Tag: Weekend

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…

Race Report: After the disappointment for the Quick-Step Alpha Vinyls in the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Fabio Jakobsen swooped past the last break of the day with 50 metres to go for the win in Kuurne. Lotto Soudal managed to get second place ahead of Hugo Hofstetter, Daniel McLay and Giacomo Nizzolo.Fabio Jakobsen won Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne 2022. The Dutch leader of Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl was the first to finish in the streets of Kuurne after an entertaining race of 195 kilometres. The last escapees were only caught in the final metres, but after that Jakobsen was clearly faster than Caleb Ewan (Lotto Soudal) and Hugo Hofstetter (Arka-Samsic).Ready to goThe route is a little different this year. The Oude Kwaremont is not included…

I’m sort of the new kid on the block, having become a contributor to PEZ in 2015. But I’d been a longtime reader and my connection to PEZ started the year before when my (and my RAAM teammate, Sam Bishop’s) #steelisreal Hollands was featured in Readers’ Rigs. And the PEZ crew is so close knit that it feels like I’ve been here forever.This is the second piece I penned for PEZ (the first being my ride of the Richmond 2015 Worlds course). And it was my first time back to a pro race since the 90s — when I went to the Tour de France on a Breaking Away tour with my wife, was at every edition of the Tour…