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Thank you very much f0r your message, it is very helpful!
Once I set foot in Brussels, I will go on a tour with my bike and go hunt some cyclists. I need to acquaint myself with as many as cycling shops and riders as possible!
I'm really looking for a group with whom I can ride and explore the outside and inside of Brussels. I'm a bike messenger/courier here in London and have been racing nationally as well and done some alleycats and street competitions. I am sure I will be a great addition to your group. I do not mind cycling with geared bikes at all! I do not have that 'stereotypical hate' towards them.
Do you also know any essential bike shops I need to go too? Here in London, the symbolic shop of cycling is Look Mum No hands. Do you know any of that kind in Brussels?
Thanks,
By the way, do you speak French?
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Although fixed gear bikes are certainly not as popular down here as they are in London, I´ve seen a fair few, especially in Ixelles and Ukkel. You could pop into somewhere like Vainquer Bicycles or join us (Brussels Big Brackets) for a ride and a chat with the natives. https://www.facebook.com/groups/BrusselsBigBrackets/ We´re a fairly mixed bunch of expats and Belgians and the pace is fairly stately this time of year. Club rides start every Sunday at 9amish from the kiosk in Ter Kamerenbos unless something else is agreed on Facebook. We´re very much a geared club but there are a couple of fixed gear enthusiasts, including one who sometimes turns up for club rides with a fixie.
The whole lockdown malarkey is a massive piece of hyperbole. Offices, schools and the underground railway were shut for three days following the Paris attacks but now it´s just business as usual with about a thousand squaddies spread across the city getting bored and freezing their bollocks off outside key buildings. In this country all members of the police are armed anyway. The Interventie Korps (the ones with automatic weapons and body armour) are still outside government buildings (as they had been since the Charlie Hebdo atrocity) but surely not 10,000 of them. Oh, and private (unarmed) security are stationed outside supermarkets to check bags if they can be arsed.