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All Weather Rocket
End of last week my Stromer ST3 Pinion Edition arrived. I had hoped to get the fancy red launch edition but had to settle for a black one in the end. From far away it looks a little common in black. Common is not exactly the word I was looking for but one way or another it seems not special enough for this bike. If you inspect the bike up close and look at the craftsmanship that went into making the frame it is stunningly special, even in black. My son said that if Batman would ride a bike it…
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Cannondale Contro-E Speed Retirement
After roughly 8000 commuting kilometers I have ‘retired’ my Contro-E Speed today. You can read a short review in Dutch here. When I bought it back in 2016 it was a ‘trade in’ for my motorbike. I got rid of my unsafe motorbike and got an equally unsafe speed pedelec instead. Of course, going fast on a motorcycle in heavy traffic on the highway is more dangerous because of the speed but on my commute through villages I really believe the speed pedelec can be more dangerous. Riding 45 km/h on it you are going about as fast on a…
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Lego Technic BMW M 1000 RR
This year there were not so many summer vacation camps going on so I figured it would be a good period to build a new Lego BMW motor. A few years ago I bought a R 1200 GS model but this time it was the M 1000 RR. Built on scale of 1:5 and containing almost 2000 stones this is a massive piece. We started working on it at the beginning of the summer school holidays but then the remaining camps and our family vacation came in between and the model wasn’t finished until end of August. The model is…
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Keerbergen D1 – Embourg
After losing the opening match of the season agains Old Club there was a bit of pressure on the team for the second game. Last season D1 also played against Embourg in Nationale 3 and while they won the away game at Embourg, the game agains them near the end of the season at home ended in a draw which in all fairness should have been won by Embourg. But the fun thing about sports is that it is often unpredictable. And so it went here. What we expected to be a tough game ended up being relatively easy with…
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Begonvil
With both of our kids away on summer camp activities we decided to go for dinner at Begonvil just the 2 of us. I had stumbled across it a little while ago looking for a place to eat on google maps. This mediterranean/Turkish restaurant is located in the centre of Keerbergen and serves a number of dishes that you may also find in Turkish and Greek restaurants. The interior is a little strange but that is probably due to the fact it used to be a bakery before at the same location and a traiteur before that. You can still…
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Total Recall Double Bill Part 2
After watching the 1990 version with Arnold Schwarzenegger I also watched the remake from 2012 starring Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel. The immediately obvious difference is that the remake is visually technically far superior and makes the future look convincingly like the future and not some failed cardboard attempt. This obviously helps the movie but another big plus is that at least for me Colin Farrell is more convincing as the hunted prey on the run. Reflecting on why the 1990 version was not completely satisfying I think part of it maybe that for me Arnold is so…
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Total Recall Double Bill Part 1
I recently watched the movie from 1990 with Arnold Schwarzenegger again. The real revelation then and still now is Sharon Stone. One moment she is the harmless, loving, young and innocent extremely good looking wife, the next one she is a ruthless killer, still extremely good looking but with all the innocence evaporated into thin air. Really world class. The movie is based on a story by Philip K. Dick and one of its biggest qualities is that it keeps you doubting what is real and what is dream. It was directed by Paul Verhoeven and has some explicit, campy…
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Amsterdam
In the last week of July our daughter went on a Drijver elite prep hockey goalie training camp in Amsterdam organised by Sportways. This year the camp was at Xenios. It is amazing how many hockey clubs there are in Amsterdam alone. Xenios has about 1300 members, 5 water fields and they completed the building of a new large club house just before summer. Their first teams are not playing in the highest division but 2 levels below and still they are bigger than Dragons in Belgium. After dropping her off we went to the Botanical garden. We parked the…
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Old Club – Keerbergen D1
Last season the young Dames 1 team of Keerbergen Hockey Tigers promoted to the Belgian Nationale 2 league. On September 4th they kicked off their season at Old Club de Liege. The nervousness was visible in their game and in a tense match they finally lost the season opener 3-2. But the game was close and really a draw would have been a more representative result of the game. Unfortunately a couple of open chances were missed and no advantage was taken of the fact that the goalie of Old Club had to be replaced due to an injury in…
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Boekhandel Dominicanen
Een tijdje geleden bezochten we Maastricht en een bezoek aan Boekhandel Dominicanen kon dan niet ontbreken. Deze boekhandel vestigde zich in 2006 in een oude Dominicanenkerk. Het gebouw alleen al is een bezoek waard zelfs als je geen interesse hebt in boeken. Voor wie wel op zoek naar boeken kan ik deze boekhandel ook aanraden. Qua schaal komt dit nog het dichtste bij Angelsaksische boekhandels in de UK of USA. Zeker voor de meer gangbare onderwerpen is er een ruime keuze, enkel in de exacte wetenschappen en dan vooral in het Engels is de keuze eerder beperkt. Maar dan nog…
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