When the race is as flat as Paris - Roubaix, spectators w🌠ill take advantage of any high spo♉ts! (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Tom Boonen takes the applause as he rides his first lap of the Roubaix velodroꦬme (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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The group behind Bo𝓰onen start the sprint for second place in the velodrome (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Lars Boom finishes t💫he race on his cyclo cross bike, totally spent i✨n 6th place (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Tom Boone༺n, Sebastien Turgot and Alessandrꦡo Ballan on the podium (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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One of very few damaged team cars in this years race. Europcar obviously h🌟ad a friendly tap from behind (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Gregory H🅰enderson of Lotto Belisol𝓰 returns his jammed Ridley (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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This Team Sky Jaguar X Type looked to have raised suspensi🌠on for this race (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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This is a Team Sky Jaguar X-Type with normal rid�✨�e height (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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A pile of Saxo Bank Specializ꧂ed Roubaix machines in need of a wash🎐 (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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This second pla🃏ced Saur Sojasun rider is clearly comfortable cornering on the dirt as he lifts the front wheel mid corner to change direction! (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Some well prepared French fans (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Those at the rear of the peloton demonstrate their✅ more cautious line c💧hoices (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Main command vehicle for the 𒁃Garde Républicaine o💛n this race is a Land Rover Defender (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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One of the Mavic n🐼eutral service motos with wheel rack and pillion mechanic holding spares (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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One of the Mavic neutral service cars in the gap between ﷺbreak and peloton (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Press motos s🍨pend all day in the clouds of dust, which gets in to 𒅌everything (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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The blackboard mo✤torbike in a hurry crossing the gap🧜 up to the leading group (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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The race organisation cars🌄 were unmodified Skoda Superbs (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Can you imagine travelliಌng along at 45kph while holding a heavy TV cam🍃era inches from the cobbles, right in front of the favourites, and not looking where you're going? (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Ricardo Garci𒁏a of Euskaltelꦍ suffered a broken seatpot clamp (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Euskaltel's Garcia gets pushed off on a n🐼ew machine (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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No matter how muc💙h they scrub, this Roubaix dust won't come out (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Luke Roberts' Specialized with a flat tubular (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Luke Roberts had the only two part parcours details w🧔e saw (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Vacansoleil had three models at the race, the Impulso, Infinito and Oltre. We're not surᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚe if the Oltre was raced or just there as a spare. (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Chainslap marksꦗ on this Vacansoleil rider's Bianchi Impulso🐻 (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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A Bianchi having a well needed clean (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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A Bianchi having a well needed clean (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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A TRP calliper on a Saur Sojasun Time frame (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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The Saur Sojasun mechanics set up shop ♊in a bus stop (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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After the race, the Mavic staff visit all of the teams to swap over the many wheels 🐬which were loaned by neutral service during the race (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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These Quickstep fans favour a 1970s theme (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Mavic transport their neutral service motorbikes in this 🍌neat t♑railer (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Some of the wheels used by Greenedge in the race (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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The Green Edge mechanics cleaning their𓆏 team bikes (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Th💝is MCipollini bike suffered some crash damage with a bent lever and unravelled tape (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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The𝓀 state of one of ꧋BMC's new GF01s after the race (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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One BMC team car showing the days dirt (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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It wasn't only the riders that suffered from punctures out o🎀n the course (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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This Lotto Belisol ride♑r has trimmed the right heel of his Pearl Izumi shoe (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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The AG2R team's stack of wheels for service (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Cyಞcling tꩲeams are masters at squeezing their vehicles in to the tightest spaces (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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A Katusha Ca🌸nyon showing the effects of a dꩲusty day (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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The Katusha mechanic's bus set up shop ꧂outside th🌊ese houses. We hope the owners were cycling fans (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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This Bretagne-Schuller🐻 KTM rear Di2 mech has suffered some crash damage (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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At the end of a mammot♑h bike cleaning seౠssion, the brushes and sponges are packed away until the next day (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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A Co𒁏fidis Fan Club member acts as an extra spare wheel man in a sector of pave. There are 💮so many sectors that a team can not cover them all with personnel alone. (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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The crowd at the♒ start in Compiegne are a mixed bunch (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Sko🧜da's Octvia Scout was also car of choice for Katu🐻sha (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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🥂The Gar🦋de Républicaine who protect French races rode their usual motorbikes until the first sector of pave at 97.5km then handed over to colleagues riding more suitable trail bikes (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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This marshal's motorbike seemed less suited to the condit🌊ions (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Radiosh🍒ack use their usual Nissan 𝓡Qashqai team cars (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Radioshack parked their team cars around the bus like a wild w𒐪est circle of wagons. We should've guessed Armstrong was in there! (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Euskaltel's 4WD Skoda Octavia Scout is bett🌃er suited to the cobbles ahead (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Thisꦿ Ridley had its parcours details on some white cloth tape (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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The Helium fork didn't all🌠ow for great🌌 tyre clearance (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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A closer look at Liquigas-Cannondale's disꦛc equipped talking point. The Avid BB7 road calliper iไs very neatly mounted and has a relatively small disc rotor (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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A moreꦚ suitable motorbike for the blackboard crew (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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One Cof๊odis rider at least was relishi𓄧ng the challenge to come (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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The same bike had a Campy Tech Lab rear mech too (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Green E▨dge sponsor Subaru supply the t♛eam with 4WD Legacys (Image credit: BikeRadar)
Movistar used Volvo XC70s to tame the cobbles (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Euskaltel were riding some prototype Vitt꧑oria tyres on their Ambrosio rims (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Anꦦ Astana mechanic makes final tyre pressure adju💦stments (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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A🐽stana's Assan Bazayev 💫still favours a negative rise stem on his tiny Roubaix SL3, and fewer spokes than most (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Another beefed up press moto (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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This trusty photograꦯpher's moto has seen many races (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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A Movistar Pinarell💙o fitted with a Campy Tech Lab labelled front mech, neatly mounted battery and SRM measuring system (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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The rear end of th🐠is bike looks almost unchanged from the cyclo cross frame with long chain stays and huge clearances (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Although fi🐟tted with Mavic's 23mm rubber, the Super X road frame shows far more tyre clearance than any Paris-Roubaix tyres coꦺuld ever need (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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The addition of the top tube disc cable is🦩 the only change from normal (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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AG2R employ helpers of all ages for this race (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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A Europcar team helper with sp⭕are wheels in sector 17 (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Saur Sojasun's four legged supporters (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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A Katusha team helper with spare wheels ꦿi🐓n sector 24 (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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A Farꦚnese Vini helper waits wi𝔉th spare wheels just in case (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Once the cobbled sectorsꦑ be🌠gin, the road based Garde Républicaine escort hand over to their trail bike riding colleagues (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Sky's Matthew Hayman shows nerves of st♑eel by💮 taking a drink during the pave (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Watꦇching the race out in the fields is quite unique (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Mo𝐆vistar's Imanol Erviti takes a rear wheel from a team mate after puncturing as it is much quicker than waiting for the team car (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Maybe this team helper is also a paramedic (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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A Belgian fan reverts to type with images of Duvel beer bot𝔍tles and a packet of frites on his hat. We can only i🦋magine what he'll be doing with that megaphone! (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Argos Shimano team spare wheels out on the cours🐲e (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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This Wilier looks to be a mod🌊ified Mortirolo carbon cyclo cross frame drilled for a calliper. The long reach Shimano calliper still ꦉhas its delivery tape on. (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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The Wilier uses the 🍸same long reach calliper up front, but ✅with less clearance the pads are near the top of their adjustment slots (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Imanol ꦡErviti of Movistar shows his taped fingers while sticking on his parcours crib sheet. Taping can help reduce the effectsꩲ of vibration through the joints. (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Some BMC riders await tꩵh🌱e race start in front of the signing on podium (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Some๊ local clꦯub cyclists assemble for the ceremonial race roll out (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Most riders look more nervous than usu💖al at the Compiegne start (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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The riders roll away from the start in Compiegne (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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The two final veh💮icles in this race eac𒈔h have trailers to carry the bikes of abandoning riders (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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Leaving nothi﷽ng to chance, the Garde Républicaine take a spare motorbike (Image credit: BikeRadar)
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After giving his team mate Erviti a wheel, this Movistar rider finally gets going again with a replacement,𒅌 only for his chain to get caught up (Image credit: BikeRadar)
We’ve shown you the level of support WorldTour teams require while preparing for the most brutal one-day race on the calendar, and now we take a look at what happens on race day. From final bike tweaks to vehicles that are brought in specially for this unique challenge, the race convoy at 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Paris-Roubaix resembles no other.
Rugged four-wheel-drive ve🦩hicles have mostly replaced the traditional fitting of sump guards to team cars, although typically, Sky seem to have found another solution. Out on the course are dozens of team personnel and helpers, ready to assist their riders in the tortuous pavé sectors, when a support vehicle could be some distance behind. Then after it’s all over, the team mechanics are faced with one of their biggest cleanuܫp and repair tasks of the season.
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