Årne cycling gear

08/04/2026

RVV 2026 in zwartwit. 🚴🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️

05/04/2026

Ronde van Vlaanderen 2026. Samen in een boom boven de Oude Kwaremont voor het beste uitzicht van de dag.

18/03/2026

Those spring nights.

14/03/2026

Courir c’est mourir un peu. Maar als je dan wind mee weer naar huis kunt rijden is alles weer vergeten. Het leven kan soms zo heerlijk simpel zijn. 🚴‍♀️

10/01/2026

Raceday in Arkel. Achter rem vastgevroren en hard tegen een paaltje gereden. Na 1,5 ronde einde koers. Better luck next week.

08/01/2026

Genieten van de sneeuw! Mooie cross uurtjes met Krijn door de sneeuw. Glijden, spelen, boomwortels ontwijken. Heerlijke dag. ❄️⛄️❄️

14/11/2025

Zo mee eens! Zonder regels en signalen rijden in groepen is levensgevaarlijk.

The new “inclusive” cycling clubs are going to kill someone.

And I’ll be the one who gets called a gatekeeper for saying it.

I watched a group ride last week. 30 riders. Zero hand signals.

Overlapping wheels everywhere.

One guy braking mid-corner in the bunch.

It was the most “welcoming” ride I’ve ever seen.
No intimidating rules. No stuffy customs. Just “show up and ride.”

It was also a ticking time bomb.

I LOVE that cycling is becoming more accessible.

The traditional club model, with its unwritten rules and insider knowledge, has kept too many people out for too long.

But the pendulum has swung too far.

These “rules” we’re abandoning? They’re not there to exclude people.

They’re cycling’s version of Darwin.

Holding your line through corners. Signaling when you stand. Never overlapping wheels. Calling out road hazards. Knowing how to ride a crosswind in formation.

These customs weren’t invented by stuffy club elites to make newcomers feel small. They were developed over 100+ years of trial and error.

They exist because the alternative was crashing, injury, and chaos.

Every mature industry has “unwritten rules” that seem like gatekeeping but are actually compressed wisdom.

In surgery, there’s a protocol for everything.

In aviation, there’s a checklist culture.

In cycling, there are bunch riding customs.

Calling these “barriers to entry” misses the point entirely.

I rode with a new club last month that throws out all the “old school” rules.

They’re growing fast.

Everyone’s having fun.

Until someone hit a pothole and went down.

Then three more riders went down because they were overlapping wheels and couldn’t react.

The organizer said: “Crashes happen, it’s part of cycling.”

No.

Preventable crashes happen when you ignore 100 years of hard-earned knowledge.

I want to mix up the status quo

I want new clubs that challenge stuffy customs

I want fresh energy and perspectives

I want lower barriers to entry

But

I also want these clubs teaching the fundamentals that keep people safe

I want them respecting why the rules exist before breaking them

You can be inclusive AND have standards.

The most welcoming thing you can do for a new rider isn’t to eliminate all the rules—it’s to teach them why those rules exist and give them the skills to ride confidently in a group.

We don’t need to choose between tradition and inclusion.

We need to teach the newcomers what took us decades to learn.

Because the group ride is more fun when everyone knows what they’re doing.

And the rules aren’t there to exclude you, they’re there to bring you home safely.

09/11/2025

Raceday! Vandaag reed Krijn weer een cross met veel grinta bij de WBVC, Galderse Meren. Hard gevochten en boven zichzelf uit gestegen. Daarna zelf lekker nog even op pad.

01/11/2025

De Koppenberg liegt nooit! Wat een prachtige openingscross. Proficiat aan en and .mason , thanks for@takingbtime to talk to us and the picture!

27/10/2025

Prachtige koers bij ‘t Zand gisteren in Alphen. Wat een mooi parcours. Een cross met zand, singletracks, gras en wind. Allebei de wedstrijd gereden. Bedankt voor alle aanmoedigingen!

19/10/2025

Niet elke rit draait om snelheid. Soms is het gewoon de weg zelf die telt. 🌅