Hincapie out of PR

atpjunkie said:

http://www.velonews.com/race/int/articles/9720.0.html

that steer tube is CF (Black). Last year he was using a Alloy steerer and had the bike with the suspension.

this year it's CF unless that's matte black grease

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Read all about it...

CN: Is it a steel steerer?

SD: No, it's aluminium; it's been blasted then anodized black.

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http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2006/apr06/roubaix06/?id=/tech/2006/features/hincapie_trek

I'm going conspiracy theorist

I'm thinking it was a new fork, they were keeping it secret. that break looks too clean to be alloy. alloy tears,it rarely shears

atpjunkie said:

I'm thinking it was a new fork, they were keeping it secret. that break looks too clean to be alloy. alloy tears,it rarely shears

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The article posted on cyclingnews on April 6th. I suspect somebody botched the peen blasting job. ...and it should have been steel.

I saw myself on the TV coverage and had I been standing about 100m further into that cobbled section I'd have got a ringside seat of that incident. I've seen the race numerous times now but everytime I walk along the cobbles I always struggle to comprehend how they ride over them so fast and for so long.

For me, Paris Roubaix and the Tour of Flanders make up my favourite week in the cycling calender.