A History Of Hell: Paris-Roubaix With Mitch Docker

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The Hell of the North, the queen of the classics, it's Paris-Roubaix! It might be the toughest race on the calendar, and it's one of the oldest! Defined by the iconic cobbles, Mitch Docker has been to uncover its legacy by meeting historian & collector Pascal Sergent, to find out why this race is so special!
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@gcn Год назад

What other races would it be great to learn the history of? Let us know in the comments! 👇

@gmccmemberk Год назад

Leadville 100

@chrisstrider Год назад

Giro❤

@alanhill7965 Год назад

Any race Mitch fancies to be honest he is great

@gideonmthembu8693 Год назад

Milano Sanremo

@h20s8804 Год назад

Why all the monuments of course!

@cub8556 Год назад

This series leading up to the race has been brilliant. Thanks Mitch and GCN

@gcn Год назад

Great to hear that you enjoyed it so much! What a race it was 🙌 If you fancy more of Mitch and his history deep dives we've got the perfect GCN+ doc for you 👉 gcn.eu/lrbp

@chrisridesbicycles Год назад

That little boy‘s smile of Mitch when he was riding in the Mapei kit. You could see that a dream came true. 😊

@gcn Год назад

He did look call 🙌

@gmccmemberk Год назад

We want more of Mitch!! Brings back memories of those awesome EF Gone Racing videos. Also, fantastic info and insights in this video. Best from Berlin, Germany!

@johnbouttell5827 Год назад

Dear GCN team, I loved listening to historian & collector Pascal Sergent. Please make a video about all his books and trophies. He seems to be a National Treasure. Best wishes, John. PS Is there anyone in the UK with a Pascal-Sergent-type collection?

@gibsona01 Год назад

I would happily watch this!

@swaffelkonijn5166 Год назад

What a treasure Mitch is. GCN, give that man a permanent contract.

@gcn Год назад

Mitch has done some great GCN+ docs for us! 👉 gcn.eu/lrbp

@DonnyDonnMendoza Год назад

I never thought Mitch would ever bring up the 2016 Paris-Roubaix. That was a great edition for his team but also so traumatic for him personally.

@SaltyChip Год назад

Ignoring something like that is more harmful in the long run then dealing with it and accepting it and hopefully taking something positive out of it. Todays kids will be in for a rude awakening when they find that out.

@lesflynn4455 Год назад

I saw the footage of that. It was traumatic enough watching it.

@BreakawayB Год назад

🫠I’m so hype for this race!!! It’s hilariously awesome that they built the finish line first, and added the rest of the route after that.

@gcn Год назад

Did it live up to the hype? 👀

@ethangodridge6833 Год назад

More of this! Great presentation, great guests, history, kit and bike. Thanks.

@andrewmcalister3462 Год назад

Mitch, Mitch, Mitch! Cobbles, cobbles, cobbles! Thanks GCN and Mitch (and his guests) for a fantastic series of videos. ❤

@gcn Год назад

Great to hear that you loved it 🙌

@justingillerot4134 Год назад

I was there this morning for the Paris-Roubaix challenge (146 km version, 19 cobble sections), long story short : 1 puncture, some one fell in front of me and took me down with him, one of my cans jumped off the bike in Arenberg which I find is a terrifying section (Stablinsky is a monster - the bad kind - for introducing it to the race), my legs don't hurt but my hands... dear lord my hands ! It was fun though

@gcn Год назад

Hahahaha sounds like a lot of fun 🙌 Did it give you more respect for the race itself?

@justingillerot4134 Год назад

@@gcn Indeed, lots of fun ! And of course, more respect for the race. As a belgian kid, I thought I knew cobbles... I was wrong 😅 Doing the LBL challenge on full distance next week 🚴🚴🚴

@sandrochiavaro7831 Год назад

More Mitch!!! Such a great series.

@terrysouthon3196 Год назад

Absolutely!!!

@gcn Год назад

How about Mitch over on GCN+ 👉 gcn.eu/lrbp

@lesliereissner4711 Год назад

That Mapei C40! Be still, my beating heart! I will ride mine tomorrow to celebrate, thanks to the nudge from this excellent video and the non-Hellish Mitch Docker.

@gcn Год назад

Do you have the same bike? 👀

@lesliereissner4711 Год назад

@@gcn Mine does not have the Mapei paint scheme but many of the Mapei C40s had the Art Decor design mine does. Unlike the Mapei bikes, mine is Campagnolo-equipped but rides just as smoothly!

@tomcruz3774 Год назад

Yeeeesssss this is the content I love. That collection needs to be preserved.

@fredmiller5612 Год назад

My favorite of all time is Roger DeVlaeminck, whom I met in 1983 at the US Tour of America!

@lesflynn4455 Год назад

Mitch Docker! What a coup. What a great video.

@rbonn3880 Год назад

Incredible series of videos with Mitch...he's so good and so down to earth. More, more!

@tristanbergh8655 Год назад

hearing that the steel Colnago felt so good on the cobbles was fantastic! loved watching you ride that section, Mitch! chapeau

@ralphc1405 Год назад

buddy that's no lugged steel it's a C40 carbon. Colnago!

@gcn Год назад

It's a great looking bike 👀

@skyhighguy86 Год назад

Absolutely filthy Moe and mullet combo

@ES-aussie68 Год назад

Fascinating insight, thank you 🙌

@breakfastPHD Год назад

This is great - would love to see this history deep dive for other races. Mitch is awesome.

@JamisDuanne Год назад

We want more of Mitch!

@derekkuhl Год назад

This was a beautiful history lesson of Paris-Roubaix! The best I’ve seen.

@leissp1 Год назад

Mitch is classic on his own I for one want more of Mitch

@scottcoady6914 Год назад

Museeuw! Especially winning after he broke his knee crashing on the race and almost loosing his leg then coming back to win it! Redemption!

@heytreacle Год назад

Watching Mitch resolutely pronounce it pariS in front a Frenchman was 😅

@alinapopescu872 Год назад

Mapei, Roubei... Hey!

@andrewmcalister3462 Год назад

He got it right in the intro, but after that ..... 😲

@MattSwain1 Год назад

Mitch speaks English and the English pronunciation of Paris is PariS

@plantpoweredhealth9383 Год назад

I'm Australian and I cringed when he kept pronouncing Paris with an S. Very odd

@rob_cd Год назад

I'm now liberated from sounding like an American douchebag.

@davehollingworth5537 Год назад

Lovin’ Mitch. More Mitch please ❤

@gregknipe8772 Год назад

this was informative. a great history lesson.

@rob_cd Год назад

What a treat. Sergent's collection is as incredible as his knowledge, and Mitch is beyond personable.

@Steveintheandes Год назад

brilliant video - what a great presenter! Proper reverence for the sport; love it!

@daveland3599 Год назад

Having a guy that’s been and done it all makes such a difference. Well done GCN for getting Mitch on board for this.

@Hoolio1967 Год назад

Really loved the complete series of Mitch's Paris-Roubaix videos this year. It's my favorite race of the year and I just sop up anything about it.

@gcn Год назад

It's one of the best races! Who better to talk us through it than Mitch 🙌

@tazparvaz2268 Год назад

Enjoyed reliving this amazing adventure by watching this edit ❤

@shyrahman4506 Год назад

Wow this is amazing

@revisephilosophy Год назад

Well done GCN and Mitch for featuring Pascal Sergent's wonderful collection and more particularly, his encyclopaedic knowledge of Paris-Roubaix. It's a real shame that more of his books are not published in English. As for another race to research, what about La Doyenne or Milano-Torino?

@shhhh_tell_no_one Год назад

Awesome Stuff

@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe 2 месяца назад

Nice to have a youg man racing bikes with appreciation of some tradition and history of an institution in existance before his frame of reference. Thank You! Very well done.

@goldenmath4091 Год назад

Such an enthusiastic video, I hope Mitch gets more work with GCN, loved this

@gcn Год назад

We love having Mitch work with us, he's done some great GCN+ docs 👉 gcn.eu/lrbp

@ahugenerd. Год назад

Small correction in your captions: at 6:34 Pascal Sergent says "Qui était une région de texitiles, une région de labeur", which does not translate to a region with a butter industry. "Labeur" as in "labour": plowing fields, mining, etc. So a better translation might be "This was a region with a textile industry, agriculture, mining, etc. It's a very tough place to work, hard work."

@layzb0y Год назад

The Paris-Roubaix content has been fantastic. Great job guys!!

@gcn Год назад

Great to see you enjoyed it! How did you find the race? 👀

@layzb0y Год назад

@@gcn Was glad to see EF win the women’s race. Vos finishing in the top ten was great too after all her troubles. Still a bit bummed that Wout had a puncture but MVDP winning isn’t all that bad lol. Cheers!

@DCassidy42 Год назад

More from Mitch please!

@Livlifetaistdeth Год назад

That was rad

@LaurentGloaguen Год назад

❤❤❤ On veut plus de Mitch !

@amrjon Год назад

Always love your work Mitch, but this one was a ripper. 👍👍👍

@adhk Год назад

Love some Mitch content! How much his eyes lit up in the interview. 🙌💪🫶

@casperandersen5836 Год назад

brilliant content

@tihomirdimitrov7385 6 месяцев назад

Great movie, true story 👏🤘😎

@beeldpuntXVI Год назад

What a collection on the trouest race. De vlaemink. Good choice. And tsmill

@vinniamsterdam700 Год назад

Paris Roubaix always makes me feel nostalgic.

@kaltonian Год назад

great inside story

@ImAnEmergency 9 месяцев назад

Mitch did really well in a presenter role and Pascal is an amazing and personable historian

@bobbyellis5006 Год назад

I was not a follower of cycling until the last few years. Went back and watched your crash after this as well as a backstage pass video of that year's race and holy crap, one, let me just say I'm glad you're ok. That was a horrendous crash. But what an amazing story for your teammate as well.

@gcn Год назад

It's not a crash you wan't to watch too many times. Luckily Mitch pushed through and is now smashing life after the peloton 🙌

@MikkoGarrido Год назад

Make Mitch a permanent presenter! We need an Aussie in your roster! 😁

@playmoreguitar5393 Год назад

This is absolute Gold. Thank you for this GCN.

@TheLeonthepeon Год назад

MORE MITCH ALL DAY!

@markdwelchforcongress4456 Год назад

I'm getting pretty G'd up for Sunday !!

@derekmclean5603 Год назад

Unfortunately, the unprecedented Mapei 1,2,3 on the podium, was proven by revelations in years to come was contributed by the fact that their programme of being doped up to their eyeballs was better than all other teams at that time. Notwithstanding that fact, it was still a magnificent achievement that lesser mortals could only be in awe of.

@ralphc1405 Год назад

mate they ALL (in contention to place at a race) were on Rx...which meant the playing field was level. 1970s, 80s, and 90s. Period. Your welcome. Oh, and Lance DID win all his TDF as far as I'm concerned.

@lesflynn4455 Год назад

Oldest news in cycling.

@chuckfrizzell8668 Год назад

Great job Mitch. I think you have found your second talent after cycling. Thank you.

@MattSwain1 Год назад

Those Mapei leggings were quite something!

@nickmarshall8583 Год назад

If you're going to spend 50+ years building a collection of anything, you can't do much better than this. Magnifique!

@gcn Год назад

A real triumph 🙌

@delivrance3961 Год назад

magnifique!!! and the best is Boonen!!!

@chrisstrider Год назад

Mapei the greatest kit ❤

@chenliang5263 Год назад

Haha... you can tell his voice was vibrating on the cobble. :D

@itsianwood Год назад

Great video! I'm looking forward to watching the race tomorrow! Maybe when, at the start, he says it's the longest bike race, he meant it figuratively speaking (of course Milan-San Remo is the longest) :-)

@gcn Год назад

Did the race live up to the hype for you? 👀

@itsianwood Год назад

@@gcn yes, more or less but obviously the WvA puncture somehow took away from the ending.

@777Saphir777 Год назад

At 6:37 when he is talking about the hardship in the region, he talks about "labeur" which means labor but is translated in butter (le beurre in French) 😂... God I'm hungry !

@fergusmccaffery1959 Год назад

Sean Kelly?

@ralphc1405 Год назад

he even won in '86 on a flexy VITUS bonded Aluminum bike. How's that for R&D?

@jebrook 2 месяца назад

Mitch is definitely a Mucca Mad Boy

@gearoidgalavan7483 3 месяца назад

It's a race for warriors and our own great Irish warrior himself Sean Kelly has Ireland on the roll of honour of the Hell of the North

@keihnungm2011 Год назад

6:35 he says 'de labeur' (labour) instead of 'de la beurre' (butter, although it's masculine so it would be 'du beurre' if he was saying that)

@rogerwilliamson7161 Год назад

Roger de Vlaeminck/Brooklyn!

@TheEpieikeia Год назад

6:38 the French word "labeur" translates as "toilsome work", not as "butter" (LE beurre), which doesn't make any sense here! I thought Simon spoke French fluently, but in this case he's rear-pedaled back to level A1 😅

@NathanEide Год назад

Time for Mitch Week for leTour

@erictalbot595 Год назад

paris-roubaix is very hard

@chiefsittingstill6061 Год назад

I remember reading years ago that Hinault won Paris-Roubaix so that he could lambast the organisers for how dangerous the event is, and he then declared he'd never ride it again! I'm not sure how accurate that is - would be interesting to get Pascal's take on that 😋

@jeremynorth Год назад

This is utterly brilliant. As I've watched only for a few years,I don't feel qualified to name a favourite of all time but I'd love Mathieu v d Poel to win and Pogacar

@gcn Год назад

Looks like your wish might of come true 👀

@milesrodger3724 Год назад

Mitch slaps

@flagjones Год назад

@Global Cycling Network, in the translation, at 6:36, The textile industry, butter, etc....... please, replace butter by labour

@maartenschmidt Год назад

The light on Mitch in that small room with the French collectos is so bad, it’s like watching a 90s VHS tape… which suits Mitch’s retro look very well actually 😂

@Davidon66 Год назад

I like GCN ,good content , great cinematics but i dont understand that a channel with this amount of subscribers dont do videos in 1440p just full HD, no offense here , keep up the good work :)

@stevek8829 Год назад

Bandwidth is still a factor. My cable company, Comcast, only transmits TV at 720p maybe occasionally 1080i. I can't imagine what detail you don't see in 1080p is going to enhance your viewing to the point such a big file is needed.

@janjanssen6922 Год назад

Funny guy really makes me laugh, whit his moustache, signore Parigi R.....

@rudyelizondo1935 Год назад

Great show Chris, really enjoyed it. I gotta say I think that bumping out John D by MVP was bad, mvp could have hit the brakes for a second to pull out. MVP could also have had a bad fall as well, he just lucked out big time. Well like you said, that’s racing in Paris roubaix where it is the hardest race of all! Also so sorry that Peter Sagan crashed out too, what the hell was he doing so far back anyways. Maybe these young guns are way too fast for him and he’s smart to retire before they even kill him 😮

@KaiserSoze357 Год назад

Nevermind farm tracks...I want to know who would win the climb up Baldwin street NZ .... David Goggins or Chuck Norris...🤠

@geraintwilliams5962 Год назад

You should pair him up with Si for a little adventure.

@MrPeperoni79 Год назад

With that mustache, I would dare to challenge the cobbles.

@francois9163 Год назад

Hum... Bernard Hinault hated this race; he was thinking that it was a non sens; so he used not to ride it. But one year he came; and he won.

@francois9163 Год назад

@skubisan Yeah, but you understood what I mean : you don't have to like this race to win it.

@cleekmaker00 Год назад

The Badger vilified this race, hated riding it with passion, but will be in the first Red Car behind the riders. Pavé, Pavé, Pavé! ALLEZ! 🚴😄🖖🇫🇷🇧🇪

@francois9163 Год назад

@@cleekmaker00 The Badger 😄 And the badger, at the end of the day, will say that, since he left, there is not a single French pro racer who can ride a bike !

@glennoc8585 Год назад

Didn't know that Mitch had retired

@thayerkids Год назад

Oh man, how I idolized those men in the 90’s. Great era while it happened even if a little tainted from what we know now.

@rogerhouben9230 Год назад

For me the greatest on cobbles was Museeuw

@samchm Год назад

labeur translated as butter was a nice translation to hear but doesn't mean that, it's more about hard working region :)

@professorsogol5824 Год назад

Is Mitch Docker the Secret Pro?

@potsdam521 Год назад

The medieval ride…

@markholder4054 Год назад

Tom Boonen

@ageary Год назад

What a shambles that he never mentioned 2 time winner Sean Kelly the true King of the classics.

@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe 2 месяца назад

What's with Dave Zabrekie mustache?

@ulyssebroseta541 Год назад

I'm French and I think you confused "Labeur" (hard work) with "le beurre" (butter) 😅

@eddykuipers2971 Год назад

Not wanting to be negative here but has anyone thought that maybe Mapai might have been a bit juiced up?

@Bikebikebikecba Год назад

The only time in his life that mitch docker wins a Roubaix... Or that he wins something...

@manuel7102 Год назад

Sonny Colbrelli 1 partecipation, 1 win

@filippopogacar Год назад

Mapei rulez

@steffenandersensahl9443 Год назад

Mitch is great, but I got to disagree with him about the greatest rider of Paris-Roubaix. I agree with Pascal that Roger De Vlaeminck is the greatest rider in Paris-Roubaix history. This is also my favorite race weekend of the year.

@ralphc1405 Год назад

nope. Sean Kelly. Period!