Paris-Roubaix favorite memories?

[galgal]

Waiting for race tomorrow, brings back many memories of past ones. Wondering what favorite, abiding memories people have.
This sticks as a special one for me.
http://video.eurosport.com/cycling/johan-museeuw-breaking-the-curse-of-arenberg_vid968108/video.shtml

[choke]

One that sticks in my mind is the muddy and wet 1994 edition and in particular Andrei Tchmil bunny hopping the traffic island while in the lead.

1:05:10 in this https://youtu.be/Kn4gzxNQbuM

[weisan]

http://tiz-cycling.racing/live-stream/

[ripvanrando]

Watched 1986 in person. (and a couple others)

Leapfrogging one set of cobbles to the next following a french family's Peugeot 604 over wet, muddy cobbles at 120-140 kpm is an image burned in my brain. That Peugeot was was all over the pave and the bodies in the back seat were tossed around like rag dolls. I thought worst case was that my rented E300 would be in the field and I'd have to pay a tow truck. I figured the german car had a better suspension and if I just hung with them, I see more of the race. I was a wheel sucker going way back.

The second image in my mind was how fast they rode into each new section of cobbles, the speed seemed like a full on sprint. I really could not make out who was who with all of the mud and speed but the excitment was incredible. I can still feel it 31 years later.

[cnighbor1]

Paris-Roubaix favorite memories George Handicapi swimming in that large canal he fell into

[Fivethumbs]

1990, the closest finish in history. This edition had all the usual suspects with Eddy Planckaert nipping Steve Bauer by a centimeter.

[pbarry]

'85, Kelly beats LeMond for a podium finish. FF or silence audio to avoid Tesch's sound bites. :eek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvAdfqo43s0

[livingminimal]

In 1986 I was ten years old and taped it on VHS. Me. I was so excited. My dad was a cyclist. I was a burgeoning cyclist on a Peugeot. I still have the tape.

This morning at 4:30am I went over to my dads house with my Amazon Fire Stick and the NBC Gold app. I am almost 41. My dad is 62 and recently diagnosed with Parkinsons. We watched the last 130km together and I tried to convince him the entire time to get a Felt VR5.

[galgal]

great memories, thanks for sharing!
Interesting that 85 and 86 with Sean Kelly is mentioned more than once, deservedly so!
@ripvanrando. Watched P-R roadside several times, and at the Velodrome, but never actually followed the race on the road, that must have been truly incredible.And yes, TV doesn't give an idea of how fast the riders are going, particularly as you say when they enter cobbled sections.
@livingminimal. Wonderful that you watched a rerun of the old race with your dad, hope he and your family cope with the Parkinson's as best as possible, and that watching the race was an uplifting moment. Did you manage to convince him on the Felt bike?
So happens that watching Paris-Roubaix and Mapei in their pomp, particularly Museeux, has a little to do with my having a C40;) And when I'm told how that old bike can't compare to the newest carbon super bike, isn't stiff enough, I remember this
:hello:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnX4uaDYyIU