Kris Schamp

Hey everyone!

A quick heads-up that I have still 3 spots left for the Flanders-Roubaix Belgian Classics bike tour I am organizing again this spring.

This is a 13-days/12-nights, fully-catered trip that includes:

- live watching three major spring classics (Tour of Flanders, Scheldeprijs and Paris-Roubaix);
- riding the 150K Tour of Flanders cyclosportif (which includes all the climbs and cobble sections on the course), the day before the race;
- riding the last 90K of Paris-Roubaix (from Wallers to Roubaix, with a victory lap in the Velodrome Municipale), on the same day that all pro-teams are pre-riding the course;
- a bunch of great rides in the Flanders countryside (and into the north of France) with more cobbles (including the Kemmelberg from Gent-Wevelgem fame) and plenty of stops at cultural/historical/gastronomic attractions along the route;
- guided exploration of Brussels, Antwerpen, Oudenaarde (incl. visit to the Tour of Flanders Museum), and Ieper.

Besides all the awesome riding and live bike race spectating, you will get a unique chance to discover Belgium's rich culture, history, cities, gastronomy, and beer (oh, yeah!), all in the good company of locals, including my brother Jan and a whole cast of other Belgian friends and relatives.

Anyway, if you are interested in joining a fun group of spring classics aficionados (all of them fellow OBRA racers) for this very unique "bike trip of a lifetime", just shoot me an email and I'll send you a PDF brochure with all the details (and as many references as you could wish for from previous participants).

And since pictures are worth a thousand words, here are two flickr albums with a ton of photos of the 2011 and 2012 editions:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/krisschamp/sets/72157629905439077/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/krisschamp/sets/72157626484486695/

Cheers!
~Kris

Kris Schamp
Portland Racing | Belgian Bike Tours
kris@portlandracing.com