Quick Reads

In the mid-90s, the cobblestones of Roubaix became a laboratory for radical tech. From Rock Shox forks to Museeuw's ill-fated Bianchi, discover the era when road racing went "off-road" to conquer the Hell of the North.

Everyone thought Thomas Wegmuller would win, but fate and a stray plastic bag had other plans. Relive the day Dirk De Mol turned a 220-kilometre breakaway into an unlikely victory on the road to Roubaix.

One looked like a boxer on a bike, the other an invisible force. Relive the 1952 Paris-Roubaix where Rik Van Steenbergen endured the suffering of a lifetime to outlast Fausto Coppi on the stones.

Explore the career of Tom Boonen, from his 2002 debut to his historic 2012 Triple. Discover why this Belgian legend is known as Mr. Paris-Roubaix and Mr. E3.

The race looked won for Moreno Argentin, but Sean Kelly didn’t think so. Relive the Irishman’s final Monument victory, where he measured the corners of the Poggio with hair’s breadth precision to snatch glory from the race favourite.

Bernard Hinault never liked Paris–Roubaix, yet in 1981 he rode through mud, crashes and fury to win it in the rainbow jersey