Right on cue, it has been snowing – on and off – since the first Sunday of Advent a week ago. And by now, the snow has covered all my hope of getting a few more 2012 kilometers in. So, I guess it will be another not-so-intensive season. Because so much is...
With the first of the remaining European Six-Days evens, the one in Amsterdam, about to start in less than two weeks and the darker days of Fall having arrived already, this is a good time to remind everyone of one of the darker stories of the early times of the...
Long time, no posting – here is why: After the race in Hamburg was ticked, I packed my panniers and went on a one-week bike packing adventure in the North-Eastern German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern – all the way from Hamburg to the island of Rügen and...
Only one more day before the annual Cyclassics race in Hamburg, Germany will have me show up at the start line (and hopefully at the finish line as well – not too long after, if all goes well despite the lack of sufficient annual riding kilometers in my legs)....
During the last two or three years, I have completely lost interest in the pros racing around on whatever is the newest hype about the lastest pharmaceutical enhancement. Also the Olympic race which is currently still under way in London cannot get me all that...
