Paris - Roubaix 2024, one day monument, April 7

[rallybanana]

"Get cobbles, pay with rubbish" not a trade Les Amis de Paris-Roubaix would like!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1777761249205371146

Of course they wouldn't...

The hooligans are back

Hooligans rule the Carrefour de l'Arbre | Cyclingnews.com

The Carrefour de l'Arbre is the fourth-to-last cobble stone sector in Paris-Roubaix and with 17...

www.cyclingnews.com

 

[pastronef]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1778180309067976975

View: https://twitter.com/ammattipyoraily/status/1778180309067976975

 

[Barkintheeye]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFe6EAaNamo&t=10715s


The year was 2015 and things were different;
- Brakes were rim
- Shoes were yellow
- Wiggins was a favorite (!)
- Tyres were tubs 25-30 mm
- Speed was slow(er) (2024: 47,8 km/h vs 2015: 43,5 km7h)
- Motorcycle drafting was hilarious
- Break away was let up +6:00, yet...
- Peloton kept it together almost into the velodrome
- Degenkolb was there (and still is)

....things were definitely different, for good and for bad.