Silk Road Mountain Race Report, Day 9:
www.instagram.com/p/DRu37t5DHab/
Towards and reaching Naryn!
#SRMR2025
#SRMR2025cap201
#silkroadmountainrace
#BlueCaravan
#bikepacking
#ultracycling
#weitradeln
#Kyrgyzstan
#Kirgisistan
That view... 🤩
... was super-hard earned, though.
Slowly also populating my Silk Road Mountain Race album on flickr:
www.flickr.com/photos/huege...
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#SRMR2025cap201
#silkroadmountainrace
#bikepacking
#ultracycling
#weitradeln
#Kyrgyzstan
#Kirgisistan
#photography
Silk Road Mountain Race Recap Day 6:
www.instagram.com/p/DPzPnwZjCe...
Epic hike-a-bike over 4020m altitude and countless river crossings.
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#SRMR2025cap201
#silkroadmountainrace
#bikepacking
#ultracycling
#weitradeln
#Kyrgyzstan
#Kirgisistan
Silk Road Mountain Race Recap Day 5:
www.instagram.com/p/DPmKKyDjLY...
#SRMR2025
#SRMR2025cap201
#silkroadmountainrace
#bikepacking
#ultracycling
#weitradeln
#Kyrgyzstan
#Kirgisistan
While I'm already agonizing (read enjoying the process over what bikepacking races / events to do in 2026), this ... monster? just entered left field... 5.000 kilometers, 100.000 meters of climbing, all the Alps, Massif Central, Pyrenees all the way to Santiago de Compostela. I find this dangerously appealing... 🙈
On that note: yesterday the registration for ©via_race, chapter Ill started. And I'm already checking all this places in Norway which reveal themselves as basically the highlight reel of VisitNorway.de
I never was in Scandinavia (and thus Norway) yet and already from a nerdy map-lovers point of view I'd love to extend my connected rides (see that @veloviewer interview this week) all the way to the Atlantic Road. But will I be content with being "just" in Norway? (as opposed to cross many European countries in one go?) Do I want to "return" to the road? I love smooth tarmac and the elation of gliding effortlessly across the land. And yet I really don't like traffic anymore... Actually I'd want to do a race of something around 2.000 km, but on smooth gravel. Something to speed along, to feel the flow. Not to hike over goat paths. Really riding. But such a route would be very ncredibly hard to put together. Anywher in the world, I guess. In Europe? Nigh impossible. Do you know something along those lines?
I'm also pondering La Peripherie for Summer. And in autumn I'm really keen to join the inaugural @taurusmountainrace. But I'd also love to return to the AlpsDivide Ultra. And 2026 will be its last edition. 😞 Maybe I should do a "Julie Double" like she did with Badlands and AlpsDivide this year? Speaking of @badlandscc, l'd really want to re-visit that, too! 🙈
Ponderings for 2026:
New super long bikepacking event, Via Race Chapter III registration started, interesting route into and through Norway, longing for a long smooth pure gravel event (do you know such?)
Read the slides for details... 😃
#bikepacking #ultracycling #weitradeln
Silk Road Mountain Race recap Day 4 out now. :)
--> www.instagram.com/p/DPCU1M9jIb...
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#SRMR2025cap201
#silkroadmountainrace
#bikepacking
#ultracycling
#weitradeln
#Kyrgyzstan
#Kirgisistan
#Tar
Silk Road Mountain Race recap Day 3
www.instagram.com/p/DOq5nnQjI0...
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#SRMR2025cap201
#silkroadmountainrace
#bikepacking
#ultracycling
#weitradeln
#Kyrgyzstan
#Kirgisistan
#Gulcha
#PamirHighway
#Bikepacking Event Tip for next Summer, No 2: Via Race, Chapter III
Depends where it will lead us next year. I heard it may be Scandinavia... That would be interesting.
via-race.com
#ultracycling #weitradeln
#Bikepacking Event Tip for next Summer, No 1: La Peripherie
Tempted myself.
laperipherie.com
#weitradeln #cycling
Starting the Silk Road Mountain Race tomorrow.
A few words on Instagram:
www.instagram.com/p/DNVh_SmM2ZK/
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#bikepacking
#ultracycling
#weitradeln
#Kyrgyzstan #cycling
Neuer Blog-Artikel: "Ultracycling-Belastungssymptome und wie man sie vermeidet – Bestandsaufnahme nach dem Hellenic Mountain Race"
torstenfrank.wordpress.com/2025/07/08/u...
#radfahren #weitradeln #cycling #ultracycling #bikepacking #Vorbereitung
172 km, 1700 Hm rund um Dortmund. Ein echtes Abenteuer mit vielen Trails und tollen Aussichten! Witzigerweise sind wir auch durch Dortmund-GREVEL gefahren. photos.app.goo.gl/Wcn4pxQoacGM... #Gravel #Gräwwel #Cycling #WeitRadeln
Kennt jemand ein gutes #Bikehotel im Norden von #Eindhoven / #Helmond für eine Nacht für einen Zwischenstopp auf meinem Weg ans #Meer im Mai?
#Fahrradbubble #Fahrradreisen #Cycling #Bikepacking #Radtour #BikeTooter #weitradeln #Hotel
Bitte #Weiterleiten
Calar Alto, Badlands 2023:
www.instagram.com/p/C1PIKFusSX...
#weitradeln #bikepacking #colcollector
Mein 2. nun fix ausgewähltes Bikepacking Event für nächstes Jahr: El Piri, das neue Event von James Mark Hayden. Will mehr von Girona und den Pyrenäen kennenlernen :) #Gravel #Weitradeln
www.instagram.com/p/C0Z1EzYMbU...
My Instgram story on VIA's start of application phase today
4000 km unsupported free route von Spanien nach Italien? VIA hat heute die Applikation geöffnet: via-race.com/de. #bikepacking #ultracycling #weitradeln
What a lovely way to present his TCR on a Brompton experience!
Haven't read it yet, just skimmed across and admired the wonderful format James chose and realized.
www.jameshouston.com/tcr/
#bikepacking #weitradeln #TCR #Transcontinental #TCRNo8 #maps #ultracycling #cycling #radfahren #Brompton
Excel-Sheet mit vielen langen Radtouren für 2024
Thema #weitradeln: paar Sachen habe schon gepostet. Grün will ich fahren, rot kann ich nicht ( Schulferien SN). Vielleicht findet noch jemand was Interessantes.
Ok, zumindest der Herbst 2024 nimmt Formen an... ;-)
--> alpsdivide.com
#weitradeln #bikepacking #ultracycling #radfahren #cycling
... Bikepacking Rad vorstellen. Nein - nicht für Offroad, nicht mal für Gravel. Aber vielleicht für road-basierte Rennen mit ihren üblichen Gravel-Anteilen bzw. für Allround Langdistanz-Radfahren #weitradeln.
