1987 Paris Roubaix Finish

[@RochesterCycling]

No helmets. Bar-end shifters. Steel frames. Good times.

[@ah4fecksake]

wow..fair play to Bob Roll for finishing and not just jumping into his team car

[@lucasitaly1980]

I love this great video with great songs!!! Thank, thank, thank you !!! I saw it hundred's times, I'm Roubaix maniac from Italy!!! Great Versluys, but damn Can the 2 team-mates loose in this way ? Howhever, great Vanderaerden !!! @socalrider909 : It's possibile to have more videos of roubaix ???? thanks !!!! Thank Again !!!

[@AS-hv2ux]

I remembered this finish after watching the 2019 Amtel Gold. Is that Gilbert Duclos Lasalle @2:19 crashing or do my eyes deceive me? Anyway, Phil Liggett's voice paired with John Tesh music and it really makes for an enjoyable viewing.

[@erikp6505]

Yes it is Gilbert Duclos Lasalle racing for Team Z

[@lucasitaly1980]

@bikeracerguy thank you!

[@lucasitaly1980]

Great video. Thank's ;)

[@RuairiDeFaoite]

@lucasitaly1980 Back then racing bikes had the gear shifters down on the frame so you had to take your hands off the handlebars unlike today's gears integrated into the break levers. So in a race like Paris Roubaix you wouldn't want to take your hands off the bars so they moved the shifters to the end of the bars and rerouted the wires. Same as time trial bikes with the upturned half handlebars, before triathalon bars came along.

[@RochesterCycling]

@sam88888883 At 3:26, it's John Tesh's original Tour de France score. I have it on cassette, but it was never released on CD. The music at 1:40 is also from that same tape. It's definitely Tesh.

[@lucasitaly1980]

@RuairiDeFaoite thank you

[@uucp]

Four Belgian riders ina sprint to win, wonderful for Belgian fans. It was a very wet race, and the video shows crash after crash. Bob Roll was the top American finisher, and appears briefly near the end of this clip.

[@federicobandini]

for four or five years the finish was taken in that area. then it came back in the velodrome

[@lucasitaly1980]

uhm, I notice that Versluys has the shifters at the end of handlebar. Is it possible ? I never have seen that ! And they are double commands ?

[@garyallen1056]

Im a huge fan of this race and other Classics of this nature.... The epic struggle was awesome. I was really hoping Versluys would be victorious, but Vanderarden was way too fast....

[@sam88888883]

which song is it in the background?

[@lucasitaly1980]

When I see this video I recover the wish to ride my bike again!!!

[@garyallen4313]

Please always ride you bike , it’s part of life!!!!

[@bradford_shaun_murray]

1:25 ahhhhh! 2:14 woah!

[@gregoryfamularo3224]

Bob roll!!!!

[@stevenmorse666]

Poor Bob Roll

[@jean-marielanoy9007]

ERIC SURDOUÉ DU CYCLISME

[@duketube100]

RUDY DHANEANS was king!

[@EduardoD]

tu veux un bonbon maintenant ?

[@alainrogez8485]

Hein ?