The archive
Every issue since No. 1, newest first
The transfer window, explained over one bowl of frites
Who moved, who stayed and the one contract I think will matter in March.
Notes from a women’s one-day race with a hundred riders and no television
A narrow road, a wet crowd and a finish that nobody filmed but everyone remembers.
Why the derby is better from the ditch
The cowbell, the van selling waffles and the best view of a sprint in the country.
Oudenaarde at midday: a letter to an old finish line
Brick, banners and a café that has stayed open through every race since the war.
The shortage of marshals nobody wants to talk about
Forty races a season now run on volunteers who have given up their Sundays for decades.
Five young riders to watch this season
Not the obvious ones. None has won a race above kermesse level.
What a new director changed in six months
Shorter rides, longer video sessions and a strict rule about phones at lunch.
The summer preview, in one long breath
Every stage, one paragraph each, and a prediction I will be reminded of in September.
Issue 150: the best letters you’ve sent me
Three years of corrections, arguments and one very kind note from a retired mechanic.
How teams here really pay their bills
Shirt sponsors, a butcher’s chain and some very generous provincial budgets.
A summer of kermesse racing, rated
The good, the forgettable and the rider who won with a flat tyre.
A week in the Ardennes with the youth teams
Hills, rain and fifty teenagers learning to eat enough at breakfast.
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