As for many of you, we had to change our cycling plans due to the covid-19 pandemic. Our first plan was to ride part of the Western Wildlands Route in the States, we then changed to Norway and later to Spain. But all closed their borders by the time we were going, so we finally opted for Switzerland. We started our adventure in Davos and after a day hiking around the Weissfluhgipfel at 2817 meter we set of on the Alpine Mountainbike Route. The starting point for this long distance MTB route is in a small town, Scuol, one days ride away. But first we have to ride up to the F ..read more

A year ago I decided I wanted to add another bike to my collection, but I’ve been going back and forth between a mountainbike and a racing bike. I’ve been commuting with the Avaghon X27.5 and that’s ok, but we sometimes like to go out and about on offroad rides too. Everytime we have to change tires and oh, what the heck! No more excuses, I just wanted a new bike! As Elmar is so super happy with his Avaghon Racert, I thought that would be a nice addition, especially for our 17km commute. Elmar’s Avaghon Racert But, I wanted something special and gravelbikes are ‘the bomb’ right now. Then it ..read more

We started this year with all kinds of plans: bikepacking the Trans Netherlands Offroad route, multi-day hiking adventure, bikepacking France, a cycling adventure in Nepal or maybe go back to the United States. Well, as with many of you, these plans never saw the day of light due to Covid-19. We were longing so much to the feeling of adventure, to ride somewhere else than our backyard and finally we got a chance to go to the Belgium Ardennes. I, personnally, got sick of all the ‘but Holland is also very beautiful’ comments and really needed to see some change in landscape, other than green fla ..read more

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