Sean Kelly

The 1986 Paris Roubaix. A race for the 'hard men'.

The toughest riders in the whole peleton, probably the toughest riders in the whole world. And there was none harder and tougher than Sean Kelly, the farmer's son from Tipperary.

Sean Kelly was the ultimate journeyman rider who would win all the tough working-class one day races called the classics. He particularly excelled at the Paris Roubaix and the Liege-Bastogne-Liege, both marked by their treacherous sections of 'Pave' or massive cobblestones.

In this video clip you see the riders hit the cobble stones and their arms gather up like insect legs to absorb the shock. Hard men like Sean Kelly could take the hits better than the weak armed, limp wristed little bitches like Greg Lemond, heard whining like the spoiled little Minnesotan brat he is. That said, Lemond has more class in his pinky than most of today's American riders (Lance Armstrong)

Try to attack those lines a little more aggressively, hit those cobbles just a little harder, jump a median to get around some cars. Duwutchyulike - be like Sean Kelly.