24h Kraftwerktrophy Donnerskirchen 2008

May 24/25, Donnerskirchen, Austria - the Kraftwerktrophy, a 24h cycling race is taking place.

my personal goal was to cycle 500km, in the end I did 453km - not the best result, but considering that I was cycling on my own for more than 85% of the race, I think that’s ok.
I finished 18th (out of 24), so not the most spectacular result, but still not last…

a cool summary with plenty of photos can be found here

T-Mobile Mountain Challenge 2005

bad weather, but still cycling….

this was taken during the T-Mobile Mountain Challenge in (August) 2005. It was a cycling-race for amateurs during one of the stages of the Deutschland-Tour
the route brought us up to Kühtai (Tyrol, Austria) at 2.020m and as you can see, the weather was really bad (2°C and rain/snow)
during the interview they told me that the Pro-riders weren’t coming up to Kühtai, because it was too cold for them - well at least we had to cycle up there….

For Fixie - fixedgear - Singlespeed Lovers: Fixie T-shirt

just created a new t-shirt/shirt design for all Fixie, fixedgear, singlespeed lovers.

white

black

if interested, just click the image…

Alpenglow

Alpenglow

Originally uploaded by stetre76

sometimes it does pay off to get up early in the morning…

planning to buy a new bicyle…Fixie on the way

as if 4 bikes wouldn’t be enough already I am now planning to buy yet another bike…but something a bit different this
time

not sure why and how it came to it, but somehow I am really interested in Singlespeed/Fixie cycles.
so next week I am going to see a dealer some kilometers from here and try to get my hold on the
2008 Specialized Langster New York

photo by Specialized

As far as I know the Langster series is somewhat limited and it’s not that easy to get the bike - still, after talking to the dealer just last week he was confident that he will be able to order one of the Langster New York’s and get it here for me.
So if everything goes well I’m going to ride this cutie from beginning of april onwards

getting ready for 24h of Mountainbiking

As the 24h Mountain-Bike race in Freistadt is getting closer and closer (Feb 23/24) I am not trying to ready myself for the race.

Even though this MTB race is only a “warm up” for the rest of the season and I am just there to collect some kilometers, I still want to cycle at least 200km - so let the training beginn…

stats since November 2007

November: 7:01:24 h 240.5km
December: 13:33:36 h 342.86km
January (so far): 5:14:00 h 171km
Total: 25:49:00h 754.36km

for a Pro that’s not even a proper warm-up, but for me (and especially my family) that’s quite somehting…

iEat - Apple

iEat - Apple

Originally uploaded by stetre76

can you hear the music!

one of my companions when training for a 24h race…it’s both healthy and entertaining ;o)

Airborne

Airborne

Originally uploaded by stetre76

kids just wanna have fun!

1 1/2 months left…

today I got the ok that I am allowed to start at the 24h MTB race in Freistadt (Austria) on Feb 23/24.

although I started to train already in November, time is running short, especially after the Christmas holidays with lots of celebrating and plenty of good food.

So now it’s all about eating less and train more…

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