Prima Evadare – “the first escape” – takes place every spring. It’s a flat non-technical MTB race from Bucharest to Snagov, where Ceaușescu had a summer house by the way. It is some 55km and more than 2000 participants last year. There is more to read at www.primaevadare.ro This year the race is May […]
My friend Catalin grew up 1,5 hours from Bucharest, in Pucioasa, and has been talking about showing me the place and what kind of biking there is. Today is the day! The town is located at 400 meters elevation on the southern slopes of the Carpathians. Oil and gas is big in Romania and […]
Spring is here and it’s the time of year where time is split between biking and skiing. Quite a lot of friends showed up for the ride today It is bit humiliating that the sponsored guys already have done 2 hours of riding before showing up, but that’s nothing that rubs off to […]
Some 15-20 minutes on the ring road from where I live will take you to Cernica. The place is very well known for its monastery. Picture from the web: I meet up with some friends. It’s around zero degrees and it was below that during the night. We get warmed up on this dirt […]
Almost December. Early morning. 10 degrees. Shorts. Morning dew on the leafs. What a nice setting for a ride in the local forest Some mole has been around Flat as a pancake After 1,5 hours I put the bikes on the back of the car and we leave for the BMX-track just 20 minutes […]
Happiness – The biking genes have been passed on! I’ve been doing rides of 1,5 hours with the 8-year old in the forest at home and seen the talent. This time we went for the mountains to try real hills Until a couple of weeks ago we’ve had 20 degrees in Bucharest, but suddenly […]
15 degrees, a lot of leaves and nice colors… November ain’t that bad…
Munţii Baiului is a ridge in the Carpathians just 1,5 hours away from Bucharest. This September morning was offering 16 degrees already at 9 o’clock in the morning (at 650 meters elevation) and this was the ride (50km, 1450 meters of climb) First part of the climb was on an almost washed away road […]
Short one this time; checking out the area for future rides. 2,5 hours and 1000 meters of climb. I start on a dirt road. It gets ridiculously steep at once and I have to push for a while. It’s 27 degrees and very dry. The new shoes don’t look new at all… After quite […]
My friend Micke came over for some biking and we kind of copied Johann Müehlegg’s set-up from Salt Lake City 2002 – well not the steroid part obviously, but: “Open hard and then increase!” We just got back from 6 days of awesome biking in different mountains in Southeast Europe. The temperature in Bucharest […]