Team Team
This is Chris,
better known as Turbo Chris. He has been riding bikes properly since the wild nineties and has of course long since realised that the question of which bike is your favourite is quite complex. In any case, he hasn't stuck with just one bike. Okay, he prefers his gravel bike a little, because he usually rides along the forest motorway or some kind of trail. Whether his longest tour in one go was to Sparta remains to be seen, but with 300 kilometres you can include Sparta in the Strava title. The 3000+ metres in altitude as the highest mark in a tour so far is self-explanatory. However, he will probably soon add to the distance and altitude metres.
Christopher likes to give back, not just on the tyres, but in general. That's why he rides for a good cause and encourages other people to give his hobby a try. As he circumnavigates all our continents, his biggest goal, he will certainly meet many people who he can convince. Only the mountains sometimes make him suffer, he prefers to think about the summit and that it's then back downhill. A stop at the bakery on every tour quickly makes him forget the pain anyway. The bakery vendor doesn't have to have a specific snack on offer, the Turbo will take anything sweet.
Christopher only gets off his bike to pump up the air, at least that's what he says. It makes sense when you know what adventures he has already undertaken. And anyway, you can do so much on a bike if you want to. In his opinion, it's like pasta and pizza. Why not just pasta on pizza or pasta with pizza sauce flavour?
Thias is Wiebke,
She also called Wiebke by her friends. Since April 97, nothing has separated her from a bike, as her parents' hairline documentation of her first bike tour in 2000 shows. Her Omnium is simply her favourite bike among the many others, and depending on who she is travelling with, either road or MTB is on the agenda. The longest route in one go was 452 km and the most metres in altitude on one tour was around 5500 metres. Ey Wiebke, why are you actually cycling for a good cause? ‘... because I'm very grateful for the privileges I have, such as being able to go on bike tours like this, and I want to pass some of it on!’ She defines her biggest goal as being able to ride up mountains faster, because she no longer wants to look at flowers so often and would rather keep her head down and legs on. When she's not in the saddle, she's busy at work or doing sports, outdoors a lot, eating, drinking and all that sort of thing. Oh yes, when it comes to food, she also said that honey waffles are her secret weapon(s) during a tour and she generally likes pizza as a starter and then pasta. We look forward to seeing more content from her soon!
This is Corina,
or simply Cori - has been travelling on two wheels for over two decades. It all started when she switched from a ladies' bike to a mountain bike, then came the road bike era, and today? Gravel is her happy place. She loves her current gravel bike dearly - but there's already a new one waiting in the wings. 🤩 You have to be prepared in case the weather suddenly gets better.
How many bikes does she have? Classic: n+1 - maths that every bike person understands. Cori's favourite thing to do is crash over so-called ‘Chris routes’ - the ones that Komoot classifies as ‘unrideable’ but are simply awesome with the right crew. Her longest tour? 245 kilometres. And at 2,360 metres in altitude, she just shrugs her shoulders for a moment - then she thinks about an ice-cold pint, tells herself that climbing is somehow awesome, and just keeps on pedalling. #SelfMotivationDeluxe
Her biggest goal? To still be on the saddle in her 70s and wonder why the wind always comes from the front. And if you hit a motivation slump along the way - no problem: Cori has silver and jelly babies at the start. Sugar doesn't solve any problems, but at least it takes the edge off hunger pangs.
When she's not riding, she's probably already thinking about the next tour. Or pasta. Because: pasta > everything.