I am just reminded again of the awesomeness of Briek Schotte.
It is so much so that 't Gaverhopke Brewery released a limited edition Koerseklakske.
If you don't know Briek, all you need to know is here:
I can tell you more about "de Briek" lunch menu at the cafe near the museum of de Ronde in Oudenaarde, it is simple pasta with brown sugar and nothing more.
Briek died in 2004 on the day de Ronde was won by a German, in front of two Belgians! By eyewitness account, winner Stefan Wesseman's wife was sitting in a cafe/bar in Oudenaarde when this happened. The Belgian crowd boasted that the race was won when two Belgians and a German entered the finale together. As the German winner crossed the finish line first, the crowd grew hushed, the silence so deafening that Wesemann's wife left the bar in awkwardness.
Damn, Briek must have died heartbroken.
Lieve Vlaanderen!
(*) Koerseklakske refers to the leather helmet cyclists had to wear in Belgium well before helmet rules were widespread.
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