He knows. This probably ain’t gonna be easy. Organising an alleycat on the same saturday the Dutch National Team has to play football for the FIFA Worldcup. Still, Carl from Velocity Nijmegen is hoping we will all come to visit Over De Waal and watch voetbal, in his garden onder het genot van een hapje en drankje aan de Willemsweg 209, Nijmegen, before the race. Okeeeeej, I’ll see if I can come but the least I can do is post it on the Haute! Cause I like this flyer a lot.

Ciao amici, on the last day of the Giro I bring you the results of yesterdays Arnhem Uphill Alleycat Classic. Only 30 riders showed up but what a magnificent showdown it became. After 30 minutes the fastest ones already were busy doing their third manifest!! Jeroen Blom won the race cause he was the only one with an extra strap on his bag so he could carry the largest package from the sixth manifest. Afterwards we ate pizza and then the auction began. Shirts, jerseys, bags, helmets, spokecards and flyers came under the hammer and together we raised over € 1700,- for Artsen zonder Grenzen. This means I have to go and ride the Tour for Life. So, big thanx for all people who came down, thanx for donating, thanx for making things possible, thanx.

1. Jeroen Blom
2. Bram de Vos
3. Ruben Hiddink
4. Kees Vernooij
5. Nick Vreeswijk
6. Carl van der Heide
7. Michael Pouwels
8. Pascal Wesselink
9. Jelle Tienstra
10. Bart van Orsouw
11. Bram Haegens
12. Mark de Jong
13. Pieter Aart Schouten
14. Niek Faber
15. Reinier Woltjer
16. David Broere
17. Almar Bijlsma
18. Bram Kuypers
19. Andy Duncan
20. Joris van Ophuizen
21. Bram van oosten
22. Hanno Maas
23. Hein Willekens
24. Harrie van Grinsven
25. Tom van Wandelen
26. Pieter Polo
27. Takahiro Honda
28. Eddie Scherphof
29. Ab Al-Tamimi
30. Vincent van Engelen

Pfoeiiiii, spend the last 8 hours thinking, rethinking and making decisions on which hill to be climbed and what package to be shipped. I guess it’s all in kannen en kruiken now and first manifest is for all competitors. After that only few will go through to round 2 and so on. Finally we’ll have only 5 riders doing the 6th and last manifest. This means they already have climbed 5 hills. For those people that came to the Arnhem Uphill Classic before, you know, this is going to be a killer. Bring out your best of legs, your largest bag, your stamina, a bit of luck and try to lose weight the next 3 days. Start is at 14:00, Cycloon HQ, van Muylwijkstraat 348, Arnhem. And remember, it’s all about helping Tour for Life collecting money for Artsen zonder Grenzen!!

Once a year we come together on the 4th of may on the Koeriersterplein to ride to the Hekelveld, in remembrance and great honour of Annick van Hardeveld. Fietskoeriers der Nederlanden, verenigt u.

The first of May, you get exactly twenty-four hours to ride the same amount of kilometers the profis will do in three stages. If this’ll make us more hardcore than professional roadracing cyclists or if it’ll make us look stupid is for yourself to decide. A fietskoerier is what it is, just a person making deliveries on a bike, no matter race nor media.

I used to be the black sheep of the family cause I was born in Twente. But this militant individual has left the flock to become a shepherd of his own breed. And what better way to celebrate life than going back to your own roots one day. Lemme see… the 20th of March sounds pretty kewl to go back in time and check if I’m still the king of the streets of Enschede like I thought I was. Niks hennig an, veur’n met die bak!

We had to wait for a whole year. Too long, way too long in my smartass opinion. I was getting thirsty already. Malle Tjeerd and I haven’t been drinking since cause we wanted to be prepared. We could never drink as much as them so this year we’re going for Gold in the kattebakalleycat. The bierweek in Zwolle, it’s simply just something special. Make sure you’re there to witness it all till your vision gets blurred.

Exposing his final exams in a different way. He was beaten by the academy and is now an apetrotse profi. This really doesn’t make sense, does it? So come check out this guys’ fabulous porcelain keukengerei. But from here on he’s made men, one of tha gang, a grown up, adult, geslaagd and thru with bullshitting in school. The real world starts here, now get a job, homie.

Being a fietskoerier in Arnhem is often said to be a Gods gift. I agree. When you’re really really lucky you might have to make a delivery to Rozendaal. Then you lie a little bit to your dispatcher by telling him you can’t find the address. You make a quick detour on the Veluwe to de Posbank and visit one of the most beautiful climbs in Holland. Right around the corner.

Next saturday (IN THE SNOW!!), for the allesoverkoepelende kattebakklassements status of the Dutch messengers, we’re heading for Den Bosch. But what is there to do besides visiting Hanno from Shortcut or eating a Bossche bol? You can always watch Jorlan punishing the dogs that try to steal bicycles. And it’s a pretty comforting thought that your bike is secured on this alleycat, right?