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After getting experiences on five cycletours in Slovakia and two in Austria and Slovenia in july 2000 I was ready to bike on my most serious tour in my life...

From the snowy mountains to the sandy beach (2000)

Gyorgyigabor
2004-02-05 19:55:23

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some warm clothes and tools in the small bag before the handle-bars. After the start I was going to the first half of the peloton with a good speed. On the plateau and on the descent I couldn’t go so fast like the racebikres because of my touringbike and I didn’t want to hurry. At nice places I stopped to make photos. Next to a nice lake after the summit we get a view to the mountains around the Stilfser passroad. There was snowy above about the height of 2000m. It should had been snowing in the night. From Glurns we had to turn towards Switzerland and the 2149m high Ofenpass. Between the cyclists everybody could find the other bikers who were pushing the pedals with the same pace. In Sta. Maria the bikers from the two distances came together; the guys and girls from the A distance had already gone through the 2760m high Passo dello Stelvio. At the freshing point there were a lot of cyclists. I enjoyed very much when some of them took a banana or drink from the hands of the organizors without stopping. I took delight of the view of the mountains towards the Ofenpass. In the first part I could overtake some competitors with a good gear, but on the section with its 8-10% steepness I had to change gears and because of the big difference between them I was cycing with the others with 12 km/h. On the 10% steep descent of the pass I flew down in warm clothes, but there were some bikers who overtook me; maybe they knew the road. Between Zernez – where we got drinks and some food – and the austrian border we could push the pedals on a light descent. In the first part I could bike with the 35-40 km/h speed of others, but than I preferred to bike with my own pace. From the last freshing point, Martina we had only 6 km climb. The great number of the bikers made me cycle with a good speed; I overtook a lot of them which I enjoyed very much because they had a light bike, but mine was about 14 kg weight. That’s true that I think most of them had the passroad up to The ...