Stijn Bastens (@stijnbastens.be)

As a kid, I fell in love with the time trial - the smell of massage oils, the sound of disc wheels, and the silence before 5, 4, 3, 2, 1… whoosh! Years later, I even beat Serge Pauwels once (to be fair, he’d just raced Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux… while I was “recovering” on the couch 😏):

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The Art of the Time Trial A childhood memory, a borrowed bike, and a wooden disc wheel - how a simple time trial sparked a lifelong love affair with cycling. https://open.substack.com/pub/stijnbastens/p/the-art-of-the-time-trial?r=5xf0jx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

about 1 month ago