bicycle_touring

overlooking silicon valley from the west with just a water bottle (hiked half the way, it was a trail too sketchy for these tyres)

Oh my gody guys and girls. I am beyond hyped right now, two days into riding the Pyrenees west to east....

A shake down ride to make sure everything is in order. Needs a little more air in the forks, and I need to add lights to my list, otherwise all good.

I’ve been doing some rail trails on the “green roads” (routes vertes) to visit my parents for the last three weekends and I stopped at the park for overnights as I didn’t want to cycle the full 140 km in one shot and then back. It’s getting greener!...

(Title picture is from yesterday in the Parque Natural Sierra de Castril, narrow single track only went for a couple 100m but a good occasion to take a photo and make me look like a badass)...

All the stuff i am taking on a two month trip, including bags, the clothes i am wearing, excluding my phone and an actual book which i plan to send home though. Hope i didn’t miss something, but i think i should be good. Leaving my chair at home this time....

In June 22 i made a short trip to Belgium and Luxembourg, there was a heatwave going on and i wanted to get to the Sauer Reservoir (Lux) for a swim, i had been there already some years before and remembered it to be really nice....

What’s up party people. It’s christmas time and i am giving away six ultralight camp lights, including batteries*. They weigh a whooping 11 g including two CR2032 batteries. According to the seller, the power should last for thirty hours and then start dimming down when power starts to fade, so no sudden death. I have not...

(Title picture: Riding out of the Lathissi high plateau)...

I was cyling from Freiburg, Germany through the Jura, Vercors, Drôme, Verdon to Nice, France....

Ok so not completely sure this is allowed here, but not against any rules on the sidebar so I’ll give it a go. @mods please remove or message me if not appropriate...

This was an amazing lake in Sweden, about 40km east of Askersund. There was a shelter here and a fire pit, and no one else around! Sweden and Finland were definitely the highlights on this trip.

It was december and raining a lot. I made a route using both komoot and RWGPS (the latter to confirm tricky spots with streetview). Still, information wasn’t up to date and had to make a huge detour....

Rode from somewhere in northern Italy to Nice, France. It was september, roads were very quiet, weather was mostly good (almost froze my hands right off on a rainy descent, but the rest was quite good). Slept in hotels as I only had four days and was doing like 2500-3000m elevation every day....

I am actually cycling in the Czech Republic right now, but slept tonight about 20m over the border in Germany. Definitely feel now like this tour is coming to an end. Still a good week to go....

TLDR: Denmark has a cool free shelter and camping infrastructure, check it out here and learn some Danish while you’re at it. There is also a ‘shelter’ app for it (I think it is called shelter), I just used osmand POI’s. Some of the shelters require registration, I’m not sure how that process works. The photo shows my...

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The first two days have been great. I feel like i really made the right decision taking that flight, the weather is just so much better for me....

On wednesday i have made the decision to not ride further into the southern european heatwave but booked a flight to Tromsø way up north in Norway, then try to make my way home from there. I can’t deal with the heat and the idea that it’s only going to get hotter (40+ in bosnia)....

The last days i had been following the slovenian part of the trans balkan race route, then thought i can’t go through croatia without going to the coast at all. Took a very cool route through the forest to the sea, thought i’d check in on a campsite and spend half a day on the beach. Quickly found out again that i just...

That was a couple weeks ago on a part of the mountainbike route 66 in Switzerland. This part was still all ridable for me, only the last two or so km before the border to italy i was basically just pushing ....