I've been doing fasting rides on the weekend, before breakfast and maybe also before lunch, depending on how long the ride…
I get to certain parts of my training when I begin to crave his blows, especially in winter. Winter is…
I'm proud to declare that I am fluent in three languages: Hyperbole, Dutch, and English. All of them rubbish. The…
Outside of East Flanders, little is known of Bart Vanacker's elder half-brother Fons. Around the streets of Ronse, however, The…
In grade school, a teacher once asked me to name my favorite color, a query to which I responded with the only…
Three things define a Cyclist: their ability to crush fools, their ability to Look Fantastic, and the Magnificence of their Guns. If…
I'm not a good dancer. I've come to this conclusion not through study but through ridicule and injury. Apparently it…
I think it would be hard for anyone to make the case that Eddy Merckx was Roger de Vlaeminck's Cycling Sensei, but I…
Whenever you see one of those yellow cars or motorcycles laden with spare wheels and manned by efficiently deliberate young…
Most great ideas in life are accompanied by an unforeseen consequence of equal or greater magnitude. For instance, no one…
There was a time when I held down 'real jobs'. Jobs with (a little) stress, with (some) responsibility, but without soul.…
"You ruined a heap of photos!" Not the words you want to hear when the photos in question are ones…
Physics tells us that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. The conservation law extend beyond the physical world and…
My favorite feeling is perhaps the empty hollowness of hunger. That statement, in itself, is a declaration of the privileged…
The most important moment in a man's life is the first time they have a beer. I place it on…
Even though in today's mountain bike world the bikes are better, the clothing more appropriate, and there are more trails…
I've never been able to decide if choices are a gift or a curse; a lack of choices introduces simplicity…
I'm a naturally loud and weird person who expresses excitement through volume. Also, alcohol is supposed to be a depressant, but…
Guido went to extraordinary lengths to shield young Joshua from the horrors of the war. On the way to the…
Water is an asshole, at least when it comes to bicycles. So is wind, now that I think of it;…