Tag: Belgium
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Belgian Waffle Ride
Click or not: Belgian Waffle RideThere’s never enough Belgium around here, even when the elements of said Belgianity are in the States. The Belgian Waffle Ride is our kind of event, long, hot, dirty, roady, singletracky, gravelly, beery and booby. It attracts the big hitters and an even bigger field of fun and pain seekers, hitting them back with over 230km… …
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Insider Rides: Brett’s Jaegher Interceptor
Click or not: Insider Rides: Brett’s Jaegher InterceptorInsider Rides looks at the bikes that we ride, the bikes that industry insiders ride, that racers ride, and everyday folk ride. This time out, we take a look at the road bike of head-Slapper Brett, a bike conceived over many years in the mind, and eventually realised in the spiritual heartland of cycling. Cyclists love to… …
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The Jaegher Tour Tableau
Click or not: The Jaegher Tour TableauWith the world’s greatest sporting event starting this weekend it’s a good time to share the brilliant video series that Jaegher bicycles in Belgium produced three years ago. Having met, ridden, eaten and drank with these artisans in their homeland, I can say that they are some of the most passionate purveyors of the framebuilding… …
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Drink Tripels, Don’t Ride Triples
Click or not: Drink Tripels, Don’t Ride TriplesFor beer-drinking cyclists, Belgium is nirvana. The best riders, the best bikes, and the best beer all come from the motherland, and when you throw in the kassien, the bergs and the beautiful countryside of the Ardennes, there’s little argument to be made against such claims. Rapha might be seen by some as over the top… …
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Go Play In The Sandpit
Click or not: Go Play In The SandpitWhat kid doesn’t love playing in the sandpit? Adults might think we’re too ‘grown up’ for that kind of carry-on, but if we had a sandpit like Jeremy Powers’ to play in we’d be late for our dinner every night. Taken from the video series The Book Of Cross, the quarry where J-Pow trains for the… …
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Climbing The Muur
Click or not: Climbing The MuurFor 364 days of the year, at least until 2012, the smooth sealed climb of the Tenbosse doesn’t really exhibit any redeeming features besides the fact that you know what’s coming up in about ten kilometres. It wasn’t often that the script of the Ronde van Vlaanderen played out here, but that’s not to say it… …
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Transition 2: Cross The Pond
Click or not: Transition 2: Cross The PondWith our cyclocross season about to kick off in the bottom half of the world, last year’s grubby thermals are coming out of hibernation, drivetrains are cowering in readiness to be trashed beyond an inch of their life, and a bunch of slightly odd folks are rubbing their cold, knotted hands together in anticipation of the… …