In the last 10 years, I have lived on three continents, five countries and about 30+ places. Some of them weren’t longer than a month, one lasted for an entire six...
Read More >>For a lot of cyclists, riding in Italy means climbing Passio di Giau, Stelvio or Passio di Gavia, all in the Italian Alps. And exactly that was my plan when I...
Read More >>1. Information on climbs: Website that states what Cols are open: http://www.sport-passion.fr/parcours/etat-cols.php (The German http://www.alpenpaesse.co is not always correct!) The German website: http://www.quaeldich.dehas all information possible about a pass. Even as...
Read More >>I am currently in France chasing all the epic climbs. And it goes without saying, there are a lot! I am on a mission – filming them for the indoor trainer...
Read More >>Greetings from Geneva! I just got back from five days of ultralight backpack cycling in Southeast France. You might wonder where Part 1 of this trip is? It is coming (I...
Read More >>I had the great fortune to join Cyclingtips and Scott Bikes on a gravel adventure video- and photo-shooting trip around the Victorian Alps. It was especially an incredible opportunity for me...
Read More >>Tour de Timor is a five day Mountain bike stage race in East Timor, one of the poorest countries in the world. Although the race itself is a true challenge, don’t...
Read More >>I am back to where I belong!! After a four month flirt with triathlon (this might deserve its own blog post at some point), I am back to ultra-endurance racing. With...
Read More >>Every place has some culture-specific toughness… In Minnesota, cyclists were their entire closet plus a snowboard mask to ride their fat bikes around the frozen lakes in -20 degrees. In Europe,...
Read More >>Three weeks before the race I got a strange email question from a still unknown person : Would I want to join a four person team for the Tortour? Ahemmm YES!....
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