The start of the junior E3 Classic is a strange place. Just a few hundred metres up the road, WorldTour pros are getting ready in warm buses, hordes of fans already surrounding them. Round the corner, on a quiet, residential street, there are 17 and 18-year-olds getting changed in vans.
Some of the riders are actually riding WorldTour teams' bikes, or wearing their helmets – some even their kit – but here they're on national team duty, where budgets don't even stretch to a camper, unless you're Belgian.
