DURBO VERSUS ROUBAIX
FOR LUKE DURBRIDGE, THE LAST FEW YEARS OF HIS career have been missing something. He’s not mounted an uninterrupted Classics campaign since 2017. Since then he’s either missed the entire Classics season (2019), crashed out of Paris Roubaix (2018), or had more recently had the COVID-19 pandemic cut his Classics campaign short.
After his break-out 2017 Classics season where he was just off the podium in five separate races, he’s been working towards stringing together another year where he can go deep into the finals of the big races and challenge for a podium or, better yet, pull off a big win.
“...I flew in a day or two before Roubaix and Matt Wilson PICKED ME UP FROM THE AIRPORT AND DROVE ME STRAIGHT TO THE FOREST OF ARENBERG...”
While he’s had the frustration of these interruptions over the last few seasons, Durbridge has been building on his already impressive TT engine, claiming back-to-back victories in the Australian National Time Trial—both ahead of the then TT World Champion, Rohan Dennis.
After the year that was in 2020 I sat down with Luke to have a chat about what his year looked like, what 2021 will (hopefully) hold for him and
