欧州自転車レース追っかけ日記

Brabantse Pijl 2024
I am planning to visit this race but not 100 % sure. This year (I don't remember last year's edition well but ...) the race got a refresh. The women's peloton leaves from Lennik. The finish circuit course got shorter (I guess).

In a way, it is easy to visit two or more climbs on a bike. This year I am planning to take my bike (Brompton) with me.

In Japanese: 続きをどうぞ [Brabantse Pijl 2024]の続きを読む

テーマ:自転車ロードレース - ジャンル:スポーツ

1. 2024/04/09(火) 00:04:15|
2. Bike Races in Belgium
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Sunday, March 31, 2024 De Ronde van Vlaanderen
The Tour of Flanders, baby!

I am leaving Luxembourg early in the morning of Sunday. I will be driving to 2. Kapelleberg or 3. Wolvenberg.

In Japanese: 続きをどうぞ [De Ronde van Vlaanderen 2024]の続きを読む

テーマ:自転車ロードレース - ジャンル:スポーツ

1. 2024/03/30(土) 22:42:00|
2. Bike Races in Belgium
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I was disappointed a big time
I left Luxembourg around 05:15 and drove to Knokteberg directly. I arrived there around 09:00 and immediately started to look for a parking place near the top of the hill. Eventually I did.

I was a bit sleepy so I stayed in the car for a while. I finally got up and started painting on the road.

As scheduled, men's peloton passed twice but unexpectedly women's peloton did not pass. Around the time they (women) were supposed to come, some strange words started to go around from those who were watching the streamed broadcast on their smartphones.

There was some kind of accident (or incident) and women's peloton was diverted to skip Knokteberg at all.

I was sad and frustrated when it was confirmed that they were not coming.

Later (after coming home and searched on the Internet) it turned out that men's peloton follower vehicles collided. Sh*t!

De Ronde van Vlaanderen 2024
I am thinking repeating the same not exactly the same but almost same as last year.

This year, I will be driving directly to Wolvenberg and try to get there early in the morning. This year I will try to paint something on the road before people come (to stop me?).

I will see.

In Japanese: 続きをどうぞ [I was disappointed]の続きを読む

テーマ:自転車ロードレース - ジャンル:スポーツ

1. 2024/03/28(木) 13:56:13|
2. Bike Races in Belgium
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Dwars Door Vlaanderen 2024
I was wrong. I thought that the staff working inside flandersclassics.be were taking it easy. I was wrong.

The official site (organizer's site) let us download the guidebook and start list. The guidebook has reduced version of the detailed roadmap timetable. The correct timetable should include all the street names and the turning directions.

The one inside the guidebook has only the town/village names and other names (climb names and cobble stone section names). I was disappointed.

Today I found something inside the guidebook (PDF scroll). I found "Download the detailed roadmap here".

When I clicked on the link embedded inside the PDF guidebook, I got what I needed.


In Japanese: 続きをどうぞ [Detailed roadmap downloaded]の続きを読む

テーマ:自転車ロードレース - ジャンル:スポーツ

1. 2024/03/26(火) 18:28:44|
2. Bike Races in Belgium
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SSD upgrade on MacBook Late 2009
I tried to restore the contents of MacBook Late 2009 on 64 GB SSD onto the 128 GB SSD with Apple's own Disk Utility in van. So many times I failed. Finally I used Carbon Copy Cloner to do the job. Now I am writing this on it.

Since the free space on the SSD grew bigger, I could finally install (expand the downloaded map data) the map on Garmin BaseCamp. I am using it to plan the trip to DDV (Dwars Door Vlaanderen) 2024.

My plan, in brief, is to get to one of the climb sections and see if I like it. If it suits me, I will stay there. And if not, I will move.

I am thinking of going to Knokteberg.

The weather looks not so promising at all.

In Japanese: 続きをどうぞ [A bigger SSD and DVV 2024]の続きを読む

テーマ:自転車ロードレース - ジャンル:スポーツ

1. 2024/03/26(火) 16:05:25|
2. Bike Races in Belgium
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