Welcome and Roubaix recap
It was a wet parry rubay, yet you got that right. Let's cue that intro. The big question is this. How do we use cycling as a tool to improve our health, our happiness, and our longevity? That is the question. And this podcast will give you the answers. My name is Anthony Walsh, and welcome to the Row Man Podcast. Roman, welcome back to another roadman cycling podcast. We've been waiting a long, long time. It's been a couple of decades of waking up, Ruby week, checking the weather, being disappointed with a wet party, we had crashes, drama, even motorbike crashes, floods, bike failures. The best boy handler in the world, Sagin, completely milling himself, tears, smiles, absolute insanity. Before I jump into all that, I just want to remind you about our Jirona Shrine in Camp. I think there's one, possibly two spots left. If you were going on the 17th of October, if you want information on that, it's just roadmancycling.com forward slash Jirona. I just can't wait to show everything around my favorite routes, favorite coffee shops. I love it out there. I'm really excited about that and that's coming up pretty quick. So I think there's only one or two spots left on it. I stuck some money on Paddy Power yesterday and I often think that the odds for our bike races, they haven't gotten priced appropriately. Now I know there's a million variables, especially in a race like yesterday between the race starting and the race finishing. And when you look at the results and we had Florian Vermerch, who I've never heard of, I'll be honest, come in second in Roubaix, it's like, okay, well, anything could happen. But the form is still the form. Boy can, then there's still a boy can, then we knew some guys that were gonna be there, we knew some guys that weren't. When I looked at the Patty Power Odds yesterday, I was gonna sit down and watch a large chunk of Roubaix, I had it boxed off sometime, and it was a wet Roubaix, and I didn't wanna miss it. I knew people would be talking about this for like the next 10 years, and it definitely didn't disappoint. So I sat down and I looked at it and I thought, You know what, I don't feel like Wout Van Arth is in a good spot to win this race. I feel like the season's just a little bit too long for him, two or three weeks too long. He had a storm and forest half of the season. For me he looked tired. His cadence looked different in the world's last weekend. And then when you add in the weight of the media pressure and the little bit of fucking energy bird you at Rimpko, Evan Paul during the week, I didn't think Wout was in a good spot. Now he was the pre-race favourite but I just didn't feel like he was in a good spot. So I bet on Machuvander Paul. Sony Cup Rally, yes I got Sony Cup Rally at 40 to 1, happy to provide the screenshot, 40 to 1. I bet on Yennick's Deebar I also had Mads Pedersen. Mads Pedersen unfortunately I don't know what Luke Rose up there, Luke Rose, some sort of suicide mission decided to just take Mads Pedersen out of the race. What I had, what I taught was the two guys who were going to be sprinting against each other coming into the final. I didn't see for a merge even melt in that sprint, even when it was a tree up, Calbrelli and Machia van der Paul. And yeah, look, worked out great.
Colbrelli wins, Vermarsch shines
40 to one, Sony Calbrelli. Thanks for coming. Easy money. Yeah, Welt had a tough race and he was watched and he looked tired and he was still good because he's welt but it finished pretty much like a Tod at Ward. So if you didn't see the results, Sony cabreli took a famous victory in a real bay for the ages. Against a complete unknown to my mind, maybe you know, and you're more school than I am. The Belgian L'Orozzudalroit are Florian Vermerch with Machu van der Poel MVP, Tord, Gianni Moscon who everybody hates because he's a crazy racist. in Fort, but he had some Royd and Eve's Lampard Belgian favourites in 5th. What's notable about that podium is, it's a podium of all debutantes and an Italian winner of Ru Bay and I think it's like 1998, 1999 since Andrea Taffy won that it's been an Italian winner so they obviously had the famous Mapet 1-2-3 but yeah, I think Taffy won that day with my pay one two three. And Boone was in the newspaper today, het lates nous sak. My Flemish is waffle, but he was singing the praises of Florian Vermursh. He said, I'm gonna get straight to the point. I'm now a fan of Florian Vermursh. Now, I don't know him very well, but he's shown himself to the entire world. The cool which he approached to find out blew my socks off. I think it's fantastic that he isn't happy with second. You could tell from his face on the podium that he didn't like, that's the right attitude. The most important thing is the attitude, and you don't change that. Here I've seen a born winner. That big praise coming from Tom Boone, what a legend of the sport, and Vermursch who rode out of a sock. So some rides yesterday were just phenomenal. Like the Israel startup rider who have raced against a good few times, gearman Bovin, like what a riot. He had bad, bad luck getting brought down, boy, behind the modal and a crash, but he was in all the selections. He was brilliant and Vermarsh again, he was in the early break, then he was in the separation from the early break and he was in a two-up up there out, and then he was able to respond to the Vanderpoll move. It was insane. It was, you made your own look to points, but you needed some good look as well. Like Sagand is one of the best boy handlers in the world, boy critical acclaim, and he, there was nothing he could do with that crash. Now I know you can say, Machuva and her Paul and Sony Calbrelli are amazing boy-griders and they're in the final. But it was just potluck at points, but Giovanni Moscon talked about bad luck and I know he's not the most loved rider in the world but he had a minute and fifteen, it didn't look like they were close enough very fast if anything was going the other way and it was the trio chasing behind that ended up being the ultimate podium and Moscon punctured and then after the puncture he crashed. Now I don't know if he had different horror pressure on the new boyky up but he looked like Bambi on ice when he got the second boy. So I'm must-gun set after the race. I tried to attack from fire out and gave everything. I just had a little bad look with the puncture and then I was on my limit. When you're on the limit you make mistakes. I crashed but I didn't lose too much time but then they came back from behind and it didn't have the legs to follow.
Disc brake mysteries and Quickstep
I tried. Four place, we'll try again next year. It was a really really strong rider for me in the race and it was, he deserved probably more out of it. A really bad look at weird times. Well, actually something that was weird, if anyone knows, hit me a DM on Instagram as roman.s like, let me know what it is. What was up with the disc brakes? I seen one of the confidence riders breaking with his foot. Other riders like Vanderpaul change bikes, apparently to get on to a fresh set of disc brakes. How are the disc brakes just falling apart on this? I've no idea. I haven't ridden disc brakes that long. I have them on my Canyon gravel bike, but I've only been riding that a year less. I've changed them twice in all that time. How is a set of disc brakes that are brand new at the start? Completely rolled it halfway through a 250 kilometer race. I have no idea. Something else if anyone else can message me, what happened Quickstep? Where were they? I had Yannick's D-Bar as one of my bets. Eve's Lampard went well. It's the first race in a Hoyle, definitely the first edition of Ru Bay in a Hoyle where we haven't seen Quickstep feature at the pointy end of the race. Machuvander Paul looks noticeably disappointed at the finish. It was a rubay for the ages. I don't want to take away from Sony called Bradley, especially because I got a 40 to 1 out on him. He's had insane form this year, but Van der Paul is in a more fitting winner. More romantic or something that Van der Paul had a 1. That's why I was a little bit torn, even though I did have the 40 to 1 out there. The good thing for Sony Calbreli is he has insane form and the next edition of Roubaix is only 6 months away. We don't have to wait in order 12 months for this, 6 months. So we could see Sony Calbreli a real feature in the classics if you can hold this form over the winter. Well man, thanks for tuning in. As always, if you have a second check out our Patreon, it's patreon.com forward slash Anthony underscore watch, buy me the price of a point of beer over on patreon, price for a point of beer once a month keeps this podcast going and it's much much appreciated and you'll get access to the secret podcast which I'll be dropping again this week for the private patreon members over there. Roman, thanks for tuning in and chat to you again tomorrow. Hey everybody it's Anthony again, really quick I want to invite you to join arguably the best thing I've ever put out inside the roadman community. It's a challenge. It's a challenge called a 14-day Kickstarter challenge. So regardless of where your fitness is at right now, this is going to be the catalyst for making you faster and making you leaner. I've created this challenge to take the guesswork out of everything. It's 14 days of training plans, regardless of what your level is. There's masters, beginner, advanced, there's meal plans, shopping list and even a video course holding your hand and talking you true at all. So what So what I recommend you do right now is just stop everything, press pause on this audio and go to roadmancycling.com forward slash 14 day or check out the link in the bio. That's roadmancycling.com slash 14 day.