Dirt ride in Europe-great pix

[oldpotatoe]

:)No fenders??

https://cyclingtips.com/2017/09/photo-gallery-gravel-beer-frites-inaugural-dirty-boar/

Last pic, 'what we are fightin' for'...:)

[GonaSovereign]

That looks cold and miserable and fun.

[thwart]

You just gotta get your priorities down... :D

https://cdn-cyclingtips.pressidium.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/37229529801_629b78c9d3_k.jpg

[xnetter]

And not one set of fenders in the whole group :-S

[AngryScientist]

looks like fun!

what the hell is going on here?

https://cdn-cyclingtips.pressidium.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/37056949196_70f6f94422_k.jpg

https://cdn-cyclingtips.pressidium.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/37104758901_c4e3ef914a_k.jpg

[disspence]

hmmmm...frites and mayo

[doomridesout]

I'll continue to fetishize sunny days in the Alps, thank you very much.

[katematt]

Having just built a custom all road with canti's and loving them, can't get over that I only saw maybe 3 bikes without disc's

[cachagua]

I'm in the process of getting a custom all-road built with discs, and I'm terrified. First disc bike for me and I've never had anything but fantastic performance from cantilevers, so I'm thinking I must be crazy.

BUT: what a slopfest! MAN that looks like fun. "Quintessentially Belgian conditions", I'll just bet. It's quintessentially Pacific Northwest too, looks exactly like a hundred mountain bike races I've been in... plenty of chances for that in my future, I guess. (The slop, that is, not the racing.)

Just need more beer and frites at the end of my rides.

[d_douglas]

That looks super fun. It looks like my winter weather here in BC.

The guy scrambling to stay upright tried to ride around the gate and bit the dust coming back up on the road. I've done it myself!

[RobJ]

That looks like a blast! 'Cross conditions, great setting and beer/frites... Need to find something like that out in OP's neck of the woods (not super technical, double track, fireroads..). I'm sure its out there if I search hard enough.

[sparky33]

And not one set of fenders in the whole group :-S
Road grit is considered a delicacy in Belgium

I'm in the process of getting a custom all-road built with discs, and I'm terrified. First disc bike for me and I've never had anything but fantastic performance from cantilevers, so I'm thinking I must be crazy.

I understand your fondness for cantis, but long sloppy rides like these are just so good with discs. You won't regret it.

[oldpotatoe]

Road grit is considered a delicacy in Belgium
.

'Belgium toothpaste'... :eek:

[eBAUMANN]

looks awesome!
reminds me of rasputitsa up in VT, wont find any stinkin fenders up there either ;)