ready for the cobblestones, by Paul Fournel – Liberation

On the occasion of the Paris Book Festival on April 11, 12 and 13, our journalists give way to authors for this 18th edition of the Libe of writers. Find all the articles here.

On the material side, I put on. I recognize him. But you have to understand me: I am Chti and I dreamed of Paris-Roubaix all my life. For the first time this year, I left my continental class team to get into a World Tour team. So I will have the right to run it my Paris-Roubaix. We can understand that I do not want to find myself in the harbor, lying between two pavers, because of my bike.

Throughout my childhood I went with the family to see the runners in the trench of Arenberg. I rolled in cadet and junior, I even made a club outing with Mr. Gibus who explained everything to us: you have to roll as quickly as possible above the pavement, because in slow motion it shakes too much, you must not tighten the handlebars like a deaf, you must let it live, let it vibrate, entering an area, you have to choose your position, the hands at the top of the In the middle of the road rather than looking for the grounds in the ground, we are less shaken there, but we go, finally, you should know that this race is a lottery and that it is therefore essential to want to win. Very much want because