Kategorie: radfahren

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.

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.

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 …“