By Monday morning, the roads of northern France were back to normal, and all the accoutrements that signified the presence of the biggest one-day race in professional cycling were packed away.
The thousands of fans who had packed the roadside for Paris-Roubaix Femmes and the men's Paris-Roubaix have travelled home, the colourful signs which transformed 30 strips of cobbled farm roads in the Nord département into the famous sectors are gone, and the post-industrial city of Roubaix has fallen quiet for another year.
