Quick Reads

A hill has to be special to get a Belgian beer named after it, and the Oude Kwaremont is a real crunch point. This wickedly cobbled drag goes on and on, making it the place where anyone caught behind a split is simply toast.

In 2003, Peter Van Petegem achieved what only ten men ever have: the Flanders-Roubaix double. Explore how the man from Brakel used a mysterious "sixth sense" to rule the cobbled monuments.

Relive the moment Tom Boonen followed Johan Museeuw’s advice to attack just once, launching an emphatic solo move that would define his career and ignite "Boonen Mania" across Belgium.

"The Muur shall decide" is a proverb etched into the stones of Flemish cycling. Relive the devastating attacks from Museeuw, Bartoli, and Vanderaerden that proved why this climb was the ultimate judge of the Tour of Flanders.

In the mid-90s, the cobblestones of Roubaix became a laboratory for radical tech. From Rock Shox forks to Museeuw's ill-fated Bianchi, discover the era when road racing went "off-road" to conquer the Hell of the North.

Everyone thought Thomas Wegmuller would win, but fate and a stray plastic bag had other plans. Relive the day Dirk De Mol turned a 220-kilometre breakaway into an unlikely victory on the road to Roubaix.