Cafés inside cycling's temples
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There is a particular pleasure in drinking coffee inside a building the sport happened in.
Jan's Café is upstairs in the pavilion at Herne Hill, serving through a hatch that looks down the home straight of a track London has raced on since 1891. KOERSkaffee is behind Belgium's national museum of the sport, its terrace facing the murals in the museum garden. Peloton Café is inside the Centrum Ronde van Vlaanderen, at the finish line in Oudenaarde. VELO is on the first floor of Sven Nys's cycling centre, with the man himself running it.
Being near one of these places is not at all the same as being inside one, which is a distinction most of the world's bike cafés would rather you did not draw.
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- Café De KarperCafé De Karper is a traditional brown café on Gent's inner ring, a short ride from Het Kuipke where the Zesdaagse van Vlaanderen is raced.
- Flandrien Hotel ClubhouseThe Clubhouse is the social heart of Flandrien Hotel, a boutique cycling-themed hotel in the Flemish Ardennes near Brakel.
- KOERSkaffeeThe café of KOERS.
- Peloton CaféThe house café of the Centrum Ronde van Vlaanderen, the Tour of Flanders museum on Oudenaarde's Markt, in the modern race's finish town.
- VELO Food & DrinksEetcafe on the first floor of the Sven Nys Cycling Center on the Balenberg in Baal, run personally by the retired cyclocross champion and his partner Anneke …
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- Jan's Café Upstairs in the Exodus Travels Pavilion at Herne Hill Velodrome, with a serving hatch over the home straight of the 1948 Olympic track. Volunteer-run and named for Jan Slater, who has served riders here since the 1960s.