A bikers‘ outdoors home
Found the Dutch counterpart of this highly pleasant bikers‘ oasis in the Taunus woods of Germany: So-called BosHalte in Amsterdam. „Bos“ means „woods“, and „halte“ is the „rest stop“ or the „station“ – and this … Weiterlesen
Archiv des Jahres: 2015
Enjoy Sights, Smells and Sounds of This Special Season
Riding through the hills and looking at the woods beyond underscores it yet one more time: Indian Summer has nothing to do with India (duh), nor with the US or Canadian Indians; or thereabouts. Indian … Weiterlesen
Special Olympics, Olympic specialties
Learned a lot during my tour of Berlin’s stadium built for the infamous Olympic games in 1936. To start with what I learned on the stadion itself, in slight correction of the very first sentence … Weiterlesen
Bike Capital
Quite some time has passed since the last blog entry has been posted here. And the blogger has, meanwhile, taveled back from from the US capital to its German counterpart. Not a particularly bad place … Weiterlesen
Heat Wave
Another heat wave here in Germany. In search of alternatives to biking, find a shady place to lay down, start a big fan flowing into your direction and do some passive biking such as watching … Weiterlesen
Steel, resurrected
There is an old steel frame which has been sitting in the bike room for a looong time, fixie-fitting drop outs and all. Consequently, there has been the plan for a workover into a fixed-wheel … Weiterlesen
From the Political Powerhouse
Not too much of a surprise that in Washington, D.C., a lot of things point to the fact that the blog author is at the powerhouse of political influence. Consequently, no surprise either that the … Weiterlesen
Melt Down
Although it had been in the cards for a few days already, the tandem initiation of the blogger’s stoker-to-be in an upcoming race was executed upon as planned. Despite the fact that the weather gods … Weiterlesen
Borrowed from our German counter-part blog
The author has been invited to share her experience of last weekend’s double-marathon (425km – due to a detour that cut off 10K of the original plan – and some 3,600m of climbs). As this … Weiterlesen
Quench the thirst
In the hilly area this blog’s author lives, it is quite easy to work up a thirst (and a sweat) when biking: There are either winds to work against; or long and steep ascends to … Weiterlesen