Chaos & Cobbles! Why Paris-Roubaix is a journey through hell 😳😰

This week on the Eurosport Cycling Show, we look ahead to the glory and the pain that the peloton will be enduring this weekend at Paris-Roubaix.

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Bahih is no ordinary Monument it was always the harshest of races brutal stones to smash the wheels and the resolve of all but the hardiest of riders with any smoother rest bites in the surface often turned treacherous by mud leaving nowhere to hide and no chance to

Rest Riders have condemned the race as a circus a bad dream many like Franco balerini swore never to return but then did in his case winning the race twice to survive you must attack the race fiercely and accept that the race will always fight back but for those strong

Enough to win it the B has played host to intense battles and enduring rivalries it was in 1895 that two of hu’s textile tycoons Theodor Ven and mauce Perez upon the idea of a race from Paris ending at their newly built vdrome in K the first edition with a prize

Equal to 7 months typical wages was raced in 1896 only two world wars and a pandemic have paused it since its nickname the hell of the north seems self-explanatory but the suffering of the Riders isn’t the origin of the name it was actually a description of the

Conditions Left Behind after World War I with burn burnt trees burst drains and animal corpses having transformed the area into something which could only be described as hell on Earth the cobbles once a simple fact of life and now cherished by fans and even stolen as souvenirs each year the

Friends of bahi hu spend over €1,000 repairing damaged sectors to keep them Ridable nevertheless these aren’t the cobbles of Flanders used by daily car tra welta winner Chris Herer once compared the H cobbles to a scattering of rocks in a plowed field and in places this isn’t far from the truth in fact such is the toughness of riding them that the

Organizers rate the various sectors from one easy through to five extremely hard these five star sectors are the stuff of Legend the car Mon and the most infamous of all the TR all to be traversed at Breakneck speed they say if you go fast enough that you’ll float over the cobbles or maybe

It’ll just be over sooner some suggest a light grip on the bars a bit of extra tape two pair of gloves or no gloves every Rider will have their own rituals to minimize the suffering from the constant assault on the body with such a parkour crashes are an inevitable part

Of the race and never more so than during a wet year connoisseurs of suffering both fans and Riders have always insisted that a true addition of the race is a wet one and it’s fair to say that only the greatest of bike handlers can stay upright in such conditions only perhaps to eventually

Collapse within the iconic vome itself battered blooded and caked in mud so why do it why has this horrific feat of endurance not being consigned to the history books to quote two-time winner Shan Kelly bahi H is a horrible race to ride but the most beautiful one to win