Paris - Roubaix 1988

This is the CBS Emmy Award winning broadcast of the Paris Roubaix Bicycle race in 1988.

[@BuffaloBuffalo-uc6zp]

Phil Liggett had one of the best commentator voices of his time or era, and he possessed a true love for the sport of cycling..

[@garyallen1056]

Yes his voice cannot be replaced.... Period.

[@starblazers01]

Phil Ligget, John Tesh (music) & CBS team at their best.

[@wanmaker]

No helmets crazy as fuck

[@shane-irish]

Cycling was so more interesting back in the day

[@Bhousm76]

I love this coverage. the music, the commentary, all of it is so different from now, but so awesome. gotta love retro sports

[@garyallen4313]

Yes tv cycling sucks today… Thank Goodness for Old CBS footage and KZbin…

[@Nojikuzus]

Phil Liggett, aka Inspector Gadget!

[@shane-irish]

LoL

[@AfroPoli]

I think they absolutely should re-introduce the concept of pretty ladies in fur-coats handing over wheels and other stuff. Great idea.

[@Olasnah]

LOL..."the following year they didn't have to worry about the roads....there weren't any".

[@pauledmonds3249]

Hard men, hardly any team support, big gears,no helmets, no radios, a pocket full of jam sandwiches or a baguette, and off you go.

[@SuperDannyb1975]

De Mol knew he'd pulled a real stunt with this one. I think his animal shout at the finish was a little "fuck you" to the big boys behind as well as pure joy and disbelief that the great escape actually worked.

[@starblazers01]

2023 women's Roubaix won with the same tactics. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚴🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚴

[@pd19852011]

Jaysus they sure knew how to make theme music back in the 80's..fantastic stuff..

[@bradford_shaun_murray]

25:55 epic!

[@garyallen1056]

Yes's indeed- I wish that music was back... Its just as epic as the race!!!

[@mralftupper1234]

i must be an idiot also !! I still ride a steel bike with no helmet a 1978 Claud Butler with reynolds 531 forks. though i now wear gloves..! i must be getting soft.

[@checka1963]

IN 1989 I rode a steel frame Reynoldds 531 and recorded my to date fastest Time trial speed on it of 39.2 KmH average speed. 25 years on with all the TT technology and so called enhancements I still havent matched that speed on the flat.

[@angelomedi]

grrrdog what is the distance?

[@treygray2817]

checka1963 i think age related decline may have something to do with that

[@sawdustcaesar6853]

CIOCC w/ helmet after 12 stitches to the head x 2

[@watsonroadster3707]

1986 Benotto 850....Still, no helmet....

[@1160rooster]

Great video Bob I’ve watching the Tour de France for the last 35 years and still riding by the way I have the Vitus bike used by Lucho Herrera in la vuelta a España 1987 great bike.

[@mytyrel420]

It's hard to believe that Roy Knickman was only 22 years old here. I remember seeing coverage of the 1986 Giro d'Italia when he was on La Vie Claire and riding for Greg LeMond... he was only 20 then! Pro cycling has changed so much since back then. More than anything else, radio communications has killed the tactical element of the sport. I think the 1980s was the last great Golden Era in professional cycling. Thanks for the upload.

[@garyallen8125]

Amen you are so right brother!!!

[@garyallen4313]

I totally agree1000%

[@Vtoq]

Tactics aside, I think radio communications does make cycling safer though

[@CWake1]

I own an ADR jersey from that year. Bought it in England, one of my most prized posessions.

[@jbratt]

@ 34:39 the sound of pure joy. It always makes me smile when I hear that part. I can remember hearing it when this first was broadcast. : )

[@aykcroid]

33:45 It's correct for de Mol to not attack while his rival is getting mechanical repairs. It's not 'ironic' in as much as it is a cycling 'code' amongst the professionals.

[@40ny]

No radios, no power meters, no team riding tempo on the front...just pure mayhem.

[@v.dargain1678]

And Fuerza de voluntad !! Viva

[@garyallen1056]

Yes all we have now is Team Sky like riding... Very robotic and boring.....

[@markfriis9391]

The music is from Geoff Downes- the New Light Orchestra 1986

[@1977minicooper1380]

the motorcycle camera work in amazing.

[@garyallen1056]

I saw this on TV in 1988 and it still looks good. The great camera angles convey the speed of the race- Also the music blends perfectly with the drama. Wegmuller would have blew past de Mol easily- with out that mechanical.... Fabulous race....

[@garyallen8125]

L

[@peterfinlayson1348]

Wow! I cant agree with people who are saying this coverage was good! Woeful American bias and almost zero knowledge of cycling by the commentators, including Phil! Kelly, "The Cannibal"? I think that he may be confused with another guy!

[@johncopple6479]

Yeah John Tesh was the schizznit back I'm day. This is back when he was taking Oprah out for a day long tour! Yes they were a thing back then.

[@pizzafrenzyman]

Bob Roll smiles and says "At least it's not snowing," but wait a few more months until the Giro and that smile will be gone.

[@chizhang001001]

love the music and hairstyle

[@johncopple6479]

Thank God John Tesh was there!!!

[@XxXGhostXxX417]

This is when phill wasnt a sell out! The Best years were the 1980's

[@royayersrules]

The music, the commentary, Dust-O-Mania! Ha ha compare this to a Sunday in Hell. How Americans convert something into pure Hollywood....

[@garyallen4313]

That’s how we roll bro!!!

[@andyh157]

Why I ride, raced… segment starting at 26:58 epic 🙌

[@freecarvejunkie]

Don't kid yourself...Lance was never a classics contender...he struck out on the Amstel Gold once...Amstel Gold and Roubaix are not one in the same.

[@Abnsdllnnlosnfd]

6:23 "Blablablabla....I´m Tim Brant" Who cares???

[@florianfuchs8736]

Watching this in lockdown 2020..wil something like this will ever hapen agein?

[@PatAndOrRick]

The rider at 29:01 is checking his emails.

[@bradford_shaun_murray]

lol on his mini Motorola 8000X phone, or a time traveller with an iphone, but actually he'd be looking at a bit of note paper of the route etc.

[@PatAndOrRick]

The rider at 29:01 is checking his emails.

[@lediffzitro7902]

Paris-Roubaix The Hell Of The North...

[@kaltonian]

"are they on the road to stardom or are they lambs to the slaughter"

[@stevenrose86]

Such an American broadcast!

[@nightfrailer]

Love me the John Tesh keyboard music! Right? Can I get a what what?

[@cccorlew]

Thanks for this. What a blast.

[@guitawrizt]

*_Man- the Good ol' Days of bike coverage._*

[@dob90210]

18:32 "So much fun!" That's why we do it!

[@Enigma71559]

I'll never understand why it took so long to realize that helmets on these guys was not a bad idea.

[@chasman9662]

Before doping. Before carbon. Before brake shifters. Before Look pedals Before I started biking...but just 2 years. What a great time.

[@ajones957]

Wow - blast from the past from the east coast. Forgot about Roy Knickman. Love to see these. I spent hours riding rollers in the basement during the east coast winters watching Roubaix and TDF videos.

[@JeremyLeipzig]

nice headband Doug Shapiro 17:15

[@JeremyLeipzig]

thomas wegmuller gave a thumbs down

[@lofi73]

24:09 female mechanic in furcoat??

[@EMC2Scotia]

Andy Hampsten in P-R? Amazing! Did CBS cover the Giro that year?

[@Ultegra10SPD]

Uh, they had oakleys (see Hampsten) and carbon was around. I think some were even using fiber bikes in the hell of the north. Lemond had already won the tour in '86 on a fiber bike. -R

[@cleberoliveira4789]

Great vídeo!!! And what is that about minute 29.. a rider was looking at whatssup.. hahahahah

[@fenderfan9514]

Love the trench coat intro

[@Juan0003]

I would kill to have the soundtrack for this!

[@jerrydixon9865]

Juan0003 check out yanni, he composed a lot of music from the 80’s for the tour...👍

[@andrewmurray5542]

I would take strict action if you played it 😂😂😂

[@John_Morritt]

No race radio either. He was checking his notes about the course probably.

[@jonhood2189]

Does anybody remember the song from about minue 29 - when Bontempi attacks?

[@smurfbike]

What is that commentator Tim Brant wearing on his head, lol

[@Fabi1701A]

Did you apologize to Floyd Landis yet?

[@CarlosGMonzonGuzman]

CBS Sports had the best coverage of European bike racing, two races only , Paris Roubaix and the Tour. The music by John Tesh, Vangelis, and Yanni, always made me wanna go for a ride.

[@angelomedi]

Carlos G. Monzon-Guzman they used these artists for their coverages?

[@CarlosGMonzonGuzman]

Yes, John Tesh had a couple of cassettes (and CDs) called Tour de France 1 and 2, if I'm not mistaken. I have the CDs stored somewhere.

[@CarlosGMonzonGuzman]

John Tesh also would appear as commentator on some races. Specially Tour de Trump.

[@CarlosGMonzonGuzman]

Mexican rider Raul Alcala would win one of the editions of the Tour de Trump by the way

[@angelomedi]

Carlos G. Monzon-Guzman woahh, cool, ill look them up. I did knew that about Alcala, actually he is from Monterrey Mexico where i live! Got to briefly meet him about a year ago on one of his recovery rides. By the way, what an amazing paris roubaix race this was! Currently watching live post race interview with Van Avermaet haha, 45km/hr , just incredible.

[@kirkmackie9563]

This broadcast is so awful.

[@andrewmurray5542]

I think it's been taken from an older VHS tape recording.

[@ah4fecksake]

CBS love this music at ~24:00 same as the tour of france 1987 :)

[@bikeman242]

Love the music

[@Abnsdllnnlosnfd]

Cheesy, yet so epic!

[@drunkensailor112]

there's no way one can hate the gayghties

[@Liofa73]

Abnsdllnnlosnfd --- So American... The guy in the mackintosh is ridiculous.

[@jimmac2445]

Great Post !

[@sbullar]

I thought each year they finished the race on the velodrome in Roubaix, it looks like a regular road finish here.

[@gr0bbelaar]

For a few years the velodrome was in such bad shape that they didn't use it between 1986-1989.

[@str8films1]

"The duo of Demol and Wegmuller forged on towards the streets of Roubaix and the finish line. The finish would not be in the Velodrome this year as the organisers experimented with a finish by the factory of their sponsor La Redoute." by By Sadhbh O'Shea on CyclingNews. www.cyclingnews.com/features/1988-paris-roubaix-the-day-the-breakaway-won/

[@John_Morritt]

No mobile email in 1988. That was 24 years ago.

[@frederickstaana1269]

tnx for posting mate

[@maugustyniak]

Epic, just epic.

[@v.dargain1678]

Absolutely ! I hope they have annual reunions . The we're legendary back in the 80's .

[@imajeepster]

I think Lance rode it early in his career. I don't even think he ever finished!

[@v.dargain1678]

Yeah . Lance Armstrong . He still mine too . I think his son rides now .

[@RickGraycoaching]

Where can I find the soundtrack for this? I have John Tesh's Tour De France album but I want these songs. Can't find them anywhere.

[@v.dargain1678]

Yeah . John Tesh "The Games" . I got that one too .

[@jasoncolquhoun35]

This is a long time after your post, but the music is a mix of John Tesh, Geoffrey Downes and Yanni...Tesh did an early Tour de France album from around 1985-almost impossible to find-quite a few songs here are from that album. He then produced "Tour De France", and "Tour de France the Early Years". Geoffrey Downes did "The New Light Orchestra". Yanni had several albums..Keys to Imagination, Chameleon Days, Out of Silence and Reflections of Passion.

[@malibustacy3606]

@@jasoncolquhoun35 The music from the 1987 John Tesh cassette can be found here, kzbin.info/door/zJcBCSc67A4svy135CgzVQvideos, the Geoffrey Downes and Yanni stuff can be found without too much difficulty.

[@timmeh5768]

I think that's a piece by Tesh from '85

[@andrewmurray5542]

The title sounds like an Indiana Jones film. Indiana Jones and the Evil Stones of Arenberg. Great video.i loved that era of cycling. Liggett has long been my favourite commentator.

[@yakobcdiego]

Beautiful video, thank you very much! Can't believe that of a plastic bag at the end haha. What a race. Greetings from Colombia!

[@GuitarguyRichard56]

the music. good grief.

[@freddymarcel-marcum6831]

Any race or doco not commentated by Phil Liggit is rubbish, pure rubbish.

[@jayaybe1]

Completely wrong.

[@quentinmoreau8687]

It was fabulous to recognise the faces of the riders!......no helmets those days!...freedom!

[@brianmcg321]

Is this an Unsolved Mysteries?

[@guymorris1963]

Why didn't the race finish on the tack in the Roubaix velodrome in 1988 ?

[@jasoncolquhoun35]

It had to do with a Sponsor of the race at the time...I believe 86,87 and 88 all finished in front of the Sponsors factory...I could be wrong, but I remember something about that. I photographed the race in 1999 after having been a rider in France in the earlier 90's. It was epic.

[@anthonymintz4205]

@@jasoncolquhoun35 They were doing repairs/upgrading the velodrome in 1987 and 1988.

[@gregoryfamularo3224]

Does anyone have this 1988 race not on cbs but from french English Belgian tv????

[@pieterisp]

Blood Steel and Tears!

[@v.dargain1678]

You got that right .

[@shano92107]

priceless

[@donsheahan1569]

Hampsten "Kelly and Vanderarden are just hanging out" - you would have to 😂

[@freddymarcel-marcum6831]

Phil looking young too!

[@gregoryfamularo3224]

Does anyone have footage of this 1988 race from channel 5 or anything other than cbs? I'm sure there was lots of good stuff that went on we didn't get here

[@misterarthur]

Don't the cobbles look a) much dirtier - hence the dust and b) much more bumpy than they do today?

[@watsonroadster3707]

I wonder why the race didn't finish in the velodrome that year???

[@EMC2Scotia]

Roger Dahlberg? Nathan's identical twin brother?

[@John_Morritt]

Always thought she was just a spectator. Great event ...you can get so close to the action you could be mistaken for part of the action.

[@yoakamvikhars2982]

Thomas wegmuller gran campeony escelente persona.

[@baroh2413]

Looks like almost all of the riders are riding Selle San Marco Rolls saddles

[@barneynothing802]

Well, his Geico commercials are better, but still, not rubbish.

[@macdonaldjohnd]

I think it was ALL John Tesch music, but maybe Kraftwerk too?

[@v.dargain1678]

I wonder where these bikers doing in 2019 ?

[@ianwillo]

Yes, but what about "the American team, Garmin-Cervelo"?

[@Edsonvier646]

eu amo esse esporte um dia vou corre essa prova e o meu sonho de infância.

[@jen3800]

Shitty way to win , if you ask me.

[@gregoryfamularo3224]

Does anyone have this race but on CBS? Maybe on channel 4?

[@Edsonvier646]

essa e a meca do ciclismo mundial

[@gregoryfamularo3224]

33.55 broken fingers

[@timmeh5768]

I have a feeling he still is ...

[@JuiloParker32]

phil looks so young!

[@eddie9215]

Does anybody know the name of the song at 25:20?

[@malibustacy3606]

Headclobbers, kzbin.info/door/zJcBCSc67A4svy135CgzVQvideos

[@dereknolantan]

Love the dramatic music!

[@Garrick42]

+Derek Tan : Intro and one other part were Geoffrey Downes, "The Light Program," but most of the music was by none other than John Tesh and was only ever released on cassette tape. This is when I was getting into cycling (started road racing in 1989, still doing it today), and the music that CBS used alongside their commentary was part of what ignited my imagination.

[@StFidjnr]

+Garrick Mitchell @ 7:01 name that tune that only strikes fear on a spring day in the northern part of france

[@Garrick42]

+StFidjnr The bumper music? No clue.

[@dereknolantan]

+Garrick Mitchell Hey thanks. I also started road racing in 1989...... and still going today! This music brings back those teenage memories of watching this coverage on TV. Would love to get some of this music to train too, it is so inspiring! All the best with your racing, I wonder how many other guys like us are out there?

[@garyallen1056]

This music captivated me back then it looked as though it was made for this coverage.... A match made in heaven!!!