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By the Koppenberg Aka Tour of Flanders CHALLENGE COBBLES RIDING CLOBBERED IN 24 HOURS BY THE KOPPENBERG AKA TOUR OF FLANDERS Ahead of the centenary edition of the Ronde van Vlaanderen, Flanders first-timer Felix Lowe decided to go from home by bike (bus and train) to Belgium to tackle the famous cobblestone tracks with a former world champion. It was man against the clock and a lot of cobbles... Words Felix Lowe Pictures Tom Wilcocks he alarm sounds. It’s 4 become a focal point in the race - although a.m. on a cold March never as much as in 1984 when only two morning in Maidstone, riders reached the top on their bikes. T Kent. I stagger out of the To be tackling such a talismanic ascent so Premier Inn and load my soon in our ride is a baptism of fire. There’s bike in to our team van. barely a chance to drop into the right gear as A Eurostar train to we leave the smooth asphalt and get the Calais beckons, then two hours on the road perineum-pummelling show on the road. My to Oudenaarde - the finish town of the annual first reaction is to thank my lucky stars that Ronde van Vlaanderen (Tour of Flanders) Rob, our Le Domestique domestique, insisted cycling race. on reducing my tyre pressure this morning - a Awaiting us there is Belgian legend Johan must for such a jagged surface. Museeuw, a triple Ronde winner from the Back in his prime, Museeuw preferred the 1990s known as “The Lion of Flanders”. cobbles when they were “wet and slippery, so Museeuw is joining me and a small group from you have more elimination and more Le Domestique Tours for a 75-kilometre spin crashes”. Now aged 50, he prefers them dry. though his back garden: the bone-jangling Today, they’re somewhere in between. But cobbled farm roads that have made this part of hampered by conditions so foul only 28 riders whatever the weather, he still reckons that Belgium something of a cyclists’ Mecca. from a start-list of 187 crossed the line. Put around 40 precent of Koppenberg first-timers Each spring the Tour of Flanders, and that simply, the omens could be better ahead of fail to reach the summit without walking. other cobblestone maelstrom, Paris-Roubaix what will be a landmark moment in my This is born out when three of us, myself - which takes place a week later, often on nascent cycling career. Yet by the time we set included, hit the wall on the steepest, slickest Easter Sunday - make up the “Holy Week” of off from Oudenaarde as the cathedral clock segment. professional cycling. And even the pedalling strikes 10, the rain has miraculously eased, Mindful of Museeuw’s suggestion that we priest Eddy Merckx didn’t win as often on the while unexpected rays of sun warm our backs stay in the saddle and shift our weight as far cobbles as Museeuw (did I mention our guide on an otherwise chilly morning. back as possible to maintain traction, I’m triumphed in the Roubaix velodrome three “It’s your first time on the cobbles?” asks way out of my comfort zone as I struggle to times, too?). Today could clearly be a Museeuw, as we start a route that will take in find my most forgiving gear. The road runs chastening experience. seven cobbled climbs and five other cobbled out and as my wheels spin in the muddy Morale is indeed low as we emerge from the sections. When I try to explain that I’ve banks, I’m forced to unclip to prevent a fall. Euro Tunnel to the kind of weather hardly ridden a bit of bumps in Britain, he quickly Further back Matt, one of our group, can’t conducive to riding the notoriously slippery snaps back: “Not cobbles! There are none like even do this in time and crumples in a heap. I and savagely steep hellingen of rural Flanders. this in the UK. Even for me it’s hard to get up regain face by remounting and continue to The rain and wind worsens as we enter the Koppenberg when it’s wet.” the summit - something Museeuw admits he’s Belgium. If the giant naked cyclops sculpture Ah, the Koppenberg. The claustrophobic never witnessed before. on the side of the road coupled with a sign tree-lined climb may only be 600 metres long He can see a problem, though. My Felt Z4 bearing the word “agonie” is not enough, we but it rises to 22 percent and is often a major has served me well through the years - most soon rather presciently follow a truck pinch-point in the Ronde, where it appears notably during a 2,800 kilometre ride from transporting loose cobblestones and a bus just 45 kilometres from the finish. After one Barcelona to Rome for my book Climbs and belonging to the BMC Racing Team of local rider slipped and was run over by an official’s Punishment. But besides a stretch of Tuscan favourite Greg van Avermaet. car in 1987, the poorly paved Koppenberg was gravel roads, or strade bianche, and the odd Yesterday, a miserable edition of the excluded from the gruelling 256-kilometre ascent of Gold Hill in Shaftesbury (famed for one-day Le Samyn race in these parts was route for 15 years. The brutal muur has since the old Hovis advert), I’ve never tested it on 46 outdoorfitnessmag.com May 2016 046 Cobbles.indd 46 22/03/2016 15:19 JOHAN MUSEEUW’S MAJOR WINS >TOUR DE FRANCE 1990 2 individual stages >ONE-DAY RACES & CLASSICS 1991, 1995 Züri-Metzgete 1992, 1996 National RR Championships 1993 Paris–Tours 1993, 1995, 1998 Tour of Flanders 1994 Amstel Gold Race 1995, 1996 UCI Road World Cup 1996 UCI Road World Championships 1996, 2000, 2002 Paris–Roubaix 2002 HEW Cyclassics May 2016 outdoorfitnessmag.com 47 046 Cobbles.indd 47 22/03/2016 15:19 CHALLENGE COBBLES RIDING such rugged terrain. What’s more, my last Peterberg climbs. The challenge of the (and only) bike fitting was three years ago; Kwaremont is not its lenient average gradient since then I’ve packed up and rebuilt my of 4.2 percent but its length. At 2.2 steed on numerous occasions. kilometres, the longest of the Flanders’ “Your saddle is way too low,” says Museeuw climbs features three times in the race and after pointing out the location where fellow often encourages powerhouses like Fabian triple Ronde winner Fabian Cancellara Cancellara to show their hands (and suffered a quadruple fracture of his tree-trunk thighs). With the sun back out and collarbone in a crash in 2012. Perhaps this the view opening up, it’s a great spot for our explains why I’m not generating the kind of photographer to hop out of the saddle and power you’d expect from someone who stands snap away. Feeling something of a cobble almost two metres high. We stop after the crackerjack, I’m now big-ringing it like the Steenbeekdries cobble section beyond the pros but with one major difference: they railway crossing where, last year a raft of maraud up the Kwaremont at an average young riders had a near-miss with a passing speed that doubles my dawdling 19kmph train while dodging the barriers during the effort. U23 Tour of Flanders. While one of us tends On we zip to the Paterberg, heralded by a to a puncture, the former world champion 90-degree turn that wipes out all the gives my bike a once-over, fiddling with both momentum gained from the previous my saddle and handlebars. descent. The Paterberg was unpaved until When a group of four Team Wiggins 1986 when a local farmer cobbled over the youngsters on a training ride arrive, Pushing 50kmph I realise road because he wanted the race to pass by Museeuw is happy to pose for a photo. He his house. Success: it has been a fixture ever posts it on social media with a message to Sir that Johan is right - nego- since, its second crossing each year coming Brad, who replies almost instantly with a before a 12-kilometre run to the finish. request for his idol to “go easy on them”. tiating the cobbles really is Peaking at 20 percent it’s quite a struggle. I’m There’s certainly no going easy on us as we easier the faster you go. forced to forget Johan’s advice and ride the proceed to the Taaienberg, the climb where steepest part out of the saddle. Behind me, Belgian rider Tom Boonen - the only man to Haahhoek section, I slip into the big ring and Matt outdoes his Koppenberg tumble by have won both Flanders and Roubaix more soar ahead, on a slight downhill drag. snapping his chain. The broom wagon times than his mentor, Museeuw - has Pushing 50kmph I realise that Johan is beckons as the Paterberg takes another traditionally made his decisive move in the right - negotiating the cobbles really is easier victim. Ronde and its sister race, E3 Harelbeke. the faster you go. I’d smile were it not for the After three hours in the saddle, the ride Already the bike alterations have had a unavoidable clenching of my jaw. My whole back to Oudenaarde is a real grind as Johan positive effect on me and I’m able to follow body vibrates in sync with the cobbles; my sets a pace that sees me yo-yoing off the back. Museeuw’s lead as he cheekily rides in the backside bounces and my hands clasp the The old master clearly still has it.
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