Paris- Roubaix has been run 123 times. This entire thread has been based on cherry picking. If you don't know about the feats of Peter Post or Marcel Kint you really don't know much. Peter Post averaged 45.2kph in 1964 and Kint 41.49 in 1943.

Most of the posts here are based on the same small group of factoids presented in a handful of videos. And those vids are basically commercial speech. Advertisements. They want you to buy a new bike. That's fine. I think you should buy a new bike too. On a regular basis. Support the industry. But maybe learn something about the sport instead of parroting adverts.

One thing Post and Kint have in common is they were both absolutely beautiful on a bike. I will say van Der Poel and Pogacar do look pretty good in a pack of potatoes.