{"id":341268,"date":"2025-12-11T08:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/341268\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T08:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:15:09","slug":"tadej-pogacar-makes-surprise-160km-paris-roubaix-recon-and-bike-test-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/341268\/","title":{"rendered":"Tadej Poga\u010dar makes surprise 160km Paris-Roubaix recon and bike test ride"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tadej Poga\u010dar carried out a surprise 160km reconnaissance of the Paris-Roubaix<\/a> cobbles on Tuesday, in a further indication that the UAE Team Emirates-XRG racer plans to return to the ‘Hell of the North’ in 2026, following his impressive debut in the race last April<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The World Champion was spotted near the key cobbled sector of Carrefour de l’Arbre of Paris-Roubaix by a local cyclist and the French and Flemish media soon revealed more details of his day in northern France.<\/p>\n

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Interestingly, photographs taken by fans and local media indicated that Poga\u010dar tested both his Colnago Y1RS aero bike and the V5RS bike he used at this year’s Paris-Roubaix. A UAE team mechanic was on hand as riders tested different tyre pressures and equipment.<\/p>\n

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Poga\u010dar trained on the Paris-Roubaix cobbles with Tim Wellens<\/a>, Gianni Vermeersch and Nils Politt, the core of the UAE Team Emirates-XRG Classics squad.<\/p>\n

According to Politt’s Strava data, they trained for five hours, covering a total of 160 km, including eight laps of the often decisive Camphin-en-P\u00e9v\u00e8le and Carrefour de l’Arbre cobbled sectors.<\/p>\n

Poga\u010dar also made an evening trip to a hairdresser’s in Waregem, across the border in Belgium, before likely travelling on to Spain to the UAE Team Emirates-XRG winter training camp in Benidorm.<\/p>\n

Poga\u010dar will reveal his 2026 goals on Saturday. He is expected to again target the Tour de France and World Championships in Montreal, with Milan-San Remo and Paris-Roubaix amongst his spring Classics goals. They are the two Classics Poga\u010dar has still to win.<\/p>\n

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He made his Paris-Roubaix debut in 2025 as part of a full Classic campaign. He finished second to Mathieu van der Poel after going wide and crashing on a cobbled corner, but nonetheless seemed to love racing on the French pave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tadej Poga\u010dar carried out a surprise 160km reconnaissance of the Paris-Roubaix cobbles on Tuesday, in a further indication…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-341268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}