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[SAS~Storebror]

I probably should.







Click for full size. Please forgive the poor quality, it's just snapshots from my mobile phone.

Cheers!
Mike

[SAS~Bombsaway]

Beautiful. You are blessed with that.

[vpmedia]

Thumbs up for using a bicycle in the winter. How many kilometers is your ride to the office?

[SAS~Storebror]

It's no big deal to go by bike in winter once you got used to it.
Below freezing point you have to choose your clothing carefully, anything else can be compensated by simply going faster
In summer it doesn't look much worse either:





The trip is 12km one-way, about 30 minutes to go - 40 when I stop to take pictures
If weather plays tricks on me, I also have the option to go along the main road which is just 7km, 20 minutes to go but shitty lanes and boring like hell, so I only choose that option when it's raining cats and dogs.

Cheers!
Mike

[vpmedia]

Very cool area.

Cycling is big part of my life. I'm using a 29er MTB in the winter and a trekking bicycle in the summer.

[SAS~Storebror]

I've been cycling endlessly in my young days, but I wasn't sure whether it'd be as much fun for me nowadays anymore, so I took the cheapest bike I could get on the net to keep the loss small if I don't like it.
Turns out it's the same endless fun regardless my age.
My bike is an Ortler Monet, slightly customized with a Suntour seat post including neoprene protector, Busch & Müller LED front light, Schwalbe Marathon Plus Tour Smart Guard bicycle tyres with Michelin Protek Max A3 tubes, and last but not least one of the cheapest but most effective addons, a frontwheel mudflap.

Cheers!
Mike

[vpmedia]

I got a very similar bike, its a Kellys Axis with Continental Travel Contact tires. The Schwalbe Marathon Plus are one of the most popular puncture resistant tires, a very good choice.
The 29er mtb I got is a GT Karakoram rebuilt with Deore XT level components and a Marzocchi Bomber front fork. I got both at bargain prices, the two cost me less than 1000 USD. I'm doing website management for a bicycle shop, so the repairs are free.

[LuseKofte]

I am bout to buy me a bike and a bus card, I think I will choose a electric bike since I got quite a few hills to climb. In worst wintertime it is almost impossible to use bike here, some do, but traffic chaos as a result. After heavy snowfall I suggest bikers do not use bikes, but travel for free on busses until the snow is cleared. Your scenic route is impressive, I am afraid only by summer @i can use nature,

[Knochenlutscher]

Real Bikers, I gifted my last bicycle to a poor Friend. That was 7 yrs ago.
My ongoing downgrade of eyesight makes it worser. I didn't feel safe enough in
traffic, can't calc properly speeds and distances on my eyesight no more.
I quit after 2x times nearly ending as a frontcooler.
Besides that I was quite a speedy cycler, no remorse.
So it didn't feel that bad.

My First ever bike I gave to my dad, he still has it.
Was a gift from my Grandpa.
A 1991 Western German touring Bike. Sachs 3-Gear, faster than
a race bike, if you had the muscles!!!

But this one was my absolute favourite, a Diamant Racing Alu Bike,
1980's?
Looked like this, except that I had the white original leatherstrips around
the bars and it's original white saddle. Drove like a feather.

I found it on the Sperrmüll in absolute impressive state.
A year later, some collector stole it sawing off a Streetsign where it was attached to.

[anitek]

Beautiful.
Would you let us know where this is if we promise not to all show up on that road all at once like a peloton of tourists?
For my bike ride I get the ocean along with a billion other people..

[P51vsFw190]

I think I speak for Mike when I say “Over my dead body” 

[anitek]

OR..as my own Big Brother would say: "I could tell ya, but then I'd have to kill ya..heh heh."