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@Dan_W
Done the sportive for the last 3 years...You might as well stay in Lille (the chinatown-ish-y bit is much more preferable IMO - 10 mins walk to stations).
The coach isn't so arduous tbh...Bikes are well hung (ooo er) in a trailer (it's no London to Brighton skip).
The medium course is ridiculous - Arenbergs the first cobbled section. No-one deserves that as their baptism!
Doing it (all!) fixed is triple hard. There's no hills worse than a motorway bridge lump (maybe a bit of a medium and shallow sapper as you get into Roubaix outskirts?)