Unless you are a cyclist, this report of a fire in a plastic sheet factory in the town of Roubaix (pronounced ROO-BAY) will mean nothing to you. Roubaix is a small French town (pop. 100,000) on the Belgian border, but it, or more properly, the Velodrom within it, is the finish line of the the most famous 1-day race of all, Paris-Roubaix. Nicknamed the "Hell of the North", the race is loved and hated for the cobblestone roads that it passes over. But these are not the cobblestone roads that we have here in the US that are made from bricks, these are made from stones:

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