National Clarion Cycling Club 1895 ~ an association of Clarion Cycling Clubs December 2023
On a recent visit to Venice’s Guggenheim Museum, London Clarion member Ian Moyler spotted ‘Au Velodrome’, a modernist painting by the French artist Jean Metzinger. The work illustrates the final few metres of the 1912 Paris–Roubaix one day race, and portrays the winner Frenchman Charles Crupelandt. The race is one of the ‘Five Monuments’, held annually in early April, it is also known as the ‘Hell of the North’ due to its length, difficulty, and dangers of racing over the narrow, treacherous cobblestone roads of northern France.