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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 ...

Paris-Roubaix Route map

The 111th edition of the Queen of the Classics, Paris-Roubaix, which will set off from Compiègne this coming Sunday, April 7th, and feature twenty-seven sections of cobbles – the feared Pavé du Nord – adding up to a total of 52.6km.

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

Paris-Roubaix Route map

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