Paris-Roubaix, The Inside Story by Les Woodland

Paris-Roubaix, The Inside Story by Les Woodland

The Paris-Roubaix bicycle race, nicknamed The Hell of the North, is famous for sending riders over brutal cobblestone roads. Only the strong, brave and lucky survive the hours of bone-shaking racing without suffering some mishap or catastrophe. It is so difficult no one wins it by accident, and winning Paris-Roubaix automatically puts a rider among the immortals of the sport. How did that come to be? At one time roads everywhere were paved with cobbles. Why did Paris-Roubaix emerge to be such a special race? Les Woodland tells the inside story: how one of cycling's classics grew from several 19th century businessmen's plan to bring cycling to the mill town of Roubaix. It wasn't a sure thing, and several times it seemed the race might die. It's a fascinating tale, so fasten your seat belts, Les is going to take you on a bumpy ride.

Woodland, Les: - Les Woodland has been cycling for 50 years and has been writing about cycling since 1965, when he wrote his first reports for the British publication Cycling. Since then he has been a prolific contributor to newspapers, magazines, web sites and radio stations in the U.K., the U.S. and Belgium as well as authoring more than twenty-five books. Mr. Woodland, who lives in France, speaks several of the languages of cycling: English, Dutch and French.

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ISBN 10	0985963611
Title	Paris-Roubaix, The Inside Story
Author	Les Woodland
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	McGann Publishing LLC
Year published	2013-02-08
Number of pages	198
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