Tag: Tour of Flanders

The bicycle was introduced in the 19th century in Europe by German Inventor Karl von Drais. He is credited with developing the first bicycle. He introduced it to the people in Paris in 1818. It is supposed to originate from the human-powered vehicle called Draisines. Drais invented a walking machine that would help him get around the royal gardens faster. It was known by many names, including the “velocipede,” “dandy horse,” “hobby-horse,” “draisine” and “running machine. It had no pedals and its frame was a wooden beam. It had two same-size in-line wheels with the front one steerable and mounted in a frame which was straddled. In 1839, Kirkpatrick MacMillan, a Scottish blacksmith, allegedly completed construction of a pedal driven…

Sunday gave us the excitement we wanted from the Tour of Flanders. The result was far from expected, right up to the final metres. Mathieu van der Poel was a worthy winner, but what about strongman of the day: Tadej Pogaar? We have put together a collection of the best, or different shots from de Ronde, thanks to the lens of Cor Vos. Florian Vermeersch (Lotto Soudal) at the start The Tour of Flanders, or as it’s known in the native tongue, ‘De Ronde’, and it marks the grand finale of a series of Flandrian Classics that fall in the weeks before. This race represents bike racing in its purest and simplest form: one day, one chance, one winner! Flanders…