Tour cycling

At the age of 3 I started cycling, racing through the neighborhood playing cops and robbers and primitive forms of cycle ball. At the age of 6 my father Elmar took me on the first tour to the biggest lake of Germany, the Lake Constance, about 250km away. That seems to have sparked a fire for touring. In the coming years there have been many tours both in bigger groups and as duo. Some noteworthy tours include one to Paris and a TransAlp starting in Oberstdorf with destination Riva del Garda (the classic Heckmair route with minor variations). For more than 7 years I’ve been an ardent mountainbiker, exploring the Odenwald mountain chain (German version with pics) together with my fellow Adrian. At the age of 19 after I had finished school I cycled to and in Norway for about 1,5 months (taking part in the VikingTour 2005). Just for the record: my longest single-day trip was the Kocher Jagst cycling path (along these two rivers, from the mouth to the source and vice versa, information in German) covering about 340km (did it with my recumbent in 2006).