Our alternative guide to the Hell of the North from start to finish, past, present and future. We’re on the farm with flamboyant five-time winner Roger De Vlaeminck, still pulling no punches.

Chowing down with Prudhomme and company for the race organisers’ traditional pre-race breakfast; a gallery of our photographers’ best images from Roubaix 2018. We interview Edvald Boasson Hagen, exploring the super-talent’s ups and downs.

There’s an enthralling account of a fictional women’s Paris-Roubaix while O’Grady and Michaelsen share bittersweet memories of the 2007 Roubaix. Plus, Desire, Boulting, Bardet, York and more…