Gore Bike Heart

Yesterday I went out on my first road bike ride of the year. With an ambient temperature of around 10°C and the sunshine making it feel even...

A week ago I was out on my bike again. But not just on any ride, oh no. This time I was on a mission. I had decided to go to a charity conce...

This weekend my cycling got a shot in the arm (I know, bad metaphor). Last year I rode my bike(s) only slightly more often than I updated th...

The photo to the right is the view from the top floor of our building. The velodrome ( Wikipedia ) just sits there, taunting me, right acro...

I got an sms last night from my girlfriend. My MTB, my Author Vision '06 , has been stolen from in front of our building in Turku while ...

Today I got my new '07 Shimano ST-M760 XT dual-control brake/shift levers for my MTB. I managed to damage my left lever on the bike bac...

Last night I was on my first roadie club ride of the season. Once again, due to construction work, the route has been changed this year. An...

Check out Yehuda Moon and the Kickstand Cyclery , a bicycle web comic. It's hilarious and details the everyday adventures of avid commut...

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...