On the road
Why every Flemish village has a climb nobody can name
A hundred and forty small hills, twelve names anyone knows and one baker who has handed bottles to the peloton for thirty years.
October 26, 2026 · 6 min
Why a classic is decided at the last bend, not the last hill
Everyone talks about the climb. The riders talk about the left-hand corner after it, and I spent a morning standing on it.
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Ten years after a junior race in the rain, where did the first fifty go?
I found nineteen of them. Four ride for a living, one runs a bike shop in Kortrijk, and all of them remember the same puddle.