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)....
Sometimes the trips that you don’t go on are the best ones. At least, that’s what it felt like when I received word from the group of (sorry) freaks I almost joined (as yet another freak) to ride the 305K from Hamburg to Berlin in one day. And they did it...
One more piece of evidence that the most British or, more even, English of all continental cities is Hamburg, the beloved home town of your’s truly: Finally, you can buy one of those slightly eccentric, but very stylish folding bikes by Brompton in a German shop...
