Paris Roubaix-like cobbles in South Wales

[Welsh wheels]

Anyone know of any cobbled roads near Cardiff? Watching the Paris Roubaix has made me want to ride some cobbles for myself!

 

[User32269]

Stock up.

 

[Welsh wheels]

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Stock up.

I'll buy some in bulk

 

[S-Express]

http://cycleclassics.co.uk/cardiff-roubaix/

 

[Welsh wheels]

http://cycleclassics.co.uk/cardiff-roubaix/

Thanks!

 

[Crackle]

Just take a mallet to your wheels for a continuous Roubaix experience anywhere.

 

[jefmcg]

(slight derail, but it looks like you have your answer so ...)

I broke my clavicle a couple of years ago, and it never healed. It causes me zero problems (which is why I haven't bothered with getting the surgery - except I can't do cobblestones. It makes it ache, and that's just a few that you find on car-free routes in London. I assume it's the rough end of the bone bang repeatedly into my flesh. Paris-Roubaix is a horror show to me.

Just take a mallet to your wheels for a continuous Roubaix experience anywhere.

And I could take the mallet to my shoulder to reproduce my experience

 

[Globalti]

There's one in Lancashire; the marvellous famine road or Rooley Moor Road between Rochdale and Rossendale valley. I've mountain biked it many times but never been brave - or stoopid - enough to take my roadie up there.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I was thinking about this while watching P-R on Sunday. Should I pop over to France and do a ride that takes in a sector or two of cobbles, just to see what it's like.

Then I watched a bit more and thought ... what a stupid idea.

 

[Banjo]

Cobbles ,why?
On the odd occassion I find smooth tarmac I love it.

 

[Welsh wheels]

Cobbles ,why?
On the odd occassion I find smooth tarmac I love it.

Just a desire to see how tough it must be. I only want to try a few hundred metres of it!

 

[ColinJ]

Just a desire to see how tough it must be. I only want to try a few hundred metres of it!

I lived on a cobbled street in Hebden Bridge, which was off another cobbled street. How does it feel riding on cobbles ...? Let me put it this way - even after cycling 100+ miles, I often used to ride up a 20% hill to get home, avoiding the cobbles!

It did give me a lot of respect for what the pros do in races with cobbled road sections.

 

[S-Express]

I doubt if anyone actually enjoys riding on cobbles. Pros do it because they are paid to - I doubt if they'd do it for fun.