Belgian / French cyclo sportives

craigyboy1969
craigyboy1969 Posts: 64
edited August 2007 in Pro race
Can anyone recommend a sportive in Belgium / France, within 2 hr drive of Calais early season next year?

I fancy making a weekend of it and taking the missus and kids etc but seen to have missed the TO Flanders and the Liege-Bastone-Liege.

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  • Monty Dog
    Monty Dog Posts: 20,614
    There is the Tour of Flanders sportive the same weekend as the Pro Tour race in April - the full route is a great event. Slightly later is Tilff-Bastogne-Tilff on the May bank holiday weekend or a couple of weeks later, the Paris-Roubaix sportive - all are good events, well organised and an easy drive from the UK.
    Make mine an Italian, with Campagnolo on the side..
  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    There's also La Baptiste about a week after the Flanders Tour Cyclosportive Monty Dog mentions, so mid-April.
    Starting at Mers-les-Bains, on the coast 20 miles NE of Dieppe, it has two distances, 145 km (pulling about 300 riders) and 85 km (100 riders).
    It's flat!
  • Croxted Avenger
    Croxted Avenger Posts: 837
    Theres also the Omloop Het Volk sportive in April which costs an outrageous 3 euros 70 to enter if you want to do the full 210km.

    http://www.hijftespurters.be/
    \'You Come At the King,You Best Not Miss\'

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