Cleve, Rodney and Paul
On Saturday, Rodney, Cleve, and Paul headed out for a relaxing ride to Oudenaarde while Steve and Hank recovered from yesterdays ride with George. The idea was to take a circuitous route that would lead through a bunch of little towns. Steve and Hank would drive the van over later and they would meet up. All of the guys would ride back in the van.
The riders headed out a little after noon and as soon as they could, they turned off of the main roads onto the one lane roads that crisscross the country. A number of times we turned around just to get on the narrow one lanes roads. While rolling along we stopped to take pictures of some of the really cool houses we passed.
Cool house
Coolest house
You don’t see any cookie cutter neighborhoods over here, just nice little houses that are all different. No vinyl siding either!
Nice house
The first town we stopped in was called Anzegem. Rodney had a cafe latte while Cleve had a cafe latte and a beer. Paul just sipped on his Endurox.
Church in Anzegem
From here the boys went on their way and Paul pointed out that they were going a little too fast and needed to slow down. For the first hour, they were crushing it at about 15 mph average. For a true coffee ride you should not exceed 12 mph.
The rest of the ride to Oudenaarde was much the same as the first part. Ride slow and take pictures of whatever we felt was worthy. We climbed the Oude Kwaremont again and Paul stopped to take a few picutres of the Rodney and Cleve on their way up.
Rodney on Oude Kwaremont
We then followed the Eddie Merckx route for a while and took pictures at the bottom of the Koppenberg.
The Koppenberg
We finally pulled in to Oudenaarde with 30 miles and two hours and ten minutes. Rodney and Paul met up with Hank and Steve while Cleve went to watch the U23 race finish. We then all headed back to Kortrijk for dinner. This was the last ride we did while there and was the perfect way to end it.
Paul
