Flanders
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Omloop van de West-Vlaanderen
“Half term next week so Newhaven ferry fully booked on Friday night and Saturday morning. Saturday night has space but price is higher than usual, 55 quid each return with bike, no… sorry, 60 bloody quid. Sodding half term.” “I have a car. We could drive over?” “98 quid with car going overnight Saturday, coming…
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Flanders To The Alps: Notes On A Tour [Part 1]
Day 1 – Hastings, UK to Gent, Belgium (216km) Meet George and Vic at Brighton station. First train cancelled due to two pissed teenagers being dicks. That’s our time buffer gone. Meet Mark at Hastings station. Tailwind across Romney Marsh, heads down, smash it to Dover (didn’t need to worry about that lost half hour).…
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Tour of Flanders Weekender Day 2 – Ping!
A special kind of cold and damp, and then a spoke snapping at the bottom of the Koppenberg ends my day after 65km. Except for the 25km trudge along a dual carriageway into a headwind back to the hotel.
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Tour of Flanders Weekender Day 1 – The Accidental 100km Recce Ride
“How far is the Muur?” “About 8km” “Cool, let’s go!” It wasn’t 8km…
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