Velonews talks to Mike “Meatball” Friedman on the eve of his first run at the infamous Paris-Roubaix.

Said Mike: “Tomorrow is the day you take all of the risks. It’s the day you shoot for that hole and just go for it. Sometimes you make it through that hole and sometimes you go down. I know I’m going to crash tomorrow. It’s just a matter of how many times I go down, and how many times I get back up.”