Lion of Flanders decal/sticker?

[gasman]

Originally Posted by krhea

As an FYI, this event goes right past our front door and it's symbol is the Lion of Flanders:

http://www.rondepdx.com/

It's a parade of cyclists not right wing "goose-steppers".

A great ride, done it twice

[RudAwkning]

Alaska Randonneurs "Moose Of Flanders".

[gavingould]

i got both Lion of Flanders and Coq Walloon stickers & small flags in a tourist gift shop in Bruges. neither are going on the bike, which is already festooned with angry chickens due to it being a Gaulzetti!

how-didilly-do, neighborino!

[teleguy57]

Since this is a family-friendly site I won't post the picture itself, but there's a fun "Belgian the x Up" sticker amongst all the other interesting logo'do items here

[cash05458]

wow, so right wing politics? you def. won't like this then...remember Vlaanders has a very long list of socialism and left wing politics and intellectuals and artists as well...Me, I lived there for 12 years, rode there and speak Flemish and some of my best friends live there...that and to me, it symbolizes everything I like about riding...so I got this:

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e1...ps7fbfbdf8.jpg

[teleguy57]

Originally Posted by cash05458

wow, so right wing politics? you def. won't like this then...remember Vlaanders has a very long list of socialism and left wing politics and intellectuals and artists as well...Me, I lived there for 12 years, rode there and speak Flemish and some of my best friends live there...that and to me, it symbolizes everything I like about riding...so I got this:

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e1...ps7fbfbdf8.jpg

Love the Lazer helmet in your photostream and the LOF helmet cover. Me, I went with this one [photo from Single Track World]

[cash05458]

Originally Posted by teleguy57

Love the Lazer helmet in your photostream and the LOF helmet cover. Me, I went with this one [photo from Single Track World]

nice helmet! Yeah, funny enough, that belgian team issue one I have I was going to put up for sale here soon, or was thinking about it...I picked it up and have never worn it...nice helmet tho, but the chick I was with who wanted me to ride with one took off before I used it!

[krhea]

Originally Posted by phcollard

It depends where you are. I can assure you that if you go cycling the Ardennes wearing a Lion of Flanders jersey you *will* be looked at by locals, on a bike or not. And to many this will sound like provocation.

Climate is very tense between Flanders and Wallonia, been like that for decades but it's even worse since the last federal election where the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA... a nationalist right wing party) came in first!

That said I agree the Flanders flag looks better than the Wallonia flag. But the rooster still looks great on a Gaulzetti

Great, thanks for the geo-political history lesson, however, it was and is VERY clear the OP was asking for the sticker/decal in reference to cycling, on a cycling forum without any political intentions whatsoever, hence my response.

[cash05458]

Man, Patrick...hope you still talk to me after seeing my tat!

[doomridesout]

More power to ya if you want the sticker, the tattoo, whatever it is... It's got a lot of history behind it, worth knowing one way or the other...

[cash05458]

Originally Posted by doomridesout

More power to ya if you want the sticker, the tattoo, whatever it is... It's got a lot of history behind it, worth knowing one way or the other...

you don't need to sorta cheapen it by saying get the tat or sticker...but if you want to learn abit more ...and without this going into some big political thing maybe read abit about why Flemish identity movements happened early on...you say since ww2...there is ALOT of history behind that...like the Walonians running the country and even banning flemish language being taught in schools or or people getting jobs because they were either waloon or flemish and all sorts of laws written around that...putting flemish guys up front during the war for fodder while the french speaking guys were from same station were made officers...there is alot of history behind it and to conflate it only with right wing politics is not really historical and is really skewing it in the wrong way...originally, it was a self identity movement and actually was a very left wing thing......like the irish insisting on their rights within their own territory is pretty much how the lion flag grew...without the terrible violence...but as the flemish started taking control of the economy of the country for various reasons (read Marx here: or Spinal Tap..."money talks and bull···· walks..." )and this they started having alot more political power after the coal mines of walonia started dying ...things change...the Lion has really nothing to do with Phillip Dewinter and that gang of idiot thugs even if they have tried to take it over as their symbol...it ain't....

[phcollard]

Originally Posted by krhea

Great, thanks for the geo-political history lesson, however, it was and is VERY clear the OP was asking for the sticker/decal in reference to cycling, on a cycling forum without any political intentions whatsoever, hence my response.

My intend wasn't to give a lesson to anyone. Just to say that some people are definitely not overthinking this, as you said. Depends on how you view it and where from, I guess. But yeah if you want to believe the lion of Flanders is the flag of "cycling for the hard men" and all the related cobbled fantasies that's fine with me. I'm proud of my country, whichever side you are from, and of its cycling heritage. I have many friends in Flanders as well and this geopolitical stuff is pure BS for politicians if you ask me. For some Belgians it's not though, hence my geo-political lesson.

[Md3000]

Originally Posted by doomridesout

Why, are you Flandrien? I like the Belgian classics as much as the next guy (and admittedly, the lion, is pretty tough looking), but Flemish nationalism has been a bedfellow of the far right since WWII. I have an axe to grind about the idealization of European national identities in US cycling culture, obviously...

ANY form of nationalism is inherently right wing, and every nationalist movement in Europe uses their national flag as its symbol. That doesn't mean the flag has a right wing connotation though. I grew up 20 mins from Flanders and never heard or associated the lion with right wing politics. With Flemish pride yes.

[cash05458]

Originally Posted by Md3000

ANY form of nationalism is inherently right wing, and every nationalist movement in Europe uses their national flag as its symbol. That doesn't mean the flag has a right wing connotation though. I grew up 20 mins from Flanders and never heard or associated the lion with right wing politics. With Flemish pride yes.

the idea the ANY form of nationalism is right wing is ridiculous...take a look at the old I.R.A. stuff...that was based on socialistic ideas being helped by self identity issues from south africa and fighting against apartheid and the real origins of who was entitled to so called rights..is that right wing? well, that is nationalism sometimes...

[vav]

Originally Posted by Lewis Moon

So, where would a guy find cool "Lion of Flanders" decals or stickers to put on his new Belgian bike?

It's not for me...it's for a friend. (coughs, looks away)

Zanconato maybe? http://bikesbyzank.blogspot.com/2006...flag-logo.html