After being 2000km on a wide road with wide shoulders I got on a 200km section of narrow road without any shoulder at all. The raised road was literally just wide…
The challenge of riding the Taklamakan wasn't a physical (biketouring rarely is), but a mental one. Weeks of nearly unchanged scenery on a perfect new road caused my motivation to decline…
Ann fells on her bicycle on a rocky trail at 4200m around 1.30pm near Lake Turumtaikul. I'm riding a few hundred meters behind her and see her lying on the ground…
The road which had been in my dreams for somewhat for 5 years, the corridor across the Western Himalayas: the Pamir Highway. I was finally there in the cross road a…
We were really excited to finally get to enter Tajikistan when we reached the Uzbek-Tajik border. But things did not go as planned. At the second passport check I was notified…
There are not many reasons why a guy cuts his beard on a long bike tour. Photo by @mairawa #biketouring #Samarkand #Uzbekistan #11months #September2015…
One morning I was riding in the KyzylKhum desert wondering if anyone crashes to the numerous camels living in the desert and on the road sides. 10 minutes later I arrived…
One night I was having a swim in the Caspian Sea, or more like just sitting in shallow water watching stars, when I started to see dim blinks around me. First…
