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It’s not supposed to be easy…<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
\u201cForward, the Light Brigade!
\u201cCharge for the guns!\u201d he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Charge of the Light Brigade, Alfred Lord Tennyson 1870<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\n\n\n

Often a race is made by a selfless effort by a domestique, or by the sacrificing of a team leader\u2019s chances, and indeed from time to time the real star of the show is not the winner but his entire team, or another rider entirely who battered himself on the front for 20km, went back for numerous bottles and then obligingly gave up his wheel after the star\u2019s puncture, but spent another 50km previously, killing himself to shadow his leader just to be there when the crap hit the fan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many untold histories, so many heroes. We don\u2019t watch this sport as we do a football game, where we watch a tableau unfold, where all movements are seen, all intentions are on open display, and, if they escape us the first time, they\u2019ll eventually be uncovered and replayed in slow-motion later, often endlessly. In cycling we almost always see only the closing chapters, the final pulls of the needle that ties the ends of the threads together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some riders handle the cobbles better than others.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But in just about every race it is the action that offers the narrative, the peloton the plot, the stars the climax. The actual race itself is little more than a mere backdrop to the story being played out upon its stage. Some races get close to being different. Milan-San Remo is one, with its energy sapping climbs before the finish and the feared descent of the Poggio having become enshrined within the very fabric of the sport. The Ronde de Vlaanderen is another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mt. Ventoux has its place in the pantheon of great mountains, as does l\u2019Alpe d\u2019Huez and the Madonna del Ghisallo, but these are geographical places, and though they have a life and history of their own they are not actual races but features within races. Only one race outshines its participants and plays an active part in writing its own script. Only one is its own true star. This race, unlike all others, is never truly conquered, never beaten, never abashed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rather, it brands its winners, lays its mark upon their flesh and thus owns them forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘He won Paris-Roubaix,\u2019 they whisper in reverent tones of previous winners, hushed because winning in the Roubaix Velodrome means you have danced with the Devil and got away not only with your cobblestone but with a good singeing of your heels from the breath of Old Beelzebub. A mere singeing and not a full body first degree burning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That takes some doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The great Sean Kelly won in 1984 & 1986<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Why so beloved, so feared and so mythical, this great race that traces its very first edition back so long ago, like a vein of gold in a battered cobblestone, that survives still in this century but began back in the 19th? Unlike other races this one is never predictable, unless the fact that we expect chaos is to be considered a marker of normality. Paris-Roubaix exists outside of this modern world, from another time, another place, and yet there it is in front of us every year, rising like a dinosaur with the flesh of men shredded and decomposing hanging from its fearsome teeth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas other races follow a script this one rarely does. Rather, it pens itself with each rotation of the wheels of the men who shudder and rattle in their saddles above its pave. There is no late rampage by the peloton to reel in the leaders because by the end there simply is no peloton. In a world increasingly covered and smothered in plastic and soft edges, by safety warnings and government decrees, here is a metaphor for life itself, stripped down, bare and raw, dangerous in its intensity, violent in its nature, rapacious in its beauty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paris-Roubaix shines like a million blinking lights in the darkness of our suburban reality, strafing our retinas through the fuzzy muddle of the modern. It stands erect and proud amidst the flaccidity that defines so much of our existence and whilst still romantic in part, it will never be the lady that is Lombardia, nor the moody street-corner hooligan that is Amstel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No, this is Roubaix, \u2013 ruggedly handsome and on fire with charisma yet always a hair\u2019s breadth from insanity. Think De Niro in Taxi Driver or Brando’s Colonel Kurtz and you’re getting close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Where legends are made… <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sport has the capacity for the epic and the mesmerising, though often the characters involved fail to deliver. Remember years of dull Wimbledon finals, mundane SuperBowls and tedious Tour de Frances where the practitioners involved walked over their opponents with a robotic monotony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well Paris-Roubaix is never, ever like that and that is the essence of its brilliance. It\u2019s a 17th Century galleon in a hurricane with men tied to the masts. It\u2019s Captain Scott\u2019s tent in those last, frozen and abandoned moments. It\u2019s the old man and his battle with the marlin in Hemingway\u2019s finest work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It propels those within to heroic deeds. It commands them to bravery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is perfect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is Paris-Roubaix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yours truly at start of the Arenberg Forest<\/em> cobbles.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This article is a re-write from an article that originally appeared in PEZ<\/em> Cycling News in 2014.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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