Images From Paris Roubaix By Kristof Ramon

: Matty Hayman at the start. He rode strong at Flanders and ended up with 8th place in Roubaix.

: The cobbles aren’t the only danger out on the course. A helmet as bowling ball in the peloton

: Taylor Phinney in his first elite Roubaix. He won the U23 edition in 2009 and 2010

: Mathew Hayman trying to close Boonen’s gap but even four SKY riders couldn’t make any ground on him

: Kenny Dehaes and film maker Jørgen Leth (his best known work by cyclists is his documentary A Sunday in Hell)

Bracks_ashat

Those Kask helmets by team sky are the ugliest things in cycling.
Atganirider

Another superb post – thank you

By the way, how hard was Boonen to forego mitts?
http://www.cyclingascents.com/ Cycling Alpe D’Huez

Love those grimy faced portraits!
http://profiles.google.com/aglogan Andy Logan

That photo of Henderson has an almost Joker esk twist to it, it looks a little sadistic, as if he has been damaged by the cobbles.
jules

van summeren looks like he’s telling journos “i just couldn’t go any faster!”
mattb

Dirk Hoffman was a notable absence this year. Must’ve cut back on his marketing budget
- jules
  
  not at all – he just changed his company name to “Turbo Tom Frits”
a different ben

Jorgen Leth is the director of the short film ‘The Perfect Human’, and he also made a doco / film based on it with Lars Von Trier: ‘The Five Obstructions’. Get them and watch them (Perfect Human first). They are superb.
Just discovered The Perfect Human on the webs but pretty crappy quality: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8341864322805018162
SwordBeach

Also loving the portraits. Great set of pictures.