[02.08.2024]
When I first told people about my plan of going on a bikepacking trip from Prague to Istanbul with my 50 year old road bike, someone said it was like taking a 1970s Porsche and mounting a bicycle rack or a caravan to it—meaning that it was kind of absurd 🤷🏼
Well, I must admit that there‘s something to it.. My handlebars will always be wobbly with this amount of luggage. Sometimes, when cycling uphill, I dream of a Shimano 820 1-12 groupset. And when the wobbly handlebars get a bit too much out of control I look forward to riding a proper gravelbike one day.
However, I love my old french bike a lot 🖤 We have only been together for 1.5 years, and we had a very good time on several nice adventures in France, Italy, and Germany. In this small amount of time we both changed each other (yeah ok, it was mostly me exchanging parts of my bike, but I like the idea of our relationship not being onesided).
And now we‘re going from Germany to Turkey together. So far, we made it to Bulgaria. I mean, that‘s damn cool, right? 😎
Stay tuned, take it slow, and be part of team 161
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