TALKING LUFT TOP 6! PARIS ROUBAIX MOST INFLUENTIAL

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We’re back this week with another Talking Luft Top Six. This week it’s the turn of a special guest - and Monument winner, Matt Goss, who shares his Top Six Most Influential from Paris Roubaix!

As those of you who caught the last edition will know, we’ve mixed things up with Talking Luft this year, focusing on a single event each month, talking through the most influential, editions, teams, riders’ styles and stories from that race.

It’s a lot of fun, and this week is a bit of a special edition for me. I get to discuss the most influential moments from my favourite race of all, Paris-Roubaix. Not only that, I get to do so with Gossy, a former teammate of mine - but perhaps more importantly, a former teammate of Roubaix greats like Fabian Cancellara and Stuart O’Grady at the mighty CSC team.

Of course, the dust is still settling on this year’s edition of Roubaix. Gossy and I couldn’t avoid spending a bit of time dissecting the race and chatting about the changes that have happened even in the few years since we both left the peloton.

There are so many influential moments at each Roubaix and it is itself such an influential race that one of the hardest parts of this show was actually narrowing things down to just six (…to be honest we did end up making it more of a top seven!), but being a couple of Aussies from the same generation there are some moments at Roubaix that neither of us could leave out. I’ll leave you to have a listen to what those moments were and why they were so influential to us.

As always everyone should have a different top six - so let me know what you guys are thinking: does anyone else love Tafi throwing his cut-off cap away? Which is your best Boonen moment? Is now a better Roubaix era than the 90s!?

Give it a listen, and enjoy!

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