Lidcombe Criteriums @ Armoury Circuit @ 19 Mar - David Cooper (BiciSport Anytime Fitness) takes a D grade win
Manly Interclub @ West Head @ 23 Mar - Cat Haines (BiciSport Pilu Racing) takes podium at West Head
Manly Interclub @ West Head @ 23 Mar - Jordan Reizes (BiciSport Pilu Racing) takes podium at West Head
BiciSport Team Force @ 23 Mar - Team Force present with MOR (centre) before a Sunday training ride towards the Belge-Dutch border. Sam de Buele (third from left) is hoping to compete at the UCI World Gran Fondo Championships in Lorne Victoria in October
BiciSport U 17 Junior Race @ 23 Mar @ Velle Belgium - 120 starters in a super quick U 17 event over 9 laps with 65 riders contesting the hectic finish.
BiciSport U 17 Junior Race @ 23 Mar @ Velle Belgium - start line at Velle launching from the Velle Church car park. Velle Church is on the left.
BiciSport U 17 Junior Race @ 23 Mar @ Velle Belgium - the U17 peloton launches out of the Church car park
BiciSport U 17 Junior Race @ 23 Mar @ Velle Belgium - 120 starters are full gas on lap one through the village of Velle.
BiciSport U 17 Junior Race @ 23 Mar @ Velle Belgium - the iconic Van Hoye Ford is over 30 years old and is something of retro racing history in East Flanders. It rattles, it smells, it shakes but by the grace of God it somehow still works. It is not possible to remove the car keys out of the ignition and nobody is game.
BiciSport U 17 Junior Race @ 23 Mar @ Velle Belgium - a Flemish Mexican Wave of sorts
BiciSport U 17 Junior Race @ 23 Mar @ Velle Belgium - the heart of the BiciSport Velle team with Maarten, Koen, Stijn, Eddy, MOR & Maria with the RUDYCO Cycling Team which supports a Belgian domestic team across Juniors, Elites & Women.
BiciSport U 17 Junior Race @ 23 Mar @ Velle Belgium - Velle podium presentations
BiciSport U 17 Junior Race @ 23 Mar @ Velle Belgium - Velle podium presentations
BiciSport U 17 Junior Race @ 23 Mar @ Velle Belgium - the proud victory dad (on the left), MOR & the Velle U 17 victor.
Bredene Koksijde Classic @ 21 Mar - The Bredene race climbs the Kemmelberg climb from both sides - the flatter “Belvedere” side is first and then the much steeper “Ossaire” side. Both sides have heavy cobbles. The pro peloton passes over Belvedere with MOR in the gutter. Weather conditions were ideal @ 16 degrees.
The Kemmelberg was a major battle location in World War One with a French Monument to the fallen soldiers at the summit.
Bredene Koksijde Classic @ 21 Mar - the pelotion climbs the Kemmelberg at Belvedere (picture MOR)
Bredene Koksijde Classic @ 21 Mar - the pelotion climbs the Kemmelberg at Belvedere (picture MOR)
Bredene Koksijde Classic @ 21 Mar - Belgian racing up very close (picture MOR)
Bredene Koksijde Classic @ 21 Mar - the second climb over the Kemmelberg and the peloton now on the narrow single lane descent off the Kemmelberg summit (picture MOR).
Bredene Koksijde Classic @ 21 Mar - The Belvedere Hotel sits on top of the Kemmelberg cobbled climb (picture MOR).
Bredene Koksijde Classic @ 21 Mar - The French World War Memorial from 1914 at the Kemmelberg summit (picture MOR)
Bredene Koksijde Classic @ 21 Mar - after the Bredene race had passed it was down to the t’Hommeltje Cafe in the village of Kemmel to watch the race on the TV and consume a few Belgian beers with the Cafe owners Christian & Saskia
BICISPORT IN BELGIUM # 3
Welcome to the third edition of Cafe Belge 2025 with pictures from last week posted below.
The detailed race by race, cyclosportive by cyclosportive, cobbles by cobbles, beer by beer review is now posted in BiciSport Special Events section of this website. This Special Events guide to ”the Where, the When and the How” to get around the Belgian Spring Classics.
The third week in Belgium is action packed with professional races at -
28 March (Fri) - E3 Grand Prix Pro Race (Oudenaarde, Belgium)
29 March (Sat) - Ghent Wevelgem CycloSportive (Westouter, Belgium)
30 March (Sun) - Ghent Wevelgem Pro Race (Westouter, Belgium)
The latest photos will be posted in Cafe Belge # 4 on this web page on Monday 31 Mar. Hope you enjoy the Flemish journey.
Nokere Course Pro Race @ 19 March - Aussie nationalism awaits the Nokere peloton just opposite the Kokerelle B&B . There was a 5 person breakaway some 3 minutes ahead of the Nokere peloton and the weather conditions were ideal.
Nokere Course Pro Race @ 19 March - Nokere breakaway passes the Kokerelle B&B
Nokere Course Pro Race @ 19 March - the Nokere peloton approaches the Kokerelle climb direction Oudenaarde
Nokere Course Pro Race @ 19 March - Arnaud De Lie (Lotto - Belgian National Champion jersey) approaches the Kokerelle climb
Nokere Course Pro Race @ 19 March - opposite the Kokerelle B&B with Team Astana
Nokere Course Pro Race @ 19 March - opposite the Kokerelle B&B with Team Astana
Nokere Course Pro Race @ 19 March - The view from the Kokerelle B&B looking across the fields towards the Eikenberg cobbled climb on the horizion.
The Eikenberg climb has had the cobbles relaid …. BUT much of the finishing touches to the roadwork are still to be “finished” for the Tour of Flanders (The Ronde) on April 6
Kokerelle B&B @ 20 Mar - Dirk Arbts & MOR enjoy the sunshine while it lasts
Nokere Course Pro Race @ 19 March - outside the Kokerelle B&B used by BiciSport each year for the Belgian Spring Classics since 2012.
Flanders Classics run all the important races in the Belgian Spring Classis - The Race Directors care was spotted in Oudenaarde on 20 March
