We’re coming to you from the middle of The ChainStay’s fourth season, which is hands down our busiest season yet! So busy in fact that we are utterly shocked that Le Tour has already crowned it’s winner, the Olympics are just around the corner, and it’s the end of July for goodness sakes! Where has […]
The Muur-Kapelmuur (Muur van Geraardsbergen, Mur du Grammont or Wall of Geraardsbergen) is to Flemish bike racing as The Eiffel Tower is to Paris. This climb is hands down the most iconic climb of the Flemish Ardennes, and of Belgium for that matter. I would even go as far to say that the Muur-Kapelmuur would […]
Well here we are the last day of April, a whole month has passed since the craziness that was the Tour of Flanders. Unfortunately this weeks feature the Bosberg didn’t see any race action, as it was excluded from the course for the first time since 1975. The Bosberg is a mainly cobbled climb running […]
Wow it’s hard to believe that another Spring Classics season has come to an end with yesterday’s Liege-Bastoge-Liege. We unfortunately didn’t make it out to either of the Ardennes Classics this year, though can say that we’re kind of glad that we were able to enjoy it from the comfort of our living room as […]
For the past several weeks the spotlight shone bright over the Spring Classics of the Flemish Ardennes; but for a brief glimmer of time the spotlight landed on the (mainly) West Flanders race Gent-Wevelgem; with the highlight of the day being the Kemmelberg. The Kemmelberg has a fascinating past; and what once was a battle […]