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Belgium Knee Warmers Defined
For many professional cyclists the Spring campaign is the toughest of the season; it means training from October until March in the worst, character-building weather conditions Europe can dish out. This weather and the suffering that is bicycle racing breed characters known as "hardmen".
Select cyclists tackle these conditions in shorts, long sleeve jerseys or short sleeve jerseys with arm warmers, wind vests, and shoe covers. A true hardman opts to forego the knee or leg warmers and instead chooses an embrocation to cover the knees. The liniment provides warmth for the legs and keeps the blood circulating and muscles supple. Embrocation and the sheen created is affectionately known as "Belgium knee warmers". The hardest of cyclists will sport bare legs in the most ruthless of conditions.
Belgium Knee Warmers are indicitive of the many subtleties that make professional cycling so enthralling.
Select cyclists tackle these conditions in shorts, long sleeve jerseys or short sleeve jerseys with arm warmers, wind vests, and shoe covers. A true hardman opts to forego the knee or leg warmers and instead chooses an embrocation to cover the knees. The liniment provides warmth for the legs and keeps the blood circulating and muscles supple. Embrocation and the sheen created is affectionately known as "Belgium knee warmers". The hardest of cyclists will sport bare legs in the most ruthless of conditions.
Belgium Knee Warmers are indicitive of the many subtleties that make professional cycling so enthralling.
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11 comments:
Van Petegem, Museeuw -- for some reason I've never heard these guys speak before, and given their style and performances on the bike I thought they would have some super-booming/gravelly voice of hellspawn. But really they sound like C+ compilers discussing slashdot nerdery.
Kind of sad. I'm muting from now on.
bike nerds rule!!!
How hard is it to learn Belgian? Seems I would eke more enjoyment from cycling that way ;)
Belgian?!?! Try Flemish...
Learning Belgian is almost as hard as learning Canadian.
'06 P-R is on my TV right now. Van Petegam, though "long in the tooth", rawks it.
I found this video about the fans getting ready for Flanders. Through you might be interested Looks kind of cool and I wish there was more.
http://www.nieuwsblad.be/Video/Videoplayer.aspx?VideoId=2691
Big DOPERS!!! What they accomplish means nothing..I love cycling, but It's hard for me to watch this video knowing they doped.Doping can never be stop..They"the pro's" have way more money then wada and UCI.
The Biological Passport is a waste
of money and time. I can go on for ever..
privateer: "Learning Belgian is almost as hard as learning Canadian"
Classic!!
anonymous:
Flemish?!?!? Try Dutch....
Flemish is a softer form of Dutch.
Much harder to understand, but without all the phlegm!
Sweet podium - only 2 of 3 are convicted dopers!
Ah, the glory days!
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