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Roubaix retrospective through the lens of Tim de Waele, Ashley and Jered Gruber

One of the toughest one-day races in the calendar has already been casting its shadow earlier this week and teams were busy with reconnaissance and fine-tuning their equipment for Sunday. It looks like another dry edition. The last muddy edition of Paris-Roubaix was way back in 2002 by the way. The following gallery is a retrospective of the recent history (Castelli coloured) and should fuel the fire and excitement for RBX. Images by Tim De Waele, Ashley and Jered Gruber

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Reflecting on a great six year partnership with Slipstream Sports

Castelli has had a great six year partnership with Slipstream Sports first as Garmin-Cervélo through various sponsor changes up to our current Cannondale-Drapac. Along the way we’ve won some great races: · Paris-Roubaix 2011 · 4 stages and the team classification at the Tour de France, 2011 · Omloop het Nieuwsblad 2012 · Giro d’Italia 2012 · Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2013 · Stages in the Giro and Tour, 2013 · Critérium du Dauphiné, 2014 · Tour of Britain, 2014 · Giro di Lombardia 2014 · Circuit de la Sarthe 2015 Along the way we’ve made some great friends as well as developing clothing that has changed the ways pro cyclists dress: Sanremo Speed Suit BodyPaint 3.0 Speed Suit Climber’s jersey Inferno bib shorts The Perfetto family of jackets and vests As part of our history, Castelli will continue to race at the highest level in the sport and we will announce our future direction on November 3rd. Stay tuned! Here’s a small selection of images of our past six years …

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Rider portrait: Johan Vansummeren

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What is the first memory you have involving a bicycle?
When I was seven or eight years old I went with my father and his friends on this ride. I had a not as nice bike. [Ed. A little bike?]

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Video: Johan Vansummeren Interview

Johan Vansummeren is almost two meters tall, 1,98cm to be more precise,  that’s tall for a cyclist, but how tall must he have stood after winning the 2011 Paris-Roubaix? Johan made the important break and left his companions to ride solo into the famous velodrome. We managed to catch up with the tall Belgian at the Roubaix velodrome during a photoshooting for the Castelli Winter’13 catalog. Use the timer to jump between the questions. 0:13 How does it feel like standing on the Roubaix Velodrome? 0:37 Did you know you could win the Roubaix? 1:09 How did you get into cycling? 3:10 When dd you realize that you were good on cobbles? 4:18 Any bad experience on cobbles? 4:42 What tyre pressure do you run on cobbles? 4:49 Are there other races that you dream of winning? 5:36 When was your first time in the SanRemo SpeedSuit? 6:20 Whats the benefits of wearing the SanRemo SpeedSuit? 6:39 What about the winter SanRemo Thermosuit? 6:54 Whats your favorite Castelli product? More info on Vansummeren’s favorite Castelli products? SanRemo SpeedSuit SanRemo ThermoSuit Gabba Jersey          

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Video: Vansummeren talks Gabba and SpeedSuits

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Johan Vansummeren (Garmin-Sharp) talks about his favorite Castelli products, the Gabba Jersey, SanRemo Speed Suit and SanRemo ThermoSuit.

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