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red bull road rage
early september i’ve been down in switzerland, near bern, covering the first european “red bull road rage” – an on-road downhill-race.
4X pichla 08
back in mid august i’ve been down at the far south-east end of nowhere austria, to cover a small but legendary 4X-race for the organizer and a bikeboard report.
as legendary as the race, is the fact that it always rains at this event, heavily – as in floodlike. so it was predicted for this year either, but against all forecasts, after 5 minutes of dripping around noon the day turned to the complete opposite.. still we got our dose of mud after dark, when the after-race party with the fabulous binder-krieglstein on stage took place.
winter’s over (not)
even if there’s usually no more snow in the valleys, at the end of winter some crazy sportsmen find their way to the dachstein, an austrian peak of ~3000m surrounded by a glacier to take part at the “Dachstein Extreme”, a ski mountaineering race..
24 hours mtb
sitting on a mountainbike for 24 hours must be fun. so why not doing it – bunch of friends of mine thought – and one of them registered a team of four for the euro-championships.. being their substitute i was lucky enough that all of the four were fit for the race, as i trained a little too little the last weeks before the race..
not so cool. fire.
today there was big fire in a nearby rubbish dump, smoke piled up about hundred meters, being blown towards vienna along the danube where it mixed up with the clouds.. guess one didn’t see much sun down there today..
