apparently these crazy psychos that inflict multiple 24h races on themselves exist. However, no one could resist the location, it made my fingers twitch! Some of the time at the "Bikes on Fire" in Duisburg we rode on and around the former steel mill compound, whoch was a more than impressive setting - in the daytime as well as litlup at night. Unfortunatley there was a small handicap due to the routing, so not all of the 4.3m/7km lap, at least not most of the interesting spots, were not accessible to the audience (see the red lines).

I myself was responsible for part of the supporting program, as I had been at the 24h race in Munich, and delighted the spectators with a handful of trial shows…

We were mostly spared the heavy thunderstorms and bad weather that the Ruhrpott was having from Friday to Sunday. Some rain on Friday and Saturday, but luckily by showtime my surface was dry again, but it caught up with me on Sunday and the last show that went along with the presentation ceremony drowned, literally! Last but not least some impressions of the unique setting… actually it's pretty hard to describe and you just have to see it live…

...oh yeah... I do have one more addendum: if they were the 2007 prototypes or the beginnings of the Sram chains, with them chain breaks are definitely passé! (not taking into consideration the total weight of the bike)

On that note: Happy Trails

Björn