Paris - Roubaix Sportive

Just been offered some Pirelli P-Zero 4S in 28mm... anyone ridden these and Open Pave? any opinions? tyres tyres tyres!
27mm pave are coming up 26mm on wide rims :(

It’s a coin toss between these two... skinny steel and 32s or ti and 27s... I’ve got about an hour to get it to Eurostar despatch!!

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Do it on the old bike, you'll get more compliments

32s are 'cheating' so go with ti and 27s for the full on visceral experience

Which did you choose!?!

Old with 32s but am packing the 27mm pave if I’m feeling brave! 😬

That gazelle is sweet

Long shot but does anyone have, or know of anyone with a spare/unwanted ticket for Saturday, our ticket registration didn't go through and now it's sold out. We need two please

Yeah - I’ve got about 3 spare tickets for the ride... yup, three flakey mates... @MartinERK @wharry etc... drop me a pm

Thanks dude, pm'd

Fear not although it lashed down today the weather is going to be ok for friday and Saturday, velodrome was empty tonight so we threw in a few laps and watched a bit of bmx. Our emails only arrived late last night and i mean late as we left at 4 am to drive down here .

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Cheers man!

Good luck all! I look forward to hearing how you get on, as I think I’ll try P-R in 2019

The Gazelle looks awesome. Feel the history (mostly through your wrists I guess) !

That’s made me both envious and excited! Can’t wait!!

Dont get lost

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Just rode Arenberg Monday morning. I got little past the bridge until I broke a spoke. Nobody tells you in advance it is downhill and you pick up lot of speed. It is easier to float over the cobbles going fast, but the road is also bumpy as hell so it is really easy to break your gear. Stay safe and take the five star sectors easy. The others are not that bad.

Carefour is a mudbath today

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Lol no amount of wapping high street gets you prepared. Losing a spoke is quite extreme! What psi were you running?

Bits of bikes everywhere arunburge was mental even with the top bit closed off !! Its also very very hot

Three people fell immediately in front of me at the trench, I came very close once. Was pretty crazy.
I have sunburn and a big blister on my right hand so came off fairly lightly.

Little ben aged 8

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I saw you guys rolling in to the velodrome as we were leaving well done!

Cheers

Dry and dusty

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