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List Price: $39.95Amazon.com's Price: $26.37 You Save: $13.58 (34%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.620944
EAN: 9781934030097
ISBN: 1934030090
Label: VeloPress
Manufacturer: VeloPress
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: September 28, 2007
Publisher: VeloPress
Sales Rank: 169950
Studio: VeloPress
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Paris-Roubaix, aka “The Hell of the North,” has enough cobbles to shake bikes and bones to bits, and enough bad weather to make it treacherous even for the best professional cyclists. Held every April since 1896, the race follows a 270-kilometer course between the suburbs of the French capital and the northern industrial city of Roubaix, and its long history and location have made it pivotal in attracting cycling's superstars and testing their reputations. This lavish, large-format book recounts the history and excitement of Paris-Roubaix. With authoritative text from the top sportswriters at France’s L’Equipe, the book presents the inside story of the race, its great riders, its traditions, and its secrets. Arranged chronologically, Paris-Roubaix includes an exclusive, behind-the-scenes chapter to bring readers directly into the action. Hundreds of spectacular color and black-and-white photos, many of them never before collected in book form, round out this memorable portrait of one of cycling’s greatest events.
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With phenomenal photographs and a text that delves into interesting facets of the event, the coffee table book is a great tribute to the iron men who have fought through pain and the elements in a race of survival, with the select few etching their names with the elite company of champions.
Since 1896, "l'enfer du Nord," has conquered more riders than been vanquished by the swift and strong. Sections covering the famed cobblestones, weather and those who have snatched victory from the ... Read More
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An absolutely stunning book, detailing the history of this awe-inspiring race from its inception to date.
Clear production and well journalised personal stories provide a book you can pick up and browse through again and again
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If you're looking for a book that covers the emotional, technical and psychological aspect of the Paris-Roubaix, then this is the one. The photographs are phenomenal, the written text entertaining and the book overall is highly recommended. A must-have for all cyling enthusiasts!
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This is the ultimate telling of the Paris-Roubaix story. L'enfer du Nord as it is know in France, is one of the most grueling and notorious one-day races held every spring for last 100+ years. Most famous is the stretch of cobblestone pave that makes for the toughest section of the race. If it is too dry, dust occludes everything, and if it is wet the cobbles are dangerously slippery and muddy. In either case it is a bone jarring ride and no sane place to have a bike race.
The book ... Read More
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Greg Lemond famously said about cycling:" It doesn't get any easier. You just get faster." And for a sport that values the ability to suffer, the least easy of all races is Paris-Roubaix, variously feted as "the Queen of the Classics" and cursed as "the Hell of the North." In 2006, L'Équipe published a gorgeous history of the race and it is this book, in an excellent idiomatic English translation by cycling historian David Herlihy, that has now been published by VeloPress. Compared to the vast tide ... Read More
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