Flanders lives and breathes cycling 365 days a year. The best example is the cross-country race in Aalter, where every year in November more than 400 men and women in various categories race over narrow paths, jump over obstacles and sprint up stairs. This is how cross!
Europe's biggest stage race for amateur cyclists always offers new climbs and spectacular roads, here on the 2nd stage via Cortina d'Ampezzo to the Passo Giau. A feast for the senses and a challenge for the legs.
This picture sums up the whole fascination of Rad am Ring: the Nürburgring is a perfect stage for a bike race - the whole track screams speed. Nevertheless, you move silently through the green countryside and are never alone on the road.
Car-free roads in the Oberallgäu and Vorarlberg were the attraction at the two-day cycle race in and around Sonthofen. Lots of greenery to the left and right of the road, steep tarmac under the bike. This race premiere clearly whetted the appetite for more!
There is no shortage of altitude metres in the Black Forest. That's why these starters set off early for the small "Schwarzwald-Super" cycling marathon: 255 kilometres and 6800 metres of altitude difference later, the finish line awaited in Münstertal.