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Strade Bianchi week!

Dont you dare leave out the 6th monument- Strade Bianchi 7 march

Okay, I feel safe to say that it is finally... OPENIIIIIING WEEEEEEEKEEEEEND! The start of the real racing. Cobbled spring classics. Omloop het Nieuwsblad on Saterday. 208km, 6 flat cobbled sectors and 9 climbs (not all cobbled) Wout will be there and it is possible that Van der Poel can show up. Boom boom boom! Kuurne Brussels Kuurne on Sunday 195km, 13 climbs Sprinters get a go.

Seems like we are both misreading the calender. 😉 Omloop on 28 Feb and Kuurne on 1 march. Gent- Wevelgem on 29 March. Im a week out and youre a month out. We may be wrong on the dates but the cobbles are coming!😂

This climb is shaking things up. Del Torro and then Remco also falling back

Tiz🥷 I was also watching on YT and saw today we are restricted.

Today they will end the stage with a proper 15km climb at around 8% avg. The last 6.8km at 11%. 30km from finish atm. break with a 5min gap

Joh! Ja. Del Torro winning the sprinters and then Remco doing a 56kmh TT. 2026 is gonna bring big clashes.

Aaah mannn...sorry, got everyone excited there for a sec...haha. UAE tour still on at least. Will we see Remco vs Del Torro

The cobbles are back!! Omloop weekend is here. Get your snack cupboard ready, its time to watch killowatts being thrown around. Bikes, rain, cobbles and crashes. Lets see who trained the best. https://youtu.be/Ste7dszMFO8?si=0yGZgKHbPnzd_HzV

Some of my orders from AE still go through SAPO but most are through Speedaf. Not sure if they are planning to cut them out. The sellers say that AE chooses. I hate that the Speedaf charges such high customs and taxes though. They are faster at least. What % was your customs cost from Meili?

Courier guy

Meili do charge rediculous high customs fees on packages. And they wont declare how they calculate it. I try to avoid them when buying on Aliexpress but now I see Aliexpress just choose them randomly(Speedaf as the courier). Are they obligated to give an invoice with the breakdown or can they just charge and demand a payment from a link sent to me?

Race week! Not much to be done fitness wise so time for weather and route watching. My first real gravel race on a gravel bike. Gonna hurt for sure! I see they predicted the 145km race winner in 3:55!! Joh! It looks like we might miss the cold front that will come in on monday. Actually a little warmer morning on sunday which I am VERY gratefull for. Hopefully the wind dont blow too much. Been riding the roads the past month on the gravel bike. It felt really good but today it suddenly felt as if it got very harsh very quickly. Hopefully it was just in my head. I saw some roads got grated today and really hope they will get to the main one going past venterskroon as well before the weekend. Dont know if you have info @Scary Rider? Nervously excited for this one.