On this charming declaration of affection to Belgian (particularly Flemish) biking tradition, it’s famous that there are solely three locations the place cyclesport is THE sport. Oddly sufficient, like “bicycle” all of them start with the letter B: the Basque Nation, Brittany and Belgium however that appears to be their sole frequent ingredient. Flanders has made probably the most out of its biking fame, with someplace within the order of 200,000 overseas guests coming to spectate at races or trip their very own challenges. There are newbie occasions aplenty and two main museums dedicated to biking. And there may be beer…ah, such beer.
With assist from North Carolina’s athletic sock maker DeFeet, Director Paul Willerton, a former mountain bike racer in addition to teammate of Greg Lemond, has managed on this 49 minute movie to maybe reply the query: “What’s a Flandrien?” There are retired professionals and workforce managers, together with present racers (each female and male, on the highway and the observe); there are boisterous followers (and sure, even beer), visitors of the bike-themed Flandrien Resort, in addition to the chance to look contained in the KOERS Museum in Roeselare. There are black-and-white clips of How It Used To Be and whereas they have been actually robust again then they nonetheless should be to cope with the cobbles and the unforgiving hellingen.
Fans could have the chance on Thursday, February 4th, to attend an advance screening of the movie in New York Metropolis from 7-9 pm. This will probably be in cooperation with Rapha at their clubhouse at 159 Prince Avenue, on the intersection with West Broadway within the Soho space of Manhattan. Not fairly the Bar Gidon in Geraardsbergen but it surely needs to be enjoyable anyway!
After the movie is offered there will probably be an open dialogue with Director Willerton, and as effectively celebrated framebuilder Ben Serotta will probably be current.
- For extra data: www.rapha.cc.
- Can’t make it to Manhattan for this? Effectively, no worries as “Flandrien,” which we’ll overview right here in additional depth subsequent week, is out there to observe by way of the Bicycle Movie Pageant (BFF) till February 29, 2024. You can see it in Program 9 of the Pageant right here: btt.boldtypetickets.com.
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