{"id":429,"date":"2006-07-24T09:24:59","date_gmt":"2006-07-23T23:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evilmoose.shafted.com.au\/?p=429"},"modified":"2008-12-07T17:21:41","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T23:21:41","slug":"429","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?p=429","title":{"rendered":"hell of the northcote"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who knew there were so many cobblestone alleys in Melbourne? I certainly didn’t. <\/p>\n

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\nI only got around to reading up on the Paris-Roubaix after the Melburn-Roobaix race was over. It’s held annually in the mid-April rainy season, 260km of muddy riding over the cobblestoned roads and hard rutted tracks of northern France’s coal-mining region. Apparently the route has had to be changed in recent years, as many of the original cobbled sections are being repaired and replaced with smoother surfaces that have much less romance about them. The race was first held in 1896, but only picked up it’s ‘The Hell of the North’ tag in the first race post-WWI, with the riders racing through areas destroyed by the war (the Melburn-Roobaix ‘Hell of the Northcote’ tag doesn’t quite have the same ring to it). <\/p>\n

“Let me tell you, though – there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a huge difference between Flanders and Paris-Roubaix. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not even close to the same. In one, the cobbles are used every day by the cars, and kept up, and stuff like that. The other one – it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s completely different . . . The best I could do would be to describe it like this – they plowed a dirt road, flew over it with a helicopter, and then just dropped a bunch of rocks out of the helicopter! That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Paris-Roubaix. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s that bad – it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ridiculous.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who knew there were so many cobblestone alleys in Melbourne? I certainly didn’t.   I only got around to reading up on the Paris-Roubaix after the Melburn-Roobaix race was over. It’s held annually in the mid-April rainy season, 260km of muddy riding over the cobblestoned roads and hard rutted tracks of northern France’s coal-mining region. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,1],"tags":[1547,892,889,83,890,891],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes","category-general","tag-bikes","tag-cobblestone","tag-hell-of-the-northcote","tag-melbourne","tag-melburn","tag-roobaix"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"megan","author_link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?author=1"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["bikes<\/a>","general<\/a>"],"unlinked":["bikes<\/span>","general<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["bikes<\/a>","cobblestone<\/a>","hell of the northcote<\/a>","melbourne<\/a>","melburn<\/a>","roobaix<\/a>"],"unlinked":["bikes<\/span>","cobblestone<\/span>","hell of the northcote<\/span>","melbourne<\/span>","melburn<\/span>","roobaix<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 20 years ago","modified":"Updated 17 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 24.7.2006","modified":"Updated on 7.12.2008"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 24.7.2006 9:24 am","modified":"Updated on 7.12.2008 5:21 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}