Originally Posted by
63rickert
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.
The video is just advertising aimed at selling trendy new stuff to dentists. The reason for the fast speeds again is Van der Poel, Van Aert, and Pog all pulling out all of the stops in a generational contest of wills. So the pro teams assembled and sacrificed their best riders to drive the pace, and unlike almost all previous contest, the teams did not sandbag for the first 100 or 200km, but went full-gas right out of the start.
Plus it was dry and not as dusty as usual.