Pats, Boem, Klang, Paf, Hop, Keng!!!! The required 15000 pietermannetjes have been transferred to the account of Tour for Life so we’d like to give a Big Shout out for your support and donations. Thanx everyone for making it possible I’ll have to cycle for over 1250 kilometers filled with mountains through extraordinary environments. While climbing the hills I probably won’t be able to update this website so please follow the team (@CycloonTfL) or your multilingual host (@HauteCourier) for the latest in weatherforecast the mountainstyleway. BTW, calenders are still available if you wanna be part of sponsorshipping too, so ask for ‘m at your nearest fietskoerier. Or send me mail to hook you up, they’re only €10,- ex shipping.

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!!

Things are going well. Not personally, I mean. But organising the Arnhem Uphill Alleycat is getting along just fine. Start of the race will be at 14:00. I still need two extra person for checkpoints but I know some will come forward, no sweat (and big thanx in advance). But next thing has come up for later that day. In the evening, 20:00 sharp, I’ll be auctioning (more picas on twitter @hautecourier) a shitload of parafenalia, cyclingcaps, fietskoeriershirts and bikemessengerbags for Artsen zonder Grenzen. All collected money will be for sponsoring the Cycloon team on Tour for Life. Kom and spend yor doekoe!!!

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.

Dunno if anyone already noticed but this parrot is retwittering the news via tweets @HauteCourier. Come ‘n look me up, lemme know what you’re up to. I’ll show you what my work as a messenger is like on the Arnhem streets and at clients offices. And for the ladies… I’ll be looking for birds on bicycles!

So how are things coming along with the Arnhem Uphill, people asked me this week. Not too bad, I might say. Guustaaf offered his services for checkpoint and the plan is to make a race in which only the strong will survive. Checkpoints will only be open for a short amount of time. Limited amount of racers will go through to the next round. Een afvalrace waarbij u de Arnhemse heuvels zult beklimmen teneinde uw tegenstanders te verslaan op de gebieden van uithoudingsvermogen, fietskoerierskunde en een gezonde niet aflatende vorm van onuitputtelijk doorzetting. For potential foreigners and hopefully to be welcomed fakengers, who wanna come and join in on this monstruous alleycat. From start to finish it’ll go uphill, collecting a package, going downhill, grabbing a manifest, going uphill, getting a proof of delivery, going downhill, taking an order, going uphill, etcetera etcetera. Put that 29th of may in your agendas cause I’m expecting you to bring coins for the good cause. Money will be collected for Tour for Life’s Artsen zonder Grenzen.

The plan was to cycle to Groningen last weekend. Supposedly just another 100 km ride but due to lousy breakfast and too many bad thoughts in my mind, it became the real hell of the north before I got to the actual north. Together with a team of 9 other Cycloners we started from HQ Zwolle but de volgwagen had to pick me up and drop me off at Beilen trainstation. All lights went out, the man with the hammer hit me hard enough to show me my shortcomings once again.