Riders and bikes from Team LAMPRE-MERIDA are ready to face Paris-Roubaix. The eight riders that have been selected to race in the Hell of the North are Niccolò Bonifazio, Davide Cimolai, Chun Kai Feng, Manuele Mori, Nelson Oliveira, Luka Pibernik, Filippo Pozzato and Maximiliano Richeze.
 

The race will start in Compiegne and will end in Roubaix after the riders have covered 253,5 km and 26 cobblestone sectors (52,7 km).
On Thursday, LAMPRE-MERIDA will rode on the most demanding sectors starting the training at the entrance of the Arenberg sector.

In the blue-fuchsia-team there will be one rider who has been on the podium (Pozzato, 2nd place in 2009) and the first Taiwanese ever to take part in Paris-Roubaix (Feng).