On Riding in Rough Conditions

Recently someone asked The Explainer in Velonews what happened to all the great road races during the war years.

Well it is no great secret, the Paris-Roubaix picked up it's pseudonym The Hell of the North when organizers toured the course in 1919 passing through the post apocalyptic destruction that was four years of trench warfare. But actually some road racing did take place, as Charles 'The Explainer' Pelkey explains here.

I love that bike history, cycling is something that predates the automobile, in fact many roads were originally built for cyclists, not motorists and ironically, thanks to peak oil one day, not too long from now, all those roads will be free of motor vehicles just as they once were.