Autor: artist

What is a Recreation Fahrt? It’s German, means „Recreation Ride“. The „h“ is an important letter.

Getting up after wife, cat and sun. Semi-sunny. Some degrees above zero. Great. No appointment. If i look bored i might run into a home-improvement task, so out into the woods with the singlespeeder. Dresscode: whatever.

Greenlaning. If i have any special talent it’s greenlaning. I’m so gifted …

Is this a) the international gesture of saying „Hi“, or b) a nice try for a high five, or c) a rebus for „Rapha Festive 500“? The correct answer is d) I made the 500 kilometers!

Getting up before wife, cat and sun. Some degrees below zero. Great, really. Friend Michi is appointed for 09:00. Comes at 09:15. Poor discipline, will talk to him later. Dresscode: warm, wooly, cosy, cuddly.

After yesterdays watergames my big fat camera for the artsy shots strikes. So Michi makes pics with his bum-cam. Today I am the target.

Plan for today: as learned yesterday – do it like the birds, move southwards during winter. At least for one day. So we try to reach Austria today. It is totally normal becoming colder initially, will change later.

Rural areas often have huts. Here lives the chief. Would be great to stay and maybe marry the daughter of the chief, but we have a plan and move on …

Sadly we are not alone on the road, but the only micro-bunch of riders on this trip. Why?

Collection of great rides.

Trespassing the austrian border. Bum-cam-boy forgets to make a pic of the toll-gate.

One of the unknown cols in the alps is the „Achenpaß“. Maybe not the steepest, maybe not the highest, but in a discreet way epic.

Trespassing the german border. Again bum-cam-boy forgets to make a pic of the toll-gate.

Reservoir dog watching reservoir.

… ah, bum-cam-boy has forgotten making pics from beautiful lake Tegernsee we passed by, but in the fridge are some bottles of „Tegernseer“. What a luck.

Getting up together with wife and cat, heavy rain and 0° Celsius. Grrrreat. Friend and bum-model Michi is appointed for 10:00. Dresscode: waterproof, more waterproof, diving suit, underwater breathing apparatus.

After some forgiving words friend Michi is again the object of documentation. If you have a close look on pic above you might discover a little payback attempt camera mounted under the bum-post saddle. A bum-cam …

We made a little stop for picnic and feeding the starving birds, but they were emigrated to spain.

Under this conditions clothing is very important. My heavy insulated winter boots keep the water inside at exactly 0° Celsius. Forecast for tomorrow is better, so I call it a day and will bother wife and cat at home.

Getting up later after wife and cat, no sun, windy, rainy and no idea about temperature. Great. No appointment. Dresscode: waterproof/waterproof.

Single plan for today: single person muddy ride with single-speed cyclocross bike to the singular lake „Starnberger See“.

Pics without a second rider are rather static. I should talk again to bum-model Michi, if he dreams of a career in a bum-model-agency for male fortysomethings he has to learn first of all discipline at work.

… ok, no more bum jokes, promised, in this scenery it is inappropriate!

„Sorry Sir, looking for a job? You would be perfect, let me explain it …“

Getting up early before wife and two nano-seconds before cat, sunny and somewhat above zero. Great. Friend and bum-model Michi is appointed for 8:30. Dresscode: long, longer, long and long.

We are heading south to see the alps. On the first kilometers the view on the mountains in the morning sun is hidden by trees and a bum.

Here you go. That’s what we are riding for. Click on the bum to get a bigger picture.

We reach the town of Bad Tölz. Here we turn around to ride back to Munich. Now the mountains have a great view on two bike-bums.

Getting up early before wife and cat, sunny and around 5° Celsius. Great. Friend Michi is appointed for 8:30. Dresscode: long, long, long and long.

Snow melted down and warm winds are blowing over the alps, will become an easy first day of festive 500 for us two heroes MAMILs (middle aged men in lycra).

For six or seven days i will make pictures of friend Michis bum in documentary intention. Show us your face, please, last time for 500 kilometers.

Down to river Isar, from here to home this part of the track follows the course of the Cycling Individual Road Race of the Olympic Games Munich 1972.

1972 Hennie Kuiper won the gold medal. If we push ourselves we can win a espresso machine. Obviously more useful.

Damit mir im Winter nie wieder das Ritzelpaket einfriert und auch kein Schaltwerk mehr abreißt haben wir einfach darauf verzichtet: Surly crosscheck Eingangrad, 48/22. Selbst wenn man mal einen Frozen Chocolate Margarita verschüttet – tiptop Kettenlinie!
Vielen Dank an Rolf, er hat mal wieder ein grossartiges Rad gebaut …