Paris-Roubaix Challenge: Trouée d’Arenberg complete

[@mikeeasey6815]

Sod that!!!! those cobbles look mind numbingly awefull 🤑🤪 good to see it from a club riders view. 😮❤

[@Millerbike01]

Thanks, that's what I wanted to show.

[@mikehedges5954]

Ah good ride, thanks for sharing. I can actually see myself in the video, right at the end of it, after the finish just milling around with my bike trying to get out of everyone’s way.

[@roybooth7904]

Definitely 'Type 2 Fun'. The flat tyre count took me back to CTC club rides in days when tyres were made to last - but by their riders, rather than by the manufacturers.

[@Millerbike01]

it might look Type 2 but it was actually kind of Type 1 fun, ie fun. It came early in the ride, no-one was exhausted, it was simply a question of how best to ride the menacing cobbles. The flat tyre count is comical, why anyone still brings inner tubes to cobbles I do not know.

[@specialist211]

Some people didn't seem to have receive the wide tyre memo. MTB and suspension does seem to be against the spirit of the thing though!

[@Millerbike01]

I get the impression the French are quite traditional about tyres. OTOH showing up on an MTB misses the point, I agree.

[@jasoreed]

Wow whats with all the punctures !! i rode the 91 amateur race 220k not one flat or crash on a steele Eddy Merckx, 36 spoke Mavic Roubaix ssc rims and cheap training singles, pressure was probably just under 60psi. But then we didn't go through Arenberg.

[@Millerbike01]

There were people fixing flats along the entire length of the route, not just Arenberg, like hundreds of people. Good ride in '91 !

[@darekpiegat1]

Riding on the side of Truee d'Arenberg doesn't count for completion of this cobbles sector, regardless how crowdy it is on the cobbles. I did it 4 times, 2 during PRC '23 and '24, on the cobbles, forced to overtake many other cyclists, so it is possible. Good luck next time! Anyway thanks for the video.