The year 2023 was relatively quiet in terms of cycling for me, yet it concluded with a fantastic tour that yielded at least one report and memorable impressions for my followers. Early in 2023, my cycling companions and I deliberated over potential tour locations. My suggestion of Sicily won out, leading us to arrange a gathering in Catania come October—a choice that, looking back, was excellent.
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Another impressive day unfortunately with a different outcome as expected.
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Yesterday I wrote something about a walk in the park? How can I be this naive. This stage was awesome, very hard, but with the most spectacular views and descents I’ve ever experienced.
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This day that can be described as “chain left”. That means you don’t even shift to the big blade anymore, because it’s going up again right away anyway.
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As Chris said, let’s rock & roll we started the ride from Braga into the Alvão National Park and on to today’s destination, the wounderful Douro Valley.
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Let’s go to Portugal, arriving and transferring from Porto to Braga, the northern largest city in Portugal for a come together and get to know each other before we cope the first stage of the tour.
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This Saturday, September 10, 2022 was the last part in my series of one-day events. The round trip around the lake constance is kind of a home run for me. Nevertheless, I got to know a few new sections of the route and for the sake of completeness here’s a brief report.
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Using the usual summer visit to my Mom and my former hometown, to participate in a traditional event, a tour through the Bavarian Forrest to the highest mountain in Eastern Bavaria and back to Regensburg. Which even fits my cycling program of riding one-day events this year.
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After all the one day events, interim reports, COV19 cancellations, finally an event that deserves the name of this page, a tour. A tour through Portugal, the Transportugal Roads Tour. From the very north through the country to the most southwestern corner to the “last german sausages before America”. And of course there will be again a daily tour report with photos, interviews, and stories.
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This epic route through Lombardy to the Ligurian coast was a wonderful experience, especially, because it wasn’t a mass event. I’ve done it with about 660 like-minded others. Almost 300 km of cycling on one day is quite special, although I can report it wasn’t that bad.
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