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“The Racer” Extract: The Hell Of The North

The 2020 Paris-Roubaix is at best postponed, it will be conspicuous in its absence this weekend. It is an early-season highlight for any fan of cycling – we’re treating CHPT3 followers to exclusive, full extracts from David Millar’s book, “The Racer”. Winner of the Cycling Book of the Year, David writes from the perspective of a professional, preparing for the race and providing an enthralling look inside the crazy race with no details left out. “It’s one thing to love watching a race, it’s another to love doing it. Paris–Roubaix is an example of this: it’s easy to love as a fan, much harder as a racer. The love hate relationship is real. I’ve started it three times and none of those times ended particularly well – which is another way of saying I didn’t finish. It’s known as ‘the Hell of the North’, something people often mistake as being attributable to its renowned difficulty and the famous images of exhausted racers looking like they’ve been to hell and back. It actually originates from the 1919 edition, when it was held for the first time since the First World War had ended, and travelled through a devastated northern France – ...

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QUIZ: How Well Do You Know Paris-Roubaix?

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A Look Back: Flying down the Carrefour de l’Arbre with Johan Vansummeren

Johan Vansummeren is almost two meters tall, 1.98 m, to be more precise, but he is also a man with a big engine who rode 15 Grand Tours in his career and took his most significant victory in the “Hell of the North” in 2011, after dropping his breakaway companions on the Carrefour de l’Arbre and riding solo into the famous velodrome. While browsing through the Castelli image archives recently, I came across these great catalog shots by the Grubers, taken on an unforgettable day in the north of France. It was a cold, damp December day in 2012, and Johan was bouncing over the cobbles from the Arenberg Forest to the Roubaix velodrome. The cobbled sections were covered in mud. A gravel or mountain bike would have been a better choice that day, but Johan rode his road bike with 25 mm tires sliding through every corner of the iconic pavé sections, cutting his way through the mud on the way to Roubaix. Together with the exceptional cycling photographers Jered and Ashley Gruber, we tagged along by car to capture some epic photos for the Castelli 2013 winter catalog. These were the toughest conditions we ever have asked anyone ...

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Paris-Roubaix, catching up with Ian Stannard

There are few better signs that the spring campaign is on than Team Sky’s Ian Stannard smashing across the cobbled roads of Belgium and northern France. Castelli recently caught up with Stannard for a chat about Paris-Roubaix and how to ride the iconic cobblestone sections.

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Photo Contest: Celebrating The
 Queen Of The Classics

––– THE CONTEST HAS FINISHED – The winners can be found here below  ––– This week we’re bringing you a photo contest in honor of Paris-Roubaix, the last of the cobbled classics. Dust, mud, manure, crashes and bonkers fans make ‘Hell of the North’ the most brilliant and unpredictable one-day cycling race on the calendar. Luck can play just as big a part as form and strength of teams in attaining the victory. Castelli celebrates the “Queen of the Classics” with a photo competition that gives you the chance to win a pair of Free Aero Race Bibshorts, the same shorts used by Team Sky. All you have to do to enter the competition is to upload your best cycling photo. Engage your friends and get your friends t like your photo. The two photos with the most likes win. Good luck !! ––– CONTEST WINNERS ––– The votes are in! Congratulations to MichalDrapac, AitoralTuna0 and our bonus random winner, Mike.  Thanks to everyone who participated in the photo contest and helped make it a success!

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