Fizik Race Edition Aliante R3 Braided The Burning Cobbles

THE COBBLESTONE CONTEST

The anthracite of the pave and the red of Hell

The oldest professional race is also one of the most feared and fearsome – with its trademark cobbled roads and rutted tracks dating from northern France’s days of coal-mining and wartime bombs so often met with rain, wind and snow. But history can’t record the buckled wheels, punctured tires, numbed wrists, jolted spines and rattled teeth that plague those who take the course on. Strong men scared to slip and fall lest they disappear under the thundering wheels behind.

What pulls men through the Hell of the North is their spirit – and it’s only the most spirited men who can seek to win.

The most spirited ride for victory and for passion.

The most spirited ride fi’zi:k.