Gore Bike Heart

I finally did it. I'm now officially a bike addict, owning both road and mountain bikes. For quite some time, ever since my accident in...

Last saturday was race day, and I was on the starting line of the 6th ever, my second, edition of Nykarlebyloppet . It's a local race th...

This morning I woke up just in time to realise that my alarm was about to go off. It was 5.55 and time to get up. I woke up Sergej and found...

Don't let the headline fool you into thinking we didn't go anywhere on this day. We did, we went to France for lunch! Having settled...

"He's going the distance! He's going for speed!" (CAKE - The Distance). Today has been an amazing day. We did, however, ge...

We're not in.. No, I used that one in my last post. Yesterday we crossed yet another border, this time into Luxembourg. Last night we st...

This entry should have been posted last night, but I managed to fall asleep before I had the chance to finish it. Yesterday I woke up a bit ...

Got up this morning, packed, had a nice breakfast with E and got on my bike a few minutes before 10. I then rode into central Köln along the...

Another hot day, but I did follow through and rode my bike to Hamm. Only from there, after 80 km in the sweltering heat with a couple of ste...

Today was hot, very hot. I'm glad I got up fairly early and made at least some headway before the heat really set in and slowed things d...

Frank, my host in Uelzen, proved to be more welcoming than I could ever had hoped for. After I had had a shower, pizza was soon ready. Later...

This will be a short(ish) one, but today's ride most certainly wasn't. Leaving Schwerin just as the first drops of rain started to f...

Sleeping in a proper bed is almost too comfortable. I didn't get up until almost 9. Having shopped for groceries and said my thanks to P...

I woke up at 5.40 this morning and felt pretty good. Spreading out my sleeping bag on the floor of the air seat lounge turned out to be a de...

And so my tour has officially begun. Superfast VIII has sailed and as Helsinki and Finland grows smaller on the horizon, I look ahead to for...

day 0 (09.7.): Train to Helsinki, Superfast departs from Helsinki at 22.00 EEST day 1 (10.7.): Superfast arrives in Rostock at 21.30 CEST, ...

Yesterday was my last day in Stockholm before going home today and then heading to Germany on Monday. So I decided to make my destination of...

I would have to say that I enjoy my job. Not only does working on the ship give me the opportunity to go on regular rides in the middle of t...

I've been on the cruise ship for nearly four days now, 12 to go.. Luckily my, and the ship's, schedule allows for me to go out ridin...

Finally! Last night I, finally, got back on my bike again and went on my first club ride in over a month. Actually, I was so anxious that ju...