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Master Kermesse Videos

Kermesse racing is incredibly popular in Belgium: juniors, elite, pros and masters. To understand you need to think pickup basketball in the USA. Guys & gals go out to play two, three, four or more times a week – all summer long! Here are a few videos of the 50-55Read more →

Elite & U23 Kermesses late July & early August

Yes — betting a big part of the Kermesse summer. See article here.  Elite and U23 Kermesse racing are so prolific that during July and August one takes place practically everyday within 50k of our house in Zingem. Check out the map and city list below. All of these EliteRead more →

Chasing Taylor Phinney in the Hell of the North

The cobbled roads of Roubaix are intoxicating: the bucking-horse ride, the eternal quest for smooth, dry, dirt, the challenge to stay atop the road crest. You crank those pedals over because at that moment you believe that your life depends on it. Without power, the front wheel will almost certainlyRead more →

Pez Cycling Travel: Belgian Racing Immersion

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Strava those climbs of the Ronde van Vlaanderen

Strava those climbs of the Ronde van Vlaanderen (Tour of Flanders) A question every competitive cyclists needs answered is, how do I compare to the pros on the great climbs of cycling? For climbs like L’Alpe d’Huez, Col du Tourmalet, Col du Galibier, the record times are well-known and overRead more →

Why is Belgium kermesse racing so intoxicating?

Kermesse racing is basically a hard man’s hammer race. Elites can make a few Euros, but masters are racing for only pride. Real money is made at elite and pro kermesses, but only by Belgians making bets in the smoky bars on their favorite riders.  For a great page on bettingRead more →

ICF World Master’s Championships

August 5th, 2012  Moorsel-Aalst , BE A World Championship bike race is loaded with fierce, abundant, and skilful competitors – attributes that the UCI cannot monopolize. Many northern European cyclists know that the most competitive age group cycling races for a Rainbow Jersey are those promoted by the ICF andRead more →

Opportunities To Race In Belgium For Juniors, U23, Elites, & Masters

Racing in Flanders will change your attitude about racing and enable you to reach a higher level. Races are always demanding and often go through small towns, cornfields, narrow cobbled roads and over small cols. These races have created champions and you return a better bike racer.     JuniorsRead more →

go to the crits!

For the ultimate post-Tour racing fix, go to the crits! Forget waiting around in fog and blowing wind atop the Col du Tourmalet, Mont Ventoux or the Col de Madeleine to see Contador, Evan, Leipheimer or Schleck zip by once. Spectating at pro bike races bike doesn’t have to meanRead more →

How to find master racing in Europe

For riders seeking fast and technical racing, going to Europe is the ultimate race experience. And Belgium is the country to go to because anyone can enter an amateur race without being on a team and from mid-May through early September races are on the calendar practically every day. While findRead more →