Cobbled Together: The Paris-Roubaix Challenge and Beers from Kent to Ghent

by Jim Hodgson

A quick account of a trip to France to ride the Paris-Roubaix Challenge, when the Paris-Roubaix bike race's course is open for spectators.

Includes some pre-ride training (visiting castles and drinking beer around Kent) and some post-ride recovery (visiting sites and drinking beer around Belgium).

41 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 16, 2018

About the author

Jim Hodgson started writing in the mid 90s, after high school. When his adoptive mother passed in 2006, he turned to his writing as a means of coping with her loss. From there it became an invaluable part of his life.

He’s the founder and editor of The Atlanta Banana, a satirical newspaper. He’s worked as a standup comic and as a sketch writer for Sketchworks. His work has been published in Georgia Music Magazine, Creative Loafing, The Art of Manliness, Dirge Magazine, Singletracks.com, tripleblaze.com, nerdfitness.com, Georgia.org and others.

He’s the author of Dangerous Dan, a humorous science fiction novel, How To Mount Aconcagua, a mostly serious guide to climbing the tallest mountain outside the Himalayas, and Hearts Racing, a romance novel published by Soul Mate Publishing.