Today back to the nineties: PIONEERS ON THEIR ADVENTURE TRAILS THROUGHOUT THE LOW COUNTRIES!

Winner LCMT 1999 : Wouter ROGIERS (BEL)

Runner up : Thierry Goos

Third : Marcy Meeuws 

Despite the long distances only short trails during the stages were used for the time-registration. The rest was recreative but of course obligational as well. Those time-trials were divided under next winners: Wouter Rogiers (4 X), Jo Naert (2 X), Thierry Goos (1X), Marcy Meeuws (1X) .

Gedurende drie van de 9 (!) etappes was de top-3 van het toenmalige Belgische profmountainbiken aanwezig in de LCMT. Met name Filip Meirhaeghe, Peter Van den Abeele en Roel Paulissen maakten toen hun opwachting en verbroederden spontaan met het net geen 80 koppen tellende deelnemersveld. Op de eerste 3 dagen startten er trouwens ruim 120 mountainbikers. De formule liet toen toe om 3 van de 9 ritten uit te pikken. Vooral de 3 Ardennen-dagen kenden hierbij succes.

Do you remember the original stages of that first year? Here is the whole itinerary?

Stage 1: Gulpen (Nederlands Limburg) - Bütgenbach (1st start on 7 August 1999).

Stage 2: Bütgenbach - Houffalize (1ste X in current hotel then known as Ol Fosse d'Outh!)

Stage 3: Houffalize - Rochefort

Stage 4: Rochefort - Citadelle of Namur

Stage 5: Namur - Halle (nearby Brussels)

Stage 6: (Halle) - Geraardsbergen - Ronse

Stage 7: Ronse - Ieper (Ypres)

Stage 8: Zillebeke (Ieper) - Heuvellandse bergzone - Rodeberg

Stage 9: Rodeberg - De Panne Beach