Advice from an experienced cyclist: charge your battery, man.
For tracking your course it’s paramount to have a well charged battery. This track is from a not so well charged battery, ran down in Schäftlarn after 70km and now shows a rather direct way home. Not recommended to follow.
Friend Michi is cured from a three week cold. Still some weird breathing. Same does his tire. Weird breathing. A man and his bike …
Solo ride on rainy sunday, so this pic is a tribute to the unknown lonesome rider. Indeed, i didn’t know the guy on the bike.
Rule #1 for every blog: find a cool headline for each article. So today it’s „Serendipity“.
„Serendipity“ is not only a cool headline, serendipity in fact sums up what cyclocross is about. You will find roads and landscapes, people and animals you haven’t looked for. That’s serendipity.
Since weeks first chance to get some color in the pics and on the legs. Er, maybe better to wait a bit with shorts …
Who is Jicky?
Forecast said spring is around the corner … it’s more likely that Jicky is around the corner …
Sometimes i ask myself „Why?“. „Because, my friend, just because.“
No, that’s not Ingo. That’s Michi. Ingo comes later.
Some degrees below zero and fresh powder over old icy snow makes it again … technical …
… but we love it technical. Later we meet an old lady. She says „A bike would work better“. We are confused and think about quitting this sport or whatever we are doing.
And then we meet Ingo. Yes, Ingo. We think Ingo is an inappropriate name for a horse. But Ingo makes the best of it.
„Hist! Believe me, buddy, a bike would work better.“
Balls. Waiting for friend Michi.
Below zero and snowing the last nights but above zero and raining on the days makes the snow on the greenlanes somehow … technical …
Young ladies along the way. Young ladies love old stags on bikes.
Today a nice person from Rapha asked me about my size. „L. But why?“ Why? This blog has made the first price in the Rapha and RoadBIKE Festive 500! Great surprise, bum-boy Michi and me are very happy. Click here. Thanks a lot!
Last picture from my artsy shot camera before break-down, emblematic … and now back from repair again.
Wedeling with snowman Michi through the winter forest. We fill the bottles at this fountain. Looks cold …
… but inside the fountain it looks cosy. Fountain view. New within my iconography.
Cyclo-slalom.
The heraldic animal of Cyclocross.
After yesterdays 16 years old Yamazaki i feel a strong desire to do some mileage on the roadie.
Yamazaki is a japanese Whisky you dirty minded …
The color of the delicious provisions comes from the oak cask it was stored in the last years … kidding, it’s a glucose drink, mixed today.
Coole Swan. Ok, some education here: Coole Swan is a irish cream liqueur with whisky. But Coole Swan is not named after cold swans but after the village Coole where W.B.Yeats wrote his poem „The Wild Swans at Coole“. You uneducated fools.
Bum bum bum, friend Michi is knocking on the door, we have to check snow situation in the woods. Same idea had the local mercedes-gang …
The only cyclist in the woods (fortunately the wild boars don’t ride bikes). Waiting for the snow and my better camera coming back from repair.
Getting up before wife and cat to manage some sylvester-party-issues. In the shadow below zero, in the sun above zero. Great. Appointment with brave bike buddy Michi to clock the last kilometers together to fill up his personal festive statistic, but sadly he has to cancel – home tasks … Ok, so out alone for a final lap in the woods. Dresscode: the remaining clean stuff.
As snow and ice was missing on the roads and trails this year we had a lot of great rides. Next week in the office will be odd.
Monster marshmellows stinking in the sun, rub on the pic to smell it.
Seven days of riding resulted in 615 kilometers distance and 4485 meters elevation.
A wise Belgian once said, the most difficult thing with bike riding is to put the socks on. Thats true. It was a wonderful week.
