Paris-Roubaix 2025 highlights

Are these just road bikes with bigger tires, as Pogi's Colnago might be, or have some teams incorporated other gravel bike features for this multi-surface race? Can't quite tell from 2nd link above.
 
Prachtige wedstrijd met een grote winnaar uit Nederland. Ik heb deze klassieker in 1995 gereden met 28 km gemiddeld per uur in de stromende regen op een racefiets met 24 mm banden.
Toen was ik in de kracht van mijn leven waarbij ik jaren achter elkaar gemiddeld 16000 km per jaar reed.
Nu Carbon frames en Carbon hoge velgen schijfremmen en elektronisch schakelen.
In 1995 reed ik op een gazelle met stalen frame met velgremmen, ik heb ter herinnering een kleine steen .
Dit was uit de oude doos
groet
Rien
 
Jeremy McCreary said:
Are these just road bikes with bigger tires, as Pogi's Colnago might be, or have some teams incorporated other gravel bike features for this multi-surface race? Can't quite tell from 2nd link above.
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I missed your question back in April, probably because I wasn't here then.

Paris-Roubaix has been around long before gravel bikes. Manufacturers have been making custom bikes for this race for a very long time. What each rider wants is up to them. In general, seat and head tube angles are reduced, top tubes are longer, tires and brakes are larger. Through the years, some riders have tried suspensions, lately elastomeric. Others still ride on tubulars, because they can be ridden at lower pressures without pinch flats, and also can be ridden flat until support can change their wheel. The variety of bike configurations for this race is unique on the calendar.
 
stompandgo said:
I missed your question back in April, probably because I wasn't here then.

Paris-Roubaix has been around long before gravel bikes. Manufacturers have been making custom bikes for this race for a very long time. What each rider wants is up to them. In general, seat and head tube angles are reduced, top tubes are longer, tires and brakes are larger. Through the years, some riders have tried suspensions, lately elastomeric. Others still ride on tubulars, because they can be ridden at lower pressures without pinch flats, and also can be ridden flat until support can change their wheel. The variety of bike configurations for this race is unique on the calendar.
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The one and only force of nature that is Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle blasting over the cobbles and winning Paris Roubaix in '92 with a set of specially made Rockshox front suspension forks.

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Stefan Mikes said:
No helmet?!
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In 1992? Of course not!

Amateurs in races had to wear helmets, that leather hair net type was starting to be replaced by the more modern plastic type by the early 90s that mountain bikers had been wearing for a while. But pros didn't need to wear helmets until 2003, first UCI rules and then fully by 2005.

A nicely starched cotton cap in the proper luft position was all you really needed for proper protection!


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kelly luft.jpg
 
In the US, older riders were grandfathered into the helmet transition, so you'll see pictures of guys with nothing on their heads next to guys with hairnets. I never rode a traditional hairnet, as I preferred a Kucharik padded leather helmet, and eventually a Giro plastic helmet in the late 80's.
 
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