dude's a riot.

RileyHoonan said:

Bike NYC's bike expo is coming up later this month - anyone been to that? Is it worth checking out?

If you mean the one associated with Bike NY, then, yes, I've been.  Several times--if you're doing Bike NY, it's where you pick up your number.  I don't think it's worth checking out unless you want to hang with the Redbeard folks at the Brompton booth.  

Because it's #critseason 

https://www.facebook.com/paul.thomas.902/videos/10154097337844320/

you just avoided this guy

2016 Paris Roubaix Velon Hightlights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzpx_qY_ZqI

These videos are the future of cycling. I love them so.

I love the way Roubaix went this year.  I was pulling for Boonen...but I think he handled losing that sprint incredibly well.  I hate a solo break into the velodrome = zero drama.  This year with Spartacus taking himself out and Sagan bunny hoping him and then losing other riders to help close the down that break...it was seat of your bibs excitement....the only way to stop Sagan from keeping the rubber side down is to hit him with a motorcycle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2kvRt1zpR0

So suspicious of Hayman's performance. 38 year old drives the original break all day long, somehow makes the final selection, throws multiple haymaker attacks against the final selection (as well as closing down gaps when he can't take corners as fast, which is the equivalent of an attack), then outsprints real sprinters despite going early and leading them all out. It was an exciting finish, but I was left with the same feeling of disbelief he mimed in the infield just after he rode everyone but Boonen off his wheel.

Jeffrey White said:

So suspicious of Hayman's performance...

Interesting take.  Thanks for posting.  

I didn't watch the entire race.  Cyclocosm suggests, as does Inner Ring, that Hayman, along with Chavanel, was more of a passenger than a driver, of the early break.

During Hayman's repeated efforts to close down the gaps he created, it was hard to tell if he was accelerating or if the other guys were slowing down, as the cameras were stuck on the leaders and Hayman would just pop in.

Watching the sprint, he maneuvered better, or more luckily than the others.  Boonen was boxed in at the bottom of the track until exiting the final turn.  He probably should have led it out, but slowly--or gone long, but kind of defeated himself by riding the low position.  Looking a the others, Vanmarcke, save his super-long sprint against Boonen years ago, is a pretty weak sprinter.  Stannard, maybe because of the length of the race, proved to be a better sprinter than he's given credit for.  Boasson Hagen, considered the sprint threat, was nowhere.  

This race is always amazing , But this years edition was sublime .
The back stage pass video is really cool , it starts out with Hayman offering advice to Luka Mezgec, Just keep riding ! 
Also , i think i was more upset Boonen did't win , than Boonen was 

here's Hayman's full SRM file:
http://home.trainingpeaks.com/public/workout/UQUUUMD7QCZKWQDRH3FGDCPJXU

And analysis from TP:
http://home.trainingpeaks.com/blog/article/power-analysis-mathew-hayman-s-victory-at-paris-roubaix

his speed sensor stopped working at some point.

when he followed boonen’s attack (in the last 2Km) 10 second effort of 871W, or 10.6W/kg with a maximum wattage of 1227W.

the sprint for the win was 1234W — which was not his highest output that day.

Boonen wasn't pissed because for the last two years he, and everyone else, got the impression that he was no longer at the elite level.  On Sunday he proved that was not the case.  Bet he was over the moon.  I bet you Yack's heavy, metal, always broken bike that he is already 100% focused on Flanders/Paris Roubaix 2017.  Also, bet he is super motivated for the world champs in Qatar this year too.  A total new lease of life.  Hence the thumbs up.

Dude that video made me feel warm inside...Oh and I was just in the basement greasing the spindle on my aluminum rival cranks that keep developing play....I tighten it and alls good...I ride it get off and there that little notchy notchy when I grab both arms and wiggle
sigh

FYI guys who have been in the saddle and riding cobbles for 6 hours....speechless
Watching those guys throw haymakers at each other when the velodrome is within sight...priceless....Every late attack prompted me to say "No dummy wait for the sprint....oh that looks good...this might work...caught"  What a race

this vid is about 20 minutes long. you will not regret watching it.

2016 Paris-Roubaix by ORICA GreenEDGE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zxnA4asj44

20 minutes and 15 years.

"70 K down, he said it, daddy is winning..."

Their videographers have been around for years hoping for a day like Sunday.

@twoyacks I had the exact same issue with a set of Apex cranks a few years ago. I omitted an important washer (was in a hurry before a week long trip and couldn't find it) on the nds that goes between crank arm and the bolt that pulls it all together. Turns out each time I tightened it I was driving into the soft aluminium splines. I imagine you've  got everything right but thought I'd share.

me's thinks i'ves gots all the bits sorted...