With 55km of Paris-Roubaix's 257km raced over ancient cobblestone paths, the Hell of the North is like no other road race in the world. It follows that the bicycle technology deployed for the day is similarly unique.
This year riders set out on everything from cutting edge projects — such as hydraulic rear suspension automatically controlled by accelerometers and gyroscopes — to the very old school of wide, cotton tubulars run at precisely set air pressures.
BikeRadar visited every team for a closer look at who is using what. The main trends we spotted were suspension, aero bikes, taping seemingly everything, discs for no-hope riders and rim brakes for the contenders. Finally, we investigated what tire pressures and widths various teams were running.
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Check out all the details below, and click through the gallery above for all the tech highlights from the 2017 Paris-Roubaix.
Suspension
Gianni Moscon joined Team Sky teammate Ian Stannard on the hydraulic version of the Pinarello Dogma K8-S
- Boonen's goodbye bike: Pro-only front suspension for Paris-Roubaix
- Peter Sagan's custom Specialized bike for Paris-Roubaix - Gallery
- Oliver Naesen's Factor O2 - Gallery
- Defending Paris-Roubaix champ's Kangaroo cobbles bike
- Paris-Roubaix bikes: How they've evolved
- Specialized launches Hell of a tyre for Paris-Roubaix
Aero bikes
Taped wrists and fingers, stems, bars and top tubes
More electronic remotes, fewer bar-top brake levers
Bottle security
No-hopers on discs
Cable discs — and maybe a new Cannondale Synapse?
Tire widths and pressures
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