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Museeuw flax bike launch

The Museeuw MF5 is even more comfortable than the MF1 with its main tubes made from 80 percent flax.

  • The Museeuw MF1 has main tubes made of 50 percent flax fibre
  • Museeuw bikes await assembly in front of a vast wall of jerseys in the Centrum Ronde Van Vlaanderen.
  • The Museeuw MF5 is even more comfortable than the MF1 with its main tubes made from 80 percent flax.
  • Flax fibres make up most of the main tubes on the MF5.
  • Assembled members of Europe's media prepare to take to the roads of Flanders.
  • Emma Davies (left) and Johan Museeuw guide us on a ride towards some of Flanders' most famous roads.
  • De Leeuw himself knows better than most how to ride these cobbles.
  • Our hero (in third wheel) 'escorts' Museeuw up the cobbles of the Oude Kwaremont.
  • Descending on cobbles can be pretty frightening, but the MF1 frame takes them in stride.
  • The Brasserie de Flandrien was the venue for a typical Flemish lunch.
  • Museeuw tucks in while our correspondent waits for his meat-free lunch.
  • Sales and marketing director Fangio Reybrouck takes us through the features of the Museeuw frames.
  • Fangio Reybrouck explains the features of the 50 percent flax MF9 fork.
  • Darkening skies loom as our correspondent puts the MF5 thorugh its paces after lunch.
  • The Museeuw MF5 smoothes over little cobbles like these on the Kattenberg as if they were paved

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The Museeuw MF5 is even more comfortable than the MF1 with its main tubes made from 80 percent flax.

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