Rides

Mallorca is Europe’s most popular road cycling destination and for good reason. Over 300 sunny days a year, 1,445 metres of climbing on the Puig Major, more than 200 cycling-friendly hotels, and a season from February to May that lines up perfectly with early-season form-building. Add 15-22°C, almost no rain, and roads better maintained than…

My first ride was 60 km, and I was absolutely knackered afterwards. Five months later, I cycled across the Alps. What happened in between? No magic, no training camp, no coach. Just a few things that really helped.

Wie packen für einen Bikepacking Trip? Und welche Tricks erleichtern einem das Leben? Hier meine Top 5 Bikepacking Tipps.

Gravel ride here, gravel bike there. There’s hardly a word that you hear more often in cycling these days than the word gravel. For me, gravel was for a very long time mainly one thing: nasty little stones. A gravel love story.

6 stage bike race in the Dolomites. At first, that sounded pretty unmanageable and like an absolutely absurd idea. But somehow the 600 km and 12,000 meters of altitude sounded exciting. An experience report.

At some point it is true for every road cyclist: the mountain must be conquered. About road cycling on the Alpine pass.