Issue 23: A Day at Roubaix
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5 min readMar 23, 2016
A story as told to Bike Hugger about Belgium from Issue 23 of our magazine, shared here as a tribute to a country that defines so much of cycling.
The pave tears you up so bad that you can’t control the bike or you body. Then you party.
It was back in either 2008 or 2009 — one of the year’s Tom Boonen won. I had gone to Belgium with my friend Eric to watch Flanders, Gent Wevelgem and Paris-Roubaix. Back then Gent-Wevelgem was held the Wednesday between Flanders and Paris-Roubaix so it made for an easy one week trip. While in Belgium the week before…
