First Sunday tour of this year managed
today, am a bit nackered whilst writing this. Biked with Daniel and
Nico for the first time on a Sunday tour and Nico and me had no idea
how Daniel would bike stamina wise.
Daniel arrived punctually and I got a
good look at his new fully 29er bike. Very cool piece of machinery,
with a nifty saddle lowering mechanism. Nico arrived a bit after
time, so we set of ten minutes later than planed, but on the length
of the tour we where doing, nobody cares about ten minutes. First aim
way Pfronten Kappel, the first few minutes biking already nearly
resulted in a collision between Nico and Dani, when we had to turn
left at one point. No idea if it was a bit of intentional gimmick.
Reached Kappel after a while and once
again nearly got lost in there. That small community is built up
completely wrong, every house has at least three roads. Round the
back to the main Pfronten section, where we got stuck behind a very
relaxed biker. Was rather slow and didn't break into a sweat as three
twenty year old raced up behind him. Got past him at one point and
biked through Pfronten main to get to the Achtal. Biked wrong at one
point and had a few more meters in altitude.
Up Achtal after that, with a sizeable
amount of traffic going along the valley to Austria. Passed the
Austrian border and biked on towards Grän, where we had a small
break to eat something (and to switch bikes) before we continued up
along the supply road for the huts. Up and up it went, us getting
rather warm as the sun kept poking out here and there. We where
overtaken by a small plane a third up the mountain. He continued up
the valley and came back around, just like you see in the old war
films. Heading strait for us, Nico and me did the motor noises whilst
Daniel simulated the machine gun firing. The pilot even waved his
wings when he flew past.
Carried up along the valley, overtaking
quite a few walkers, also on their way up. Through a few streams of
melted snow and another short break just underneath the top. Saw a
person come shooting up on a bike. First thought: “blimey, he's
fit”. Passed us, next thought: “Typical e-bikes”. His stated
reason was that he IS twenty years older than us after all ;D.
Continued up to the Gappenfeldalm, by
passing through a mountain pass. Biked a bit down, which included
going through a water filled snow hole. Daniel managed a perfect stop
in front of the hut. Not getting out of his clicky and falling over
sideways in front of 6 people. Had a lunch break before continuing
back uphill and then along snow filled mountain fields along the side
of the mountains. Had to carry the bike a few times but we reached
the Gundhütte in the end. Had a drink, some ice and refilled our
water bottles before continuing on. Managed a short way, before we
got to a turn where the lumberjacks had deposited some trees on the
road. Daniel took a short cut through the field, and me not thinking
that he has a better suited bike for this kind of thing went strait
after him. The end result being: me going to fast down the mountain,
putting my full force on the breaks to get slower and eventually
rolling over the top of the handle bars to somehow land on my back
with the rucksack on. My back ached for quite a bit (and still is)
but the more annoying problem was that I had managed to get a flat
tyre because of my stunt. Fixed the tyre in record time, thanks to
Nicos compressed CO² bottle. Rather a lot of walkers stopped by and
had a look at what we where doing. After we fixed the tyre it was
back downhill, past all the people that had stooped at my crash site
(there was one man which played traffic controller when we passed
him).
Arrived in Tannheim after going down a
trail. Danield biked near to everything I think, as I pushed down a
bit, still rather shaky from before. Through Tannheim and along the
Tannheimer Tal, whith opposing wind blowing the whole time. We
reached Wertach after a while and continued along the right side of
the Grüntensee, before Nico turned left to got back through Dohle to
Maria Rein and Daniel and me went back to my place to have a shower.
Set up the grill after that and had a relaxed evening (with
thunderstorm) on the terrace with Nico, Franzy, Daniel, Inge and
Johanna.
Time in saddle: 5 hours
Distance: 73 km
Average speed: 14,6 km/h
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