{"id":4113,"date":"2015-04-10T15:49:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T20:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=4113"},"modified":"2020-09-25T14:54:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T19:54:39","slug":"when-we-ride-roubaix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/when-we-ride-roubaix\/","title":{"rendered":"When We Ride Roubaix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Queen of the Classics, the Hell of the North, the Paris-Roubaix &#8220;road&#8221; race from the suburbs north of Paris over the famed cobbles of northern France and into the velodrome at Roubaix takes place this Sunday, and we can&#8217;t help but think (mostly because our own <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/people\/rob-vandermark.php\">Rob Vandermark<\/a> is there riding the course on Saturday) that titanium makes a lot more sense for a cobbles bike than carbon fiber.<\/p>\n<p>Carbon fiber is great at being light and stiff, but it&#8217;s no mystery why many of the big bike companies put elastomers or pivots in their rough road bikes, because carbon fiber doesn&#8217;t absorb the bigger impacts as well as a more compliant material, like titanium.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/RobinParis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4114 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/RobinParis.jpg\" alt=\"Seven in France\" width=\"614\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/RobinParis.jpg 614w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/RobinParis-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/RobinParis-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/RobinParis-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/RobinParis-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/RobinParis-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Rob&#8217;s bike with Paris in the background. Look for more photos from his trip over the pav&Atilde;&copy; in the weeks ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Queen of the Classics, the Hell of the North, the Paris-Roubaix &#8220;road&#8221; race from the suburbs north of Paris over the famed cobbles of northern France and into the velodrome at Roubaix takes place this Sunday, and we can&#8217;t help but think (mostly because our own Rob Vandermark is there riding the course on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/when-we-ride-roubaix\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When We Ride Roubaix&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[162,364,365,599,121],"class_list":["post-4113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-carbon-fiber","tag-evergreening","tag-on-the-road","tag-paris-roubaix","tag-titanium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4113"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12300,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113\/revisions\/12300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}